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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Moss
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:53:22 -0500

Undated article from the Nannie Brown Collection; original source
unknown.


(DEATH) OF MISS BELLE MOSS.

“Miss Belle, oldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Fred Moss, died at their
home in Paris at 8 o’clock Monday evening after a short illness of
pneumonia. The funeral was one of the saddest and most impressive ever
held in the town. The whole community, it seemed, was mingling its
tears with those of the stricken family. The floral offering by her
many young friends were beautiful. Miss Belle was born August 29, 1882.
She was a graduate of our high school and ranked among the most talented
amateur vocalists and violinists in this part of the state. She was
generally rated the most popular young woman in Paris. With all her
accomplishments and popularity she was thoughtful and obliging to a
remarkable degree and was most sensible and sincere under all
circumstances. Sweet in face, sweeter in disposition, talented and
accomplished, with a smile and a kind word for all she chanced to meet,
she scattered sunshine wherever she went. In fact, she had so
completely won her way into the affections of the people that in almost
every home in Paris there is a feeling of personal lost at her untimely
death. In the face of this great bereavement it would be a waste of
words to attempt to comfort the sorrowing parents and sister. It would
be hard indeed for them to understand just now why their loved one was
snatched away from them while still in all the vigor and glory of
promising young womanhood. There is naught but shadows where sunshine
and gladness once reigned supreme, and to them all the world is full of
gloom. But some day, perhaps, when the merciful hand of time shall
have”… (rest of article is missing).



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