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Sylvia Emeline Akers

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Sylvia Emeline Akers

Birth
Oakfield, Audubon County, Iowa, USA
Death
28 Apr 1910 (aged 8 days)
Oakfield, Audubon County, Iowa, USA
Burial
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Audubon County Journal (IA)
May 5 1910
Sylvia, the infant daughter of Lin-
coln and Mary Akers was born April
20, 1910 and died April 28, 1910, aged
8 days. The funeral services were
held at the home April 30, conduc-
ted by Rev. Harned, pastor of the M.
E. Church at Exira, and the remains
were laid to rest in the beautiful
Oakfield Cemetery. The sorrowing
relatives must be comforted by the
Saviour who said "Suffer little child-
ren to come unto me and forbid them
not, for of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven."
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
He gazed at the flower with tearful eyes
He kissed their drooping leaves;
It was for the Lord of Paradise,
He bound them in his sheaves.
And the Mother gave in tears and pain
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she should find them all again
In the fields of light above.
Oh not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The reaper came that day;
'Twas an Angel visited the given earth
And took the flowers away


Audubon County Journal (IA)
May 5 1910
Sylvia, the infant daughter of Lin-
coln and Mary Akers was born April
20, 1910 and died April 28, 1910, aged
8 days. The funeral services were
held at the home April 30, conduc-
ted by Rev. Harned, pastor of the M.
E. Church at Exira, and the remains
were laid to rest in the beautiful
Oakfield Cemetery. The sorrowing
relatives must be comforted by the
Saviour who said "Suffer little child-
ren to come unto me and forbid them
not, for of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven."
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
He gazed at the flower with tearful eyes
He kissed their drooping leaves;
It was for the Lord of Paradise,
He bound them in his sheaves.
And the Mother gave in tears and pain
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she should find them all again
In the fields of light above.
Oh not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The reaper came that day;
'Twas an Angel visited the given earth
And took the flowers away

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