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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1904)
Pictures that Will Interest the People - -V rt ' f. ftt i c 'mtmurr ? 5' , RKADT FOR THE3 LAST RITES. DUST TO DUST, v. 'REMOVINO THIS FLAO FROM TUB BODT. ' ,v3"y - 7 MR AND MRS A. UKATKD TI1E1H Jj. RNOW OOIJiEN OP BRATRICE, WEUDINO. WHO IiAVB JL'ST CEIB- B URIAt at pea Is In many neprcU a more nolenin function tlian a funeral on Ihe land. The survi vors ure brought to realize more keenly at this tim their aloof ness from the world, und the sfns? of human sympathy that sustains the be reaved on shore Is In u large m'-uJiv rut off from the mourners at sea. In the easi of which pictures are pres nttd on this page, an apprentice boy on board the cruiser New York had dUd and was b;;ried with the customary rites. Ths plcturs are furnished The Bee by I.ee Ballard of Blilr, who Is one of the apprentice boys on t! e . New York. Nebraska has furnUtud a number of boys to the navy djring the list year or two, and these pictures will be of peculiar Interest for this reason. On Sunday, January SI. at the home of lur daughter. Mrs. Buphen Iavis, four miles west of Herman, Neb., was cele brated the lVth birthday anniversary of Mrs. Mary McConnaha-f-atta. Mrs. I.atta was born In Cr.iwf rd county, Pennsyl vania, January 31, 1MH, an.1 was married tn John I.aita, January 2. 1S34. They ejni' to Nebraska in the early 'f0. Mr. I t h. died October 27, 1H84. making the ieriod covering their married life over lift v ye-trs. Mrs. Latta is the mother of six children, grandmother cf . thirty-two children an4 Eiejt-Branilmother of lifiy-thiep. All of licr (hildren and grandchildren are ttlll livliiff, but widely scattered over the coun try. Her memory of events that hippened In her younger days Is as clear as though, they had occurred but ye. tcrday. She re in em Ik rs well ami speaks In ft vivid and IntercHtlng way of the Indian scales and depredations that happened near her birth place, also of the Littery of the I'nltud Stutes of over three-quarters of a century ago, and the Kt'.irlng times in presidential elections. Fhe has received hi r nccond sight and reads easily without the aid of glasses. Bhe has a largo circle of acquain tances In Washington county, many of whom greeted her villi the warmest con gratulations on the birthday which mark the rinsing of a century of lire. She ha came u mcml.Pt of the Presbyterian church at the age of H ai-.d Hill udhercs to t'.io faith of that denon.ln.aron. On her birth day she sat fur II. : piiiare which uc.co:il panics this article. , Mr. and Mrs. A. I.. .Snow celebrated their fiftieth wudding anniversary at Beatrice Monday evening, Kebrnary 15, KfH, having been residents of Beutrlce for thirty-seven years. Ik- , 4. ' n 1 r u . I FIRING TIU3 BAX.UTK . ... V- ; ' V ' I S MI MA HY M'f'ONXAHA I. ATT A, WHn l,A7i:i,Y I'KJ.KHHATKD HICK Ht'N- jjhkuth biktjiday at jikh hmmk :;i:au hkkman, Nib.-rhoio t ' Uaneohl, Biair.