Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Bessemer Herald Saturday, February 2, 1901 DIED. At the family residence in this city, on Saturday, January 26, MISS ELLA LOUISE BAWDEN, aged 28 years. Deceased was a daughter of CAPT. RICHARD BAWDEN, well known in mining circles, whose death occurred in this city in March, 1898. MISS BAWDEN came home from Ashland during the holiday vacation and was not well at the time and in a few days it became evident that she had contracted the fatal malady, typhoid fever. Trained nurses were at once sent for from Chicago and for weeks everything that medical aid and skill could perform was done to check the rav- ages of the disease but it had become so deep root- ed that nothing could stop it. When the fever abated after an unusually long run, ulceration of the stomach set in and she continued to sink rapidly until the end came on Saturday when she ceased to breathe, sur- rounded by the members of her family who had battled with death to the last. MISS BAWDEN was born in the state of Rhode Island, April 2nd, 1873, where the earliest years of her life were passed. Later she moved with her family to Phoenix, Mich., where she first attended school. From there the family moved to Houghton, in the cop- per country, where they lived for several years and in 1887 moved to Bessemer and have since resided here. MISS BAWDEN attended the city schools here from 1887 to 1890 and graduated from the high school in June of that year. She was afterward employed as teacher in the city schools and also at Interior and Wakefield. Later she attended the normal school at Oshkosh, Wis., and since finishing her course there she has been employed as teacher in the Ashland city schools and was teaching there at the time she contracted the disease, which caused her death. MISS BAWDEN was a young lady of exceptional tal- ents in her chosen line of work as teacher. Gifted by nature with a lovable temperament she readily made friends wherever she went among both old and young and was a favorite with all who knew her. With a happy and useful life opening out before her it is indeed sad that she should be so early taken from this world which she was so well fitted to adorn. If every loving thought of those who mourn her could be turned to flowers to bloom above her last resting place it would be one of beauty and fragrance forever. The funeral services were held at the BAWDEN home on east Longyear street at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Rev. T. J. JOSLYN, pastor of the Methodist Episco- pal church, preaching and appropriate and touching funeral sermon. The floral offerings from friends in the city and elsewhere were numerous and beauti- ful and it would be impossible to mention them all. Among them was a beautiful floral emblem from the Order of the Eastern Star, of this city, of which deceased was a member, and a beautiful wreath from the children of the Wilmarth school, of Ashland, where MISS BAWDEN taught, and another from the super- intendent and teachers of the Ashland city schools. There were other flowers in profusion both at the house and at the grave. After a last look at the face of the dead as she lay peacefully at rest in a beautiful casket of steel grey the remains were borne out from the home and the sorrowing friends followed them and stood about with uncovered heads while they were lowered to their final rest in the city cemetery. Rev. C. J. McCONNELL, of the Presby- terian church, speaking the last words of the funer- al rites at the grave. Those who came to attend the funeral from outside the city were Mr. and Mrs. JO STRINGER and daughter, of Hancock; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. ANDERSON and two children, of Spaulding, Va.; Miss GIRTIE BAWDEN, of Boston; Mr. and Mrs. THOS. EDWARDS and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. WM. MURRAY, of Wakefield; Mrs. THOS. PETERSON, Mr. FRED COLE, Mr. THEILMAN and Miss MOLLIE HARRINGTON, of Ashland, and Mrs. J. E. SPLON, of Kaukauna, Wis. ------------------------------- To all those who assisted the bereaved family during her illness and at the funeral, and especial- ly to the physicians, Dr. MADAJESKY, LOOPE and WHITESIDE, we are directed to extend their heartfelt thanks. ==========================================================================