Wheeler - Ola Rea
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Tuesday 5 December 1893
The death angel has again invaded the home of P. E. Wheeler, formerly of this city, now of Gas City, and taken from the loving parents their darling daughter, Ola Rea, aged nearly three years, after an illness of only about a week of throat affliction terminating in diphtheritic croup. The little one realized that the end had come and the death scene was a touching one.
The parents are almost crazed with grief over the loss of this dear little one, the joy of their hearts and the sunshine of their home, and although surrounded by hosts of kind and sympathetic friends, who did everything in their power to soften the sting and soothe their sorrow they feel that the sunshine has gone out of their home forever in the death of Ola Rea, but in this, their darkest hour they are reminded that He who doeth all things well, can alone give them that consolation that comforts their hearts even in their desolation and renders their burden light enough to be borne.