OBITUARY: Laura Agnes Sheehan, 1881-1892, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]


               "Gone from the home and fireside
	Missed from the circle so dear,
	Sadly we gather about her,
	Yet we feel that her presence is near."

Laura Agnes Sheehan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Sheehan, was born
Sept. 19, 1881 and died Feb. 3, 1892.

In the midst of joy we are in grief, in the midst of life we are in death.

Last Friday, just at the break of day, the spirit of little Laura took its
flight.  For five long, weary weeks she had patiently and heroically
endured the keenest suffering from pangs of rheumatic fever, ever
thoughtful, ever considerate for the comfort of others.  The day before
friends thought her better and hoped and planned with her for the bright
future, little thinking that ere another sun, all would be planned and
settled by one who ever knoweth what is wisest and doeth what is best.

She was an especially bright and ambitious child and throughout her short
but merry life, her unusually happy nature made her a general favorite.

A beautiful service was held at the Catholic church, Father Cooney
officiating and Prof. Bushey kindly talking charge of the singing, after
which the little body was borne to the Osage cemetery.  All was so
beautifully solemn, so gradually sublime that we felt as if we had been
with God.


  "Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb
  in life's happy morning hath hid from our eyes,
  Ere sin threw a blight o'er the spirit's young bloom.
  Or earth had profaned what was born for the skies.
  Week not for her, in her spring time she flew
  To that land were the wings of the soul are un-furled.
  And now, like a star beyond evening's cold dew,
  Looks radiantly down on the tears of this world."




Copyright (c) 2003 by Marilyn O'Connor

(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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