Yesterday we announced the sudden death of the beloved wife of our brother, he who so long stood at our side in the editorial capacity of the GAZETTE, and only recently left us to engage in the service of his country. Widely known, and loved by all that knew here, the unexpected announcement of Lizzie’s death has caused deep sorrow in a large circle of friends. Within a few years our brother has had the affliction, which only a parent can know, of burying five children, three of whom have lived to an age when the affections of the heart become so deeply enlisted in them. As each one left, the affections of the parents were centered more deeply on those remaining, but they are all gone, and last of all she who has shared so much affliction with him has been taken away, and an infant is all that is left of his family.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 1
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