FULLER DETAILS Of the Sad Accident Last Week which Resulted in the Death of Rebecca Baxter. The Republican last week published last week a meager account of the death of Miss Rebecca Baxter, but we were, not in possession of enough details to properly report the sad affair. Misses Mattie and Rebecca Baxter had been to a party, accompanied by the two Messrs. Clark, On returning Miss Mattie and her escort reached home first, and Mr. Earnest Clark had drove off. He was followed shortly by Mr. Earl Clark and Miss Rebecca. When they stopped Mr. Clark leaped out, but his foot became entangled in the lap robe and reins and he fell, frightening the team, which started to run. Young Clark started after them, and met a team returning he supposed to be his, but it was that of his cousin, returning for his buggy whip. They immediately turned the team about and started after the runaway, and when but a short distance the team shied to one side, they alighted and found, the dead body of the unfortunate girl. She had, to all appearances, jumped from the buggy, and fell in the hard road fracturing the skull. She was tenderly carried to her home and her parents summoned, and everything possible done to restore her, but life was already extinct. The soul had been hastily snatched by Him who gave it life, without a moment to say good bye to loved ones. The body was just in the bloom of youth and vigor of life, and it is indeed hard to up one so young, so sweet and so pure. "Death comes, and there is ho defense." But a short time before this Miss Baxter had been in a wagon drawn by a team of balky mules and near having a serious accident. The others all jumped out, and some one pulled Miss Baxter out. She then remarked she would I "have sense enough to jump next time." The memory of this probably caused her to make the fatal leap. Had she remained in the buggy, in all probability she would have escaped unhurt, as the team and buggy were found with nothing broken. Long will be remembered the evening of her conversion. Two or three years ago she had experienced a feeling she believed to be conversion, and united with the church. During meetings near her home during the holidays, she felt that she had not experienced the true conversion, and confided her fears to her pastor. He ad vised her to attend the mourners' bench, which she did for three or , four nights, at last experiencing that true change of heart. Oh, how happy she was! As soon as home was reached she went to her mother's bedside and told her the glad tidings, "I am saved." Sister also had to be told the joyful news, "Becca's saved." At the time of her accident she was talking to her escort, an unbeliever, of the beauties of salvation, of her clear experience and bright hopes of immortality and eternal life. Salvation was the last happy thought on earth, and deliverance on the sunny side. . She was received as a child of the King of Glory, with words of His goodness on her lips. The funeral was a fitting tribute to one so dearly beloved. Her friends, the playmates of school days, slowly filed past the bier on which lay the clay body of her they loved, and each stooped and printed a last kiss on that dear face. The family deeply sympathize with the young men having the care of the sisters on the fatal evening, and feel that nothing more on their part could have been done to stay the dread monster, Death. The bereaved ones have the tender empathy of all who knew their angel in this life. Her memory will remain green in that most perfect monument, the human heart. "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the Lord."
Clipped from: Quenemo Republican - Quenemo, Kansas - 11 Jan 1900, Thu • Page 5

Excerpt: A donation was given to buy a family Bible to be presented to Mr. and Mrs. Baxter. This wan planned by Rebecca Baxter shortly before the accident which caused her death and was carried out by her sisters as her request.
Clipped from: The Ottawa Herald - Ottawa, Kansas - 15 Feb 1900, Thu • Page 6