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- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, October 23, 1884 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - In Pulaski, October 16, 1884, Melissa L., relict of Charles H Cross, aged 67 years. The deceased was the third daughter of Gilbert and Eleanor Lane, old residents of this town, and the widow of Charles H. Cross, an old and well-known resident of this village who died November 2, 1883. She died suddenly of heart disease, from which she had suffered for many years. Three children, Gilbert L. Cross, Mrs. Silvia L. Shea and Mattie H. Cross, all residents of this village, survivor. The funeral was held at her late residence on Sunday at 2 o'clock, and the burial service of the office for the church was conducted by the Rector R. Paul of St. James's church. We extract the following tribute to the life of the deceased from a private letter: "She has gone to join the husband and son she loves so dearly, but what a glorious example of domestic love and devotion, of purity and goodness, of generosity and unselfishness and of Christian resignation and fortitude in affliction, she has left to all of us to emulate. Such is the inevitable of this life. Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, we cannot escape here." The floral tributes to her memory, a pillow, cross and crown, were very beautiful.
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1817 - 1884 (66 years)