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Ephraim's glory is like the firstling of his bullocks and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth.
~ Deuteronomy 33:17

Stephen's Smith Family - Ancestors, Descendants and Cousins

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Lydia Emma Burton

DEATH: Obituary - Mrs. Chas. Johnson died at her home at Hays, Iowa, on Wednesday, August 6 from the effects of dropsy. Mrs. Johnson will be remembered in this city and vicinity as Miss Lydia Burton, a sister of Mrs. E. C. Cox, and the earnest and sincere sympathy will be extended those who are left to mourn her death. Deceased attended the Burton family reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Cox, in this city, during the [?] of June last, and was 46 years age at the time of her death. W. J. Burton, of Savannah went to Hays to attend the funeral, which was held Thursday. It was the largest funeral known there, 60 carriages were in attendance.


Sidney Burton

The following poem was written by Sydney and was included in the Burton Family Circle Letter. There is no date on the poem.

Brothers and sisters older now
Than she whose life is o'er
Do you think of our mothers loving face
That looked from the open door?

Alas! for the changing things of time
That home in the dust is low
And that loving smile was hid from us
In the darkness long ago!

And we have come to life's last hill,
From which our weary eyes
Can almost look on the home that shines
Eternal in the skies.

So brothers & sisters as we go
Still let us move as one
Always together keeping step
Till the march of life is done.

For that mother who waited for us here
Wearing a smile so sweet
Now waits on the hills of Paradise
For her children's coming feet.