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The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, December 18, 1898
pg. 3

In Memoriam
Early, bright, transient, chaste as the morning dew she was exhaled and went to heaven. At the young age of 23 years beautiful and gifted, Bertha S. Hitchcock's soul has gone among the stars. Her sweet spirit returned to the God who gave it on Sunday
November 20th at 2:30 a.m., leaving the bright and fragrant bloom of young womanhood behind. She was so pure, so good, charitable and noble in every Christian walk and virtue, that all relatives and friends had watched this bud grow into a perfect type of loveliness and grace that none of the large number who paid the last sad rites to her memory left without a tear upon their cheeks. In life we loved her, in death we mo urn her.

She needs no slab of Parian marble
With its white and ghostly head,
To tell the wanderers in the valley
The virtues of the dead;
Let the lily be her tombstone,
And dewdrops, pure and bright,
The epitaph the angels write
In the stillness of the night.
----Annie Gray, December 14, 1898