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From: (Corleen Arrowood)
Subject: [LDR] Obit - Myrtle Mae Waller
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:15:58 -0400 (EDT)

Maybe this will help someone.

  Myrtle Mae Waller 1890-1907  
   Buried in Taylor's Cemetery, Sharptown, MD Plot#65
[transcription online on Cindy Bennett's website] ~CCA

No clues as to a connection or why it was saved in the Windsor/Robinson
family Bible in possession of my Aunt Becky. It could have simply been
because my g gm Minnie Robinson Windsor knew her. No dates, unknown
newspaper


MYRTLE MAE WALLER.
      On one beautiful Sunday evening in the early part of
last April Myrtle M. Waller returned home from church in apparent good
health. Before retiring she was taken with a hemmorhage of the lungs,
which was followed by several others in a few days. Medical aid was
called in and everything done by physicians and family to stay the
process of the white plague, but in vain. From the day she was taken she
began to grow weaker and while she could gather some strength and at
times feel hopeful, it was only temporarily. The current of her life
seemed surely and slowly ebbing out. On Thursday night last at about six
o'clock the end of her life came calmly and peacefully.
      Her life was one of sunshine up until her affliction
begun, with it came the clouds, which never dispersed only in that
hopeful, assurance that somewhere, somehow, life would be renewed under
better and happier conditions. She was but seventeen years old when she
died, yet she had been converted and member of the M. E. Church for more
than five years.
      Her remains were carried to their last resting place
in Taylor Cemetery on Sunday afternoon by the following pall bearers;
Wallace Wheatley, Henry Fletcher, Gorman Willing, Walter Twiford, Herman
Gravenor, Chas. Fletcher, Edgar Bradley and Irving Covington. The
funeral was held in M. E. church by Rev. L. I. McDougle. The attendance
was very large.
        The floral tributes were very pretty. A broken
column by the Sunday School Class, Mrs. Annie J. Knowles, teacher, a
broken link by Mrs. Emma Ellis, an anchor by the Junior Epworth League
and Sunday School, wreath by Miss Lela Lowe and Bessie Bradley, pillow
by Mrs. Mollie Robinson, Mrs. Ida and Ailene Elzey, Roses fern etc.,
from Mrs. Oscar Ellis and Misses Lizzie and Annie Owens. Misses Pearl
Bailey, Elsie Wright, Radie Marine and Mary Wheatley were flower girl.
She was the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Waller. At the
time of her death her father was at Fernidina, Fla., and could not get
home for the burial.
   

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