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- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, May 18, 1882 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Died - Muzzy - In Pulaski, May 15th, 1882, Lawson J., only son of Lawson R. and Alma P. Muzzy, and grandson of Rev. Lawson Muzzy, aged 5 years, 10 months and 15 days. Funeral from residence Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends are invited.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, May 25, 1882 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - In the death of little Lawsie Muzzy, noticed in the Democrat of last week, a peculiar bereavement is visited upon the Muzzy family. He was the third to bear the name of Lawson. The father, editor of the Democrat, and the grandfather, Rev. L. Muzzy, so long and worthily known as a "minister of the gospel of reconciliation." With the departure of this little son, the hope of the family name fails. He was a boy of rare promise and the center of more than ordinary hope. In the great sorrow that now envelope this home, causing the heart of a fond father almost to fail him, and that of a devoted mother sorely to bleed, the church and community most deeply sympathize. The funeral was largely attended. Pastor Townsend of the Baptist church conducting the services, in his address, reminding the sorrowing that how much so ever, and unconsciously often, the dear departed was to them as a center of interest and incentive to achievement, he in his heavenly removal was still more the center, being elevated from the earthly to the heavenly, and the incentive evermore of a nature imperishable. As the heavenly attractions multiply, so the heavenly traveler, homeward bound day by day shall joy in the prospective nearing reunion, where tears never fall, nor shadows darken. The floral display was very beautiful; stars in floral formation and stars in tender boyhood beauty. These are fitting the one to the other. Here both fade and fall, but in the paradise of our God, this blessed boy, robed in the beauty of immortal spring-time, shall live and love forever. Other flowers, a pillow, a basket and an anchor, an offering from the children of his department in the village school, they and their teacher being present, all were tenderly touching tributes of sorrowing regard. Miss DeMaine rendered with a peculiarly comforting effect, "Safe in the arms of Jesus." The sad services terminated at the grave, where the hands of a fond father, aided by other relatives lowered to the last resting place all that was once mortal of little Lawsie. The services throughout were impressive and solemn. All turned away as if conscious of a personal loss. Mr. and Mrs. Muzzy may long bear with them the assurance of fullest sympathy in this their sad bereavement, as with Christian fortitude they lean on the Ann Everlasting. Pastor.
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1877 - 1882 (5 years)