Individual Details

Birth

Oakland Tribune, Volume 16, Number 62, 26 March 1879
LOVEJOY -- In Greenwood, El Dorado County, March 20, to the wife of Thatcher Lovejoy, a daughter.

Death

Placer Herald, Volume LII, Number 35, 28 May 1904
Mabel Eloise Gregory.
[Communicated.]
With the dawn of day, May 15th, at the home of her parents, near Cool, the bright young soul of Mabel Eloise Gregory passed to the Great Beyond, where a thousand years is but as a day of life on this earth.
Mrs. Gregory was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher Lovejoy, and the only grandchild of the late Thomas Smith, one of the old pioneer Justices of El Dorado county, and a granddaughter of Lauriston H. Lovejoy, one of the oldest pioneers of El Dorado county at the present day. Mrs. Gregory was born at Greenwood and had spent most all her young life at Cool, with the exception of a few years that her parents lived in Roseville and Rocklin. Of a lovable, kindly disposition, and devotedly attached to her parents and sister and two brothers, she was always the idol of their happy household. No care or sorrow could come to her in their home that a devoted family could keep away, and although she had been an invalid for the last five years, yet her death was unexpected and a great shock to her family.
On July 21, 1902, she was married to John S. Gregory of Rocklin, where they went to reside, Mr. Gregory being employed by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Shortly after going to Rocklin Mrs. Gregory contracted malarial fever and after only two months residence there they returned to Cool, where for almost six months she was confined to her room with typhoid malarial fever. During the summer of 1903 they spent at their homestead above Georgetown, where Mrs. Gregory seemed to regain her strength, but never grew strong. Her baby daughter was born on May 10th, and though it only weighed four pounds, both mother and daughter seemed to do well for two days, but complications set in and owing to a weak heart, the young mother could not survive her terrible sufferings, and breathed her last at the dawn of light Sunday, and with the twilight of the same day the baby soul joined its mother. The remains of mother and babe were placed together in a beautiful white casket and laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery at Georgetown. A large number of the friends of the deceased showed their affection for her by going the thirty mile journey to lay her to rest. The impressive service of the Episcopal church was held in the M. E. church by Rev. A. Kingsley Glover of Auburn. Loving friends lined the grave with white and ferns, and tiers of beautiful floral tributes; silent offerings of esteem for her who had crossed the dark river ere her sun had fairly risen, leaving a loving husband desolate, her devoted parents heart-broken, a loving sister and two brothers inconsolable, that they can hardly say calmly, “Thy will be done.”
Over the hearts that grieve
Be Heaven’s own solace spread;
Their loved one is not dead,
But rather sweetly sleeping;
In death the angels found her,
And into tender keeping
The dying life have taken.
Bleed not. Oh mother’s heart.
As if of God forsaken.

Sweet sleeper, thus transplanted
Beyond the changing skies,
Beyond the fickle hopes of earth,
A flower of Paradise,
A gem in Heaven’s own setting,
Be thou a beacon star
To those who mourn.
Their toilsome footsteps lighting
To thy sweet home, in earth’s dim gaze afar.