Vaughan, Lucille 1889-1896

VAUGHAN, ENT

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 7/24/2003 at 17:17:11

The funeral services of little Lucille Vaughan, the only daughter of Henry M. and Lucy E. Vaughan, who died of diphtheria last Friday morning, were held at the home at 9 o’clock Saturday morning. From the nature of the disease, only a few of the immediate family and relatives were present; but a large number of those who learned to love the little one in life, assembled at the cemetery to assist in laying the little form away in its last resting place. Mrs. L. A. Gates, Mrs. J. W. McLaughlin, Mrs. Jno. Newell, and Miss Jet Winslow acted as pallbearers, and Mrs. Rodgers, Miss Cowgill and Messrs. Fred Hough and Fred Meredith sang a couple of appropriate and beautiful selections. Rev. C. C. Harrah made a few remarks full of comfort and consolation to the parents and relatives. Lucille’s age was six years and 11 months. She was a beautiful child, and by her sweet childish ways and loving disposition had won a place in the hearts of all who knew her. Her death is a crushing blow to her parents, for whom the tenderest sympathy is felt by all. ~ The Newton (IA) Record, Friday, April 10, 1896, Page 1, Column 4
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Death of Lucille Vaughan

Died of diphtheria on Friday, April third at ten minutes before two p. m., Lucille only daughter of Henry M. and Lucy E. Vaughan, aged six years, eleven months.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetness flower of all the hold.

Each child that lives has a circle, it may be no wider than its own immediate family, where it is known and believe for sweet traits which to fond eyes betray like kinship to the angels.

But here and there among earth’s little people is one with so strong an individuality that her circle widens as she grows, taking in all with whom she comes in contact, such a one was Lucille, a child of unusual and picturesque beauty, a child of whom those who knew her best hoped to record worthy
Achievement.

In the room she has left vacant, memory stands and bids us look upon the vanished days of her brief life’s unfolding. There is the skill of the small fingers a kindergarten work; the carefulness of the little learner to get all her lessons just right.

There are her many quaint and amusing speeches, through, in this shadow of her death, that call upon smiles as they were wont to do.

There’s the springtime which she welcomed for the flowers they brought. There the deep love (illegible) toward the few she took into her heart. There she herself appeared never to be in this world other than the dear baby who loved to play and pretend; the baby air eyes were (illegible)to look upon; the Baby to where home circle all-bearing out in sympathy. ~ The Newton Journal, Apr 1896.

Transcriber note: The following from Newton Union Cemetery Records; Vaughan Lucile 6 Friday, April 3, 1896 daughter of Henry M. & Lucy (Ent) Vaughan