(date in pencil - 1878) Linesville has lost one of her best and noblest young men. Arthur S. Bunday, aged nineteen years and five months, ceased to breathe about nine o'clock on Monday morning, the 14th instant. The deceased was the son of S.E. and Sarah J. Bunday of this Borough, and this is the fourth time these afflicted parents have been called to mourn the death of their children, and three of these deaths have occurred within the past three weeks. Theirs is indeed a great sorrow, and in the presence of the bereaved and heartstricken we feel like bowing the head in silence, for words are vain at such a time. But we owe it to the memory of our dead young friend to put it on record that he was indeed and in truth a model young man. He was manly, truthful and honorable. He had the respect and good will of all the people. We owe it to the youths, the young men of our village to say, emulate the virtues of the departed. The parents, the family and friends must feel a melancholy pleasure in remembering that Arthur never stooped to shame, he kept himself on a higher plane of action. He always seemed to act from principle. For years he has suffered from enlargement of the heart, and the physician informs us that the immediate cause of his death was paralysis of the heart. TAFT - In Linesville, Sept. 23d, '77, of chronic tonsillitis and diphtheria, Nellie, daughter of Erwin and Lina Taft, aged 6 years, 3 months and 6 days. The remains were taken to East Springfield for burial, on Monday. BROWN - In Linesville, Sept. 22, '77, of diphtheria, George, son of W.E. and Margaret Brown, aged 11 years, 2 months and 6 days. WADE - In Linesville, Sept. 25th, '77, of diphtheria, Rolley D., son of C. and Sarah C. Wade, aged 7 years, 1 month and 26 days. Little Rolley we know has gone To that brighter home above, Forever there to be an angel, Resteth now in Jesus' Love. Father, Mother, there he'll wait To open wide the golden gate. GILLILAND - In Ashtabula, O., Nov. 6th, 1881, of typhoid fever, Jennie (middle initial blurred - looks like an "I"), only daughter of Mrs. H.H. Gilliland, formerly of Linesville and Conneaut township, aged 16 years, 4 months and 2 days. The remains were interred in the burying ground at Frey Church, in Conneaut township. More to follow in a day or two! Kathy Brubaker Volunteer Genealogist Linesville Historical Society kbrbkr@toolcity.net