Beaver County PA Archives Obituaries.....CUPPS, Mattie M. October 3, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Valerie Craft vrc84@yahoo.com November 30, 2007, 12:49 pm Newspaper Clipping Died, October 3d, 1886, in Clinton, Pa, Mattie M, daughter of D.L. and Jane Cupps, aged 16 years. The subject of this notice had been quite ill with scarlet rash for some days; but apparently recovered from the affects of the disease, so much that (unclear)... However, her health began to decline, yet there was no apparent cause for alarm, until a short time before her death. She died unexpetedly [sic] in a congestive chill. Mattie was an unusually bright child. Her innocent, kind and social disposition had gained for her many warn friends. She and a favorite school mate had arranged to sit together during the then coming term of school and often she expressed the wish to be able to go. But alas, her school days were to an end. Her maker called her to sit up higher and her soul parted from its clay tenement leaving a beautiful smile on her young young [sic] face that was still lovely, even in death. She was an ardent admirer of God's work and has left behind her many little sketches from nature, one of which she named, "The Lonely Hollow." They will all be held in sacred remembrance by the grief stricken family. She leaves a father, mother, two sisters and two brothers to mourn her loss. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb