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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Forrest
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 09:20:49 -0400


Untitled, undated article; original source unknown. Extracted from the
newspaper article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of
Madison, Missouri.



"Earl, the youngest child of Dr. I.F. Forrest of Madison, died of
cerebrospinal meningitis at 4:30 p.m. Friday the 10th inst., aged 14
years. Little Earl attended school on Tuesday. It was examination day
and she struggled hard to remain until its close, but at 3 p.m. returned
home frantic with pain. Holding up her papers as she fell upon the bed
from which she was to rise no more she said, 'Look, mamma, and see how
smart your girl has been.' Skill and devotion batted with the
destroyer, but the contest was unequal.



She suffered on till death came, but consciousness remained and no hero
on the battlefield could have evinced more patience and fortitude than
did this stricken child who with intelligent eye must undoubtedly have
read her doom from the countenances of those around her. Thursday night
she said, 'Mamma, let us pray.' The mother said the Lord's prayer and
the agonized little creature clasped her hands and said it with her word
by word. That 'forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors' never
came from more consistent lips than hers, for nothing was beyond her
forgiveness. In her brief journey from the cradle to grave she was all
sunshine and affection and she leaves a most appalling vacancy in her
stricken home. On Sunday the 12th inst., we laid her away upon the
hillside, silent and irresponsive, our gifted child, our loyal,
generous, loving, little Earle, there for await the coming of the
resurrection morn."




X.X.



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