The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-10-24
FUNERAL SERVICES THURSDAY
Last Sad Rites We're Held Over the
Remains of the Late Mrs.
Carlart Thursday.

Carllart Thursday.
Thursday funeral services were
held over the remains of Mrs. A. r.
Carhart, who died Tuesday afternoon.
as a result Of nervous prostration.
The services were held at the M. E.
church at at $3.50 O'Clock and were
attended by a large number of
friends. The University students at
tended the services in a body. There
were a number Of handsome floral
offerings sent from friends. Rev. T.
II. Youngman conducted the services
and they were very impressive.
The following extract is taken from
the remarks made by Rev. T. Fl.
Youngman concerning the life of the
deceased lady:
Mrs. A. q. Carhart was born in AL
bany county, N. Y, Aug. 10, 1916,
and was Sc years old at the time of
her death. Oct. %, 1902. She was
very early bereft of her mother, who
died while she was but a child. Her
father remarked and went to Iowa
with his young but large family,
when Margaret, the subject of this
sketch, was but nine years Of age.
Four years later the step-mother went
to her reward, leaving Margaret then
10 years old. to mother her brothers
and sisters: which function she per-
formed with wonderful wisdom and
untiring devotion, and young though
she was she became the trusted ad-
visor Of her father. 1t is believed
she inherited a peculiar mental, moral
and emotional constitution. Her
tastes were always correct, not to say
severe; the moral measure she set
herself was ideal, while her heart re-
sponded to every call. The commun-
ity in which she spent her early days
was a hustling, irreligious frontier
multitude that bravely sought to
make a home for these bodies and
seemingly cared for, Or hoped for, no
thing better Or higher. But she was
thoroughly and consciously converted
when she was nineteen years of age.
By natural temperament and the
burdens which came to her by reason
Of environment, she was early led
from the gaities that naturally charm
girls of her age; but she did not rest
in this. but sought and found the
Christ. SO that He was reincarnated in
her. At one she set up a family
altar in her fathers house. Nat
urally she became the dominating
religious spirit Of the neighborhood,
and the younger people followed her
lead without conscious restraint. She
associated with herself other young
ladies and formed Sunday schools into
otherwise would have had no religious
institution. The good she did in
those days will not be fully known
until the Great Day, when the angels
shall gather the harvest CT the world.
She attended Cornell college
and was at once recognized as a
leader, being put into the most re-
sponsible positions in her class.
She was married to A. E. Carhart
Aug. 6, 1873, and to the union was
born five children, n of whom died
in infancy and the other four live to
rejoice in her memory and to honor
her in the Gate of Zion. When
Brother Carhart entered the anti
saloon league work she was his t~ireless
and unpaid helper, and to her de-
votion to this work, followed night
and day, and to the anxiety she felt
because the stupidity and unwise
greed of society rendered it necessary
that the father of her children should
kill himself to save others, is, more
than aught else, to be traced he1
utter nervous collapse. She saw
how he was unselfshly undermining
his splendid physical constitution
but it never occurred to her that it
was necessity for her to be the
conserE0r of her own nervous energy.
So, tfter years of severe strain, anG
months Of weary watching by those
who were most tender Of her, the
silver cord snapped and the COLDER
: bowl a broken.
, The following were the pail bearers
Messrs. l. W. Seaman, Wm. Duncan
' Mr.. Bailey, Rev. r. N. Kratz, r. A
:. Duncan, J. r. Morrow. Along linz
: of carriages containing friends fol
lowed the remains to Gracelant
= cemetery, where the interment tool
place.