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Submitted: 5/13/14 • Approved: 5/13/14 • Last Updated: 8/14/15 • R60374-G60373-S3
Edmund
Died July 2, 1846
Aged 72 Years
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Jane
Died February 27, 1845
Aged 65 Years
*Obituary
The Banner
March 8, 1845
Died, of consumption, Jane Crutcher, wife of Edmund Crutcher on Thursday, the 27th ult. at 1/4 past 10 o'clock, a. m. in the sixty-sixth year of her age. The subject of this obituary offering was born in Botetourt County, Virginia from whence, with her father's family, she emigrated at an early age to Kentucky, from thence to Sumner county in this State. Hers was an active life in all its usual walks, one of cheerfulness, industry and utility. As a wife and mother, she inculcated every ennobling virtues and the adornment of her sex; not alone by precept but by her imposing example, kind to her domestics and ever solicitous for the welfare and happiness of those whom God had pleased to place under her care. As a neighbor, she was charitable and benevolent; but her heart and hand, which always sympathised for the sufferings and misfortunes of the poor and was prompt in giving aid, are now hushed and cold in death. If she had faults, earth has been to her, as she was to her kind; it has thrown its broad and dark mantle of charity over them. She was an earthly gem of a heavenly stamp. She was a pure and single minded woman; an emanation of the deity, the link which binds us to a purer and holier state and when the monster death approached, she feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
As the soft and gentle dews fertilize and expand the flower, did she draw all in the pale of her influence from error to virtue's side. The Western sky is tinged with a halo and light long after the sun is set, so her lovely bearing in life and on her bed of death, will be felt beyond the grave. The tears and lamentations of husband, children, relatives, mourning friends and servants bespeak her epitaph. Virguous, beloved and revered in life - cheerful and resigned in death, her task on earth fulfilled, like the dove driven back into the ark, by troubled winds and waves, she had resumed her place in the bosom of her God. She lived as she died, with a full reliance upon the rectitude of her actions and an abiding faith in the dispensations and providences of an all-wise Creator. "Her's was a hope sweeter than life, Stronger than death."
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Mary Jane
Died April 11, 1847
Aged 37 Years
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