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- . "Died, at Vittorio, on Friday, the 21st inst. after a long and painful illness, which she bore with true Christian resignation, Helen W. R. Tisdale, daughter of the late Joseph and Margaret Tisdale, in the 45th year of her age.
Deceased was one of the most remarkable causes of extreme suffering to which our frail humanity can be subject. Torn from her youthful expectations, and thrown upon a bed of suffering, from which she was never raised even to a sitting position for the long period of twenty eight years -suffering, almost without cessation, the most excruciating pain, for which sore affliction she was never known to murmur or question Divine justice - always trusting in the merits of a kind Redeemer for a happy release when the earthy dissolution should come, deriving consolation from her Bible and Prayer Book, of which she was a constant reader, and firm disciple of the Church of England, in which faith, with a full assurance of a happy resurrection to eternal life, she breathed her last, being the first of a family of ten and surrounded by her brothers and sisters - retaining through all her suffering to the last the full powers of her mental faculties, the amiability and brilliancy of which are most fully displayed in her early school girl days." - - -
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1824 - 1869 (45 years)