Hattie Bell Dewey
June 24, 1858*-Oct. 31, 1865
Niles Republican I (Niles, Michigan), Saturday, November 4, 1865, page 3, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
DIED—Tuesday morning, October 31st at 10 minutes before one o'clock, of consumption, HATTIE BELL, only daughter of Emma B. and George M. Dewey, Esq., aged seven years, four months and seven days.
There is a painful and affecting story connected with the demise of this little girl. She has been sick a long time, and her sufferings have been of the most painful character, but her path way to the tomb was guarded by kid and faithful friends, who only separated from her when the angels received her spirit, and carried it away to Heaven. During her illness, she bore her terrible afflictions with a fortitude wonderful for one so young.
Her winning manners and graceful ways, her purity of thought and purpose, had won many loving and faithful friends, who, with her relatives now mourn her loss. The fairest flowers soonest fade. In this deep affliction her parents and friends have our unfeigned sympathy. But she has simply been transferred to a better world, where sorrow and death are known no more:
Note: DOB computed from age at DOB as stated in obituary.