This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HORTON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Am.2ADI/224 Message Board Post: THE PLEASANTON HERALD, VOLUME II, NUMBER 24, PLEASANTON, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 29, 1882, PAGE 3 Died. September 14, Cora Frances, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Horton, aged 13 years and 7 months. Death always brings pain and anguish, but when out loveliest and best are taken the blow is doubly hard to bear. This it seems to the friends of Cora. She was a child of unusual promise, of a loving and amiable disposition, and thoughtful beyond her years. In her last brief illness she silently bore all the pain that those she loved might not know how much she suffered. Among her young friends, and companions, to know her was to love her. She was the pride of her father's heart. Already had a mother learned the joy of companionship in a loving and trusting daughter. The parents have the heart-felt sympathy of all in this their sad bereavement. "And now at the foot of the ladder they sit, Looking up with quiet tears, Till the beckoning hand and the flowing robe, Of the child at the top re-appears."