Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-03-05
Death of Mrs. G. w. Engle.

The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs
George w. Engle, of this city, were
painfully shocked at the news early
Friday morning that Mrs. Engie was
dead and it was one OF those vista
tions of the grim reaper that seems &c
carry with 1t a feeling Of sorrow that
extends to an entire community; one
of those that, aside from the sympathy
we all feel for the immediate family
bereaft of a member, causes each &C
nuaintance and friend to have a con
scientiousness that he or she has lost
something through death: that its
seeming cruelty has not only wrought
pain and anguish in the hearts OF
those bereaft, but has touched theil
own with a grief that is personal.
We have all witnessed this effect OF
death and If in contemplation we
have searched for the cause, we have
found 1t to be that strange power
which goodness has over human
hearts and thoughts and actions, and
he who is great and mighty may pass
without causing a manifestation ol
this emotion in the silent tears OF
sincere grief did he not have, under
lying his greatness and power, this
sublime virtue, simple goodness: and
he whose footsteps follow it's unerr-
ing light will not stray far from that
path through life which ends at an
honored grave on earth and the
threshold Of perpetual peace in
heaven.
Cora May Engle was born Orr, in
1867. She married George W. Engle,
of this city, in 1891 at Blooming
ton, Wisconsin and has been a resi-
dent of this city since that time.
She was the mother of a son and
daughter. Ivan, aged sixteen and
Georgia, aged thirteen, who with the
father now compose the family here.
She left also her father, Joseph Orr
and step mother, Louise, three sis
tiers, Mrs. Alex. Robertson, Mrs. Fred
Edwards, Of Bloomington, Wisconsin,
and Mrs. Thos. Harper, Of Running
water, Texas, a brother Harry at
Bloomington d half sister, mrs.
Hiram Harvey, at Bagloy. Wisconsin,
Two half brothers.. Ed and Dick at
Glenn Haven. Wisconsin and two
half brothers Dee and Gus, in Wash
ington. She died early Friday morn
81 perindnced by 2 sudden cold. She
was buried in Forest Hill cemetery
last Sunday after a most impressive
Alfred Cav We At the MeihodIst Church.
Mrs Enple was a good woman in
ali that the lanpuape imnlies She
had not enioved Rea!fh for the mast
sixteen wears, in fact, h never lsnew
the Comforts Of good health since an
affiiction with dinhtherja in. her early
childhood which left her with the
that, resulted in her death.
For sixteen years or more she had
for mastery over weakness
and disease with a strength of pur-
nose and will that Was true heroism.
Three a ago she crept slowly back
from the brink of the grave with
pneumonia through weeks of suffer
inc onIy TO q he striken with pa-
raIvsis from the ELECTS of which She
had through sheer determination to
do so. nearly recovered at The time of
her death. Those who knew her we'll
know that this determination to live
was not, for 1--we If life alone hnt, for
love Of her family and a desire to live
for IL. With a cheerfulness and for
titude that was truly phenominaI She
worked for the physical. mental and
moral welfare OF her Children. antici-
patinp the time when She could no
longer do so with the manifest object.
evidenced nv the thorouphness of her