This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wEC.2ACE/1376 Message Board Post: DIED: - Mary Ella Smith, daughter of Isaac Smith, near Elroy, on the morning of the 19th inst., of typhoid fever. Ella had been a sufferer for some six or seven weeks, till at last she past away, having told the watchers but a short time before she departed that she was dying and that she felt prepared to go. She had spent a good deal of time in prayer during her long sickness, and her bereaved friends have the comforting hope that our Great Father was gracious in her departing moments. The funeral ceremonies took place on the afternoon of the 20th, the sermon being preached in Fowlers Prairie school house, from these words; "Prepare to meet they God:" Amos IV, 12; Prof. Washburn officiating; May our merciful Father bestow upon the bereaved, the consoling innocence of the Divine Spirit, in the loss of one they so fondly loved. Source: Elroy Plaintalker newspaper dated 23 Nov 1877