Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1908 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Oakel W. Gant, the youngest daughter of Mrs. Llnnie Gant, was born in this county Feb. 26, 1899. She ,died in Rensselaer Noy. 9, 1908, aged 9 years, 8 months and 13 days. Her last illness was .of about three -weeks duration, though not considered serious until a few hours before her death. However, she suffered intensely at times, though always patient and without a murmur. Another little one is taken from our midst, from all suffering and P*ln to that bright and eternal home above, where she awaits the reunion of loved ones hert. Bhe jleav.es to mourn her joss a mother, Sister Mary, brothers, Orpha and -Willie, besides relatives and a host of friends. While in the city Oakel was a faithful (attendant at Baptist Sunday School, having attended there the Sabbath before bar sickness. The funeral was preached from the church by the pa*tor, and burial made in Weston cemetery, xx