Georgie Gordon (1878-1878)

GORDON

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 3/6/2010 at 15:17:37

The Nevada Representative, Nevada, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, November 20, 1878.

Obituary

How many are the jewels the angels gather home! Last Thursday morning they called for little Georgie, infant son of Rev. and Mrs. D. B. Gordon of this town. The summons came in the form of malignant membraneous croup, of which he suffered about two days. For nearly eight months had he been the sweet pet of the household. Sweet and healing will be the balm of his memory, blessed and cheering the hope of meeting him again.

"We shall all go home to our Father's house
To our Father's house in the skies
Where the hope of our souls shall have no blight,
And love no broken ties.

We shall roam on the banks of the River of Peace,
And bathe in its blissful tide;
And one of the joys of our heaven shall be
The little boy that died!"