Re: White House Wedding of Mary Eastin
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Re: White House Wedding of Mary Eastin
Sally 4/29/09
The Whig, Nashville, Tennessee, August 14, 1847
Died at Hamilton Place, Maury county, on the 1st instant, Mrs. Mary Ann, wife of Lucius J. Polk and daughter of the late William Eastin, in the 30th year of her age.In the deceased of this lady, her family and friends and the Church militant have sustained a loss which no words can portray.She was born in Davidson county, Tenn. on the 25th day of July, 1810 and was married in Washington city on the 10th of April 1823.To a mind naturally possessed of great vigor and dignity, united wth the most winning gentleness and unobtrusiveness and education unusually extensive and progressing even until her death, had induced a developemnt of rich and pure loveliness.These religion endured with the beautyof holiness.For fourteen years she was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.She loved that Church. "Beyond her highest joy, She prized her heavenly ways, Her sweet communions solemn vows, Her hymns of love and praise."And by the sanctity of her life and conversation most truly did she adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour.Her heart, the serene home of righeousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, fervent charity the habitual tone of her thoughts, a zeal for God and the spiritual good of her family, her servants, the poor, yea, all of who came within the sphere of her influence, she was so gentle that (as it was said of the heavenly minded Leighton, she would scarcely have crushed a rosebud and a frighted bird would almost have flown to her bosom for protection - and yet so loyal to God, "that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor pricipalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature," could have separated her "from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."She had much to attach her to life, a husband who had garnered up all his heart in her, eight children, like olive branches round about her table, two of whom were but three weeks old, a life but halfway extended to the usual allotment of humanity, wealth, rank, those in fond alliance clustered about her, richly to enjoy. But yet when apprized of the extreme peril of her condition, she was not appalled.She did not repine.For her to die was gain.She realized that it was so, she was more than resigned to death, she literally panted to appear n the presence of God.An earnest of her consummation and bliss in God's eternal and everlasting glory, seemed already glowing at her heart.As serenely and as sweetly, as her infants were wont to do, when resting on her own bosom, did she fall asleep in Jesus.It was on a Sunday, a fit day for the transit of such a soul."Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, from henceforth, yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follows them."
There are a couple of errors (papers made errors back then also) It gave her age as 30 instead of 37 and said she married 10th of April, 1823 instead of 1832.When I read it I thought she had really married young until I found the correct information.
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