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The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, November 18, 1888
pg. 7

The Gazetteer regrets to announce the death of Miss Lizzie Gilmor, sister-in-law of Mr. H. Land, late city editor of this paper, which took place in this city Monday morning last at 12:25 o'clock.
During the summer Mrs. Land paid a visit to the home of her mother and sisters in Wingham, Ontario, and when she returned her little sisters, Lizzie, Mable and Fannie, accompanied her. About three weeks ago Lizzie was taken with a fever, which developed later into typhoid, and though tenderly nursed and skillfully attended the disease made rapid progress in securing a destroying foothold upon her system. Doctors Bailey and Nagle were the attending physicians, and all that close attention and medical skill could do was done for the sufferer, but in vain. She was given up at a consultation of doctors Sunday afternoon, and at 12 o'clock the same night passed quietly away, surrounded by weeping friends and relatives.
Lizzie Gilmore was 13 years of age, womanly in appearance and manners, and intelligent to a degree remarkable in one of her tender years. Naturally bright and apt of acquisition her mental acquirements were of a character surprising in one so young, and in everything she said and did there was suggested the woman's head posied upon the shoulders of the child. Coming of a musical family, she inherited talents in this direction of a rare order, and to other notable lyric accomplishments she added a remarkable proficiency as an instrumentalist. Youth in the embrace of death is never other than a moving sight, but youth thus gifted, yielding up the hope and the promise of life, how much more lamentable? Let its accompaniments be what they will, death is a tragedy, deep dark and inexorable, but even here woe has its modifications, and anguish its mitigant. Friendly voices to nerve the sinking heart, familiar faces to greet the failing eye, kindred hands to clasp the nerveless palm, and that great hope of futurity which lived in the human heart in spite of dogmas and doubts and fears - these are the conditions which disarm dispair in life's supreme ordeal, and if there be aught of satisfying consolation in them, the death of this young girl was peculiarly enviable and happy. She saw around her couch the familiar forms of friends, she felt upon her brow the touch of tender hands, she knew that bitter tears from sympathic hearts were scalding the cheeks of those who bent so tenderly above her, and she passed to her rest as calmly as summer evening deepens into night.
The funeral service took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Land, No. 1218 West Main street, on Monday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, and were impressively conducted by Rev'd W.E. Tynes, of the Fist Baptist Church. At a late hour the long and solemn cortege moved away towards Oakwood Cemetery, where all that was mortal of Lizzie Gilmor was laid to rest, and the silent mound, hidden in a bank of flowers, was left to tell its voiceless tale of a life which had been rich in love, returned to pathetic dust. The Gazetteer extends to the sorrowing relatives the sympathy of this community