Maria Lear

Maria Lear (Morris)

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On July 24, 1826, she married Benjamin Lear. She died during childbirth on March 22, 1828 and her infant daughter died two days later. They are both interred next to her husband, Benjamin Lear, in the Lear family plot.

Daily National Intelligencer
Tuesday, March 25, 1828
Deaths
In this City, on Saturday last, Mrs. Maria Lear, Consort of Benjamin Lincoln Lear Esq., of this City – a Lady of whom it is sufficient to say, that the whole community laments her untimely death.

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On the lamented death of Mrs. Benj. Lincoln Lear
List! 'Tis the dirge of a soul that is fled,
And In! the procession, in solemn array,
Moves slowly along to the place of the dead,
With the relics of one that is passing away.

But why should I weep? Perhaps it is one,
Who has out lived each tie that had bound him;
And care worn and aged, forsaken and lone,
He joy'd that his feeble existence was done,
To escape from the solitude 'round him.

On no! --'Tis the hearse of Maria -- who died
In youth, with her relatives near her;
With husband, and mother, and friends, by her side,
And all that to life could endear her.
Beloved, and loving, with a youthful heart,
How awful is the mandate to depart!

But yesterday I saw her, newly wed,
The smile of love and joy upon her brow,
The lily garland twined around her head,
As cold and pale as her poor body now.