Recent Death at Mudgee

Another link of the Pioneer Band cut off

(By E.R. Rylstone)

The death of Mrs John Newman at Mudgee, removes one of the oldest of the National School girls. The deceased lady's mother and the late Mrs Purvis, sen., of Rylstone, were sisters, if we mistake not. The late Mrs. Newman's christian name was Victoria, after the late good Queen great grandmother of the recent distinguished visitor, the Prince of Wales who won the hearts of so many of Australian fair ones. The late Mrs Newman was well worthy of the illustrious name, and as daughter, wife and mother the deceased lady passed to the great beyond loved and honoured by her model family of sons and daughters and deeply mourned by a husband who, in the few declining years left to him will mourn his great loss consoled in the reverent thought that no cross broke that plighted troth " to love and honour until death them did part," and that the survivor may as reverently exclaim, "It is enough; earth's struggle soon shall cease." - Mr. John Newman has been one of Mudgee district's most popular and most esteemed amongst men. He was Mayor of Cudgegong municipality on several occasions and an active unit of the Mudgee Agricultural Society. The infirmity of rheumatism for 20 years prostrated the now deceased wife. But she lived through it all with a pronounced Christian fortitude. Through the war her knitting needles were kept moving in making comforts for the boys at the great war. In the home she was a leading, loving, spirit, though maimed as it were from the ravages of the terrible malady that kept her to the invalid's chair. But the end came in a peaceful call to rest. This inadequate tribute is to one who tho' martyr to ill-health those many years proved a heroine to death. May it not be claimed here "that she was one who will rank amongst those who came through great tribulation to enter "Beyond" with the sainted and whose "robe has been washed white."