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Obituary

One of the sweetest and gentlest lives of the many which have made delight and sunshine in Burlington society, went out yesterday, leaving sorrow and darkness. Mrs. Sally Webb, after a life of eighty years of perfect goodness, smiled on us and went away at three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Last Saturday she was stricken with apoplexy and never spoke again. Mrs. Webb was born at Vincennes, Indiana, when that country was the Northwestern territory, on the fifth day of August, 1798. In 1818 she married David webb, Esq., and they, with their family, went to LaFayette in 1881. Until her death, she was the oldest living native of Indiana. She leaves six daughters, Mrs. M.H. Winton, Mrs. Charles H. Phelps, and Mrs. B.J. Hall, of Burlington, Mrs. Eliza Yeakel, of LaFayette, Mrs. Sarah Ford of Brooklyn, New York, and Mrs. Albert West of Chicago. Her long life of eighty years, was one of constant gentleness and goodness. No woman ever lived a better life, or carried to her grave a greater wealth of love. In acts of purest kindliness and in purest conscientiousness, she gathered to herself more hearts than she ever cared to count. The lovliness of her old age was like a summer evening. At last, in perfect peace, without a struggle, without a tremor, without a word of regret, or even a word of farewell, "she passed through glory's golden gate, and walked in Paradise.