Deadly Foe Consumption, Ends Useful Life After Many Months of Suffering
Nettie Wood Light, the subject of this sketch, was born in Benton County, Indiana, near Fowler, on May 20, 1875, and peacefully departed this life Mar 8, 1909, aged 33 years, 9 months and 16 days.
She was the daughter of David and Martha Wilkins Wood, who with three brothers and one sister survive. She was married to Israel Light at Lafayette, Indiana, January 2, 1896, and to them were born one son, an only child, who with the father is left to mourn the loss of a thoroughly devoted mother and wife.
In early life she united with the Methodist Church, and later she changed that membership to the Christian Church at Pleasant Grove during the pastorate of Rev. W. D. Honn. She has always lived a consistant christian life. Chiefly through her own efforts she acquired a very credible common school education, though it was never her opportunity to graduate from any institution of learning.
Practically all of her married life has been spent in Benton and Newton counties, Indiana, and during the last four years her home has been continuously in the town of Brook, where she has been instrumental in founding a model home in which she took a justifiable pride. During her entire life she has exhibited that kind and sympathetic disposition and that unselfish devotion to duty which has endeared her to a large circle of acquaintances and friends. At no time have these good qualities of her character shown forth to a greater extent than during the last three years when her health has been on the decline. An abiding hope for the future was always her’s, and when a short time ago it was decided that she should seek health in a more favorable climate of a western land she departed with that hope and buoyancy of spirit which really filled her friends with a confidence in good results. But such was not to be and she longed for the familiar scenes and haunts of her Indiana home. Upon her return she seemed quieted and resigned and though hopeful for the future, yet her strength was rapidly on the decline. Her greatest desire was to live to do something for her home, her husband and little son. Everything that human skill, loving hands, and devoted friends could do was done for her comfort and relief but to no avail. The earthly life of our friend has ceased to be.
Funeral services were held in the Christian Church at 3 o’clock p. m. Wednesday, conducted by Rev. Clifford Weaver, of Eureka, Ill., assisted by Rev’s. Meredith and Ballard, after which the remains were interred in the cemetery east of town.
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Unknown newspaper, unknown date
From the scrapbook of Helen Ruby Light Thomson (1913-2012)