Copyright © 2004 Submitted by: Jan Cortez This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ Pioneer Magnet: January 5, 1881 In this city on Sunday, December 26th, 1880, of diptheria; Percival Roger, aged 2 years and six months; and on MOnday evening, January 3d, 1881, of the same disease, Isabel, aged 14 years and four months, being the only son and youngest daughter of William T. and Jane A. Bliss, and grandchildren of the late Roger Collingwood. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, and their only surviving child - a daughter of fifteen - are certainly entitled to the earnest sympathy of everybody, in their great bereavement. It is but seldom that Death reaps such a harvest in one family in so short a time, as it has done in that of Mr. Bliss, taking two out of the five in a period of only eight days. The decease of their daughter was inexpressibly sad. She was a bright girl and was conscious to the last, realizing for hours before her death that the end was near. She calmly talked of death, and gave directions concerning the distribution of her toys and juvenile treasures. The bereaved parents desire us to say that they fully appreciate the kindness of Rev. E.W. Miller, A.F. Markham, and their neighbors of the Catholic faith, more especially of the Mother Superior of the Sisters of Mercy Hospital, for services kindly rendered in the great affliction which has fallen upon them.