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Lydia Skinner

Female 1787 - 1859  (72 years)


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  • Name Lydia Skinner 
    Birth 9 Feb 1787  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 4 Mar 1859  [1
    Notes 
    • The following verses were written by her husband Walter after Lydia's death...

      "THE MOURNING HUSBAND.

      Though God oÂ’erwhelms with sovereign stroke, And blasts my dearest pleasures here, His cheering smiles IÂ’ll still invoke And love, and trust, and hope and fear.

      Though clouds may hide his smiling face, His chastenings, and his love unite, In darkest hours, his sovereign grace, Like bow of promise, cheers my sight.

      He leads me on through lifeÂ’s dark path With future wisely hid from view; I feel the tokens of his wrath Mingled with blessings not a few.

      Such sorrow fills my wounded heart, As friends, or strangers, cannot tell; God has taken my better part, Yet I would worship, and be still.

      The world to me is clad in gloom, Its pleasures dim with grief, alloy, For lo! the dark insatiate tomb Hides now the relic of lifeÂ’s joy.

      Yet hope inspires my soul to trust, And may that hope neÂ’er prove in vain, That Christ will raise that precious dust, And I shall see her yet again.

      Strong faith presents her to my sight, For ever fixed in heavenly home, Arrayed in robes of purest light And beckoning me with smiles to come.

      In glorious hopes, my soulÂ’s delight, To live in day, without the night; No more to sin, no more to die, To live with God, and friends on high.

      By night, by day, my thoughts ascend, And rove through heavenly scenes above; Angels I pass, to meet my friend, And Saviour too, with equal love.

      But when the happy visions fade, I realize I’m here below— A pilgrim walking in the shade, Of death’s dark monument of woe."
    Person ID I561  US Thrall family
    Last Modified 16 Feb 2004 

    Family Captain Walter Thrall,   b. 11 Apr 1786   d. 30 Apr 1861 (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 9 May 1805  [1
    Children 
    +1. Mary G Thrall,   b. 1808   d. 29 Apr 1879 (Age 71 years)
    +2. Martha D Thrall,   b. 1809   d. 1859, New Harmony, Posey, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    +3. Newton W Thrall,   b. 9 Sep 1811, East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jun 1846, New Harmony, Posey, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years)
     4. Jane Skinner Thrall,   b. 1816   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Cynthia Maria Thrall,   b. 3 Jun 1825   d. 12 Nov 1844 (Age 19 years)
    Family ID F219  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Feb 2004 

  • Sources 
    1. [S5] Compiled by D Stephen Thrall., Thrall Genealogy 1630-1965, (Grant Leslie Thrall 1976), 34 (Reliability: 3).