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DEATH 0 THE CASS, yA Vtrihcm Mf Mm m lb# Our*lk(««M ITsrtlaway ms*4 AlHif.■Yeaterday mom Jag the passenger* Id the sleeping car of the Savannah, Florida and Weilern railway train, en route to illi*city, were tha unexpected and syta-p at belie witnesses of a scene that wu •*? aad in iU nature and peculiar surroundings aa to cast a gloom over all, strangers though they were to the dying one and the loved one* around her.• Mr. O. W. Blake, of Chariton, Iowa, was returning home with hi* lick wife from Florida, whither the had been taken1 in the last stage* of consumption some five weeks ago, hoping a change to a milder /climate would - restore- her former health, or at least prove or some benefit. She was accompanied to Jacksonville by her three children, the eldest of whom la a bright boy of twelve years, and the youngest a little prattler of only seventeen months. The mother and children were afterward* lollowed by the fond husband and father, who, finding that his wife was growing weaker every day, and being advised by physicians that she must surely die, resolved to return home with her, as she preferred to die there. They left Jacksonville on a through sleeper on Thursday afternoon, and were nearing ibis city on their Journey when the death scene above rcterred to occurred. Mrs. Blake was taken with one of the severe spells of coughing which characterise the disease of consumption, and rapidly sunk under 1t. Being very weak, she died like one asleep.Captain J. S. Kneller, the efficient and noble-hearted conductor of the train, did all In Ms power for the dying lady, and was afterwax ds very kind to the bereaved husband and children. Learning that the family were Episcopalians, and that the deceased was a consistent member of that denomination, Captain Kneller, as soon as be arrived in the city, proceeded to the rectory of St. Paul's church, and apprised tho Rev. Mr. Pond of the death aud circumstances. This was all tint was necessary, for soon a party of such kind and benevolent ladies of St. Pail’s church ss Mr*. L. E. Welch, Mrs. W. K. Mitchell. Mrs. Kelson Tift* Mrs. Fannie Nelson and Mr*. T. I). Dupont, were on their way to where the sleeper bad been left on a side track near the passenger depot. These ladies took charge of the remains of the dead stranger, neatly dressed them, and saw them laid Into the handsome metal ic casket which the bereaved husband bad procured In which to carry them to the family home In Chariton, Iowa.Owing to an accident to the engine which carries the northern-bound train from this city to SmithvUle, no train went oat on the Southwestern road yesterday, and Mr. Blake had to lay over. He will proeeed on his sad journey homeward on the 12:15 train to-day. Ha and hi* now motherless children have oor sincere sympathy In. this, their greatest of ait affilcU Ion*—to him the loss of wife—to them the loss of mother I—Albany New* and Ad-vcrtUcr,
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Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Fri, Jan 07, 1881
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