SLAGLE, Blanche A.

SLAGLE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 2/17/2007 at 12:41:02

"The Fairfield Ledger Weekly"
Wednesday, May 11, 1881
Page 3, Column 7

Death of Blanche SLAGLE.

At the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James M. SLAGLE, in this city, on Thursday last, occurred the death, from pulmonary consumption, of Miss Blanche A. SLAGLE, aged aged [sic] 22 years and 5 months. Deceased was a native of Fairfield, having been born here Dec. 5, 1858, and with the exception of a few years while at school in the east, had passed her entire life in her native town. As a child and woman she was singularly kind and affectionate, as a daughter and sister true and devoted. Of rather a retiring disposition, she still made many warm friendships, and her death will be widely mourned outside the home circle – among companions in social and school life, in whose memories her many noble traits of character will ever linger. Her taking away was not entirely unexpected, though for some days preceding her death her condition was such as to arouse the slumbering hope in the bosom of friends who watched over her. She had suffered from disease two years or more, in fact had not been in strong health for some time. All the aid that kind friends and medical skill could give seemed powerless to better her condition, and a several months’ residence in the genial air of the western mountains seemed to be without beneficial results. Since her return home, a few months ago, her confinement to the house has been continuous. Death seemed to have set his mark upon her, but her courage never failed, and with a bright, sweet hope and a tender solicitude for parental feelings she firmly expressed her wish that she might yet recover, although her own condition seemed to tell against her wishes. She bore her sufferings meekly and cheerfully, and the passing away seemed to have for her no terrors. When the final dissolution came, she was peaceful and calm. In the still of the night so quietly did her sweet spirit take its flight to realms above that even the watchers by her bedside knew not when the summons came.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.