Show I ibituary 5 Died at her rt sidence on Third street Ogden Utah on Thursday evening March 2 1887 a 8 oclock Mrs A J nee Ann Jenn tt Mortimore wife of Major V M C Silva aged 43 years iO Mrs Silva was I 1 arn on the 3d of August 1843in New fork City within two blocks of the ho so where her destined husband first sw the light She was descended from me of the oldest families in the East an as her name Morti more demonst ates one of the most famous families n Englands history On the 28th of June 1871 she was NO married to Majo V M C Silva by the Key Dr Sthp en H Ting Jr after which she accon panied her soldier hUB band to his caml > in the wilds of far off Arizona where iiis regiment at that time was doing duty Airs Silva ren Lamed with her husband during his servi es on the frontier partaking par-taking of all the vicissitudes of the ever changeful soldie rs life and finally they q found themselvc s stationed at Fort Vancouver Van-couver W T the Major being commandant i com-mandant of the post Whilst there a daughter was born to them on September 22 1872 Martha Rose Silva The following July Mrs Silva took her child on a visit to her t family in New York and whilst on this visit the child died There is no flook however watohed and tended Bat one dead lamb is there There is no fireside howsoer defended Bat has one vacant chair Today in Greenwood cemetery Brooklyn Brook-lyn a marble monument marks the spot on the hightest ridge in that famous City of the Dead where rest the remains of little Martha their first and only child and close by ere long a new made grave will contain the childs mother After her daughters death Mrs Silva failed in health and it may be said was a confirmed invalid since On the 18th of February she became seriously ill but in a few days rallied and appeared to be lENT gaining in strength and vigor but on last Sunday February 27 she had a relapse und all that the most expert medical skill and the loving care of devoted mends could do was done without avail and at 8 oclock Thursday evening her spirit winged its flight to i3 i home in Heaven Gentle amiable modest pure and good possessing every grace and virtue of perfect womanhood she was respected loved and revered by all who were blessed in knowing her She was worthy of her ancestry in whatsoever things were true honorable just pure lovely and of good report I This world is all the better that she has I livod and now in her death the honest pvinpthv this whole community ext ex-t i if elf 1 to the stricken husband as ho i d urns in the late happy home now HO dew ate R She in i u dead the child of our affection Ur t nto that school Wherc alit uj longer needs our poor protection protec-tion And Oh at himself doth rule IlS We will he patient and assuage the feeling Wo may not wholly stay By silence sanctifying concealing The grief that must have way CITY The wife h s loved and honored on earth is niv his guardian angel in heaven an1 out of the blackness of the TY darkness that has fallen on his hitherto pleasant life he will clearly hear the loving words that come whispering down through the centuries Come unto Me all ye that labor and are ger heavy laden and I will Rive you rest ft |