Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — Margaret Cottingham Called Home. [ARTICLE]

Margaret Cottingham Called Home.

Little Margaret, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cottingham, passed away Sept. 25, 1917, after two days’ illness of diphtheria. She was taken sick Sunday and all that could be done in a medical way was done, but the Heavenly Father wanted another bright star so he called little Margaret. She was born in Danville, 111., Nov. 25, 1911, and for five years and ten months was spared to ter parents. She was a sweet, happy little girl and leaves many little school girl friends and playmates, as she had just startea to school. Also her Sunday school friends, father and mother, two sisters, Thelma and Helen, and grandparents, also many near relatives are left to mourn her departure. The littie body was laid at rest in the Momence cemetery the same day of her death.