Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1915 — NO SUFFERING ATTENDED DEATH [ARTICLE]

NO SUFFERING ATTENDED DEATH

Little Jeanette Thompson Passed Away Peacefully Sunday at Noon —Entire City Mourns. Conscious until a short time before the death angel closed the little eyes in everlasting sleep, little Mary Jeanette Thompson passed peacfully away at 12 o’clock Sunday noon at the Sarah Morris hospital in Chicago, to which she had been taken Saturday afternoon following the terrible accident that resulted in her fatal injuries. Jeannette, as she was known to so many people about the city, was a child of unusual beauty and grace and a sfweet manner that won a place in the heart of every person who ever saw her or heard her voice. Her parr ents, Mr. and Mrs. Firman Thompson, had two little daughters, Dorothy and Jeanette, the former being 13 months the older. Jeanette was 5 years of age on September 17th. Healthy and filled with the perfect joy of childhood she was constantly at play and Saturday morning in planning for a Hallowe’en party she had put on a long dress of her mother's and was playing in the front yards of the homes adjoining. At the J. W. Marlatt home she procured some matches and unobserved she had gone to the front of the Amsler home, just north of the Thompson residence on Weston street and had struck the ’match and ignited a pile of leaves. The long skirt she was wearing touched the fire and in an instant she was enveloped in the flames. Miss Frances Schmidt, the maid in the Thompson home, was working in an upstairs room and saw the child through the window and calling to Mrs. Thompson she ran down the stairs and followed Mrs. Thompson, who had picked up a small run, and they ran- to the child and the flames were extinguished. Then the doctors were called and • the plans made to take the child to Chicago. The father, who was at his farm near Parr, was not found for some little time and reached home just a short time before tram time. Telephone messages were sent to relatives and Dr. Ray C. Clayton, of Fowler, brother of Mrs. Thompson, went to Chicago over the Big Four and met the little patient and the sorrowing concourse of relatives and went with them to the Sarah Morris hospital. The fear of the local physicians that there was small chance for the recovery of the child was shared' by the surgeons who saw her but every effort was made to save her. Fortunately" she was not suffering any pain. The theory was that the shock to her system had been such as to dull her consciousness of pain and she talked cheerfully to her parents and the doctors, telling them not to cry and asking that she be taken back home so that she could have her Hallowe’en party. All night and all the morning loving eyes watched the little figure and uttered prayers that she might be spared, but the injuries were too severe and the little life ebbed away as the hours dragged along. Sunday morning she knew her father and mother and asked for her grandfather, Dr. Clayton, nf Monon, who went that morning to be with her. Hope did not vanish until shortly before 11 o'clock tHe little eyes closed and the heart and pulse beats began to fail and then it was only a question of time. It was just at 12 o’clock when the child passed into eternity. The parents returned home in the evening, the body being left in charge of friends , and relatives at the hospital, where it was prejfered for burial. This morning Zem Wright went to the hospital and the little form was home on the 1:57 train. The funeral will be’held at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the residence, being conducted by Rev. Parrett, who will ?ome down from Hammond..