The Sterling Semi-Weekly Sun
Sterling, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Tuesday, August 6, 1901
Mary Day Moore was born Feb 8, 1877, at Mr. Joy, Pa, and died at Lincoln, Nebr., Friday morning, Aug 2d 1901.
When she was about six months old her parents moved to Nebraska and located at Sterling. She grew from childhood to womanhood here, attended school until she was seventeen when she went to Lincoln and entered the drug store of J. H. Harley to take up the profession of Pharmacy. After three years apprentice and hard study she was admitted to practice and since then has worked in Lincoln and Tecumseh stores.
She was always a leader in church and social work and her sole object in life seemed to be to make those about her happy. She was a christian of a noble type and at the time of her death was vice president of the Christian Endeavor of the second Presbyterian church of Lincoln.
June 1st, Mary Day had planned to come home from Lincoln to care for her father and mother in their declining years, but was detained by her employer who asked her to remain one month longer and in this case as in so many others she complied with his wishes instead of considering her own pleasure. Ere the month had drawn to a close she became ill and her disease was malaria fever. Although she was quite sick Dr. Stevens and her friends had no fears but that she would soon recover. Though the long hot sultry days of July she bore her affliction bravely and uncomplainingly but no improvement was noted in her condition and a consultation of doctors was held and tubercle being found present in the pleura it was decided that her fever, had developed into the dreaded and incurable disease of tuberculosis. Upon being informed of her perilous condition Mary Day did not grieve, for her, death had no sting; but she at once began to make arrangements to leave this world of toil and trouble for the one of peace and happiness on high. It was her request that no tears be shed for her, no crape be hung on the door, that no one dress in mourning but that it would be selfishness to wish her back in this cold world and that her own relations perform all the duties necessary for laying her body to rest. At her request the funeral sermon was composed of verses which she from time to time had marked in her own Bible and also several poems which voiced the true sentiments of her heart and the aim of her life namely; doing something for those about her.
Appropriate services were held at six o'clock Friday evening at the 2nd Presbyterian church of Lincoln by Dr. B. M. Long.
Dr. Long beautifully remarked that with Mary Day a very bright ray of sunlight had gone out of this world and that we must brighten our lives to eliminate the darkness caused by this vanished ray.
The friends attended the body to Sterling that evening and Saturday afternoon at 4:30 short services were conducted by Rev. Richards and Rev. Lowrie at the family residence.
Mary Day was a lover of flowers and during her long sickness loving friends kept her room beautified with roses, carnations and sweet peas. After death numerous floral emblems were contributed.
Her remains were laid to rest in the Sterling cemetery and nothing that loving hands could do was left undone to make her burial as was her life a beautiful one.
Sterling, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Tuesday, August 6, 1901
Mary Day Moore was born Feb 8, 1877, at Mr. Joy, Pa, and died at Lincoln, Nebr., Friday morning, Aug 2d 1901.
When she was about six months old her parents moved to Nebraska and located at Sterling. She grew from childhood to womanhood here, attended school until she was seventeen when she went to Lincoln and entered the drug store of J. H. Harley to take up the profession of Pharmacy. After three years apprentice and hard study she was admitted to practice and since then has worked in Lincoln and Tecumseh stores.
She was always a leader in church and social work and her sole object in life seemed to be to make those about her happy. She was a christian of a noble type and at the time of her death was vice president of the Christian Endeavor of the second Presbyterian church of Lincoln.
June 1st, Mary Day had planned to come home from Lincoln to care for her father and mother in their declining years, but was detained by her employer who asked her to remain one month longer and in this case as in so many others she complied with his wishes instead of considering her own pleasure. Ere the month had drawn to a close she became ill and her disease was malaria fever. Although she was quite sick Dr. Stevens and her friends had no fears but that she would soon recover. Though the long hot sultry days of July she bore her affliction bravely and uncomplainingly but no improvement was noted in her condition and a consultation of doctors was held and tubercle being found present in the pleura it was decided that her fever, had developed into the dreaded and incurable disease of tuberculosis. Upon being informed of her perilous condition Mary Day did not grieve, for her, death had no sting; but she at once began to make arrangements to leave this world of toil and trouble for the one of peace and happiness on high. It was her request that no tears be shed for her, no crape be hung on the door, that no one dress in mourning but that it would be selfishness to wish her back in this cold world and that her own relations perform all the duties necessary for laying her body to rest. At her request the funeral sermon was composed of verses which she from time to time had marked in her own Bible and also several poems which voiced the true sentiments of her heart and the aim of her life namely; doing something for those about her.
Appropriate services were held at six o'clock Friday evening at the 2nd Presbyterian church of Lincoln by Dr. B. M. Long.
Dr. Long beautifully remarked that with Mary Day a very bright ray of sunlight had gone out of this world and that we must brighten our lives to eliminate the darkness caused by this vanished ray.
The friends attended the body to Sterling that evening and Saturday afternoon at 4:30 short services were conducted by Rev. Richards and Rev. Lowrie at the family residence.
Mary Day was a lover of flowers and during her long sickness loving friends kept her room beautified with roses, carnations and sweet peas. After death numerous floral emblems were contributed.
Her remains were laid to rest in the Sterling cemetery and nothing that loving hands could do was left undone to make her burial as was her life a beautiful one.
The Sterling Semi-Weekly Sun
Sterling, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Tuesday, August 6, 1901
Mary Day Moore was born Feb 8, 1877, at Mr. Joy, Pa, and died at Lincoln, Nebr., Friday morning, Aug 2d 1901.
When she was about six months old her parents moved to Nebraska and located at Sterling. She grew from childhood to womanhood here, attended school until she was seventeen when she went to Lincoln and entered the drug store of J. H. Harley to take up the profession of Pharmacy. After three years apprentice and hard study she was admitted to practice and since then has worked in Lincoln and Tecumseh stores.
She was always a leader in church and social work and her sole object in life seemed to be to make those about her happy. She was a christian of a noble type and at the time of her death was vice president of the Christian Endeavor of the second Presbyterian church of Lincoln.
June 1st, Mary Day had planned to come home from Lincoln to care for her father and mother in their declining years, but was detained by her employer who asked her to remain one month longer and in this case as in so many others she complied with his wishes instead of considering her own pleasure. Ere the month had drawn to a close she became ill and her disease was malaria fever. Although she was quite sick Dr. Stevens and her friends had no fears but that she would soon recover. Though the long hot sultry days of July she bore her affliction bravely and uncomplainingly but no improvement was noted in her condition and a consultation of doctors was held and tubercle being found present in the pleura it was decided that her fever, had developed into the dreaded and incurable disease of tuberculosis. Upon being informed of her perilous condition Mary Day did not grieve, for her, death had no sting; but she at once began to make arrangements to leave this world of toil and trouble for the one of peace and happiness on high. It was her request that no tears be shed for her, no crape be hung on the door, that no one dress in mourning but that it would be selfishness to wish her back in this cold world and that her own relations perform all the duties necessary for laying her body to rest. At her request the funeral sermon was composed of verses which she from time to time had marked in her own Bible and also several poems which voiced the true sentiments of her heart and the aim of her life namely; doing something for those about her.
Appropriate services were held at six o'clock Friday evening at the 2nd Presbyterian church of Lincoln by Dr. B. M. Long.
Dr. Long beautifully remarked that with Mary Day a very bright ray of sunlight had gone out of this world and that we must brighten our lives to eliminate the darkness caused by this vanished ray.
The friends attended the body to Sterling that evening and Saturday afternoon at 4:30 short services were conducted by Rev. Richards and Rev. Lowrie at the family residence.
Mary Day was a lover of flowers and during her long sickness loving friends kept her room beautified with roses, carnations and sweet peas. After death numerous floral emblems were contributed.
Her remains were laid to rest in the Sterling cemetery and nothing that loving hands could do was left undone to make her burial as was her life a beautiful one.
Sterling, Johnson Co., Nebraska
Tuesday, August 6, 1901
Mary Day Moore was born Feb 8, 1877, at Mr. Joy, Pa, and died at Lincoln, Nebr., Friday morning, Aug 2d 1901.
When she was about six months old her parents moved to Nebraska and located at Sterling. She grew from childhood to womanhood here, attended school until she was seventeen when she went to Lincoln and entered the drug store of J. H. Harley to take up the profession of Pharmacy. After three years apprentice and hard study she was admitted to practice and since then has worked in Lincoln and Tecumseh stores.
She was always a leader in church and social work and her sole object in life seemed to be to make those about her happy. She was a christian of a noble type and at the time of her death was vice president of the Christian Endeavor of the second Presbyterian church of Lincoln.
June 1st, Mary Day had planned to come home from Lincoln to care for her father and mother in their declining years, but was detained by her employer who asked her to remain one month longer and in this case as in so many others she complied with his wishes instead of considering her own pleasure. Ere the month had drawn to a close she became ill and her disease was malaria fever. Although she was quite sick Dr. Stevens and her friends had no fears but that she would soon recover. Though the long hot sultry days of July she bore her affliction bravely and uncomplainingly but no improvement was noted in her condition and a consultation of doctors was held and tubercle being found present in the pleura it was decided that her fever, had developed into the dreaded and incurable disease of tuberculosis. Upon being informed of her perilous condition Mary Day did not grieve, for her, death had no sting; but she at once began to make arrangements to leave this world of toil and trouble for the one of peace and happiness on high. It was her request that no tears be shed for her, no crape be hung on the door, that no one dress in mourning but that it would be selfishness to wish her back in this cold world and that her own relations perform all the duties necessary for laying her body to rest. At her request the funeral sermon was composed of verses which she from time to time had marked in her own Bible and also several poems which voiced the true sentiments of her heart and the aim of her life namely; doing something for those about her.
Appropriate services were held at six o'clock Friday evening at the 2nd Presbyterian church of Lincoln by Dr. B. M. Long.
Dr. Long beautifully remarked that with Mary Day a very bright ray of sunlight had gone out of this world and that we must brighten our lives to eliminate the darkness caused by this vanished ray.
The friends attended the body to Sterling that evening and Saturday afternoon at 4:30 short services were conducted by Rev. Richards and Rev. Lowrie at the family residence.
Mary Day was a lover of flowers and during her long sickness loving friends kept her room beautified with roses, carnations and sweet peas. After death numerous floral emblems were contributed.
Her remains were laid to rest in the Sterling cemetery and nothing that loving hands could do was left undone to make her burial as was her life a beautiful one.
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