WILKENS, Charlotte Grace 1896-1901
WILKENS
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Date: 10/26/2018 at 11:59:52
DIED—At her home in this city, June 2, 1901, Charlotte Grace Wilkins, aged four years and eight months. Charlotte was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. George Wilkins. She was a child possessed of rare physical charms and, habits and manners, she was precocious beyond the average child of her years and possessed of a dignity that made her appear to be more of a little woman than an active, play-loving child. But it was during her play hour, Wednesday evening, however, that she incurred the injury that ultimately resulted in her death; she was running when she fell upon the side walk, stricking with great force on her forehead; she was apparently so happily recovered from this hurt her parents regarded it as of momentary injury and the next day she accompanied them to the memorial services and to Mr. and Mrs. Pearson's for dinner; Thursday evening Mr. Wilkins left for his field of labor as traveling salesman, in the calm belief that everything was well with his loved ones; light symptoms of fever were visible during the evening and before the night had fairly set she grew rapidly worse and Dr. Schilling was hastily summoned when it was discovered that the child was suffering from spinal meningitis and that the little life that was so soon to be given back from whence it came hung in the balance; unconscious of the lavishment of loving care and the imploring prayers of dying hope wrung from the anxious hearts of an idolizing father and a worshipping mother, and apparently oblivious of all pain, she lived until Sunday morning. Mr. Wilkins reached his daughter's bedside Friday, and heard her last spoken words, "Papa I am so tired."
She had been learning a little poem to speak on Children's Day, which ran: "My two little hands are for Jesus, to work for Him all day; My two little feet are for Jesus, to walk in His blessed way," and may the thought that the little hands now pulseless and the little feet now still are toiling in another life and treading in a happier way comfort and console the bereft parents. It is bard to find words of comfort, however, for hearts so sorely stricken, and it is hard to be reconciled to the death of so beautiful and promising a young life. The funeral was held this afternoon from the residence of Charles Wilkins, Rev. Norton officiating; and the remains laid away in a tiny casket in beautiful Graceland, beneath a wealth of June flowers.
Source: New Hampton Tribune, June 4, 1901, accessed at New Hampton Public Library Digital Archives
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