BROOKS, Miss Edith 1862-1892

BROOKS

Posted By: Nettie Mae (email)
Date: 4/15/2024 at 13:12:16

Source: The Clinton Daily Herald, 03 Feb 1892 -- Page 1 under WELTON

At 3 p.m. Monday occurred the death of Miss Edith Brooks at her home of heart failure. She was born on the 10th of May, 1862, and died Jan. 25, 1892. She was born and died in the same house. She was just recovering from a severe attack of lung fever and was able to sit up to the table and eat her dinner and her mother thought that she was able to be left at home for a short time while she went to Welton. She and her sister, Dollie, who is also dangerously ill, were talking to her when she gave one gasp and died. Her sister was not able to go to her. Aid was immediately summoned but death had claimed another victim. Her parents, who left her as they supposed on the way to health, when they returned found death had invaded their home. Her brother, Carl, and sister, Jennie, of Kingsley, Iowa, were called by telegraph, and arrived here Tuesday night. Edith was a dutiful daughter, a loving sister. How brittle is the thread of life, as in this case! The news caused a deep sensation, so sudden and so unexpected. Every instinct of life shrinks in the dread and terror from the visitor death and in this instance where one who was in the bloom of life was stricken without a word of warning. Brief services were held at the house Wednesday at 1 p.m., with interment at the old Welton cemetery. The funeral services will be held later. Rev. Sackwell conducted the services at the house. He read a part of the 15th Corinthians. The pall-bearers were as follows: A. E. Harvey, Joseph and Jonathan Eastor, Ed. Parker, Chas. Schrader and Herbert Buck.