This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Titus, Soper, Lyda, Shorton, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACI/33 Message Board Post: Death Notice - Susan Maria Titus Soper Susan Maria Titus Soper was born in Providence, R. I., June 30th, 1839, and departed from this life March 15, 1921. Arteriosclerosis was the cause of death, which occurred at the home of her son in-law, Edgar A. Scott, at Olga, Florida. She was married to William Winthrop Soper, April 2nd, 1856, in Nemaha County, Nebraska. Six children were born to this union; two boys and four girls: She is survived by three children, Mrs. Mary Soper Scott, Olga, Fla.; Mrs. Adaline Lyda, Canby, Oregon, and Mrs. Anna Beatrice Shorton, Edgemont, S. D. In 1855 she came with her parents to the wide fertile prairie of southeastern Nebraska. The country was full of Indians and it took a stout heart to brave the wilds of that new land. From Nebraska she moved to Colorado in 1879, and buried her husband there in 1882. With her children she went to the, Black Hills of: South Dakota in 1883, where she resided until she came to Florida four years ago. She had good health until 1912 when her sight fail! ed, and she had a paralytic stroke in 1917 from which she only partially recovered. All winter she had been ill, and very low for seventeen days. Everything was done for her that loving hands could do. She was a Christian, a member of the Lone Star Missionary Baptist Church, Custer County, S. D. The end came like a tired child going to sleep. As she lay in the casket there was not a line, wrinkle or shadow on her face. She seemed almost transfigured, as though God had wiped away every trace of her long suffering. Services were held at the home at 11 a. m., March 16th, conducted by Deacon LaFayette Mills of the Missionary Baptist Church: Interment was made at the Alva Cemetery. When the mists have rolled in splendor From the beauty of the hills; And the sunshine, warm and tender FaIls in kisses on the rills; We shall read love's shining letter, In the rainbow of the spray; We shall know each other better, When the mists have cleared away. Note: Copy or Original obituary came from her great granddaughter Marie (Overlin) Gorsuch Custer South Dakota.