Sunday, the 9^th day of March, of tubercular meningitis, Edna May, eldest daughter of J.M. and Eva Norvell, aged  twelve years, one month and thirteen days.

It is with feelings of profound sorrow that we announce the death of little Edna May Norvell. Though the writer never had the pleasure of meeting her, he had heard so much concerning her amiability, womanly graces and pure life that he in common with the people of Olathe feel the loss and sore affliction almost as keenly as though a member of his own family had by a mysterious dispensation of providence been removed. The sad event occurred on Sunday morning at 8 o’clock a most fitting hour and day for the spirit of a pure and lovely child to enter the portals of Heaven and join in the praises with her companions gone before. As Edna was always a frail and delicate child, she was the continual source of anxiety and solicitude of her devoted parents, and when she was prostrated with her last illness everything was sub-ordinate to her comfort and welfare. Nights and days were spent in fruitless attempts to stay the ravages that were consuming her frail form. None seemed to realize more than she that the time for dissolution was near at hand and that she would soon reap the full fruitation of a hope so beautifully expressed by Longfellow in the following verse:

“There is no Death; What seems so is transition
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of life Elysian whose portals we call Death.”

On Tuesday the remains were conveyed to the Baptist church where the impressive services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. A.L. Vail. From thence they were taken to the Olathe Cemetery and deposited in the beautiful city of the dead.

The following lines were written by a friend of Edna, and are published by request.

EDNA

A fragile form, too frail to meet
The hurling storms that drive this way.
A spirit strong the morn to greet
That opens fair her endless day.

With vision dim this much we see,
The rest must wait for larger light.
While Faith and Hope and Love agree
That Christ is always kind and right.