Clark County IL Archives Obituaries.....Booth, Anna Harlan March 20, 1895
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The Clark County Herald, Wednesday Afternoon, March 27, 1895, page 10:
OBITUARY
MRS. F. W. BOOTH
   Died at her home in Marshall, on Wednesday, March 20, at 11:00 p.m.  Anna, 
wife of Fenton W. Booth, aged 24 years 1 month and 8 days.
   Tis but a brief statement, yet in those few cold words is told a story of 
tears and sorrow and heart-breaking anguish.
   So weary, pain-racked form had lain for weeks in the very shadow of coming 
dissolution, while the patient, loving watchers, grown resigned to the 
inevitable, met death as a release from suffering for the loved one.  No!  The 
full womanly form, but a few short days before instinct with health and 
strength and glorious womanhood, had scarcely lost its perfect, rounded 
outlines.  The cheeks were not sunken, the hue of health scarce departed.  
Whatever may be the joys of the Heavenly Land, however, perfect may be its 
pleasures, yet it is hard to drop at once the manifold duties of a happy life 
on earth.  Hard to leave the adoring husband whose brilliant, honored career 
was opening in so grand a vista before her wifely vision.  Hard to leave the 
sweet, prattling babe, whose cling arms and soft fairy touch held her back 
from the very portals of the other world in yearning mother love!  Hard to 
leave the dear mother, whose warm heart, was wrapped up in this, her only 
daughter, her pride and her comfort.  Hard to leave father and brothers, all 
so dear.  But the smile of perfect peace on the waxen features of the pure 
dead face told more eloquently than any words that the struggle had ended in 
submissive resignation to the decree of “Him who doeth all things well.”
   The last sad rites that man can offer to the departed dear ones have been 
paid and now the weary burden of life must be taken up by the bereft ones till 
Time’s effacing touch blends the loved one’s image into a tender memory of one 
whose brief, perfect life was as a bright light, lent to earth for a short 
time, then to disappear and never more return.  And saddest of all sights on 
that bright Sunday afternoon as the funeral cortege slowly moved away, was the 
vision of a smiling innocent babe, sweetly disporting at the window as the 
dead form of the mother, whose tender all-protecting care her aching heart in 
years to come should ne’er again know, was borne away forever.
   Anna Harlan, only daughter of Edwin and “Aunt Lide” Harlan, was born in 
Marshall, on Feb. 12, 1871.  She grew to womanhood in this, her native place, 
acquiring a fine education in the public schools, from which she graduated in 
1888.  She was an elocutionist of great ability and her services were always 
freely granted to any good cause.  She was married to Fenton W. Booth on May 
17, 1893.  It was one of the happiest of marriages and when a lovely babe came 
to bless the home, the joy and contentment of the devoted couple was at the 
full.  A few weeks ago Fent had a severe attack of the grippe and shortly 
after the baby took sick.  Hardly had they recovered when Anna, worn with care 
and nursing and attacked with grippe and pneumonia, succumbed and took to her 
bed.  No need to say that the most devoted nursing and medical attention was 
given her, but all to no avail.  In spite of this and her splendid 
constitution, the grasp of the Destroyer could not be loosened.  
   The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, Rev. Lamb officiating.  An 
unusually large assemblage of people gathered to testify their regard for the 
deceased.
   Anna had been a devoted, working member of the Congregational church and 
her death leaves a void not soon to be filled.


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