Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thacher, Nettie A. 1873
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The Ionia Sentinel, Friday, December 26, 1873
Died.  Thacher—In Ionia on the 12th inst. of scarlet fever, Nettie A., eldest 
child of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac E. Thacher, aged 11 years, 3 months and 14 days.

Among the many deaths of children which have occurred during the present 
season, not one has inflicted a deeper wound, or has been more universally 
lamented, than that of Nettie Thacher. She was a lovely daughter, an 
affectionate sister, an interesting Sabbath school scholar, a dear playmate.  
Her heart was full of the tenderest sympathy for the sick and suffering.  Even 
in her last sickness she manifested an anxious concern for the recovery of 
others.  On her death bed she found delight in singing the beautiful songs she 
had learned at the Sabbath school.  She loved to pray, and in her closet and 
in the closing hours of life, she found access for her Heavenly Father, whose 
adopted child she was.  It is the comfort of her parents and friends to know 
that, though passed from their sight, she still lives.

“She is not dead—the child of our affection, but gone into that school where 
she no longer needs our poor protection, and Christ himself doth rule.”


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