Obituary:  Edna Sims, 7 Nov 1894 - Smith County, TX

Contributed by Vicki Betts <vbetts@gower.net>
18 January 2003

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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, December 6, 1894, p. 7, c. 4

SIMS.—Edna Sims was born in Fort Worth, October 11, 1890, and died 
in Greenville, Texas, November 7, 1894. She was the only living child 
of Ed and Anna Sims, of Tyler, Texas. She was beautiful and sprightly, 
the pride of her young parents and the admiration of the circle of 
family friends. A narrow street separated Edna's home from the home 
of the thirteen-year-old girl who writes these lines of loving 
remembrance. How I loved her! She died of diphtheria. She seemed 
to be conscious that she would die, and said some beautiful things.
Throwing her arms around her mother's neck she exclaimed: "Sing—sing 
'Jesus, lover of my soul.'" She was a religious child, only a little 
more than four years old. She is a little saint in heaven now.

EMMA HADEN.