The daughter of CSA veteran and editor of The Bossier Banner newspaper, W.H. Scanland and his wife Adelaide Amelia Abney Scanland.
Obituary
The Bossier Banner
July 20, 1882
Page 3
DIED:
In Bellevue, LA., Sunday, July 16th at 10 o'clock P. M., of congestion, ADELAIDE AMELIA SCANLAND, youngest daughter of W.H. and Adelaide A. Scanland, aged two years, three months and twenty six days.
Thus are our fondest hopes dissipated. The babe, swhich, yesterday, like a young bud, laid upon its mother's breast, in purity and beauty, and inspired in tis mother's heart so much of joy and hope, today is faded, and withered and dead. Yesterday, the fond father pressed to his bosom his youngest one, his pet, his little prattler, his "little sunshine," to day, she is a lump of lifeless clay and is consigned to the silent grave.
How hard it is to bear such strokes, none but a father and mother knows.
Little AMELIA was the youngest of the household and the pet of her father, mother, sister and brothers. Her brief life contributed more than is ordinarily the case, to brighten the family circle, for she was indeed a little sun-beam. Her untimely death leaves a void in hearts that will ever crave her presence, sigh for the "touch of a vanished hand" and long for "the sound of a voice that is still."
Over her grave were sung the songs she loved best. In Heaven she sings them now, "For of such is the kingdom of Heaven."
Her grieving relatives may well know that this pure and sinless little one taken from their embraces now, is a treasure laid up for them in Heaven, and believe that her little hands, which, ere while, clung about them in loving fondness, now reach out, beconing them to a better and happier Hereafter into which death does not come.
"In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion,
By guardian angels led,
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's polution,
She lives, whome we call dead."
J.A.S.
Obituary
The Bossier Banner
July 20, 1882
Page 3
DIED:
In Bellevue, LA., Sunday, July 16th at 10 o'clock P. M., of congestion, ADELAIDE AMELIA SCANLAND, youngest daughter of W.H. and Adelaide A. Scanland, aged two years, three months and twenty six days.
Thus are our fondest hopes dissipated. The babe, swhich, yesterday, like a young bud, laid upon its mother's breast, in purity and beauty, and inspired in tis mother's heart so much of joy and hope, today is faded, and withered and dead. Yesterday, the fond father pressed to his bosom his youngest one, his pet, his little prattler, his "little sunshine," to day, she is a lump of lifeless clay and is consigned to the silent grave.
How hard it is to bear such strokes, none but a father and mother knows.
Little AMELIA was the youngest of the household and the pet of her father, mother, sister and brothers. Her brief life contributed more than is ordinarily the case, to brighten the family circle, for she was indeed a little sun-beam. Her untimely death leaves a void in hearts that will ever crave her presence, sigh for the "touch of a vanished hand" and long for "the sound of a voice that is still."
Over her grave were sung the songs she loved best. In Heaven she sings them now, "For of such is the kingdom of Heaven."
Her grieving relatives may well know that this pure and sinless little one taken from their embraces now, is a treasure laid up for them in Heaven, and believe that her little hands, which, ere while, clung about them in loving fondness, now reach out, beconing them to a better and happier Hereafter into which death does not come.
"In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion,
By guardian angels led,
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's polution,
She lives, whome we call dead."
J.A.S.
The daughter of CSA veteran and editor of The Bossier Banner newspaper, W.H. Scanland and his wife Adelaide Amelia Abney Scanland.
Obituary
The Bossier Banner
July 20, 1882
Page 3
DIED:
In Bellevue, LA., Sunday, July 16th at 10 o'clock P. M., of congestion, ADELAIDE AMELIA SCANLAND, youngest daughter of W.H. and Adelaide A. Scanland, aged two years, three months and twenty six days.
Thus are our fondest hopes dissipated. The babe, swhich, yesterday, like a young bud, laid upon its mother's breast, in purity and beauty, and inspired in tis mother's heart so much of joy and hope, today is faded, and withered and dead. Yesterday, the fond father pressed to his bosom his youngest one, his pet, his little prattler, his "little sunshine," to day, she is a lump of lifeless clay and is consigned to the silent grave.
How hard it is to bear such strokes, none but a father and mother knows.
Little AMELIA was the youngest of the household and the pet of her father, mother, sister and brothers. Her brief life contributed more than is ordinarily the case, to brighten the family circle, for she was indeed a little sun-beam. Her untimely death leaves a void in hearts that will ever crave her presence, sigh for the "touch of a vanished hand" and long for "the sound of a voice that is still."
Over her grave were sung the songs she loved best. In Heaven she sings them now, "For of such is the kingdom of Heaven."
Her grieving relatives may well know that this pure and sinless little one taken from their embraces now, is a treasure laid up for them in Heaven, and believe that her little hands, which, ere while, clung about them in loving fondness, now reach out, beconing them to a better and happier Hereafter into which death does not come.
"In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion,
By guardian angels led,
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's polution,
She lives, whome we call dead."
J.A.S.
Obituary
The Bossier Banner
July 20, 1882
Page 3
DIED:
In Bellevue, LA., Sunday, July 16th at 10 o'clock P. M., of congestion, ADELAIDE AMELIA SCANLAND, youngest daughter of W.H. and Adelaide A. Scanland, aged two years, three months and twenty six days.
Thus are our fondest hopes dissipated. The babe, swhich, yesterday, like a young bud, laid upon its mother's breast, in purity and beauty, and inspired in tis mother's heart so much of joy and hope, today is faded, and withered and dead. Yesterday, the fond father pressed to his bosom his youngest one, his pet, his little prattler, his "little sunshine," to day, she is a lump of lifeless clay and is consigned to the silent grave.
How hard it is to bear such strokes, none but a father and mother knows.
Little AMELIA was the youngest of the household and the pet of her father, mother, sister and brothers. Her brief life contributed more than is ordinarily the case, to brighten the family circle, for she was indeed a little sun-beam. Her untimely death leaves a void in hearts that will ever crave her presence, sigh for the "touch of a vanished hand" and long for "the sound of a voice that is still."
Over her grave were sung the songs she loved best. In Heaven she sings them now, "For of such is the kingdom of Heaven."
Her grieving relatives may well know that this pure and sinless little one taken from their embraces now, is a treasure laid up for them in Heaven, and believe that her little hands, which, ere while, clung about them in loving fondness, now reach out, beconing them to a better and happier Hereafter into which death does not come.
"In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion,
By guardian angels led,
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's polution,
She lives, whome we call dead."
J.A.S.
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