While attending school in Topeka, died on Sept. 21, 1887, of typhoid malaria, Harry Lee Elder, aged fifteen years, seven months and eleven days. The remains were brought to this city and the funeral services conducted in the M. E. church by Rev. G. S. Dearborn, after which they were interred in the Olathe Cemetery, to which place they were followed by a large number of his old schoolmates and numerous other friends.

 

Harry was a bright, active, generous boy and succeeded in winning the love and confidence of his teachers and fel low schoolmates during the comparatively short time he was with them, and they all express the sincerest sorrow at his early and unexpected death. He was sick only a short time, and all that human aid could do was done for him, but nothing short of divine Providence can stay the coming of the unseen messenger when he starts on his mission of death.

 

Dr. Dearborn preached a very affecting sermon, especially appropriate for the young, few of whom but shed tears while listening to his plain but eloquent and pathetic language. All the schools were dismissed and the church was crowded to overflowing by young and old friends who could scarcely realize that one so apparently full of life and health as Harry, would be called to his final resting place so soon.

 

Olathe Mirror

September 29, 1887

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