Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.) April 26, 1897 page 3
Death of Mrs. Snowden.—Mrs. Louisa J. Snowden, who had been critically ill for some time, died at her home on South Lee street at 5:15 o’clock yesterday evening. The deceased was the widow of Edgar Snowden, editor of the Gazette, who died in September, 1875. She was born at Fredericksburg on March 30, 1814, being the daughter of Benjamin Grymes, of “Somerset,” King George county. At an early age she attended school in this city, and was one of the flower girls who received Lafayette when he visited Alexandria. She was married when in her teens and throughout her long life of eighty-three years she was an exemplary Christian, wife, mother and fiend. Animated by a pure, practical Christian spirit, her pilgrimage manifested the firm purpose of duty toward God and her fellow creatures, and it was her constant aim to seek out those, especially in her own neighborhood, who were suffering from adverse fortune, and while extending one hand of sympathy, the other always bore the more substantial tokens of her friendship. Mrs. Snowden had been a member of Christ Church for nearly seventy-years and for the past sixty had occupied the same pew in that church. She possessed the true idea of the mission of life in every particular, and practiced it in the minutest detail, viewing the course of mortals as a journey beset with hills and valleys, and was ever thoughtful amid the pleasantries of the oases encountered. She has now entered that silvery stream whose mystic tide runs but one way toward the golden shore—where the tempests of life are no longer heard and where loved ones gone before stand to welcome her to the company of the blessed.
Contributor: Loretta Castaldi (47472615)
Death of Mrs. Snowden.—Mrs. Louisa J. Snowden, who had been critically ill for some time, died at her home on South Lee street at 5:15 o’clock yesterday evening. The deceased was the widow of Edgar Snowden, editor of the Gazette, who died in September, 1875. She was born at Fredericksburg on March 30, 1814, being the daughter of Benjamin Grymes, of “Somerset,” King George county. At an early age she attended school in this city, and was one of the flower girls who received Lafayette when he visited Alexandria. She was married when in her teens and throughout her long life of eighty-three years she was an exemplary Christian, wife, mother and fiend. Animated by a pure, practical Christian spirit, her pilgrimage manifested the firm purpose of duty toward God and her fellow creatures, and it was her constant aim to seek out those, especially in her own neighborhood, who were suffering from adverse fortune, and while extending one hand of sympathy, the other always bore the more substantial tokens of her friendship. Mrs. Snowden had been a member of Christ Church for nearly seventy-years and for the past sixty had occupied the same pew in that church. She possessed the true idea of the mission of life in every particular, and practiced it in the minutest detail, viewing the course of mortals as a journey beset with hills and valleys, and was ever thoughtful amid the pleasantries of the oases encountered. She has now entered that silvery stream whose mystic tide runs but one way toward the golden shore—where the tempests of life are no longer heard and where loved ones gone before stand to welcome her to the company of the blessed.
Contributor: Loretta Castaldi (47472615)
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.) April 26, 1897 page 3
Death of Mrs. Snowden.—Mrs. Louisa J. Snowden, who had been critically ill for some time, died at her home on South Lee street at 5:15 o’clock yesterday evening. The deceased was the widow of Edgar Snowden, editor of the Gazette, who died in September, 1875. She was born at Fredericksburg on March 30, 1814, being the daughter of Benjamin Grymes, of “Somerset,” King George county. At an early age she attended school in this city, and was one of the flower girls who received Lafayette when he visited Alexandria. She was married when in her teens and throughout her long life of eighty-three years she was an exemplary Christian, wife, mother and fiend. Animated by a pure, practical Christian spirit, her pilgrimage manifested the firm purpose of duty toward God and her fellow creatures, and it was her constant aim to seek out those, especially in her own neighborhood, who were suffering from adverse fortune, and while extending one hand of sympathy, the other always bore the more substantial tokens of her friendship. Mrs. Snowden had been a member of Christ Church for nearly seventy-years and for the past sixty had occupied the same pew in that church. She possessed the true idea of the mission of life in every particular, and practiced it in the minutest detail, viewing the course of mortals as a journey beset with hills and valleys, and was ever thoughtful amid the pleasantries of the oases encountered. She has now entered that silvery stream whose mystic tide runs but one way toward the golden shore—where the tempests of life are no longer heard and where loved ones gone before stand to welcome her to the company of the blessed.
Contributor: Loretta Castaldi (47472615)
Death of Mrs. Snowden.—Mrs. Louisa J. Snowden, who had been critically ill for some time, died at her home on South Lee street at 5:15 o’clock yesterday evening. The deceased was the widow of Edgar Snowden, editor of the Gazette, who died in September, 1875. She was born at Fredericksburg on March 30, 1814, being the daughter of Benjamin Grymes, of “Somerset,” King George county. At an early age she attended school in this city, and was one of the flower girls who received Lafayette when he visited Alexandria. She was married when in her teens and throughout her long life of eighty-three years she was an exemplary Christian, wife, mother and fiend. Animated by a pure, practical Christian spirit, her pilgrimage manifested the firm purpose of duty toward God and her fellow creatures, and it was her constant aim to seek out those, especially in her own neighborhood, who were suffering from adverse fortune, and while extending one hand of sympathy, the other always bore the more substantial tokens of her friendship. Mrs. Snowden had been a member of Christ Church for nearly seventy-years and for the past sixty had occupied the same pew in that church. She possessed the true idea of the mission of life in every particular, and practiced it in the minutest detail, viewing the course of mortals as a journey beset with hills and valleys, and was ever thoughtful amid the pleasantries of the oases encountered. She has now entered that silvery stream whose mystic tide runs but one way toward the golden shore—where the tempests of life are no longer heard and where loved ones gone before stand to welcome her to the company of the blessed.
Contributor: Loretta Castaldi (47472615)
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