REICHARD, Roy Warren - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Roy Warren, the only son of Lee Reichard, died at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers, near Wallace, on Monday morning, August 8th, at 2 o’clock, aged six years, eight months, and six days. This bright little boy was taken ill on Wednesday of that dread disease, scarlet fever, and only lived four days. He lived with his grandparents, his mother having died when he was only six months old and the grief his death caused those good old people is pitiable in the extreme. Their sympathy because he was motherless together with the nurtured love they bore him made him doubly dear to them and as their children are all grown up and gone away, they looked upon him as a staff on which to lean in their declining years.  No one knew the child but to love him and he was all but idolized by his kind father and near relatives. Everything that medical science and kind and willing hands could do was done for him but to no avail. The Savior called him and he joyfully went home to his angel mother. These good grandparents should find great comfort in the loving manner they reared this motherless boy and feel that according to nature ‘twill be but a short time till they will be rewarded for all this and join little Roy in heaven. Owing to the nature of the disease no funeral was held at the house. The pretty little white casket laden with beautiful flowers was borne to the house by his aunties, Mrs. Rose Sharpe, Mrs. Emma Hall, Mrs. Alice Wilkinson and Miss Vanda Rogers. He was taken to the Zackmire Cemetery where prayer was offered by Mr. Shular and there laid to rest by his mamma who loved him so well. -s