The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-12
END Of L|FE'S
F|iFUL FEVER
MRS. WILLIAM q. GILBERT PASS
ED TO HER REhARD AFTER
MONTHS ILLNESS.
ALL HEARTS ARE SAD
Noblest Women-Funeral Wednes-
day Morning at Church Of
The Redeemer.

Many hearts in Cairo are deeply
saddened by the death Of Mrs. Wi
liam b. Gilbert which occurred yester
day at noon at Champaign where tho
decedent was stricken a month ago a,
the home of her son, Prof Barry Gil
lbert.
Four weeks ago last Thursday Mrs.
colbert went to Champaign TO visit
her son apparently IN good health.
She was stricken by an attack Of
acute Indigestion a day or two after
her arrival there and grew grad'i-
Tally worse, the heart becoming inYo!-
wed and her hosts OF friends in Cairo
hoped against hope that she might be
given a longer lease on life her use
Ifufness in all good works in this com
immunity being generally recognized and
appreciated With her bereft family,
these friends today mourn the loss
of one of Cairo's best women.
The remains wiz be brought 10,
Cairo arriving this evening via the
Illinois Central at G:35 o'clock and will
be taken TO the family residence
"Greenway." at Washington avenue
and Twenty-eiehth streets The funer
al will be held Wednesday morning at
10 O'Clock at the Church OF the Re
deemer, OF which the decedent was .
faithful and deyout communicate for
many years. The body will be taken
TO Alton, Ill.,, for intement leaving
at 1l:15 o'clock Wednesday morning
the final obsequies at Alton to be heF
Thursday morning at 9 o'clock.
Mrs. Gilbert was born in Alton In |
September, 1915, and was a daughter
of A. 5. and Catherine Barry She |
came 10 Cairo as a bride in 1866 and |
had resided in Cairo ever since, BE- |
ing prominent in the social and church |
life of this city Her married life was |
one of great happiness and the break |
ing of the bonds caused by this death |
is sad affliction to the husband t
whom the decedent had been a mos
loyal and devoted wife for more thar
forty wears Three sons survive the
mother, Miles Stafford Gilbert of the |
firm Of Gilbert & Gilbert, attorneys |
at,law Cairo William G. Gilbert Of
Chicago. and Prof Barry Gilbert, OF |
the University of Illinois at, Cham
1aign Three brothers and a sister al
so survive the decedeut They ar
William c, Barry and John Barry, o
Los Angeles Cal, Charles fl. Barry |
If Chicago and Mrs. Miles Fredk CT
bert Of Cairo.
Mrs. Gilbert having received the All !
vantages of thorough education IN |
her youth was a most capable woman |
She was a graduate Of the Oriad Sem
mary at Worcester. Mass One OF hel
last acts a few weeks ago in the Wd |
mans Club Of Cairo, of which she was |
An enthusiastic member was th |
reading of a paper on the subject OF
the charities of Cairo with which sub |
ject she was thoroughly familiar by |
reason of her long and active eXper J
ence in looking after the needy in this |
city. Her work in the interests of thu |
Childrens Home of Cairo is too well
known to require mention. Her lifa !
was full of good works.
She died in the faith in which sh'
had lived and death had no terrors for
this good woman whose duty has beer
done so faithfully and so well.
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress
trees:
Who. hopeless. lays his dead away
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across The mournful marbles PLAY
Who hath not learned, in hours %
faith.
The Truth to flesh and sense M
known
That Life is ever Lord OF Death
And Love can never lose its own.