Nash County, NC - Obituary of Sarah Ellen Peele, 1902

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                           IN MEMORIAM

On April 11, 1902, at 11:30 o'clock Miss Sarah Ellen Peele, aged 13
years, 11 months, 23 days, the eldest daughter of Mr. Joel E. Peel
and Mrs. Anna C. Peele was fatally burned by her clothing catching
on fire from some burning straw.

She was an industrious child, and ever on the alert to help papa
and mama, as she thought she was doing on that fatal morning.

She was with her father and brother in the field (because she liked
to be with them.) Whe was sent to another part of the field after
their (her father and brother's) coats which was about a hundred
yards away. On her way back she noticed a ditch bank full of brushes,
and she thought she would burn it and save her papa the trouble, so
she found a match in a pocket of the coat and set fire to the straw,
which caught her clothing and before her father and brother could
reach her she was in a light blaze. From her waist down was almost
cooked, while her sufferings must have been intense, she was patient,
never murmuring nor complaining. Sometimes she would scream and beg 
her nurse to kill her. Then again you might ask her if she was in
pain and she would say, "no, I am better."

She only lived thirteen days in her sufferings when death came to her
relief on the 24th of April, 1901. [sic]

When death struck her she asked her father and the nurse to go with
her, and told them that she was happy, and was going home.

Father, mother, brother and sister what a blessed thought "going
home" is. Have you thought how much is conveyed in those two words ?
Jesus, you know, said to His disciples that He was going to prepare
a home for them. Won't you from this day so live that you, too, can
go to that home ?

God "moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." He is calling,
tenderly calling, come home, come home.

And mother do not weep for your darling any more, for she has gone to
meet her little brother on the other shore.

                                           Aunt Bettie

Smithfield Herald please copy.

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