Obituaries.
Died, on the 28th of December, 1861, Mrs. Julia A. Trabue, wife of Macon Trabue, Esq., and daughter of Mrs. Elisabeth Howlett, of Chesterfield county. Early in life the subject of this sketch embraced the Christian religion, and united herself with the Methodist Eplecopal Church, of which she remained a consistent member, exemplifying and adorning the doctrines of the Bible, until her death. For many years the victim of disease and intense suffering, she bore her hard lot with the utmost fortitude and resignation. Possessed of an intelligent mind, gentle, social, and affectionate in an exalted degree, she drew to her in the closest bonds a large circle of relatives and friends, who deeply lament the loss they have sustained. Charity, benevolence, and hospitality were among her chief characteristies; the language of censure or detraction was never known to escape her lips. Her warm heart ever beat in sympathetic response to the claims of poverty and distress, and the cheerful smile and cordial hand of welcome ever greeted the friend or stranger who entered her husband's comfortable mansion.--All of the varied positions and relations of wife, mother, daughter, sister, and mistress were filled and sustained by her with a fidelity, a tenderness, and a conscientious rarely exhibited. Living in daily and familiar intercourse with the neighbors of the deceased, the writer of this article has never heard an unkind or malicious word uttered in regard to her; but, on the contrary, the language of praise and of admiration has been universally bestowed upon this truly exemplary and lovely character. She has left a devoted husband and a son, who did everything in their power to soothe her dying low, and to mourn a loss which they feel to be irreparable. May this sad bereavement be sanctified to their spiritual and eternal good. Gentle spirit! released from the ills and pains incident to mortality, thou hast winged thy flight far beyond the skies to a land of promised rest — to the City of the New Jerusalem — where thou shalt unite with all the redeemed host, through eternal ages, in singing the praises of God and of the Lamb. * M.Died, in Augusta county, Virginia, on Sunday night, 29th December, 1861, after a short but painful illness, Mrs. Margaret's. Saupe, wife of Chas. H. Saupe, in the 31st year of her age. War claims its victims even among those who are sheltered from the exposure and privations of the camp, the toil and fatigue of the march, or the dangers of the battle. The home of the deceased has been througed by soldiers worn out and sick from the ordeal through which they passed in the ‘"Army of the Northwest."’ Her natural energy was stimulated beyond its ability in her constant ministrations to their wants, and she sunk under her cheerfully assumed task. her last hours were spent in communings with her Saviour, and it is humbly hoped that she has gone where "The song of peace Which creation's morning heard Is sung by angel minstrels still."
