OBIT: Harry Hutchinson STEWART, 1875, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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DIED.

STEWART - Dec. 21, Harry Hutchinson, youngest child of Angus B. and 
Ruth E. Stewart, aged 1 year, 9 months and 23 days. The circumstances 
connected with little Harry's death were peculiarly sad. Mr. Stewart 
was engaged in thawing the ice in a pump. The pump had been removed to 
the porch, and filled with hot water; and while the father stepped 
aside for a minute to another pump, the child must have pulled the plug 
out of the spout, when the fiery contents poured out upon the little 
fellow's head and neck. He was so badly scalded that, after suffering 
all night, he died the next morning. While the parents were left to 
lose their child, yet it was a comfort that God released the little 
sufferer.
    "Sweet child, thou staidst not with us long,
    But we had learned to love thee much;
    Innocent and pure, thou know'st no wrong,
    The Savior's arms receive all such.
    The loss we mourn is but thy gain, 
    For thou hast only gone before;
    Freed from all suffering and pain,
    Thou waitest on the other shore".

The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, January 12, 1876