BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, DEC. 28, 1900 CARD OF THANKS We desire to extend our sincere thanks to our neighbors for their kindness shown us during the sickness and death of our infant son, Erwin. Mr. and Mrs. Emery Voss. *********** JAN. 18, 1901 OBITUARY Lawrence Erwin, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Voss, born Oct. 16, 1900. The Angels came and took him to heaven Dec. 11, 1900. Little Erwin is gone. The family circle is broken for the first time. The home in which he came and lingered a while like some sweet blossom strayed from Paradise, is dark and desolate. 'Tis ever thus, the fairest flowers are first to be plucked. The loveliest buds are taken for the Master's garden, even as they were of the fairest and sweetest of the earth, even so we shall find them in heaven. Christ has said: "I say unto you in heaven their Angels do always behold the face of my Father." And may the precious one just taken, the sunbeam of our home, the idol of loving hearts, be but the beginning of a new family circle in God's kingdom. May each one who loved him so dearly here, as their life's work is completed and their journey on earth ended, may they have so lived as to be united once more to the little pet whom they had so longed to hold in their arms once more. May the little empty cradle be a bond between earth and heaven which never shall be broken. Pure and innocent as the angels in heaven he came; in all his purity and innocence he was taken away. Even so, Father, Thy will be done. Farewell, darling, till we meet thee On that bright and golden shore, Then we'll clasp thee to our bosom, There where parting is no more.