OBIT: Mary Frances HENRY, 1896, Hamilton Township, Franklin County, PA

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DIED

HENRY. – On July 28, 1896, in Hamilton township, of infant consumption, Mary 
Frances, infant daughter of Benjamin F. and Annie Parker Henry, aged 1 year, 4 
months and 14 days.  Interment at Salem.  Services were conducted by Rev. Henry 
Etter.  "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such 
is the kingdom of heaven."

As the sweet flower that scants the morn,
But withers in the rising day,
Thus lovely was this infant's dawn,
Thus swiftly fled its life away.

Before her heart had ever learned
In waywardness to stray,
Before her feet had ever turned
That dark and downward way.

Because thy smiling face was fair,
Thy loving lips and eyes so bright,
And to thy loving cradle care
Was much a dear delight.

Farewell papa, mamma, si-ter, brother dear,
O'er my grave shed not a tear,
I have gone to prepare the way
You will follow some later day.

A light is from out household gone,
A voice we dearly loved is stilled,
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.

Though early plucked from nature bed,
Mary has gone to bloom on high
In that Celestial Paradise
Where flowers never die.

People's Register, Chambersburg, PA, August 7, 1896