ALEXANDER, Myrtle May

Date of birth:  24 Apr 1892 – Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 22 Jul 1894 – Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 27, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 3, page 6 column 3

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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WHITELAND.

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Myrtle, second daughter of George and Eloise [sic] Alexander, died of dys­entery July 21, after a two weeks’ ill­ness. For a time it seemed she was not seriously ill, giving the anxious watchers at her bedside confident hopes of her speedy recovery. But a fatal reverse came quickly. The budding life of the baby girl and the spotless soul was borne away by the angels to the throne of god. Death comes soonest to the fairest flowers and wields a partial scepter. But to us who mourn our loss, to those who loved this little one, to all crushed and bleeding hearts there is the glorious promise of the creed: “The communion of the saints, the resur­rection of the body and the life ever­lasting.”

Link to Myrtle May Alexander’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana Birth Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-2, page 255, records that a white female infant was born to G. W. Alexander and Ella H. [sic] on 24 Apr 1892.
The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 3, referencing Book H-17, page 7, records that Myrtle Alexander, a two-old white female, died 21 Jul 1894 in Johnson County.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson