Blumer - IN this city, Sunday evening, December 28, 1878, at 6 o'clock, 
Julia A., wife of Arthur A. Blumer, aged 32 years.
The subject of this offering was born and raised in Pike County, Missouri.  
Her people were from the Carolinas, She with her husband and children, 
came into our midst about nine months ago, since which time she had 
gained the esteem and friendship of all with who she became acquainted.  
She was a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church at the time of her 
death, and was a conscientious and exemplary Christian, and affectionate 
mother, and a loving and dutiful wife.  The little ones – Lulu, aged 9, and Arthur, 
aged 5 years, she leaves to mourn her death. To the devoted husband and 
father, we offer friendships condolence.

Let us be patient! These severe afflictions
Not from the ground arise,
But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors;
Amid these earthly dumps
What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers
May be heaven’s distant lamps.

There is no death! What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath.
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call death

She is not dead, the child of our affection,
But gone unto that school
Where she no longer needs our poor protection,
And Christ himself doth rule.

In that great cloister’s stillness and seclusion,
By guardian angels led.
Safe from temptation, safe from sin’s pollution, 
She lives, whom we call dead.