BLEICH, Virgil Leroy
Date of death: 31 Jan 1900 – White River Township, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 16, 1900,
Volume XL Number 33, page 5 column 1
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OBITUARY.
Virgil Leroy Bleich, the infant son of Charles and Martha Bleich, was born February 11, 1899 and departed this life January 31st, 1900, aged eleven months and twenty days.
This sweet little babe had not even passed its first milestone in life when God plucked the fair flower of babyhood for transplanting in the eternal garden.
How the bark moves on bearing its precious cargo of an innocent soul; how the sail fills with the whispering winds and sweet perfumes that blow towards the land of sunshine that lies behind the mountain of the hereafter.
How sweetly sleeps the little babe, semi-conscious of the delightful journey that draws toward an end, so rapturous the welcome music of heavenly choristers floating across the still waters and wafted back again like echoes striking between the shores of earth and heaven.
The eyes that sparkled with light and love are closed forever, the prattling lips are silent and the little hands are folded upon the breast that throbs no more in response to the cares of affection.
With bitter anguish the broken-hearted father and mother have bathed the little silent face with burning tears of bitter grief. But how different would be their feelings if they could look upward with spiritual vision and see their little one entering upon the life immortal. The light of heaven shines down upon the beautiful face, and angel’s wings seem to fan the curling locks as the newborn soul takes its flight toward its celestial home. The little eyes are opened wide in wonder at the beautiful things that are coming into view, while the soul thrills with delight at the sounds of sweet music and tender voices of loving angels.
Earth is lost, but heaven is gained, and when the stricken parents shall have reached the end of their earthly pilgrimage, soft little hands will reach down and help them over the dark river, and their first view of heaven will be the bright little face that they loved so well on earth made glorious in the light of a Savior’s love.
Link to Virgil Leroy Bleich’s grave
Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Johnson County, Health Officer’s Record Number 19, page 17, records that Virgil Leroy Bleich died on 31 Jan 1900 at noon in White River Township from exhaustion caused by toxemia with a contributory complication of convulsions, aged eleven months and twenty days. He was a single, white male born in Indiana to Charles W. Madison Bleich and Martha Belle Colbert, both born in Indiana. He was buried in Glenn’s Valley Cemetery [aka Mount Pleasant Cemetery] on 2 Feb 1900, undertaker J. C. Thilson.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson