Died.

Died, in Olathe, Kansas, August 9th, 1887, Emma, oldest daughter of W. E. and Mary Potts, in the 18th year of her age.

 

Emma was kind and gentle, the idol of the household, but like the sweetest flowers, that bloom but to die. Consumption marked her for his own, and after a painful illness of five months she passed peacefully away. The funeral services were held at the family-residence Wednesday at 2 o'clock p. m., Rev. Dearborn officiating, and the remains were interred in the Olathe cemetery.

 

"Over the river the boatman pale.

Carried our darling. the household pet.

Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale.

Darling Emma, we see her yet.

 

She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands.

And fearlessly entered the phantom bark;

We watched it glide from the silver sands.

And all our sunshine grew strangely dark.

 

We know she is safe on the farther side.

Where all the angels and ransomed be:

Over the river, the mystic river.

Our dariing there we soon shall see."

 

Olatrhe Mirror

August 18, 1877

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