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hour of acute suffering and sorrow, strongly exemplifies 

 those Christian principles which had been the rule of her 

 conduct through life. A conscientious desire to discharge 

 her dutj, great warmth of kindness to those whom she 

 loved, deep devotion and respect for her husband's memory, 

 who had shown her so signal a mark of his confidence and 

 affection, added to an anxiety to carry out what she con- 

 sidered would have been his wishes, all these influences 

 enabled her to perform an act of great difficulty in such a 

 manner, that its justness must be universally acknowledged 

 and admired. 



Mrs. Assheton Smith was buried by the side of her 

 husband, in the church-yard at Ted worth, on the 26 th 

 of May, 1859, little more than eight months after his 

 death. 



