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From: "Cook Family" <>
Subject: [NS-CB-L] Ross Obituary
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:42:30 -0500


The following is part of a larger transcription submitted to the Newfoundland-Labrador Genealogical Website by Chris Shelley. I am sure the obit below will be of interest to those researching the Ross families of Margaree.

Regards,

Bill C.

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The Events for 1922 were transcribed by Chris Shelley with the help of John Baird.

Reprinted courtesy of Robinson-Blackmore Printing and Publishing

>From the St. John's Daily News

Wed. Mar. 29, 1922

OBITUARY:

MRS. THOMAS MARTIN

Mrs. Thomas MARTIN, Theodosia ROSS, daughter of the late Joseph ROSS, was born in the beautiful Margaree Valley, Cape Breton, just 56 years ago and came with her parents as a young girl in her teens to St. John's. Here her life has been spent. There are very few of us whose names will live in the annals of fame, but all of us may live so as to enter into that eternal life which endures when fame is at the end. There was much of this spirit in Mrs. MARTIN, for eight years she was evangelistic superintendent of the W.C. T. U. and was responsible for a service every third Sunday at the Penitentiary. There she was particularly interested in the young women with loving care she followed their devious paths all over the city finding homes
for them, collecting funds to forward them to their homes and in many ways blessing them. As a nurse, her ministrations will be gratefully remembered in scores of homes. When the hand of disease was laid on her last summer and all that the skill of physicians could do was not able to stay its progress, hers was still a life of absolute trust. Of her spirit, the words of
Bathurst's fine hymn were emphatically true.
"That will not murmur nor complain
Beneath the chastening rod
But in the hour of grief or pain
Can lean upon god

A faith that keeps the narrow way
Till life's last spark is fled.
And, with a pure and Heavenly ray
Lights up a dying bed."





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