The Life of Henrietta Alice Mavity
OBITUARY
Henrietta Alice Mavity, daughter od William and Cynthia Mavity, was born in Spring Hill township. Oct. 1866. and died Ion Olathe. Kansas, Nov., 5. 1881. Her sickness kf typhoid fever and pneumonia wasn brief, being of only nine days' duration.
It is sad to record the termination of a life at the age of budding womanhood, giving promise of happiness and usefulness. Although deprived of a mother some two years since, she did what she could to filll the vacancy by cheerfully assisting her older sister in domestic affairs, and neverlosinge sight or the object of her ambition, a good education, to enable her to be self- supporting and independent. ,
In school shes exhibited the most commendable dilligence in the preparation of lessons, and in never-failing readiness to recite proved the sincerity of her ambition. In conduct to character she was irreproachable, her perserving. industry was a model of praise, and her good princible of behavior rendered wholly unnecessary any compulsosry measures. Her manuscripts of monthly reviews and of examinations are specimens of neatness and good scholarship.
Her father was absent from home, and learned of her dangerous condition omn time, through the kindness of a conductor on the Santa Fe R.R. , to enable him to reach home a day or two before her death.
She was a dutiful and affectionate daughter, a kind sister, and a faithful and obedient pupil.
She wasd a member of the Congregational Sabbath School, and was no doubt a sincere lover of the Saviour. Just before her death she asked her sister in broken words to play on the organ, "
There'll be one vacant chair," and then she passed quietly away. W. A. B.
The Olathe Mirror
Noveember 17, 1881
Page 1
Henrietta Alice Mavity, daughter od William and Cynthia Mavity, was born in Spring Hill township. Oct. 1866. and died Ion Olathe. Kansas, Nov., 5. 1881. Her sickness kf typhoid fever and pneumonia wasn brief, being of only nine days' duration.
It is sad to record the termination of a life at the age of budding womanhood, giving promise of happiness and usefulness. Although deprived of a mother some two years since, she did what she could to filll the vacancy by cheerfully assisting her older sister in domestic affairs, and neverlosinge sight or the object of her ambition, a good education, to enable her to be self- supporting and independent. ,
In school shes exhibited the most commendable dilligence in the preparation of lessons, and in never-failing readiness to recite proved the sincerity of her ambition. In conduct to character she was irreproachable, her perserving. industry was a model of praise, and her good princible of behavior rendered wholly unnecessary any compulsosry measures. Her manuscripts of monthly reviews and of examinations are specimens of neatness and good scholarship.
Her father was absent from home, and learned of her dangerous condition omn time, through the kindness of a conductor on the Santa Fe R.R. , to enable him to reach home a day or two before her death.
She was a dutiful and affectionate daughter, a kind sister, and a faithful and obedient pupil.
She wasd a member of the Congregational Sabbath School, and was no doubt a sincere lover of the Saviour. Just before her death she asked her sister in broken words to play on the organ, "
There'll be one vacant chair," and then she passed quietly away. W. A. B.
The Olathe Mirror
Noveember 17, 1881
Page 1
