America : our national hymn . Smiths home has lost one who, for nearly forty years, was its honored andbeloved inmate. Mrs. Ann W. Smith, the mother of his wife, died August 20,1878. Born July 28, 1786, a sister of the eminent judge, the late Honorable DanielAppleton White, and married almost seventy years previously, this venerable ladycarried ones thoughts back to the early days of the elder Ouincy and Webster,Dana and Bryant, and Madame Patterson Bonaparte. At ninety-two, however, herinterest in life was keen, and her beauty of spirit, fitly enshrined in a noble figure,looked forth from a f
America : our national hymn . Smiths home has lost one who, for nearly forty years, was its honored andbeloved inmate. Mrs. Ann W. Smith, the mother of his wife, died August 20,1878. Born July 28, 1786, a sister of the eminent judge, the late Honorable DanielAppleton White, and married almost seventy years previously, this venerable ladycarried ones thoughts back to the early days of the elder Ouincy and Webster,Dana and Bryant, and Madame Patterson Bonaparte. At ninety-two, however, herinterest in life was keen, and her beauty of spirit, fitly enshrined in a noble figure,looked forth from a face round, full and fair. The writer will ever remember thehonor and pleasure of handing Madame Smith to breakfast, in her son-in-laws home,two months previous to her death, just before the family left Newton for theircottage by the sea. It was there, where she was accustomed to bathe with muchzest, that, a few weeks later, she had a fall which soon proved fatal to the body, and freed the soul, of the aged Christian. G. H. SOUTHERN ELEVATION.
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