The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, October 30, 1892
pg. 5

MORTUARY
Willie Cornelia Booth, 13-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W.T. Booth, residing on S. Houston avenue, died Wednesday evening, October 26, at 8 o'clock.
Funeral ceremonies were held at the Episcopal church Friday evening at 2 o'clock.  Interment Fairview Cemetery.

IN MEMORY
Willie C., only daughter of Dr. W.T. and Mrs. Cornelia Booth is dead.
Surrounded by her sorrowing family she surrendered to the pale messenger, tireless as the centuries, on Wednesday evening, the 26th inst. at 8:30 o'clock, aged 13 years and 7 months.  The end was peaceful and as gentle as the perfume of fragrant flowers and the murmuring of falling waters.  The death sleep was like that of rarified innocence.  Not a frown on the fair face marked the flight of the lovely child-soul from the earthly tenement.
Seldom indeed have the shadows of the grave fallen upon a more gentle spirit as it wended its way in triumph towards the starts.  The lips are cold that only knew affection and duty - the eyes are glassed that only spoke of love, kindness and gentleness, the hands are mute that were always ready to caress - so full of service in the cause of her friends and loving associates.  Her bright and sunny life was a pure, guileless, innocent, unselfish and chaste as morning dew - was exhaled and went to heaven amid angelic peans, "not of earth."  She had in the bloom, purity, beauty and heyday of budding youth that sparkled as it rippled in the brilliant sunlight of its own joyousness that promised never to fade - a youth so free, so free, so fresh, so buoyant, so instinct with life, with courage and anticipation, that no warning cloud floated across the horizon to tell her when "Son of man cometh," and though she has gone down in her young girlhood to the "tongueless silence of creamless dust, her memory will remain green" till the stars cease to shine.  To her loving father, idolizing mother, and devoted brother, in this hour of sad affliction, we tender our sincerest sympathy.
- - - - Annie Gray, 1315 S. Rusk Ave., City.