Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-08

Holstein Advance, Iowa.
EDaAR-Un Monday, October %
Anna; eldest daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. @. Edgar.
Once more it becomes our sad
duty to record the departing Of one
to the great beyond. Once more
the cold hand OF death has entered q
happy home and removed the bright
est flower and blighted the fond
hopes of loving parents.
Anna Edgar was borned in Penn
sylvania on Nov. l3, 1875, and was
therefore 19 years, IL months aud
Is days old. In 1882 she came with
her parents to Holstein where they
have since resided. In 1898 she
graduated in the schools of this place
after which she took two years
course in the state normal school at
Cedar Falls where she graduated
with high honors this year. It was
while she was completing her course
in school that she was taken i'll. Im>
mediately upon coming home she
was taken with an attack of fibroad
pneumonia from which she never re.
covered. For five long months she
suffered without Murmer, full of
hope and ambition, and confident of
recovery, but alas her hopes were in
vain. Kind and loving ones con-
stantly cared for her and supplied
every want, granted every wish, and
endeavored to allay every pain until
death claimed it's own. Her
seemingly untimely death came like
a dark cloud over our little city.
Having grown from childhood into
womanhood among us, she was
known to all, and to know her was
to honor and respect her. Though
quiet and reserve in her daily walk
her character was above reproach.
The life of Anna Edgar was one Of
honor and sunshine, her mission be-
ing one Of love and devotion to her
home and her God, and her death
brings sorrow to the hearts of all
her many friends.
The funeral was held Wednesday
afternoon, services being held in the
VI. E. church, of which church she
was a member, conducted by Rev. e.
L. Fegtiey in accordance with wish
of the deceased before her demise.
The services were largely attended
and the remains escorted to the
Holstein cemetery, where they were
laid to rest by large concourse of
friends.
The bereaved family have the SYM
pathy of the entire community in
their sad affiiction.
| Sweet and tranquil seems the resting of our
Anna. calmly sleeping.
| In her cold and silent man sion, while our eyes
are dimmed with weeping;
She has reached that goal the portals where
all living soon must 60.
Now she's resting, sweetly resting, safe from
sorrow, pain aud woe.
ing sun was cleaning.
Shadows to the westward falling, hope and ra.
dance round them bsaming,
She has fallen weak and weary. in that sad
pathetic sleep.
In the sleep that knows no waking, her sad
fate we can but weep.
In life's beauty golden springtime, while yet
vernal flowers were springing,
All the earth seems glad in splendor, all the air
with music ringing;
She pressed on with hope unbounded, towards
iife's promised high behe.et.
But ere faded spring of summer. she has gone
to endless rest.
Yes. her ardinent soul, unequaled by its frail,
and mortal dwelling
Onward pressed and upward struggled kept her
heart with rapture swelling.
With the hope that on life's journey, down the
long. long rolling years.
Life would be we'll worth the living, promised
joys but vanquished tears.
Though she's gone, she's we'll remembered, by
good deeds and kind words spoken;
Ever true and always faithful, pledge or word
she ne'er has broken;
To prepare for life she abored, life on earth and
life in Heaven,
She believed that for this labor, would rich
reward be given,
And when this poor life wac ended she should
gain life eternal,
Where no sorrows ever enter, but where bliss
and JOY sapernal
Flow from springs Of life eternal; on that bright
and happy shore,
There to dwell where sin and sorrow, pain and
sickness come no more.
| Sad it is to part forever. with the friends we
most have cherished,
Those to whom our hopes have centered when
both hopes and friends have perished.
Sad the thoughts that haunt our memories,
knowing they can ne'er return,
But their memories we will cherish. till our
lives last embers burn.
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