Miami Union

April 8, 1871 

SCHEUERMANN, ANNA MATHILDA - Anna Mathilda Scheuermann, wife of A. P. Scheuermann, and daughter of Christ. and Catherina Ziegenfelder, born March 11th, 1847, in Troy, Ohio, died in Leavenworth, Kansas, March 28th, 1871, at the age of 24 years and 17 days.  The fact that she is the first one of the family who followed her father into the eternal world makes her death peculiarly impressive and solemn to those who are mourning over her departure.  But the assurance that she fell peacefully asleep in Jesus, and that she is now with the redeemed in Heaven, rejoices their hearts even in their tribulation.  Mathilda Scheuermann was loved by all.  And in her life she evinced a Christian spirit, showing to the world around that she loved the Saviour.  As her life so was her death.  A near relative, and a Christian friend, who stood with her husband near her bedside when she died, consoled her in her great sufferings and in the hour of death.  "Put your trust in Jesus!" and we are confident that her spirit winged itself to the Heavenly Mansions prepared for her by her Saviour, who has declared: "I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."--John 11, 25.  Her funeral sermon was preached at Leavenworth, by Rev. Mr. Thompson, from John 14, 1, 3. "Let not your heart be troubled."  May the relatives of the departed--husband, mother, brothers, sisters, and acquaintances-- submit themselves to the kind care of their Heavenly Father, who doeth all things well, and may they fully acquiesce in the inscrutable providence of God.

"Hear what the voice from heaven proclaim
     For all the pious dead;
Sweet is the savor of their name,
   And soft their sleeping bed.

 They die in Jesus, and are blest;
   How kind their slumbers are!
From suff'ring and from sin released 
  They're freed from ev'ry snare.

 Far from this world of toil and strife,
   They're present with the Lord;
The labor of their mortal life