Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-06-15
The Death of Mrs. B. r. Wood,

We are indebted to the Rapid City
Journal for the first notice of the death
of this esteemed lady, which occurred
on the 10th of June, 1907. The news
came by telegram received by Mr..
Chauncey Wood Of Rapid from his
brother B. Il. Wood living at their home
in Montrose, Colorado, where she pass.
ed away. This intelligence is not un-
expected, for Mrs. Wood has been an in
valid for several years and it was hard.
ly expected that she would fully recover
from her late serious attack Still it is
noue the less regretable and sad, for
Mrs. Wood had so many friends in Gus.
ter who will be saddened by this unwel.
come news.
She was a woman of that peculiar type
who seemed to be all soul, and her frail
body was all to slight to stand the en-
ergy and stress which she constantly
put upon it. Educated and refined,
with taste and love for music and art
which was unbounded, sympathetic,
bright and witty, all life and animation,
lovable and kind. In all these enviable
qualities we do not remember to ever
have met her equal and it is ten to one
we shall never see her like again until
We met the original, and share in her
gayety once more. Death is but an in
cident in life, and the spirit that ami
mated that little lump of clay still lives
on, and brighter, sweeter and lovelier
than before. This is the belief of the
writer, and he has ample reason to sus-
tain that belief. We who knew her and
admired her are but dull laggards, and
she who was swifter than the rest of US
has beat us to the home plate, that is
all.
We sympathize with her husband and
brother, and all her friends who will
miss her cheerful smile, and mourn for
awhile because she has passed beyond
the veil of sight and sound. But this is
but temporary and she would not have
us regard it as such a serious matter.
The all important consideration is that
she still lives and breathes and has be.
ing, brighter and happier than was
vouchsated to her in her mortal tene
ment of earth. OF this we are satisfied,
no matter what Others may say or think
and this to us is a constant source of
comfort, and should be to all who are
left behind, to gaze upon the shapeless
mound where her remains repose, and
think of her as the loved and lost. 1t is
not so. She is with you still, she speaks
to you and you do not answer, she looks
into your face and there is no response,
no recognition. But progress is the law
of the universe and humanity is yet in
the early stages ofevolution, but grow
ing and changing more swiftly than
ever before. 1t is by this We predict
that the time will come when the soul
inner sense will become so far develop
ed that some day we will be able to see
and hear and speak to our friends that
have passed behind the veil, as men
speak to each other here on earth face
to face. This is something that is occur
ing every day in the world, but it has
not yet become so common that the
great mass of people can realize the fact.
We would say to those who are ignor-
ant of these things it is time you should
pay some attention to them, as it is help
full even in this life that We be not en-
tirely ignorant of that higher and better
life to come.
G. w. ROBBINS