Once more the grim reaper has thrust his sickle into the harvest field in this community. This time he has taken the mother from a household, being the last member but one of a family which a few years ago numbered five. We refer to the death of Mrs. Charlotte A. Sheldon, which event occurred at the family residence in this city Wednesday morning, February 1st, 1888, at half past five o'clock. She was the widow of the late Hon. O. H. Sheldon, who died in this city August 13, 1878, and the mother of Mrs. Nora Sheldon Lyons, who followed her father to the grave seven months later, and of Charles M. Sheldon, our fellow townsman, the sole survivor of a family whose history is a part of the woof and web of the growth of Burlingame.
The deceased had been in ill health for many years, but bore her sufferings with patience and fortitude, her great desire seeming to be to make her home pleasant and inviting for her son, in which motherly effort she was successful. Mrs. Sheldon was a woman of marked characteristics. She was not outwardly demonstrative but earnest and sincere. Her long continued illness prevented many acts of charity which she wished to perform, but nevertheless she sought out and relieved many other needy ones, who will now miss her generous hand.
The death of her husband and daughter impressed Mrs. Sheldon greatly and she never fully recovered from the shock. She delighted to recall their memory and often when visiting their graves, would ask: "Do you think they know we are here?"
The bed of death brings out in turns the individuality of each. Her individuality was her dependence on her Creator. Her utterances in her last hours fully exemplified the truth of this. Among the last things she said was "Lord, take care of my boy; make him a good man so that he may meet me in heaven." And then in the full belief that her prayer was heard she exclaimed almost with her last breath, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."
Mrs. Sheldon was born April 16, 1831, at Liberty, Sullivan county, N. Y., her maiden name being Charlotte A. Smith. She was the daughter of Lotan Smith, and one of a family of twelve children, seven of whom survive her. Two of the seven are Charles M. Smith, of this city, and W. H. Smith, ex-sheriff of this county. She came with her parents to Kansas in the spring of 1856 and with them settled on a farm near Burlingame. In October of the same year she married O. H. Sheldon. Three children blessed their union, one of whom died in infancy, the other two, Nora, and Charles M. have already been mentioned. She united with the Methodist church in 1862 and from that date was a sincere and devoted Christian.
On Thursday afternoon the funeral services were held at the residence wherein the family had lived and wherein three of its members have died. A large concourse of mourning friends assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to the departed loved one. The remains reposed in a beautiful casket in the east parlor. The upturned features were illumined with a smile of peace; and the complexion was wonderfully life-like. Around the face smilax had been placed by loving hands and on the breast a bunch of fragrant flowers. Behind the coffin was a bower of hot house plants which were banked from floor to ceiling against the wall. Among the leaves was the pet canary of the departed, which, with drooping head, motionless and in perfect silence, seemed to share the surrounding sadness. Among the plants wreathed with smilax was the inscription: "What is home without a mother?" a question continually asked the heard of the weeping son. At the head of the burial case and resting on the family bible, which in turn was supported by a marble stand, was a floral pillow wrought by deft fingers out of white carnations, cream rose buds, heliotrope, callas and smilax. And in its center in immortelles was the one word: "Mother" over which a white dove gently hovered in the act of alighting upon a place of rest. ON the coffin's lid was a large flat bouquet of cream rosebuds, white carnations, callas, purple heliotrope and smilax fastened with a wide bow of lavender ribbon. On the north wall were hung large portraits of the husband, daughter and son of the deceased draped in black crape and festooned with smilax. The chandeliers were similarly hung. Around the walls near the ceiling were looped black and white emblems of mourning. In the north parlor was a magnificent life sized oil portrait of Charles M. Sheldon, which he had presented to his mother only a short time previous to her death, which was also festooned with smilax and black crape.
The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. A. J. Coe, of the Methodist church. ..............
Charles M. Sheldon, the surviving member of the family, is a young man of the age of twenty-five years. He was born and reared in this community. He has had an ardent desire to make the law his profession, and to that end studied in the office of the Hon. Wm. Thomson and a year ago took a course at Columbia college, New York, but the increasing cares of the management of the large pecuniary affairs of himself and his mother has, for the present, at least, thwarted his plans in that direction. He created the Bank of Burlingame of which he is the president and controlling head and he is closely identified with the business and social life of Burlingame. It is not strange, therefore, that in this hour of his grief and sorrow, the whole community extend their sincere sympathy to soothe and comfort him.
Source: Osage County Chronicle, Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas, 9 February 1888, page 5, column 2, 3, 4, 5.
The deceased had been in ill health for many years, but bore her sufferings with patience and fortitude, her great desire seeming to be to make her home pleasant and inviting for her son, in which motherly effort she was successful. Mrs. Sheldon was a woman of marked characteristics. She was not outwardly demonstrative but earnest and sincere. Her long continued illness prevented many acts of charity which she wished to perform, but nevertheless she sought out and relieved many other needy ones, who will now miss her generous hand.
The death of her husband and daughter impressed Mrs. Sheldon greatly and she never fully recovered from the shock. She delighted to recall their memory and often when visiting their graves, would ask: "Do you think they know we are here?"
The bed of death brings out in turns the individuality of each. Her individuality was her dependence on her Creator. Her utterances in her last hours fully exemplified the truth of this. Among the last things she said was "Lord, take care of my boy; make him a good man so that he may meet me in heaven." And then in the full belief that her prayer was heard she exclaimed almost with her last breath, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."
Mrs. Sheldon was born April 16, 1831, at Liberty, Sullivan county, N. Y., her maiden name being Charlotte A. Smith. She was the daughter of Lotan Smith, and one of a family of twelve children, seven of whom survive her. Two of the seven are Charles M. Smith, of this city, and W. H. Smith, ex-sheriff of this county. She came with her parents to Kansas in the spring of 1856 and with them settled on a farm near Burlingame. In October of the same year she married O. H. Sheldon. Three children blessed their union, one of whom died in infancy, the other two, Nora, and Charles M. have already been mentioned. She united with the Methodist church in 1862 and from that date was a sincere and devoted Christian.
On Thursday afternoon the funeral services were held at the residence wherein the family had lived and wherein three of its members have died. A large concourse of mourning friends assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to the departed loved one. The remains reposed in a beautiful casket in the east parlor. The upturned features were illumined with a smile of peace; and the complexion was wonderfully life-like. Around the face smilax had been placed by loving hands and on the breast a bunch of fragrant flowers. Behind the coffin was a bower of hot house plants which were banked from floor to ceiling against the wall. Among the leaves was the pet canary of the departed, which, with drooping head, motionless and in perfect silence, seemed to share the surrounding sadness. Among the plants wreathed with smilax was the inscription: "What is home without a mother?" a question continually asked the heard of the weeping son. At the head of the burial case and resting on the family bible, which in turn was supported by a marble stand, was a floral pillow wrought by deft fingers out of white carnations, cream rose buds, heliotrope, callas and smilax. And in its center in immortelles was the one word: "Mother" over which a white dove gently hovered in the act of alighting upon a place of rest. ON the coffin's lid was a large flat bouquet of cream rosebuds, white carnations, callas, purple heliotrope and smilax fastened with a wide bow of lavender ribbon. On the north wall were hung large portraits of the husband, daughter and son of the deceased draped in black crape and festooned with smilax. The chandeliers were similarly hung. Around the walls near the ceiling were looped black and white emblems of mourning. In the north parlor was a magnificent life sized oil portrait of Charles M. Sheldon, which he had presented to his mother only a short time previous to her death, which was also festooned with smilax and black crape.
The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. A. J. Coe, of the Methodist church. ..............
Charles M. Sheldon, the surviving member of the family, is a young man of the age of twenty-five years. He was born and reared in this community. He has had an ardent desire to make the law his profession, and to that end studied in the office of the Hon. Wm. Thomson and a year ago took a course at Columbia college, New York, but the increasing cares of the management of the large pecuniary affairs of himself and his mother has, for the present, at least, thwarted his plans in that direction. He created the Bank of Burlingame of which he is the president and controlling head and he is closely identified with the business and social life of Burlingame. It is not strange, therefore, that in this hour of his grief and sorrow, the whole community extend their sincere sympathy to soothe and comfort him.
Source: Osage County Chronicle, Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas, 9 February 1888, page 5, column 2, 3, 4, 5.
Once more the grim reaper has thrust his sickle into the harvest field in this community. This time he has taken the mother from a household, being the last member but one of a family which a few years ago numbered five. We refer to the death of Mrs. Charlotte A. Sheldon, which event occurred at the family residence in this city Wednesday morning, February 1st, 1888, at half past five o'clock. She was the widow of the late Hon. O. H. Sheldon, who died in this city August 13, 1878, and the mother of Mrs. Nora Sheldon Lyons, who followed her father to the grave seven months later, and of Charles M. Sheldon, our fellow townsman, the sole survivor of a family whose history is a part of the woof and web of the growth of Burlingame.
The deceased had been in ill health for many years, but bore her sufferings with patience and fortitude, her great desire seeming to be to make her home pleasant and inviting for her son, in which motherly effort she was successful. Mrs. Sheldon was a woman of marked characteristics. She was not outwardly demonstrative but earnest and sincere. Her long continued illness prevented many acts of charity which she wished to perform, but nevertheless she sought out and relieved many other needy ones, who will now miss her generous hand.
The death of her husband and daughter impressed Mrs. Sheldon greatly and she never fully recovered from the shock. She delighted to recall their memory and often when visiting their graves, would ask: "Do you think they know we are here?"
The bed of death brings out in turns the individuality of each. Her individuality was her dependence on her Creator. Her utterances in her last hours fully exemplified the truth of this. Among the last things she said was "Lord, take care of my boy; make him a good man so that he may meet me in heaven." And then in the full belief that her prayer was heard she exclaimed almost with her last breath, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."
Mrs. Sheldon was born April 16, 1831, at Liberty, Sullivan county, N. Y., her maiden name being Charlotte A. Smith. She was the daughter of Lotan Smith, and one of a family of twelve children, seven of whom survive her. Two of the seven are Charles M. Smith, of this city, and W. H. Smith, ex-sheriff of this county. She came with her parents to Kansas in the spring of 1856 and with them settled on a farm near Burlingame. In October of the same year she married O. H. Sheldon. Three children blessed their union, one of whom died in infancy, the other two, Nora, and Charles M. have already been mentioned. She united with the Methodist church in 1862 and from that date was a sincere and devoted Christian.
On Thursday afternoon the funeral services were held at the residence wherein the family had lived and wherein three of its members have died. A large concourse of mourning friends assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to the departed loved one. The remains reposed in a beautiful casket in the east parlor. The upturned features were illumined with a smile of peace; and the complexion was wonderfully life-like. Around the face smilax had been placed by loving hands and on the breast a bunch of fragrant flowers. Behind the coffin was a bower of hot house plants which were banked from floor to ceiling against the wall. Among the leaves was the pet canary of the departed, which, with drooping head, motionless and in perfect silence, seemed to share the surrounding sadness. Among the plants wreathed with smilax was the inscription: "What is home without a mother?" a question continually asked the heard of the weeping son. At the head of the burial case and resting on the family bible, which in turn was supported by a marble stand, was a floral pillow wrought by deft fingers out of white carnations, cream rose buds, heliotrope, callas and smilax. And in its center in immortelles was the one word: "Mother" over which a white dove gently hovered in the act of alighting upon a place of rest. ON the coffin's lid was a large flat bouquet of cream rosebuds, white carnations, callas, purple heliotrope and smilax fastened with a wide bow of lavender ribbon. On the north wall were hung large portraits of the husband, daughter and son of the deceased draped in black crape and festooned with smilax. The chandeliers were similarly hung. Around the walls near the ceiling were looped black and white emblems of mourning. In the north parlor was a magnificent life sized oil portrait of Charles M. Sheldon, which he had presented to his mother only a short time previous to her death, which was also festooned with smilax and black crape.
The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. A. J. Coe, of the Methodist church. ..............
Charles M. Sheldon, the surviving member of the family, is a young man of the age of twenty-five years. He was born and reared in this community. He has had an ardent desire to make the law his profession, and to that end studied in the office of the Hon. Wm. Thomson and a year ago took a course at Columbia college, New York, but the increasing cares of the management of the large pecuniary affairs of himself and his mother has, for the present, at least, thwarted his plans in that direction. He created the Bank of Burlingame of which he is the president and controlling head and he is closely identified with the business and social life of Burlingame. It is not strange, therefore, that in this hour of his grief and sorrow, the whole community extend their sincere sympathy to soothe and comfort him.
Source: Osage County Chronicle, Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas, 9 February 1888, page 5, column 2, 3, 4, 5.
The deceased had been in ill health for many years, but bore her sufferings with patience and fortitude, her great desire seeming to be to make her home pleasant and inviting for her son, in which motherly effort she was successful. Mrs. Sheldon was a woman of marked characteristics. She was not outwardly demonstrative but earnest and sincere. Her long continued illness prevented many acts of charity which she wished to perform, but nevertheless she sought out and relieved many other needy ones, who will now miss her generous hand.
The death of her husband and daughter impressed Mrs. Sheldon greatly and she never fully recovered from the shock. She delighted to recall their memory and often when visiting their graves, would ask: "Do you think they know we are here?"
The bed of death brings out in turns the individuality of each. Her individuality was her dependence on her Creator. Her utterances in her last hours fully exemplified the truth of this. Among the last things she said was "Lord, take care of my boy; make him a good man so that he may meet me in heaven." And then in the full belief that her prayer was heard she exclaimed almost with her last breath, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."
Mrs. Sheldon was born April 16, 1831, at Liberty, Sullivan county, N. Y., her maiden name being Charlotte A. Smith. She was the daughter of Lotan Smith, and one of a family of twelve children, seven of whom survive her. Two of the seven are Charles M. Smith, of this city, and W. H. Smith, ex-sheriff of this county. She came with her parents to Kansas in the spring of 1856 and with them settled on a farm near Burlingame. In October of the same year she married O. H. Sheldon. Three children blessed their union, one of whom died in infancy, the other two, Nora, and Charles M. have already been mentioned. She united with the Methodist church in 1862 and from that date was a sincere and devoted Christian.
On Thursday afternoon the funeral services were held at the residence wherein the family had lived and wherein three of its members have died. A large concourse of mourning friends assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to the departed loved one. The remains reposed in a beautiful casket in the east parlor. The upturned features were illumined with a smile of peace; and the complexion was wonderfully life-like. Around the face smilax had been placed by loving hands and on the breast a bunch of fragrant flowers. Behind the coffin was a bower of hot house plants which were banked from floor to ceiling against the wall. Among the leaves was the pet canary of the departed, which, with drooping head, motionless and in perfect silence, seemed to share the surrounding sadness. Among the plants wreathed with smilax was the inscription: "What is home without a mother?" a question continually asked the heard of the weeping son. At the head of the burial case and resting on the family bible, which in turn was supported by a marble stand, was a floral pillow wrought by deft fingers out of white carnations, cream rose buds, heliotrope, callas and smilax. And in its center in immortelles was the one word: "Mother" over which a white dove gently hovered in the act of alighting upon a place of rest. ON the coffin's lid was a large flat bouquet of cream rosebuds, white carnations, callas, purple heliotrope and smilax fastened with a wide bow of lavender ribbon. On the north wall were hung large portraits of the husband, daughter and son of the deceased draped in black crape and festooned with smilax. The chandeliers were similarly hung. Around the walls near the ceiling were looped black and white emblems of mourning. In the north parlor was a magnificent life sized oil portrait of Charles M. Sheldon, which he had presented to his mother only a short time previous to her death, which was also festooned with smilax and black crape.
The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. A. J. Coe, of the Methodist church. ..............
Charles M. Sheldon, the surviving member of the family, is a young man of the age of twenty-five years. He was born and reared in this community. He has had an ardent desire to make the law his profession, and to that end studied in the office of the Hon. Wm. Thomson and a year ago took a course at Columbia college, New York, but the increasing cares of the management of the large pecuniary affairs of himself and his mother has, for the present, at least, thwarted his plans in that direction. He created the Bank of Burlingame of which he is the president and controlling head and he is closely identified with the business and social life of Burlingame. It is not strange, therefore, that in this hour of his grief and sorrow, the whole community extend their sincere sympathy to soothe and comfort him.
Source: Osage County Chronicle, Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas, 9 February 1888, page 5, column 2, 3, 4, 5.
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