The age-herald., 1901-02-20
THE DEAD UNITED
 TO RETURN HOME Mrs. Erwin SchiIIinger Passed
 Away Last Night . WIFE, HUSBAND AND CHILD One Died Last Night. Other Three Months and Child Three Years Ago-All to Be Conveyed to
 Old Home
WIFE, HUSBAND AND CHILD

Mrs. Bettie Schillinger, widow of the late Col. Erwin Schillinger, died at the family residence, Avenue D and Twenty first street, at 11:50 o'clock last night, after protracted suffering from a drop sical disorder, aged 35 years She is sur vived by two children, Karl Schillinger, aged years, and Edna Schilllnger, aged IA.
 Mrs. Schillingers brother, Charles Bob- zien of Louisville, Ky, together with oth- CT members of the family in Birmingham, was at the bedside of the sufferer when the end came In grief and mourning.
 Mrs. Schillinger was Miss Bettie Bob- glen of Louisville, and she was married in that city to Erwin Schillinger some fif- teen or twenty years ago. It was love match of the olden happy nature. He, like she, was born and brought up in Louisville, and they had always known one another. Their happiness was com- plete until death came to their house. hold three years ago and deprived them of an infant child.
 And then, in November last, Erwin Schillinger, the husband and father, died dIl6F u 1OIB dnu MdSllHB AAAS sorrow of his death has not yet lifted from the great company of men and women who loved him for his good heartedness, generosity and comradeship' and who esteemed him for his fidelity to every obligation and every confidence and trust; and everybody well remembers the extraordinary public tribute to him as set forth in the longest and most im- posing funeral procession but one that is believed to have ever formed In Bir- mingham He was one of the most faithful of friends, most generous of men, and most esteemed of citizens. Err win Schillinger came clearly to his title of colonel through an appointment to the stac of the Governor of Alabama, an honor he fully deserved and one he never ceased to cherish.
 And those who had the happiness to know Mrs. Schillinger bear witness that her lovable and womanly character was similar and quite equal to the good ana true characteristics of her beloved nus band; that as he was admirable and es- timable, so also was she, in all her charming womanly ways.
 The funeral SeTNlCtS III liipueS No ~ANS' Schillinger will take place at the family residence, Avenue D and Twenty-nrst' at o'clock this afternoon.
 Tonight at midnight Erwin Schillinger and his wife and little child, so long asleep, will begin their last journey back to their old home at Louisville; return ing. will traverse In their last sleep the way over which they came to this valley happy and in rosy health and abundant peacefulness and sweetness, in the dawn of the loving union of their lives long ago.
 The remains of Colonel Schillinger, who died November %, 1900, and the remains of his infant child, who died three years ago will be taken from the vault at Oakhill and placed beside the unanswer- ing dead of yesterday and thus the three, the husband, wife and child, will be borne to Louisville.
 The Louisville and Nashville train con- veying the dead will depart from the union passenger station shortly after F o'clock tonight, and it will bear MT. Louis Schillinger and Mrs. Schillinger, and Mrs. August Schillinger.