The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1905-04-13
A SAD DEATH.
Diphtheria Ends the Life of
a Noble Woman.

omelSer, beloved vile oil j. >. SmelSer,
was dead. 1t is q sad duty we have to
perform in announcing to the public
the death of this estimable woman
Scarce one week ago she was the pic
ture of health, and would have been
almost the last one her large list Of acI
quaintances would have thought vas
SO near the end Of life. But few of
our people knew that her condition
was serious, and the news of her death
came as lightning from a clear sky.
The blow will be q severe one for n
large number of her friends in Battle
Mountain and elsewhere.
About a week ago deceased WAS
taken sick with an attack OF tonsilitis,
but nothing serious was anticipated
until Monday when q change seemed
to have taken place and she rapidly
grew worse. Medical aid was again
s"u1lHlOned anu upoh SH"'iAo"
found the patient suffering with the
dread disease diphtheiia. The usual
remedies we're administered and the
patient seemed to rally and she passed
II very comfortable night, but early
Tuesday morning the doctor was again
but he had met 4 foe no
medical aid could conquer and her
spirit soon passed to its maker.
The house and occupants were lni-
mediately guaranteed under which
circum .tances it made the death and
burial of deceased seem sadder than it
otherwise would have been.
Death under any circumstances Is
sad, but how peculiarly does 1t appeal
to the hearts and sympathies OF a
community when it rutlilessly strikes
down one in the full vigor of life.
Just AS the birds of tree and field
were piping their first joyous carols OF
spring tide, that grim reaper, who Is a
respector of neither person MOI place,
let fall his merciless sickle. garnered
in n life that we could i'll afford to
lose, and cast the winter ofdeath upon
us.
Deceased was conscious up to she
time of her death, and although un-
abe TO speak. she motioned to Mrs.
McCormac who was nursing her to
bring her baby to her bedside. She
patted her darling laby's little hands
and looked appeaiingly ut him, aud
her lm>b,nd who was seated ut her
bedside. after which she passed quietly
away.
Her only regret was in parting from
her little baby son, who is at the age
when n mothers love is mostly need
ed and will lie missed, but she trusted
in that Power above, and her lips j.
lently moved in prayer that the low
ing father with the help of God fill
that void left in the home from
whence she must go.
Martha Smelser was horn ear Pitts
burg, Penn, July %, 1869, and died in
Battle Mountain, New, April Ii, 1903,
aged 36 years.
On April 9th. 1892, she was married
to J.. 5. Smelser, and they took up
their residence in Lewis where they
lived until about eight years ago when
they moved to Battle Mountain and
babe since made this place their
home and till this day together they
have happily lived as man and wife.
She leaves q disconso,ate and heart
broken husband and n little son six
and one-half months old, Il mother
and two brothers in Pennsylvania,
and a sister in Ohio to mourn her I'M
timely death.
Mrs. Smelser was a lady such as one
seldom meets. She was highly re-
garded by all who knew her, and
many hearts are saddened by her un.
timely death. With sweet and gentle
disposition, with kind and loving
words for all who were around her,
and with a heart that vas full OF good,
she won the esteem of all who knew
her.
The funeral took place from the
residence of deceased on Wednesday
morning at 1870, but owing to the
dread nature of the disease from which
she died the funeral was strictly priv
ate and she was laid to rest in yonder
cemetery in the cold and silent grave
where even the cries Of her darling
babe cannot disturb her slumher.