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From: angel gebhart <>
Subject: Death - Mrs. Charles Axtell
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 02:59:03 -0800 (PST)

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, November 18, 1887, p. 1



The Washington papers all speak in the highest praise of Mrs. Charles Axtell, whose death was noted a week ago. The Democrat in a articles says:



Mrs. Axtell had been ailing for about two years, and had visited during the years, and had visited during the years, and visited during the year the North and West to recuperate her health. She returned last spring slightly improved, but the disease (consumption) continued its ravages. But she was stouthearted, and never faltered. For the past week she was confined to her room; and, surrounded by a loving husband, kind relatives and once beautiful, noble woman passed away. To Charles J. Axtell the deceased was married Nov. 10 , 1881, and two beautiful children, Bessie, aged four, and Maud, aged two years, respectively, were the result of the union. They survive their mother. Mrs. Axtell united with the M.E. church several years ago during a revival conducted by Mrs. Robinson. Thus the life of one we all knew in the healthful bloom of womanhood as the loveliest lady in the city, in wedlocks as a true wife and devoted mother, and throughout life a genial and generous g!
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woman, is at an end. Deeply mourned is her death; may she rest in peaceful, eternal sleep. When death was near at hand she said: I shall soon be at rest. Those were the last words she uttered. How true! A Christian, as she was, she felt that all pain would soon cease, and she would pass to that land of eternal rest.







Angel Gebhart

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