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■W —> recipient of her self-sacrificing devotion, in time of need, who would not drop a tear to the memory of the departed. It may lx* said that she possessed one belief, well defined, unmi.xed with doubt —that, if there be a beyond, to do her duty in this iife. as she understood it. would be the surest passport into the jovs of the next. She was a devoted wife, an affectionate mother, a kind ncighlior, a true friend. Patient in suffering, concealing her own ills and sorrows, she shrank from receiv ing that care and assistencc in time of need that she was ever ready and willing to extend to others. 0B1TUA R Y. Mrs. B. C. Goddard died on the 18th, ult. and was buried in the Stearns ceme tery on the Sunday following. A large number of people, many from a distance, attended the funeral. The following brief address prepared by \V. J. Dean was read by Wellrorn Beeson at the grave:— Again we are called to pay the last rites that the living can pay to the dead. Again we are brought face to face with Thus she lived and thus she died, a mistery, the solution of which is as far Patient, true, consistent ever, With honor, truth and love allied, from our grasp to day as it was in the Iler life was one of high endeavor. dawn of human intelligence- the mys And it can with truth be said that the tery of death, a mystery only equaled by world is better for her having lived in it that of life itself. Mrs. Dameris Goddard was born in Man advances from helpless infancy to Guilford county, North Carolina, Novem vigorous maturity, dwells fora brief time ber 13,1826. bhe moved with her parents in the zenith of his powers, then, bv re to Ray county, Missouri, when about 9 verse steps, decays and dies. As was said years of age, and was married to Blin C. Goddard in 1814 49 years ago. of old, “Man wasteth away and where is In the spring of lSfil, she with her he?” Ah! that question '‘W here is he?” husband and four children made the 1< rq * is the one question connected with death. and tedious journey across the plains to Has an answer ever been given that .Jacksen county, Oregon, locating near completely satisfies the heid and heart? Phoenix. Two years later they moved to Wagner creek, where she resided until Will the answer ever be given? Will the time of her death. man ever pass into the valley of (he shad She was the mother of four sons ami ow of death with a full knowledge of w hat four daughters, four of whom are still the end of the journey will be? It will be living, Hendrick, Reno, Mrs. M. II. (’(de asked what was the belief of the deceased nial! and Mrs. W. J. Dean. In \arlv life she was strong, being able to per loi m regarding these ever-recurring inquiries. a prodigious amount of labor, but a- 1 will say that she has answered them bout fifteen yearn ago she became alllit ted over and over again, briefly, yet clearly with heart troubles from which she never as it is possible to answer them xhc did recover« d and which resulted in her death For the | ast 14 months she has lived not knoic. It is my duty and privilege alternately with her daughters that she to state that in matters < f religion thed - might receive tlnir personal care ami at parted one was an agnostic. She max tention. Hie gradually grew worse, be haveentertained a hope that hoj e, which c< ming pn strattd alw.tit three wee ks ago. All was done that loving hearts <•« uld though banished by reason so often find.- refuge in the heart of a continued, con suggest and willing hands execute loM.iv the progress of the disease and alleviate scious existence beyond this life, but her her sufferings. No one could have r<« liv religion, if so it c< uld lx* called, was the ed more watchful care and imr.-ii’g. It W« |e fitting that she bh< 11 Id have lli» religion of humanity It consisted in do ing good, in kindly acts, in a I lev ia ting suf Kame loving < are and sympathy during fering, in sympathizing with the afllicted. her fatal iRness tliat she had w iliingl\ <1* voted to scores of others under like cir The innumerable act-» of kindiuss and char cumstans« s. ity, her self sacrificing nature for which “Sw. I limy rhr Hund » r w hilt- t hr up - Hmll roll, she was noted, will lovingly linger in the I or i.o vi-ioim «»f K-otow rail ii Hutlr or mi memories of all who knew her as long as t %» ; But eiifobled by imturr in p. (trr -h. -I ill life shall last. In sickness she was a w ill <lu til. ing and devoted nurse, as so many can While with heart- hill of -oriuw nr hid I. i farewell.0 testify. Ungrateful indeed would be that “ I