CARTHRAE - On Tuesday, March 24, Thomas Carthrae, second son ofMr. and Mrs. E. G. Carthrae of Nescatunga, aged 11 years, 7 months and 28 days.Tommie's sickness had been of 2 or 3 years duration, his aliment being diabetes. Everything possible to medical skill had been done, but the disease proved beyond control by any human agency, and on Thursday of last week death came on the young sufferer. Burial took place on Friday in the Coldwater cemetery. Appropriate funeral exercises were conducted at the Carthrae home by Rev. J. J. Bagsley, of the Presbyterian church.
Tommie was a bright and promising child, and although the relatives and friends bow submissively to the Divine will yet, the bereavement is a peculiarly sad one. To the sorrow laden hearts, the sincere sympathy of the entire community is extended.
LINES CONTRIBUTED BY A FRIEND.
Tommie has gone and left us weeping,
Oh how sad it is to tell
That our darling's gone and left us,
With the angels there to dwell.How we miss you, bright eyed darling,
Happy, joyous, little one.
But still the words of our dear Savior
Come so true: "Thy will be done."Tommie is gone! Oh how sad 'tis to know
That we can never see him more
Until we, too, have crossed the river,
To meet him on that brighter shore.It was hard, so hard, to see you laid
Within the cold, dark ground,
And to know that you must moulder
"Neath that lonely little mound.Darling Tommie, we'll not forget you
In your cold and lonely bed,
And when with springtime come the blossoms,
O'er your grave they will be spread.Though we know he's gone to heaven
And has left that bed of pain,
And had gained a mansion "over there,"
Still it is so hard to bear!And oh, may it be our happy lot,
When life's vain dream is past,
To gain a mansion in the skies
And dwell with him at last.Parents, dear, don't weep for him
When days seem dark and drear.
When the mists have passed,
All will be bright and clear.
"Our grandparents, the late E.G. and Clara Carthrae, Comanche County Pioneers, were married in the year 1885 in Avilla, Comanche County, Kansas, homesteading there. Grandfather participated in, and acquired in the Oklahoma Land Rush, later exchanging this land for land in the Nescatunga township..."
Excerpt from "Lewis V. Carthrae" article by Jack Lewis Carthrae, Comanche County History, page 306.
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