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Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series.

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        I cannot close this business letter, without adding a word of condolence in your recent sad bereavement.
        You know, my dear cousin, how fully and freely you have my sincerest sympathy.
        It had not been my good fortune and pleasure to meet my cousin Nora. But those of my friends who have known her intimately, have said to me, what an angel she was! So good and kind and virtuous and accomplished.
        These terrible moments of despair have swept over my soul, when, standing beside the grave of my little boys; the clods, as they hoarsely tumbled on the coffin, struck a strange echo on an aching heart and made all the world a blank.
        But mine were babes; it is far different with you, and I can well appreciate all your woe, when, to remember that she has grown up in her beauty and innocence around your hearthstone, and the tendrils of affection entwined around and endeared to your heart, by the memories of ten thousand sweet scenes, and tender recollections of her witching and winning endearments all through the pathway of innocent, childish glee and up to the moment of blushing womanhood.
        How sad for one so young, and on whom our brightest and best anticipations have learned to gather, who just touching the threshold of life and gazing out its bright and beautiful panorama, can scarcely realize but, that 'tis all a dream; to be snatched away by the ruthless hand of death. Oh! 'tis sad! melancholy! Yet our Christianity, which however we may neglect and abuse, still in a silent voice, but whose language is unmistakable, teaches us that this is not the whole of life, that beyond all this there is another life, amid the stars, and where the loved and lost will reunite.

        The brightest rose of Spring-time blooms amid the thorns. The darkest and most tangled pathway often leads to fields of fairest verdure. Thus may our hopes here, be crushed to bloom no more fragrantly again over the memories of the past, and blossom more sweetly in anticipation of the future. Cheer up; it is all in the Providence of him who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, and watches the sparrows as they fall. Though we may not see it now, yet sinner as I am, I can but believe in an overruling hand that doeth all things well.
        "God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears,
        God will lift up thy head"
        My wife joins me in sympathy for your affliction and tender solicitation for your and cousin Sarah's and all the children's future welfare.
                                        Affectionately,
                                                J.L. Henry (Signed)

Note: The above is from Judge James Henry, who was a son of Robert Henry, who married Dorcas Love, the daughter of Robert Love, the elder. It was written in the Year 1767, or early in'68.-F.D. Love,
She, Nora, was my sister-F.D. Love

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Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series. , Edited by Dennis N. Partridge, Columbus, Georgia, © 2001.

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