Miami Union
March 13, 1880
SOMERVILLE, LAURA DONNA - In Windsor, Canada, March 7th
1880, of membranous croup, Laura Donna, darling daughter of Edward and Mary
Somerville, aged about two years and six months. Precious is life, she was
also beautiful in death, and appeared, even in the physical form, an
offering too lovely for the grave. But in spirit the grave is not her bed;
thus she does not slumber in the dust. An angel now, her home is with the
angelic and the glorified above. The separation needs be but brief, and
this may be followed by a blissful and an eternal reunion. We sorrow for a
night, but joy cometh with the morning. Heaven console the sorrowing.
"Unto our Father's will alone,
One thought hath reconciled;
That he whose love exceeded ours