The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-01-17
Obituary.
MRS. ALEXANDER WHITE.

Mrs. Alexander White died suddenly
of heart disease, on the evening of Jan.
9th. Death came in the presence of her
husband and little grandson at the Be-
lott home of her daughter, Mrs. w. F.
Ely, Jr. Mrs. White was taken i'll at
a. NJ. on the day of her death and her
husband was summoned from Fulton;
she became considerably better during
the day and her illness ceased to be re-
garded as serious, but within few hours
after the arrival of Mr.. White she was
no more. She was rational to the last
moment; in fact, felt SO we'll that she
left her chair unassisted to perform a
characteristic little act of service within
five minutes of her sudden end.
Amelia Anne Eleanor (Pyre) White
was born at Balston Spa, New York, on
October 8, 1842; she was the third child
of Augustine and Harriet Pyre Her
father was of French parentage, and her
mother was a descendant of the Vail
family, who played a prominent part in
Revolutionary affairs. When Amelia
was years of age her parents moved to
Wisconsin, coming around the lakes
from Buffalo to Milwaukee and thence
by prairie schooner to Fulton. Here she
was brought up devoting some of her
maiden years to school teaching, and
here she spent most of her life. She was
married March 49,, 1865, to Alexander
White, and they had five children. Of
these, only Harriet, the eldest, now Mrs.
w. E. Ely, Jr.. survives to comfort the
bereft husband. The children who pre-
coded their mother to the grave we're:
Margaret, who died at the age of seven,
in 1874; Alexander, whose appalling
tragedy many will remember, aged five,
1879; Helena, who lived but few
months, and wilma, who died at the age
of eight, in 1890. The life of this woman
| was replete with family bereavement;
| but she had come in her recent years to
| take great comfort in her two grand
children, Alexander and Hortense Ely.
Mrs. Whites surviving brothers and sis
| tiers are: Frank Pyre of Madison; JAS.
! Pyre Of Edgerton; Mrs. r. F. Benson of
Troy, n. Y, and Mrs. L. G. Spellman of
Kansas City, Mo. ~.
The funeral took place at the home
| near Fulton, at 100 p. M. Sunday, Jan.
Il. Eloquent of grief and love was the
concourse Of sorrowing friends who came
to this house. Many times had many of
them been here before to mourn and to
rejoice with Amelia White, and now they
followed her mortal part across the road,
to that field of graves, pathetically near,
where her four little children had been
laid away, one by one. How faithfully,
how cheerfully, she had labored to care
for and make beautiful that graveyard
not only the little plot that was dearest
to her, but all of it-many knew and re-
membered. Oh the glory of that spirit
which, from all the clouds of mortal sor-
row and the very whirlwinds of APPALLING
horror, emerged to shine in peace and
benediction upon those around her and
make beautiful with love the lives of all
it touched. A life of glorified service in
things that the world calls small, "those
| little nameless aforementioned acts of
kindness and of love which are the best
parts of good mans life;" life lived for
others, rising out of tragic darkness to
smile away the sorrows of others with a
sublime cheerfulness, giving unto others
| their daily bread; faithful in few things,
surely she shall be made ruler over
many things. "She has out-soared the
shadow of our night" ah, what reward
of peace must be hers. Surely she
takes her fill of deep and liquid rest, for
getful of all ill.,"