(Cheyenne Daily Leader July 11, 1876, page 4)
We regret to be obliged to chronicle the sad bereavement of Mr. and Mrs. R. Houghton (NOTE: should be Mr.a nd Mrs. "G" Houghton) of this city, in the death of their eldest daughter Minnie, aged twelve years, who was taken from them last Sunday morning.
Our little friend and neighbor had been ailing for some time; a fatal disease had undermined her otherwise strong constitution; but her parents did not know, till within the past month that there was no early help for her. Slowly, slowly, she approached the brink of the grave, with a perfect consciousness of her impending end, but cheerful and hopeful to the last, and expressing an implicit faith in a glorious immortality, and a resignation beautiful to behold in one so young. A few moments before her spirit's flight to the realms above, she said: "I am going to Jesus," and bid her weeping parents and friends who surrounded her bedside, a cheerful farewell.
Gently and tenderly her earthly remains were laid away, yesterday afternoon, in the virgin soil of these plains, a large number of friends following to her last resting place.
We regret to be obliged to chronicle the sad bereavement of Mr. and Mrs. R. Houghton (NOTE: should be Mr.a nd Mrs. "G" Houghton) of this city, in the death of their eldest daughter Minnie, aged twelve years, who was taken from them last Sunday morning.
Our little friend and neighbor had been ailing for some time; a fatal disease had undermined her otherwise strong constitution; but her parents did not know, till within the past month that there was no early help for her. Slowly, slowly, she approached the brink of the grave, with a perfect consciousness of her impending end, but cheerful and hopeful to the last, and expressing an implicit faith in a glorious immortality, and a resignation beautiful to behold in one so young. A few moments before her spirit's flight to the realms above, she said: "I am going to Jesus," and bid her weeping parents and friends who surrounded her bedside, a cheerful farewell.
Gently and tenderly her earthly remains were laid away, yesterday afternoon, in the virgin soil of these plains, a large number of friends following to her last resting place.
(Cheyenne Daily Leader July 11, 1876, page 4)
We regret to be obliged to chronicle the sad bereavement of Mr. and Mrs. R. Houghton (NOTE: should be Mr.a nd Mrs. "G" Houghton) of this city, in the death of their eldest daughter Minnie, aged twelve years, who was taken from them last Sunday morning.
Our little friend and neighbor had been ailing for some time; a fatal disease had undermined her otherwise strong constitution; but her parents did not know, till within the past month that there was no early help for her. Slowly, slowly, she approached the brink of the grave, with a perfect consciousness of her impending end, but cheerful and hopeful to the last, and expressing an implicit faith in a glorious immortality, and a resignation beautiful to behold in one so young. A few moments before her spirit's flight to the realms above, she said: "I am going to Jesus," and bid her weeping parents and friends who surrounded her bedside, a cheerful farewell.
Gently and tenderly her earthly remains were laid away, yesterday afternoon, in the virgin soil of these plains, a large number of friends following to her last resting place.
We regret to be obliged to chronicle the sad bereavement of Mr. and Mrs. R. Houghton (NOTE: should be Mr.a nd Mrs. "G" Houghton) of this city, in the death of their eldest daughter Minnie, aged twelve years, who was taken from them last Sunday morning.
Our little friend and neighbor had been ailing for some time; a fatal disease had undermined her otherwise strong constitution; but her parents did not know, till within the past month that there was no early help for her. Slowly, slowly, she approached the brink of the grave, with a perfect consciousness of her impending end, but cheerful and hopeful to the last, and expressing an implicit faith in a glorious immortality, and a resignation beautiful to behold in one so young. A few moments before her spirit's flight to the realms above, she said: "I am going to Jesus," and bid her weeping parents and friends who surrounded her bedside, a cheerful farewell.
Gently and tenderly her earthly remains were laid away, yesterday afternoon, in the virgin soil of these plains, a large number of friends following to her last resting place.
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