The Hereford Brand
Hereford, Texas
23 March, 1906

Another Babe Taken.

“There is no death, what seems so
is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian
Whose portal we call death.
He is not dead – the babe of our
affection –
But gone unto that school
Where he no longer needs our poor
protection,
And Christ himself doth rule.”

   The seventeen-day-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gilliland was taken from their loving care Thursday morning at nine o’clock – an earthly bud plucked by the all-wise Creator and placed in heaven’s clime where it will be brought to perfect bloom, and may not its fragrance be wafted back to earth for a mellowing influence toward the hearts of parents, grandparents and others who grew to love it during its brief stay on earth?
   The funeral services were conducted by Rev. O. W. Dean at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Estes, Friday morning at ten o’clock, after which the little body was lovingly laid to rest in the city cemetery.
   The BRAND offers earnest sympathy to the bereaved parents and other sorrowing relatives.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012