"For tho' from out our bourne of time and place 



The flood may bear me far, 

 I hope to see my Pilot face to face 



When I have crossed the bar," 



Board of Commissioners of Navigation and 

 Pilotage for Cape Fear River and Bars. 



Wilmington, N. C. 



Having learned with deep regret and pro- 

 found sympathy of the death of Mrs. Luola 

 Murchison Sprunt, wife of our Honorable 

 Dr. James Sprunt, a special meeting of the 

 Board of Commissioners of Navigation and 

 Pilotage was held on this seventeenth day of 

 February, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and 

 the following action taken : 



Whereas God in His infinite wisdom has 

 seen fit to take to Himself Mrs. Luola 

 Murchison Sprunt: Be it resolved: 



First. That the Board of Commissioners 

 of Navigation and Pilotage feels that the en- 

 tire community has suffered a personal loss. 

 Hundreds of homes, from the lowliest to the 

 highest, will remember her in some work of 

 kindness, some word of comfort and encour- 

 agement. Her sympathy for every one in 

 distress was manifested wherever there was 

 the slightest opportunity for her to express it, 

 and she never neglected an occasion to say a 

 word of consolation and Christian cheer. 



Second. That the Board of Commissioners 



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