HANCOCK, Goldie - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

After three or four weeks of patient suffering, Miss Goldie Hancock passed away at her home in Alamo, aged 19 years. Goldie was a bright, pleasant girl, a joy and comfort to her parents, grandmother and only brother, Glennie. Also her friends, Miss Daisy Ellis, will miss her happy laughter and patience in her home so often. The long weary days and dark, silent nights will pass away, but the quick foot fall and happy voice will come no more to her troubled friends. She has gone to a brighter home, for she was a good girl. Only a few weeks before her death, she was speaking to me of death, and said that she had no fear; that it only seemed to her she would go to sleep and quiet rest—from suffering on earth. Goldie suffered much from nervousness and heart affection, and she seemed to think she would not live long, but she has gone to her eternal home and we cannot believe otherwise than she is with the happy angels of heaven. To the troubled, lonely mother, father, and brother, we pray you to be comforted with the thought of meeting your loved one in the hereafter.  The funeral was conducted at the home by Rev. Mooreman, pastor of the Christian Church, of which she was a member. Her pall bearers were Misses Janie McJunkins, Daisy Ellis, Daisy Campbell, Bertha Stonebraker, Cloa Myers and Urcie McSpadden, her friends and Endeavor sisters. Lovely flowers, the gifts of friends and the society of which she was a member, were placed about her coffin. A large concourse of relatives and neighbors followed the body to its lasting resting place in the Stonebraker Cemetery, two miles east of town. -s

Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 22 March 1901

Goldie Hancock, of Alamo, aged 19 years, died Thursday, March 14, of grip. She was buried Saturday at the Stonebraker Cemetery, east of Alamo. -s