Ida Emily Potts |
| Posted 2018-02-15 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Arizona Weekly Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Friday, July 20, 1877, page 3, column 9 Death Of Little Ida Potts. Many a manly, womanly and childish heart bleeds to-day at the announcement of the death of little Ida, on of the beautiful twin daughters of John C. and Louisa Potts. It were useless to offer any of this world's consolation to the grief-stricken parents; there is a void in their hearts that this earth can never fill, and an anguish that only time can assuage. Ida and her twin sister, Eva, were three years old to-day; she having passed away to the better on her third anniversary of her birth. In the commencement of her illness she seems to have had a premonition of approaching death, and said to her little sister Eva, 'I'm going to die and go and see Henrietta,' - alluding to the death of her little cousin, Henrietta Behan, which occurred a few months since. She seems to have realizes the idea of Tennyson, in the May Queen: Forever and forever, all in a blessed home. And there to wait a little while till you and Eva come, To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your breast, And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. ------------------------------------------------------------ Arizona Weekly Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Friday, July 20, 1877, page 4, column 2 Funeral Of Little Ida A large number of our citizens gathered together to pay their last respects to the burial rites of one of Prescott's purest and most precious jewels, little Ida Emily, twin sister of Eva and daughter of our friends, J. C. and Louisa Potts, who departed this life yesterday, and celebrated her third anniversary in a higher and holier sphere, and, for aught we know, with that bright angel Henritta Behan, her cousin, who preceded her but a few months. The Rev. Mr. Campbell dilivered (sic) the funeral sermon in a feeling and appropriate manner - his remarks bringing tears to the stoutest hearts. Little Ida has gone, and all that was mortal of that little bud and flower yesterday morn, before life departed from the body, now lies in yonder charnel yard, where it is to remain forever. With the afflicted parents and relatives the whole community sympathize in this, the hour of their great grief and affliction. |
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