The Death of Miss Williams
Our community were started yesterday by the announcement of the sudden death of Miss Elizabeth Williams, the second daughter of Colonel O.E. Williams, under circumstances which add peculiar poignancy to such an affliction. She left her father's house on Wednesday morning, fairly radiant with life and health, for the purpose of spending the day with her familiar and intimate friend, Mrs. Christopher Colt. "You never looked better," was the comment of all whom she met at the house of her hostess, and the day was passed by her without the slightest indication of illness, until she was sitting at the tea-table, about six o'clock in the evening, when she complained of a numbness in her arm, and was assisted by the ladies of the family to the bed. Paralysis immediately developed itself, and after lying for nearly thirty hours in an unconscious state, she expired gently at eleven o'clock on Thursday evening, without a groan and without apparent suffering.
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She will long be remembered, in this community, as a lady of noble impulses, strong and devoted in her affections, with sensibilities most acute, tender, and resolute, with a heart and hand ever open to the sick, to the poor, and the unfortunate, and with accomplishments and powers of pleasing, such as are granted only the the most gifted of her sex.
- Complete article in Hartford Courant, Sept 2, 1865
Our community were started yesterday by the announcement of the sudden death of Miss Elizabeth Williams, the second daughter of Colonel O.E. Williams, under circumstances which add peculiar poignancy to such an affliction. She left her father's house on Wednesday morning, fairly radiant with life and health, for the purpose of spending the day with her familiar and intimate friend, Mrs. Christopher Colt. "You never looked better," was the comment of all whom she met at the house of her hostess, and the day was passed by her without the slightest indication of illness, until she was sitting at the tea-table, about six o'clock in the evening, when she complained of a numbness in her arm, and was assisted by the ladies of the family to the bed. Paralysis immediately developed itself, and after lying for nearly thirty hours in an unconscious state, she expired gently at eleven o'clock on Thursday evening, without a groan and without apparent suffering.
[...]
She will long be remembered, in this community, as a lady of noble impulses, strong and devoted in her affections, with sensibilities most acute, tender, and resolute, with a heart and hand ever open to the sick, to the poor, and the unfortunate, and with accomplishments and powers of pleasing, such as are granted only the the most gifted of her sex.
- Complete article in Hartford Courant, Sept 2, 1865
The Death of Miss Williams
Our community were started yesterday by the announcement of the sudden death of Miss Elizabeth Williams, the second daughter of Colonel O.E. Williams, under circumstances which add peculiar poignancy to such an affliction. She left her father's house on Wednesday morning, fairly radiant with life and health, for the purpose of spending the day with her familiar and intimate friend, Mrs. Christopher Colt. "You never looked better," was the comment of all whom she met at the house of her hostess, and the day was passed by her without the slightest indication of illness, until she was sitting at the tea-table, about six o'clock in the evening, when she complained of a numbness in her arm, and was assisted by the ladies of the family to the bed. Paralysis immediately developed itself, and after lying for nearly thirty hours in an unconscious state, she expired gently at eleven o'clock on Thursday evening, without a groan and without apparent suffering.
[...]
She will long be remembered, in this community, as a lady of noble impulses, strong and devoted in her affections, with sensibilities most acute, tender, and resolute, with a heart and hand ever open to the sick, to the poor, and the unfortunate, and with accomplishments and powers of pleasing, such as are granted only the the most gifted of her sex.
- Complete article in Hartford Courant, Sept 2, 1865
Our community were started yesterday by the announcement of the sudden death of Miss Elizabeth Williams, the second daughter of Colonel O.E. Williams, under circumstances which add peculiar poignancy to such an affliction. She left her father's house on Wednesday morning, fairly radiant with life and health, for the purpose of spending the day with her familiar and intimate friend, Mrs. Christopher Colt. "You never looked better," was the comment of all whom she met at the house of her hostess, and the day was passed by her without the slightest indication of illness, until she was sitting at the tea-table, about six o'clock in the evening, when she complained of a numbness in her arm, and was assisted by the ladies of the family to the bed. Paralysis immediately developed itself, and after lying for nearly thirty hours in an unconscious state, she expired gently at eleven o'clock on Thursday evening, without a groan and without apparent suffering.
[...]
She will long be remembered, in this community, as a lady of noble impulses, strong and devoted in her affections, with sensibilities most acute, tender, and resolute, with a heart and hand ever open to the sick, to the poor, and the unfortunate, and with accomplishments and powers of pleasing, such as are granted only the the most gifted of her sex.
- Complete article in Hartford Courant, Sept 2, 1865
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