Adeline Bush

ADALINE BUSH - Departed this life on tile morning of Friday, the 15th instant at 7 o'clock A. M. ADELINE, wife of Col. DANIEL B. BUSH of this place—aged 70 years. 4 months and 9 days. The deceased, who was the second wife of the father of the editor of this paper, and to whom he was married in the month of Feb­ruary, 1834, has gone to her last repose, after a long and busy life devoted to ministering to the happiness of those with, and among whom, her destiny was cast. A native of New York City, she at an early age, after having at the best schools of the country acquired a most excellent education, was mar­ried to the Rev. John Sellon distinguished di­vine of the Protestant Episcopal church, with whom she lived most happily until his death. Three sons alone were born as the issue of that marriage only two of whom (the late Major Charles Sellon and Mr. Rivers Sellon, of Burlington) survived to attain manhood. Shortly alter her second marriage in the fall of 1834, with her husband, she removed to this place, where she has resided ever since, and whence she has gone, we trust, to that city not made with hands eternal in the heavens. Of the last marriage there were born four children---three sons and a daughter. Of these there survive Major E. G. Bush of the regular army, now stationed at Fort Stockton, Texas, and Mrs. Lucia M. Bates, wife of Mr. Dan Bates of this place, who is the youngest of the family. Her oldest son, Eugene, died in infancy, and her third son, Lieut. Theodore Bush, M.D., died just after reaching his majority, from that fell destroyer consumption, whose dread attack was urged forward with fatal rapidity by laborious services rendered in the United States hospital at St. Louis. The death of this son, who was a most amiable and gifted young man filled with anguish unspeakable the hearts of his aged parents, and was a sad wreck of the fond hopes with they had surrounded him.

But she has gone. Alike to her now are the sorrows and the joys that appertain to this earthly existence, and if a life spent in earnest endeavor for the promotion of the happiness of others in full recognition of the great truths was taught in the Bible can secure eternal happiness hereafter, bright will be her lot through the never ending ages of eternity. Having become at an early age a member of and communicant in the Protes­tant Episcopal Church, she was throughout the remainder of her life its earnest, friend and supporter, donating freely of her means and by word and work unceasing, laboring incessantly for its promotion and prosperity. So unsparing, had been her efforts in this direction, it was deemed but a just tribute to her memory, when, as he did, the Rector of St. Stephen's Parish in this place at her funeral services, in most affecting terms denominated her the "Mother of the Parish." A little more than two weeks before her death she had a paralytic stroke which palsied the right half of her body depriving her of the use of her right arm and the power of standing or walking but her mind remained clear and her faith in the blessed truths of the religion she had professed, unshaken, and so when after a sweet and pleasant night's repose she awoke in the morning rested and refreshed but to be again stricken, she recognized that the end of her existence was at hand and summoning her husband, her daughter and her husband and two little grandchildren to her bedside and bidding them all an affectionate farewell, she gradually and calmly sank into that sleep that shall know no waking until the resurrection morn. And thus having in her life endeavored to illustrate by her daily walk the beauties of the religion she professed and in her death been sustained by her firm belief in the full fruition of the promises it presents, she passed away leaving her aged partner, her children, her relatives and large circle of friends to cherish her memory as that of one who was happiest when working most zealously for the happiness of others. To the and needy her heart was always open and no cry of distress ever reached her ear that she did not strive to answer, and relieve the sufferer, and today there are a great number in this community who will long remember her as their friend in adversity and affliction. Her funeral services were held at St. Stephens Church on last Sunday afternoon, the Rev. T. H. Eddy, the Rector, officiating and a large concourse attending the Services there and accompanying the to the grave. And so having paid but a feeble tribute to the memory of one who was a second mother to our youth and an earnest and sincere, friend of our more, mature age, we drop the pencil hoping that each and all our readers may like her: