From The Palmyra Items, March 13, 1896, page 8, transcribed by Linda Berney:
Mrs. John Dalton entered into eternal rest on Monday evening about 11 o'clock. She has suffered more than ordinary falls to any. Since the accidental shooting of her affectionate son, she has been oppressed by a load too heavy for her to sustain. Sickness has followed sickness till at last this truly beloved mother and wife succumbed, leaving a void none can fill. We but faintly hint at the respect and love the whole community had for her when we say all hearts were hers without the asking. In proof of this, if proof were needed, the whole neighborhood (Fields' district) were at her funeral.
From Iowa came friends, and had the fact of her demise being generally know, even the cemetery would not have contained them; Rev. Fr. Sperlein was very attentive to her and in his sermon spoke not as of one to mourn, but to rejoice. The last solemn rites were in St. Leo's Catholic Church on Wednesday, and all that remain of her is laid away in the Catholic Cemetery, March 11, 1896.
How impotent are words when we would allay pain! God alone can speak comfort here. And yet we all would if we could say something in mitigation of their great sorrow, to the stunned husband and motherless children. Every heart aches with their hearts, and the tears that bedew their cheeks wash ours too.
Mrs. John Dalton entered into eternal rest on Monday evening about 11 o'clock. She has suffered more than ordinary falls to any. Since the accidental shooting of her affectionate son, she has been oppressed by a load too heavy for her to sustain. Sickness has followed sickness till at last this truly beloved mother and wife succumbed, leaving a void none can fill. We but faintly hint at the respect and love the whole community had for her when we say all hearts were hers without the asking. In proof of this, if proof were needed, the whole neighborhood (Fields' district) were at her funeral.
From Iowa came friends, and had the fact of her demise being generally know, even the cemetery would not have contained them; Rev. Fr. Sperlein was very attentive to her and in his sermon spoke not as of one to mourn, but to rejoice. The last solemn rites were in St. Leo's Catholic Church on Wednesday, and all that remain of her is laid away in the Catholic Cemetery, March 11, 1896.
How impotent are words when we would allay pain! God alone can speak comfort here. And yet we all would if we could say something in mitigation of their great sorrow, to the stunned husband and motherless children. Every heart aches with their hearts, and the tears that bedew their cheeks wash ours too.
From The Palmyra Items, March 13, 1896, page 8, transcribed by Linda Berney:
Mrs. John Dalton entered into eternal rest on Monday evening about 11 o'clock. She has suffered more than ordinary falls to any. Since the accidental shooting of her affectionate son, she has been oppressed by a load too heavy for her to sustain. Sickness has followed sickness till at last this truly beloved mother and wife succumbed, leaving a void none can fill. We but faintly hint at the respect and love the whole community had for her when we say all hearts were hers without the asking. In proof of this, if proof were needed, the whole neighborhood (Fields' district) were at her funeral.
From Iowa came friends, and had the fact of her demise being generally know, even the cemetery would not have contained them; Rev. Fr. Sperlein was very attentive to her and in his sermon spoke not as of one to mourn, but to rejoice. The last solemn rites were in St. Leo's Catholic Church on Wednesday, and all that remain of her is laid away in the Catholic Cemetery, March 11, 1896.
How impotent are words when we would allay pain! God alone can speak comfort here. And yet we all would if we could say something in mitigation of their great sorrow, to the stunned husband and motherless children. Every heart aches with their hearts, and the tears that bedew their cheeks wash ours too.
Mrs. John Dalton entered into eternal rest on Monday evening about 11 o'clock. She has suffered more than ordinary falls to any. Since the accidental shooting of her affectionate son, she has been oppressed by a load too heavy for her to sustain. Sickness has followed sickness till at last this truly beloved mother and wife succumbed, leaving a void none can fill. We but faintly hint at the respect and love the whole community had for her when we say all hearts were hers without the asking. In proof of this, if proof were needed, the whole neighborhood (Fields' district) were at her funeral.
From Iowa came friends, and had the fact of her demise being generally know, even the cemetery would not have contained them; Rev. Fr. Sperlein was very attentive to her and in his sermon spoke not as of one to mourn, but to rejoice. The last solemn rites were in St. Leo's Catholic Church on Wednesday, and all that remain of her is laid away in the Catholic Cemetery, March 11, 1896.
How impotent are words when we would allay pain! God alone can speak comfort here. And yet we all would if we could say something in mitigation of their great sorrow, to the stunned husband and motherless children. Every heart aches with their hearts, and the tears that bedew their cheeks wash ours too.
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