Lucy Frances  Peden unkown
Barren County KyArchives Obituaries

Unknown Glasgow KY newspaper
"BEAUTIFUL YHOUNG LIFE IS ENDED BY DEATH. With the closing of Bethel School, one
of its brightest links dropped out, Lucy Frances, the little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Burrell Peden, stayed with us just long enough to finish her seventh year's
work, then passed out. She was taken sick Thursday night with pneumonia and
lived until Tuesday, where her spirit took its flight to an unknown region.

"She was an ideal child, just 13 years old. The embodiment of innocence, purity
and obedience, both at home and at school. She never knew many idle moments,
alays ready for work in the school room and at home. Tho a little girl, she
carried a great amount of the cares of the home on her willing little shoulders.
She was ready for anything to shield her invalid mother and little sister.

"There was an infinity existing in their home that is not found in every home -
mother must know and approve of everything before Lucy did it, and Elsie must
have an equal share in all of Lucy's pleasures.

"When her mother's sickness caused her to miss a day or days at school, she
found time at some period of the day, or night, to prepare her lessons, and send
them in, and with them a note asking for an outline of the next day's lessons.

"Her little life was one of work; but to her work was a pleasure. Her cheerful
"I think I can", will be missed by her classmates and her teacher.

"Her life, tho short, has been an example in which many of us, years older, may
find a profitable lesson. If we, who claim to be Christ's children, were just as
anxious and busy in His cause, and as ready to obey our father as she was her
parents and teacher, this would be a happy world, indeed.

"In her last moments when her little body was full of pain, she never failed to
think of others first. Her physician was called one rough cold night, and when
she became rational she told him "she was sorry they called him out in the cold
just for her." I, like he, cannot help but wonder why one, so thoughtful of
others, so innocent, so obedient, and so anxious to do things in this world,
should be taken, while there are so many frivolous care-free pained boxes left
here. But an Alwise God rules, and if she was a blessing here, we just remember
"That such is the kingdom of Heaven."

"Her work on earth is done. Her classmates carried her little body to its final
resting place, and the Good who gave it took her spirit back to become an angel
of light." One of Her Teachers.



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