Sunday's Obituary: Helen Woods (McGregor) Ewell

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC)
27 September 1854

Departed this life on Tuesday, the 19th of September, 1854, at Edge Hill, Prince William county, Virginia, HELEN WOODS, wife of John S. Ewell, and daughter of N. M. McGregor, of Washington, D.C., aged 25 years and 17 days.

As the life of this estimable lady was characterized by the most amiable and affectionate disposition, a meek and humble piety, and all those natural gifts and christian virtues that could endear her to the hearts of her relatives and friends, so also was her death marked by a calm and holy resignation to the Divine will, a confident trust in the merciful promises of God, through Christ, her Redeemer, which is alone the privilege of a true christian to feel. May God "temper the wind to the shorn lamb," her infant son, the object of her tender care and devoted love; and may her disconsolate husband, her fond parents, her loving relatives and friends find a solace in their bereavement from the hand of Him who only can bind up the broken heart!

J.E.