Bonham, Ruby (Obituary)
abstracted obituary of Ruby Bonham. Sent by Dianna Hearl as part of large amount of Shaw data.
RUBY BONHAM
Daughter of W.A. and Jennie Bonham (nee Shaw), was born Sept. 28, 1903, and fell asleep Nov. 17, 1915 being 12 years, 1 mo. and 20 days old. She is survived by her parents and three brothers, Harold A., Ernest C., and Rufus W., all of whom reside with their parents. The deceased was stricken in early life with that dread disease of childhood, spinal meningitis. Through all of her sufferings she was cheerful and contented and her fond parents had long cherished the hope that she would one day be restored to perfect health and youthful vigor. These hopes however were shattered about fifteen months since, when the disease developed with such rapidity as to baffle all that medical science and the ministrations of loving hands could do and she passed peacefully into the shades of the Great Unknown to be forever with her Maker. Alas! we can too well fancy the sorrow that will so long be painful before it can become merely sad and sacred. Daughters and sisters, especially in these days are much to us, had one no daughter or sister, one could hardly understand what it was to have a friend; they are the friends whom nature chose for us; society and fortune as things now go are scarcely compatible with friendship. Yet sorrow not above measure for her that is gone. She is in every deed and truth with God - where you and I are. What a thin film it is that divides the living from the dead.
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