Mchenry-Ramsey County ND Archives Obituaries.....Mitchell, Mrs. R. B. November 1892 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nd/ndfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Murray vonnilou@smt-net.com February 1, 2009, 12:23 am McHenry County Independent ; Towner, McHenry Co., N.D. ; November 11, 1892 ; No. 39, pg. 1 This community received a severe and painful shock last Monday morning when the news flashed over the wire that Mrs. R. B. Mitchell was dead. Mrs. Mitchell went to the home of her mother in Devils Lake a couple of months ago. About three weeks since R. B. Mitchell was a recipient of happy news his wife had given birth to a baby girl. Mr. Mitchell hurried to Devils Lake, where he remained until his wife, whose life was nearly dispaired of at parturition, was beyond seeming danger. On Sunday last Mr. Mitchell received a letter from his wife, written by her own hand, in which she assured him of her almost complete recovery, and expressing her intention of returning to Towner this week. The next day came the depressing news of her sudden death. Mr. Mitchell left for Devils Lake on the noon train accompanied by his sister, Miss Alice Mitchell. The funeral services occured Wednesday. No sadder or more unfortuante fatality has come to our notice for many a day. It was less than a year ago when Mr. Mitchel brought his beautiful young bride to Towner. Here they lived until Spring, when they removed to the secluded home at Pendroy. This fall their household ... (tear in original newspaper)...or purchased the residence formerly occupied by J. L. Clements. It was the intention of his wife to remain in Devils Lake until the necessary preparations for winter had been made. And just as this is accomplished and their places are about to be consumated, grim-visaged Death casts his fateful shadow over the little household, and straightaway all their plans, hopes, life itself are laid low. It would be difficult to imagine a case more pitiful. To see a beautiful young woman, just passing from the ecstatic happiness of honey-moon into the pride and glory and tenderness and purity of girlish motherhood suddenly and most cruelly snatched away from those who love her, by the pitiless hand of Death, is sad indeed. And it is intensified by the thought that upon the sad-hearted and youthful husband rests the burden and responsibility of care of a helpless babe, a "bird in the nest without the mother bird." Mr. Mitchell needs not to be assured that his friends are keenly appreciative of his terrible loss, and entertain for him the most sincere sympathy. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nd/mchenry/obits/m/mitchell63nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ndfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb