OBIT: Cleopatra BOATE, 1892, Blair County, PA

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Death of a Little Child.

Cleopatra, daughter of George Edwin and Maude A. Boate, aged 9 months
and 13 days, died yesterday noon at the home of Mr. Boate's parents,
George and M. E. Boate, 2314 Broad street, of cholera infantum.  The
home at the street and number named has truly been a spot of sorrow
and affliction since the latter half of September last set in.
Sickness and death has reigned there supreme in all these days.
Little Cleo had been kept isolated from the diphtheria which has
existed in that home for the past three months.  That dread disease
she had been kept clear of, only to fall a victim of some other
disease productive of intense suffering, an element of sickness which
has characterized the four recent deaths in the family.  But "the good
die young" and the declaration of the Savior while upon earth that "of
such is the kingdom of heaven"’ should be to the living a guarantee
that the future existence of the little ones will be of that ineffable
happiness unknown to and unexperienced by mortal as mortals.  The
funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, January 20, 1892, page 1