Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1919 — FUNERAL HELD HERE SUNDAY [ARTICLE]

FUNERAL HELD HERE SUNDAY

More Particulars About Death of Mrs. A. H. Davison. The funeral of Mrs. Asa H. Davison, formerly Miss Bernice Rhoads, was held at the Methodist church Sunday afternoon at o'clock and burial made in Weston cemetery. Among those from out of town here to attend the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davison and Miss Majorie Davison of Marshall, Illinois; Dr. Fenton Davison of Mentone and Mrs. G. (Cole of Chicago. The following account of the death of Mrs. Davison is taken from the Hume, Illinois, Record: Mrs. Bernfce Davison, wife of Dr. A. H. Davison, local veterinary, med ■ suddenly shortly after nine o’clock Wednesday evening at the family home on Center street. Death was due to internal hemmorrhage. Mrs. Davison, who was 26 years old, was enjoying the best of health up to a few minutes before she was stricken. On Tuesday evening, she and her small daughter had returned from a week’s visit with the doctors parents, in Clark county, and all was happiness and contentment at the little home. After the noonday meal the motaer and the babe were playing about the yard, but when shortly after five o’clock little Martha Louisa Carnahan called to play with the babe, Mts. Davison was found lying unconscious on the floor. In this condition she was found by Mrs. Carnahan, who had gone on a search for Martha. Mrs. Carnahan at once recognized her condition and summoned Mrs. E. J. Thomas, a neighbor, and Dr. Wilson. The physician lifted the prostrate form on a bed and soon after Mrs. Davison recovered sufficiently and was able to talk. She appeared to be rapidly gaining, but about nine o’clock a change for the worse pet in and before Dr. Wilson could reach the home, an exceptional good wife and mother had been summoned to God’s eternal home, leaving to mourn her loss, a husband, a bright daughter of eighteen months, a mother and other relatives. Gone from our sight, is this good mother, whom we, as neighbors all learned to love and worship during the few short months the Almighty Father permitted her to be among us. But because life and love are stronger than death she Is ours still. She is still the mother of that dear child, upon she doted with such clinging fondness, and the companion still of him, who mourns earth’s greatest loss, and may she not by this very transition wield over all of us a stronger force for goodness and truth than before.

Bernice Jeanette Rhoads, daughter of Edwin S. and Emma Alter Rhoads was born in Rensselaer on January 20, 1893, and died at her home in Hume, Illinois, on June 25, 1919, aged 26 years, five months and five days. She received her education in the schools of Rensselaer, graduating from the high school in the class of 19.12, and afterwards attended • the Indiana State Normal school at Terre Haute, Indiana. She married Dr. A. H. Davison April 15, 1916, and to this union one daughter was born, Virginia Ruth Davison, now nineteen months of age. When but a small girl Bernice united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Rensselaer and as long as she continued to live here she was active in the Sunday school, Epworth League and other organizaions of. the church and was very earnest and helpful in promoting the work of the Kingdom. Her father, Edwin S. Rhoads, preceded her in death on March 7, 1919, and she leaves to mourn her loss her aged grandmother, Caroline Rhoads, her mother, her two brothers, Edwin and Donald Rhoads of Rensselaer,

and her husband and little daughter, together with many other relatives and close friends. She was a kind and loving daughter and sister, a tender and devoted wife and mother and a girl much loved and admired by all who knew her.