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Obituary - Mrs. Mary Stevens
| OBITUARY.
Died at
Naperville,January
23d, 1871. Mrs. Mary Stevens aged 86
years and 9 months. Mrs.
Stevens was
born in Hartland, Windsor County, Vermont. In
1832 during the Indian was, she removed with her husband and
children
to
Naperville. A resident here, of many years, endeared
Naperville
to her as
the central home of her family and the last reting place of
her
loved ones.
Here she wished to live and die. Home was her most
congenial
sphere, and in
the society of her intimate friends, she found nearly all of
the
world she
cared to know. Her life was consecreted to her family.
She
found her
happiness in their prosperity, her sorrow, in their
misfortunes. Her declining
years were
sustained by a calm trust in God, that
illuminated her daily life, and needed no public profession
to make
it
known. After
many tears
for dear ones whom she had survived she followed
them at last, full of years, and ripe for the felicities of
heaven.
Her gentleness, her devotion endeared her, when on earth, to many friends and have enshrined her, now, in the hearts of her children to the third generation. Submitted by Judy Fessler and Polly Hitt
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