AN ANGEL TOOK HIM AWAY
By the death of little Edwin Snell Wilcox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Miller Wilcox, three families are suddenly and sadly bereaved, for he was the idol not only of his parents but of his grandparents and all the relatives. Although less than one year old he had won the hearts of all by his gentle winsome ways. He seemed too good for this cold earth-life so the reaper called for him one day and took him away to dwell in a sunnier clime.
Friends gathered at the residence of his grandfather, Mr. E.T. Wilcox on Sunday at 12 o'clock where a brief funeral service was held, conducted by Prof. Collier, a long-time friend of the family, whose sympathetic and comforting address was most appropriate for the occasion. He closed with Longfellow's poem:
"There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
"Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he;
"Have naught but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
I will give them all back again."
"My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,"
The Reaper said, and smiled;
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once a child.
"They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear."
"O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The Reaper came that day;
'T was an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away."
Mrs. Prof. Collier sang an appropriate selection, after which the aunts of the little one - Ethel Wilcox, Mrs. Flora Hoak, Mrs. John Snell and Mrs. H. Snell, with Mary Snell an only cousin carrying most beautiful floral offerings, bore the tiny casket to a carriage, and the funeral cortege wound its way to Columbia, where a funeral service was held, conducted by Rev. Schuyler Sears, assisted by a local quartet. The burial was in the Snell lot in Columbia cemetery.
Among relatives from abroad at the funeral were Rev. J.T. Hoak and wife of Dalton; Mrs. F.N. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. O. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes, Miss Minnie Barns, Mrs. W.R. Coates, all of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. Joel Rice, of Olmsted.
There was a wealth of beautiful floral offerings.
(Berea Advertiser (Ohio), 11 May 1906)
By the death of little Edwin Snell Wilcox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Miller Wilcox, three families are suddenly and sadly bereaved, for he was the idol not only of his parents but of his grandparents and all the relatives. Although less than one year old he had won the hearts of all by his gentle winsome ways. He seemed too good for this cold earth-life so the reaper called for him one day and took him away to dwell in a sunnier clime.
Friends gathered at the residence of his grandfather, Mr. E.T. Wilcox on Sunday at 12 o'clock where a brief funeral service was held, conducted by Prof. Collier, a long-time friend of the family, whose sympathetic and comforting address was most appropriate for the occasion. He closed with Longfellow's poem:
"There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
"Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he;
"Have naught but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
I will give them all back again."
"My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,"
The Reaper said, and smiled;
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once a child.
"They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear."
"O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The Reaper came that day;
'T was an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away."
Mrs. Prof. Collier sang an appropriate selection, after which the aunts of the little one - Ethel Wilcox, Mrs. Flora Hoak, Mrs. John Snell and Mrs. H. Snell, with Mary Snell an only cousin carrying most beautiful floral offerings, bore the tiny casket to a carriage, and the funeral cortege wound its way to Columbia, where a funeral service was held, conducted by Rev. Schuyler Sears, assisted by a local quartet. The burial was in the Snell lot in Columbia cemetery.
Among relatives from abroad at the funeral were Rev. J.T. Hoak and wife of Dalton; Mrs. F.N. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. O. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes, Miss Minnie Barns, Mrs. W.R. Coates, all of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. Joel Rice, of Olmsted.
There was a wealth of beautiful floral offerings.
(Berea Advertiser (Ohio), 11 May 1906)
AN ANGEL TOOK HIM AWAY
By the death of little Edwin Snell Wilcox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Miller Wilcox, three families are suddenly and sadly bereaved, for he was the idol not only of his parents but of his grandparents and all the relatives. Although less than one year old he had won the hearts of all by his gentle winsome ways. He seemed too good for this cold earth-life so the reaper called for him one day and took him away to dwell in a sunnier clime.
Friends gathered at the residence of his grandfather, Mr. E.T. Wilcox on Sunday at 12 o'clock where a brief funeral service was held, conducted by Prof. Collier, a long-time friend of the family, whose sympathetic and comforting address was most appropriate for the occasion. He closed with Longfellow's poem:
"There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
"Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he;
"Have naught but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
I will give them all back again."
"My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,"
The Reaper said, and smiled;
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once a child.
"They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear."
"O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The Reaper came that day;
'T was an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away."
Mrs. Prof. Collier sang an appropriate selection, after which the aunts of the little one - Ethel Wilcox, Mrs. Flora Hoak, Mrs. John Snell and Mrs. H. Snell, with Mary Snell an only cousin carrying most beautiful floral offerings, bore the tiny casket to a carriage, and the funeral cortege wound its way to Columbia, where a funeral service was held, conducted by Rev. Schuyler Sears, assisted by a local quartet. The burial was in the Snell lot in Columbia cemetery.
Among relatives from abroad at the funeral were Rev. J.T. Hoak and wife of Dalton; Mrs. F.N. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. O. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes, Miss Minnie Barns, Mrs. W.R. Coates, all of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. Joel Rice, of Olmsted.
There was a wealth of beautiful floral offerings.
(Berea Advertiser (Ohio), 11 May 1906)
By the death of little Edwin Snell Wilcox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Miller Wilcox, three families are suddenly and sadly bereaved, for he was the idol not only of his parents but of his grandparents and all the relatives. Although less than one year old he had won the hearts of all by his gentle winsome ways. He seemed too good for this cold earth-life so the reaper called for him one day and took him away to dwell in a sunnier clime.
Friends gathered at the residence of his grandfather, Mr. E.T. Wilcox on Sunday at 12 o'clock where a brief funeral service was held, conducted by Prof. Collier, a long-time friend of the family, whose sympathetic and comforting address was most appropriate for the occasion. He closed with Longfellow's poem:
"There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
"Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he;
"Have naught but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
I will give them all back again."
"My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,"
The Reaper said, and smiled;
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once a child.
"They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear."
"O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The Reaper came that day;
'T was an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away."
Mrs. Prof. Collier sang an appropriate selection, after which the aunts of the little one - Ethel Wilcox, Mrs. Flora Hoak, Mrs. John Snell and Mrs. H. Snell, with Mary Snell an only cousin carrying most beautiful floral offerings, bore the tiny casket to a carriage, and the funeral cortege wound its way to Columbia, where a funeral service was held, conducted by Rev. Schuyler Sears, assisted by a local quartet. The burial was in the Snell lot in Columbia cemetery.
Among relatives from abroad at the funeral were Rev. J.T. Hoak and wife of Dalton; Mrs. F.N. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. O. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes, Miss Minnie Barns, Mrs. W.R. Coates, all of Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. Joel Rice, of Olmsted.
There was a wealth of beautiful floral offerings.
(Berea Advertiser (Ohio), 11 May 1906)
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