OBITUARY: Allie L. Hylden, 1887-1911, Mitchell Co., Iowa

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Allie L. Hylden 
Born October 6, 1887 
Died September 6, 1911 

Allie L. Hylden, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Hylden, was born 
October 6, 1887, in Seward, Nobles Co., Minnesota. In the latter part of the 
year 1888, he was baptized by Rev. Muller Eggen of Lyle, Minnesota. 

At the age of three, he with his parents removed to St. Ansgar, Iowa, where
he grew up to young manhood. His father and three sisters preceded him to
the Better Land. For a long time, his health has been failing him, but
through it all, he was ever cheerful and bore his sufferings with great
fortitude. September 6, 1911 at the ae of 23 years and eleven months he
passed quietly into Eternal Rest. 

He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and of the order of the 
Knights of Pythias. He was an ideal friend, frank, faithful, generous and 
true. He was a beloved son and brother. "I cannot say, and I will not say, 
That he is dead-He is just away!" 

        With a cherry smile and a wave of the hand 
        He has wandered into unknown land, 
        And left us dreaming how very fair 
        It needs must be, since he lingers 

        there. 
        And you-oh! you who the wildest 

        yearn 
        For the old time step and the glad 

        return- 
        Think of him faring on, as dear 
        In the love of There as the love of 

        Here; 
        Mild and gentle as he was brave, 
        When the sweetest love of his live he 

        gave 
        To simple things; where the violets 

        grew 
        Pure as the eyes they were likened 

        to 
        The touches of his hands have 

        strayed 
        As reverently as his lips have prayed 
        When the little brown thursh that 

        harshly chirped 
        Was dear to him as the mocking 

        bird; 
        And he pitied as much as man in 

        pain 
        A writhing honey-bee, wet with rain. 
        Think of him still as the same I say; 
        He's not dead; he is just away! 




 Submitted by Marilyn O'Connor 1/19/2006