BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1902 Miss Mattie I. Fidler, aged 23 years, daughter of Chris Fidler, died at the home of the latter, on West 15th street, Friday afternoon, of consumption. The funeral took place Sunday at 10 o'clock, from the residence. Burial at Beech Grove. *************** OBITUARY. Died April 4, Miss Mattie, daughter of Cris and Mary Fiddler. She was born February 11, 1879, being 22 years old. Mattie is gone to rest we hope. She united with the M. E. church when a child. She bore her sufferings gently and was kind to every one. She will be greatly missed in the neighborhood in which she lived and her home will be dark and dreary without her. Her mother will miss her so much but she lives in hopes that her loss is heaven's eternal gain. Her funeral was largely attended; her body was laid to rest in Beech Grove Cemetery. She leaves father and mother and 4 brothers to mourn their loss. Mattie is gone we feel it and we know that her place is vacant never to be refilled. 23 years how long and yet how short when we recall. Then in that time the cemetery has been almost filled what a long disturbed rest, it is they bear not till resurrection morn, the day fades away it is night and then day again. What a dreary sadness steels over us as we try to write the form lately full of life and gayety is now cold and still in death and now in the beautiful spring time, the setting sun beats a golden, warm and mellow light on the heavy sod that covers the sleeper's breast. A precious one from us is gone, A voice we loved is still; A place is vacant in our home, Which never can be filled. A FRIEND