Ross County OhArchives Obituaries.....Hester, Barbara Ann May 15, 1944
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Ralph Cokonougher rcokon@hotmail.com March 6, 2006, 9:44 pm

From an old newspaper clipping with no date or name of newspaper:
           Baby Drinks Kerosene; Dies.  
           Barbara Hester Expires In Columbus Hospital.
             Funeral service was held Wednesday, 2 p.m., at South Salem 
Methodist church, the Rev. C. R. Lyle officiating, for Barbara Ann Hester, 16 
months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Hester, Lyndon, Route 1, who died 
Monday in Children's hospital, Columbus of pneumonia which developed after she 
drank kerosene Sunday at the residence.  Burial was in South Salem cemetery by 
Murray Co., Greenfield.
            A sister of the baby was preparing to start a fire in the kitchen 
stove when the incident occurred, members of the family said.  While the older 
girl was locating a match, the child picked up a small container of kerosene 
left within her reach and swallowed a quantity of the liquid.
            The child was first taken to Hillsboro hospital for treatment and 
then was returned home.  When her condition became worse, a Greenfield 
physician ordered her to the Columbus hospital where she was placed under an 
oxygen tent in an attempt to ward off the pneumonia which had developed.

Additional Comments:
The following obituary of Barbara Hester is from a typed page handed down in 
the family.  The page looks like those that were read at funerals of the era.  
Barbara was born Jan. 25, 1943 in Ross County, Ohio and died May 15, 1944 in a 
Columbus, Ohio hospital.

                                Obituary.
        On Jan. 25  1943  God the Heavenly Father sent into the home of Harold 
and Nora Ellen Hester a daughter whom they named Barbara Ann.
        A little more than a year before the birth of this little one an 
infant brother, Harold Dwight had been called by the Angel of Death.
       In the home are left the father and mother; five daughters and one 
son:  Viola May, Martha Ellen, Dorothy Marie, Mary Catharine, Elizabeth Jane 
and Lawrence Elmer.
      To this family who loved her with such devotion, little Barbara Ann was 
lent awhile and then God in His Wisdom called her home to be with Him.
                          In a garden of lovely blossoms,
                          One rosebud pure and white,
                          Still fresh with the dew of morning
                          Had opened in the night.

                          We watched our precious treasure
                           Unfolding day by day;
                           But the Gardener walked in the dawning
                           And took our bud away,

                          To bloom with Him in Heaven
                          Safe from sin and blight;
                          There is no need of the sun there,
                          Where never comes the night.
                                                 Maude S. Rea

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