Richmond - Carrie
Source: Crawfordsville Journal August 11, 1881
Carrie Richmond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin B. Richmond, died at her parents' residence on last Saturday afternoon a few moments after 2 o'clock. The poor child was only 16 years of age, but had suffered an intensity of pain few people are ever called upon to bear. Some months' since it was necessary to amputate one of her limbs on account of a bruise which attacked the bone. She never rallied from the shock. Throughout all her afflictions Carrie never murmured but was even-tempered and amiable to the last moment when the agonies of death came to the relief of the greater agonies of living. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon. kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Review, Aug 13, 1881
The subject of this sketch, Miss Carrie Richmond, was born in Hamilton, Ohio July 3, 1865 and died Aug 6, 1881 after a severe suffering of almost a year. Miss Richmond was intellectually far ahead of her years. She was a pure and kindhearted girl, always willing to assist those in honest distress, firm and perservering in her undertakings. The writer of this sketch had the pleasure of her acquaintance for almost two years and he has often listened with astonishment at her easy and versatile style of conversation. She read profusely and could talk upon any subject of which she had ever read. Her memory was powerful almost wonderful for one her age. She bore her sufferings with the fortitude of the most firm. While dying by inches for weeks and months, her voice always retained that mellow, musical, tender cadence that once heard will never be forgotten, while the cancerous roots of her disease were reading their fatal destination she would always speak to her friends in the same patient and pathetic manner. Her addresses to her parents, "Dear Mama, please papa," are words of hers that will ever find a lodgement in the hearts of the bereaved parents. Every want was supplied that tender hands could bestow by her loving parents, kind brothers, sisters and friends. The sympathy of all is with the bereaved family; God, who has visited them with this affliction, we trust, has given them strength, to bear it. The family circle, the school room, the Church house, have each suffered the loss of a faithful member. "And now the des (sic) that fall from heaven, upon her verdant grass grown bed, are blissful symbols God hath given, of all the pure and early dead, A blessing, Carrie, hallows thy dark cell, But over the silent couch we must not weep-Farewell!" kbz