Miami Union

June 29, 1911  

MARKER, MRS. ARTHUR - Mrs. Arthur Marker died at the home of her mother, Mrs. John Manning near Pleasant Hill, Wednesday afternoon, June 21 at 2:30 o'clock.  She had been suffering with an ailment known as Addison's disease, a malady very rare in this part of the country.  The deceased was about 25 years of age.  She leaves besides many friends to mourn her demise, a husband and two small children.  Funeral services were held at Pleasant Hill; Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  Interment in the Pleasant Hill cemetery.  

 Miami Union

June 29, 1911 

MARKER, MRS. ARTHUR - Twenty-four years ago there was born to J. H. and Mrs. Anna F. Manning a daughter, to whom was given the name Clara M. Manning.  Their home was then in Covington, but after a few years they removed to Dayton, and it was there that the child grew to youth and received the most of her schooling; returning then to Miami county where she has since lived.  At the age of sixteen, she was united in marriage to Claude Brown, and to them were born two children, Grace M. and Thomas M.  But the happy home was soon broken with the heavy hand of sorrow, and the husband and father passed on to the great silence in January, 1906.  Three years later, in 1909, she was united in marriage to Arthur Marker; but their hopes and plans have been rudely broken by the visit of death at such an unseemly hour.  For a long while she has been suffering with diseases, and she allowed it to simply ripen and deepen her faith in Christ as a loving Savior.  At the age of ten she joined the Christian church; and then a few weeks ago she was baptized into the Church of the Brethren and annointed ready for the coming of the death angel.  She expressed her readiness to depart, and her last words were a farewell to her mother and a request to raise her children right and teach them the things which are good.  She died June 21, 1911, not yet twenty-five years old.  She was unselfish and kind, always wishing to share what she had with others, and her sunny disposition and kindness made her a host of friends, who with the husband and children, the mother and two brothers, feel that out of their lives has gone one worthy of their esteem and love.  The funeral services were conducted at the Church of the Brethren, at Pleasant Hill, by Rev. Isaac Beery, assisted by Rev. Alva M. Kerr, on Saturday afternoon, June 24, 1911.

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