Obituary of MARY ISABELL HENDERSON
Transcribed and contributed by Gerri Williams, 15 May 2006.
The Pleasanton Herald, (Pleasanton, Linn, KS)
Friday, July 5, 1889
Died at Iola, KS, on Wednesday, June 26th, 1889, after an illness of ten months, Mary Isabell Henderson, in her 31st year. The cause of her death was consumption.
Isabell was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Barker and was the wife of A.W. Henderson, of Potosi twp. At the time of her death her parents and husband were traveling for the benefit of her health, but she could not find relief and past over the river to the beautiful beyond. A dear loving daughter and a fond wife and mother is no more. Isabell has gone; her friends have heard her merry laugh for the last time, and the home that was made happy by her presence is now sad and lonely. A few days previous to her death she told her husband that she was going to leave their three little children with him and she was going to live with Willie, her little boy who died less than five months ago; but, alas, almost the same hour of her death her little son Samuel Augustus, aged 14 months, was taken ill and lived but two days. It was not God’s will that this little child should be left motherless, but He took it home to its mother’s arms, where they will be together forever.
Their remains were followed to the Littrell cemetery by a large concourse of weeping friends and relatives.
