This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Penniman Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wEC.2ACE/1382 Message Board Post: OBITUARY ELLA FRANCES, daughter of Capt. H. G. and L. A. PENNIMAN, died of Diptheria, in Mauston, WIs., Sept. 13, 1862, aged four years, nine months and four days. She was a promising, active little girl, an attentive and interesting Sabbath School scholar in the Juvenile class of the Baptist Sabbath School in Mauston; and therefore is very greatly missed, both by parents, kindred and the Sabbath School. But we trust our loss is her eternal gain. Sleep on, sweet Ella, here rest in dust, "Til God shall bid they slumber cease; "Til thou shalt rise among the just, And dwell in heavenly life and peace. Thou wast a shining gem from heaven -- A solace of thy parents' woes -- Today, for one bright moment given, But now released from worldly woes. Source: Juneau County Argus newspaper dated 24 Sep 1862