OBITUARY - Sarah Mildred Sloan
East Liverpool Tribune
The shadow of a sacred sorrow rests upon the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sloan, 305 Lisbon road, because of the sad death of their only child, Sarah Mildred, who was one month over two years old. The little one was taken ill at Cambridge Springs last Wednesday, whither she had gone with her parents the day before. Friday they returned home with her, and despite all that love and medical skill could do she drooped and faded away and this morning (September 22, 1903) at eighteen minutes after 8 o'clock the light was quenched forever from her mortal sight and she sweetly sank in the everlasting repose on the bosom of the father. In some manner she had contracted catarrhal fever and there was nothing that could stay its rapid and devastating progress. The little girl was just at the age when most precious, and being an only child the blow comes with crushing, cruel force. She was wholly free from pain when the angel came and sealed her lips n death's eternal hush. The angel came in tenderness and mercy and it was with only a little sigh that the transition was noticed. The heart-broken parents have the sympathy of all in their great bereavement. Hope spans, with beautiful effulgence, the shadows of the valley and opens to the mortal vision the portals of immortality, and amid the dissolving ties of friendship and those sweets and stronger ties that cluster about the family altar, the assurance is certain that all children are gathered to become jewels in the diadem of Him who said "Suffer the little ones to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
Standing alone beneath the weight of an unspeakable sorrow, the fond parents find the light of this world is as darkness and the only light that can come to them across the deepening gloom of their desolate home is the light of the eternal city. The grief of their hearts is so deep and voiceless that no human sympathy can reach and which only lie who made the heart can soften.
The funeral will be held at the house Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. J. C. Taggart, pastor of the First U. P. church officiating. Burial will be made in Riverview cemetery.
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