RATLIFF, Hattie - Putnam

Hattie Ratliff died Sept 12, 1896 at the home of her uncle where she had lived since her early childhood.  17 summers she had watched the flowers bloom and die but when the flowers of the 18th summer were dying, she died with them but only to bloom again in the sunny clime of that never ending summer where the flowers never fade. It is sad to see one so young and fair cut down but we know the change is for the better, she leaves a world of sorrow and tears, disappointments and partings for that home of eternal bliss where partings never come and where joys are never broken up. She lived a pure, unselfish life loved by all who knew her. Her funeral was preached at Otter Creek by Elder Skelton after which her body was taken to the Eaglesfield cemetery and laid to rest until the Judgment Day when Christ at his second coming shall awaken her sleeping clay and mortal shall be changed to immortal – kbz