Henkle - Marguerite
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 21 August 1896
Marguerite Henkle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will E. Henkle, died last Saturday about 10 o’clock at the family residence on West Main Street, after a painful illness of several weeks. The funeral was conducted on Monday morning at 10 o’clock by Rev. Dr. Leech of the M. E. Church.
The death of this bright and promising child is a peculiarly sad and pathetic one and falls with telling force upon the bereaved parents, whose only child she was. Although very young—she would have been eight had she lived until the second of September—she was known by nearly everyone in town and was everywhere loved as an unusually bright and winsome child. Indeed, her intellect was in advance of her tender years, and her maturity in thought before her infant footsteps had crossed the borderland of youth seemed to early mark her as the shining mark which Death loves. Her life was a very short one, but withal it was a very sweet and very beautiful one. -s