Obituary - Nov 1 1895 pg 4 Fairfield News-Herald

  Seldom are we called upon to chronicle so sad an event as that which has come to Mr. Foote's family. Within the brief space of two weeks death has snatched away three children and the father and mother are left alone go mourn their loss.

  Guy Foote died at his home on the evening of October 24, and was buried beside the brother in the silent city of the dead on the 25th. On the evening of the day of Guy's funeral, Etta Foote closed her eyes in death and on Sunday last she was laid to rest beside her brothers. O C Hubbell preached the funeral sermons. Eld. T. J. Williamson assisting. Prof. Mercer assisted at Etta's funeral, offering a fitting tribute of praise to the memory of the deceased. The Christian church was well filled with sympathizing friends on both occasions.

  Guy Foote was born at Geneva, O. July 12, 1877, and came to this place with the family in the year 1884. He has been known as a quiet, upright young man and has spent most of his time in putting in a foundation for usefulness by faithful study in Fairfield College.

  Etta Foote was born at the same place on July 14, 1875. Being older than her brother she has been perhaps better known in social circles and in church work. Indeed it is in the church that she will be missed most, next after the family circle. Modest and unobtrusive in her ways, she had by her conseerated? talents made her influence felt in all departments of church work with which she was connected. The choir, the Sunday school, the Endeavor society, and the Mission Band will all miss her presence and her council. In a beautiful white casket, wreathed with flowers, accompanied by many a mourning friend, her mortal remains were borne to the cemetery. Her S.S. class attended the service in a body. They sweetly sang "Safe in the Arms of Jesus", and later dropped the evergreen twig upon the coffin of the beloved teacher.

  So Charles, Guy and Etta have gone from us. They sleep side by side but there the prairie sod.

  "Blessed are the dead that ? in the Lord."

  The whole community extend sympathy to the bereaved father and mother in this trying ordeal.