Pinckneyville, Advocate.
Young Mother Called Beyond At The Age of 21

It has pleased God to summon from our midst Mrs. Mable Elizabeth Hopp, beloved wife of Charles F. Hopp. The decedent was the eldest daughter of Warren and Anna Ehler being born to this union December 4, 1896 in the community known as Holt's Prairie, some four miles east of Pinckneyville. ON September 28, 1916 she entered holy wedlock with Charles F. Hopp, where upon the newly wedded people founded their home at the place where God saw fit in His wisdom to grant her only the short time of fifteen months to enjoy this bliss and happiness of their mutual love, for on December 15th after a brief ailment she was summoned to her eternal reward in the realms of glory.
Only a short time ago she was a happy bride with love and happiness beaming in her eye, today she has come to the alter, not lead by the hand of her husband, but other brought her in her narrow bed of death.
From the side, of her husband, she goes to the bridal chamber of the grave, saddening the hearts of her grief stricken husband, her only child of one week, Charles Allen, and her bereaved parents. Beside she leaves to mourn her untimely death at the very zenith of usefulness, four brothers, and four sisters; others deeply grieved at her passing are her parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hopp and family and a large circle of relatives and friends.
"I would not live alway; I ask not to stay, where storm after storm rises dark on the way;
The few lurid mornings that dawn are on us here Are enough for life's woes, and full enough for it's cheer."
Her life was brief but it was not lived in vain; she is gone but still she dwells with us and her spirit will stand beside her loving husband as a guardian angel over her sweet child. The brief span of life allotted to her was 21 years 11 days, in this time she enjoyed the esteem of the entire country side.
Funeral services were conducted at St. Peters Evangelical Church at White Walnut Tuesday at 12:00 o'clock by the pastor E.C. Brink. Internment was made in the Campbell Hill Cemetery.

Card of thanks

I wish to extend my sincere thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors for their timely assistance during the illness and after the death of my dear wife.

Chas. F. Hopp