Shelby  County  Indiana
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Muchmore

The  Daily  Evening  Democrat
Shelbyville, Indiana
Wednesday, July 27, 1881
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          The funeral of  Miss Ellen Muchmore,  which took place yesterday, was largely attended.  The services at the cemetery were unusually impressive, and were supplemented by a song rendered by the Sunday school class of which the deceased was a member.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The  Daily  Evening  Democrat
Shelbyville, Indiana
Monday, July 25, 1881
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          MUCHMORE --At the residence of parents, one mile south of this city,  Cordelia Ella Muchmore  aged 18 years, daughter of  C. B. and  Sarah Muchmore.  The funeral services will take place at her late residence to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock,  Rev. J. G. Chafee  officiating.
          For the second time in the space of a few short months the bereaved parents are called upon to give up another one of their children, and the second affliction is harder to bear than the first, for then, months of sickness during which the patient stood on the borders of the dark river, in some measure prepared them for the supremem trial, when God should take back to himself the spirit of their beloved daughter.  Thus, the stroke which fell even then with crushing weight, was somewhat mitigated, but in this trial the blow has fallen like a thunderbolt from out of a smiling summer's sky, and under it the bereaved parents bow their heads and hearts, and like Rachel, mourning for her chilren, "refuse to be comforted."
          Her death occurred from brain fever, and the first symptoms manifested themselves two weeks ago to-day, at which time she was in this city witnessing the parade of the show here at that time.  She complained that morning of her head hurting her, and went home after remaining in town a short time, and feeling worse on her return, was compelled to take her bed, from which she never arose.
          Others beside her parents and the immediate circle in which she moved will miss her, and her loss will be felt not only in society, of which she was one of its brightest ornaments, but in the church and Sunday-school, especially the latter, of which she was a constant attendant.  Although the distance she lived from the city would have been sufficident excuse many times for her absence from her class, she always came, and rain or shine her place was never vacant.  To her teacher,  Mr. L. T. Michener,  and to her classmates, who comprise a large number of our young ladies, she had endeared herself by her gentle, unassuming manner, and unvarying sweetness of disposiiton, and her death has shocked them inexpressibly.  Never was that passage which says, "Man is like the flower of the grass, in the morning he growesth up and flourisheth, in the evening he is cut down and passeth away;"  never, we say, was the truth of that passage more forcibly presented to our minds than by the untimely death it is our sad duty to chronicle, and we would add our testimony to that of all who knew her to the noble qualities possessed by the deceased.

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          The following named young gentlemen will act as pall-bearers at the funeral of  Miss Ellen Muchmore:  Charles Ross,  Tom Swain,  Jacob Deprez,  Albert Wray,  L. D. Shafer  and  Matt Temperly.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The  Daily  Evening  Democrat
Monday, July 25, 1881
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          The funeral of  Miss Ella Muchmore,  which took place yesterday, was largely attended.  The services at the cemetery were unusually impressive, and were supplemented by a song rendered by the Sunday school class of which the deceased was a member.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

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