Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1891-02-12
LOCAL RESUME.
Sudden Death Of Mrs. Alice Thompson
Caused by stroke OF
Paralysis.
The Family's Third Death During q
Brief Residence OF = Years
In Miller.
County Correspondence, General and
Personal News OF Local
Nature.
MRS. ALICE THOMPSON DEAD.


On Monday morning the citizens OF
Miller were startled by the announce
ment that Mrs. Alice Thompson had just
experienced stroke Of paralysis which
left her ut deaths door, only too soon to
be followed, on Tuesday evening, by the
final summons. To those acquainted with
the family's history, this death completes
the sad refrain of II life whose harp SEEM
ed atuned solely Tor the funeral dirge.
Surrounded by people whose bond OF SYM
pathy was the outgrowth of equal hard
ships-a band of friendship welded by
the fires of adversIty-Mrs. Thompson at
the age of A years, Yielded up her life to
the God who gave it, and troubled spirit
took its flight to that windowless home of
eternal rest, bearing the well-earned cre-
dentials of "those whom the Lord loveth
he chasteneth."
The angel of deaths first visit to a hap
py home at Aledo, Ill, was to take the
mother, leaving three small children next
was called the husband and father in 1881.
Then the step mother, son Lewis, and
daughters Cassie and Maggie in the spring
of 1888 removed to Miller. They came
apparently reared in the lap Of luxury
and knowing little Of the worlds cruel
battles. Investments were made, and the
mother and son entered into the grocery
business, which they followed with vary
ing success for time. But the death
angel was ever lowering near, and after
the trials of many months sickness, III
January 1884 Cassie's young life slowly
ebbed away. Scarcely had the clods ceas-
ed rafting upon her ccfin, when this
houIe again became haunted by the grim
spectre, knocking no irly at the door and
calling for the sacrafce of Maggie, who in
the spring of 1885 was laid to rest beside
her own mother, father and sister by the
over r-burdened second mother and broth
er. These Years of sickness and trouble
were followed by adversity and the moth
er and son in i'll health, were thrown up
on pittiless world. all unified, to strug-
gle for the necessities of life.
For some time Mrs. Thompson had
been living in Aberdeen, but had come to
Miller to visit Lew, who is olerking in the
ID. Ii. Smith 4 Co. store, She had in
! tended returning to Aberdeen Tuesday,
and Sunday evening appeared quite we'll.
Bat early Monday morning Lewis was
awakened by his mother moaning, and
upon summoning physician, discovered
| she had had a stroke OF paralysis. and
could move only her left arm. She grad
ually sank lower, and without being able
Tuesday evening. That the ways of the
! Lord are past understanding, is thus in
stanced in leaving Lewis, the most deli
cate member OF the family, as its only liy -
ing representative, struggling alone under
a burden few strong men are called upon
| to bear. Such record of sorrow and
distress tugs fiercely at the heart strings
of Christian love and faith to prevent
even against that sublime injunction.
Thy will, not mine. be done" A
community's deepest sympathy goes out
unreservedly to the lone mourner who
now weeps over the graves of all that
earth held dear, aud to the deceas Cd ones
own family, who live at Aberdeen.
Mrs. Thomson's own relatives are ex.
pected to arrive this evening. Services
will be held tomorrow morning, and the
remains inferred in the q. A. r.. cemetery
| IN South Miller.