KATZ, Mabel 1888-1889

KATZ

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 12/12/2024 at 14:29:03

Mabel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Katz of this city, died Sunday morning of congestion of the brain. She was five months and three days old and her loss will be most keenly felt.

The funeral was held at the house yesterday morning, Rev. A.A. Thayer preaching a brief but impressive sermon. The casket containing the remains was interred in the city cemetery.

The stricken parents have the sympathy of all in this dark hour when they are robbed of the joy of the household.

~Mitchell Co. Press, Thursday, March 14, 1889, pg 5

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Sunday evening, March 10, 1889, the life of a beautiful and lovely child went from our midst to dwell with God. Welcomed by fond parents and loving friends, all that willing hearts or tender hands could do was joyfully done to make that precious life happy while it sojourned upon the earth.

Mabel, daughter of Sam and Amelia Katz, was born October 7, 1888, and died of congestion of the brain March 10, 1889.

She had suffered about ten days from a severe attack of pneumonia, but appeared to be safely convalescing when the brain became suddenly and dangerously involved, terminating fatally in about twenty hours after its symptoms became manifest.

The service attending the burial Wednesday morning, the 13th, was ably conducted according to the Ritual of the Hebrew church, by Rev. C.B. Moody, pastor of the Congregational church, in accordance with the religious useage of the family. It was the first time that beautiful service had been witnessed by our people. It was solemn and impressed all in attendance with the consciousness that in affliction all the world is kin. A large number of friends were present to sympathize with the family in their severe bereavement.

The lovely babe, arrayed in a robe of linen, spotless white, emblematic of purity, lay sweetly sleeping in a beautiful white metallic casket; a cherub wafted to the spirit land. The burial was upon the family lot in Osage Union township.

~Mitchell Co. Press, Thursday, March 21, 1889; pg 4