OBITUARY: Athalia Shulse, Jacksonville, Jackson County, Oregon ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 27 May 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 12 Mar 1897, Jacksonville News, p. 3, c. 1-2 Died, in Jacksonville, March 6, 1897, Athalia, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Shulse, age twenty-two years and nine days. She has been a victim of consumption for two years and that was the cause of her demise. Miss Shulse was an amiable, attractive young lady and made friends readily; during her short residence in this place she had made a large circle of friends who now are sad over her death. Some two years ago while attending school in Salem, Oregon, her health failed her and she was warned to come south in hopes that the climate might be beneficial. Last winter was spent in lower California, the summer in Ashland but all to no avail. She came to Jacksonville in October and has been an invalid since. She united with the church at the age of twelve years and was happy to leave this world of pain and sorrow. She had made every preparation for her journey to the other shore. The hymns to sing and the verse from which her funeral sermon was preached were carefully selected in an envelope, "not to be opened until the proper time." The final dissolution was peaceful and the weary soul winged its flight back to the God who gave it. The sermon was preached by Rev. Gittins in a most impressive manner. The family have the sympathy of the community in their double loss for only two years ago they buried a daughter at The Dalles, who was also aged twenty-two years, of the same malady.