Claude Stephenson (1897)

STEPHENSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 8/8/2008 at 10:25:52

Semi Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, June 25, 1897
Page 2

In Loving Remembrance

Of little Claude, the infant son of James and Kate Stephenson, who died June 18, 1897.

Although his existence was brief, he will be sadly missed by them, but their loss is Heaven’s gain.

A precious one from them has gone,

A form they loved is still,
A place is vacant in their home

Which never can be filled.
God in His wisdom has recalled

The boon His love had given;
And tho’ the body slumbers here,

The bud will bloom in heaven.