OBIT: Annis P. BALDWIN, 1851, of interest in Huntingdon County, PA

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DIED - In Peoria, on Sunday morning last, after a short illness, Annis 
P. eldest daughter of Capt. Thomas Baldwin, aged 16 years and 3 months.
 The death of one so young has seldom been so mourned by a whole 
community. Although, with a rare modesty, she shrunk from the public 
eye, her extreme loveliness of person and character, had called forth 
the affectionate admiration of all around her. The rich fruits of 
careful and judicious training were manifested in her daily life and 
gave clear evidence, of what the woman would have been. Let those who 
mourn, remember that the glorious privilege of the "pure in heart" is 
now her's and be comforted.
 "In the cold moist earth we lard her, when the forest cast the leaf,
  And we wept that one so lovely, should have a life so brief;
  Yet not unmeet it was, that one, like that young friend of ours,
  So lovely and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers."
C. 

Huntingdon Journal, Thursday, October 23, 1851