Humphreys - Mary
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Weekly Journal, Friday, September 3, 1897
Sam Humphrey's little daughter [Mary], about one-year-old, took sick last Wednesday with cholera infantum and died Sunday morning at 2 o'clock, and was laid to rest in the Oakland Cemetery one mile north of Elmdale on Monday.
Rev. Loucks, a Christian minister from Waynetown preached the funeral at the house. There was a large procession to the Cemetery.
MrHumphrey and family have the sympathy of the community in their sad bereavement.
Crawfordsville Journal Weekly Journal, Friday, September 3, 1897 - The infant [Mary] of Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey died last Sunday morning at 2 o'clock, aged about one year.
The funeral was held at the home Monday afternoon. Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is still,
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.
This lovely bud so young, so fair,
Called hence by early doom,
Just came to show how sweet a flower
In Paradise would bloom.
Little Mary sleeps alone in her beauty,
So still and white 'neath the sod.
But clad in the robes of the angels,
Her spirit is resting with God.