SCARLET FEVER PROVES FATAL

The younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Marsh, Geo. W. Marsh, passed away last Sunday afternoon at 3:37 at the home of his parents west Nebraska street, having been a victim of the dread disease, scarlet fever.

The little boy had only been ill four days with the disease, having contracted the same from his sister who is convalescing.

George Washington Marsh was born at Kelsey, Texas Dec. 3, 1916 and was 4 years, 11 months and 3 days old at the time of his death.

Besides his heartbroken parents, there remains one brother, Harvey, aged 11, and one sister, Fern, aged 7, to mourn his loss, also his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McCoy of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Harvey of Vacoma.

Funeral services were held Monday at the grave, burial being made at Rose Hill cemetery.

Rev. J. A. Johnson of the Methodist church officiated.

“There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore.
And bright in Heaven’s jeweled
They shine forever more.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks o’er the earth with silent tread;
He bears our best loved things away
And then we call them “dead”.
He leaves our hearts all desolate
He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers;
Transplanted into bliss, they now Adorn immortal bowers."

#2-10 Nov., 1921 - The Tribune - George Washington Marsh

MR. AND MRS. A. E. MARSH LOSE FOUR YEAR OLD SON

George Washington Marsh, son of Alfred E. and Vesta Willa Marsh, was born in Kelsey, Texas Dec. 3, 1916, and died at the parents’ home in Blair, Nebr. Nov. 6, 1921, aged 4 years, 11 months and 3 days. Those left to mourn his death are his father and mother, one sister, Fern Willa, one brother, Harvey Elyas, and other relatives and friends. The funeral was conducted at the home and the little body was laid to rest in the Rose Hill cemetery, Rev. J. A. Johnson officiating.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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