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Photographer: Syd Whittle
Taken: March 14, 2009
Caption: Ada Newton
Additional Description: [Sign at gravesite reads:]

DIED Near Amador City on Sunday, February 4th, 1872,
Mrs. Ada Newton, only daughter of Mr. J. Palmer.
On entering the village of Amador City, on Monday evening last, business houses were closed and the mills as still and silent as the grave prepared to receive the last remains of poor Ada. The church where the last sad rites for the dead were performed was crowded with sad hearted friends of the deceased listening to a solemn and impressive funeral sermon from Rev. J. Woods; as I looked for the last time upon her who was loved by all who knew her, I could but say in sympathy with her devoted husband.

”Forgive blessed, the tribute tear
That mourns thy exit from a world like this;
Forgive the wish that would have kept her here.
And stayed thy progress to the realms of bliss.
No more confined to groveling scenes of night;
No more a tenant in mortal clay;
Now should we rather view thy glorious flight
And mark thy progress to the realms of day."
[Note: On this sign her name is spelled “Ada”, however on the headstone it is spelled “Ida”]
Submitted: March 14, 2009, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p55906
File Size: 4.559 Megabytes

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