West Carroll County Louisiana Archives News.....  A GOOD  WOMAN  AT REST April 16, 1915
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West Carroll Gazette- Oak Grove, La. April 16, 1915
  Mrs. Annie Grathwell, the beloved wife of Lou Grathwell, a member of the 
Village Council, departed this life at midnight last Friday after an illness 
of twelve days.  On March 29th she was stricken with paralysis, and on April 
4th she took meningitis which caused her death.  She was born in Davis County, 
Ind., Feb. 10 1866, and was married July 3, 1888. A large concourse of 
sorrowing friends followed the remanins to their last resting  place in Oak 
Grove Cemetery Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
  None but those who have sat in the shadow of a great bereavemnt can justly 
weigh such a sorrow as this.  Those who have gone down into the valley of 
suffering and stood for weeks by the side of a loved one, as hope after hope 
dropped away as the petals fall from a fading flower, know that such anquish 
cannot find solace in the tenderest words.  She who has gone forth could not 
be supported on her solitary path by any earthly friend.  The husband with a 
devotion a few men are capable of, whose strength was given sweetly, tenderly 
to this precious invalid, whose heroic devotion never faltered, could not 
detain her by the clasp of earthly love, but after the last word had been 
spoken, the last sign of recongnition was gone, a look of peace settled on her 
face which proclaimed victory, and he knew she was resting on a mightly arm.
        

        CARD OF THANKS,

  Words cannot express my appreciation of those friends who have shared with 
me the lonely vigils by the bedside of my beloved wife.  No sweeter memory can 
live in any heart than the memory of their untiring devotion to the one who 
has just left me.  The waves of sorrow break upon every shore, and we can but 
hope that friends as true may gather around each one of them should sorrow 
invade their homes.
                                 L. GRATHWELL.
                   

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