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Obit For Lela Amelia (Johnson) Bailey
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Text #1. A great battle is over. A good woman has passed to the rewards beyond the flesh, and beneath the sun parched sod on the tranquil summit of Oak Hill cemetery, in a conqueror's grave, rests the remains of Mrs. Lela Amelia Bailey, wife of Dr. W.T. Bailey.

To most of the readers of THE GAZETTE, the long suffering and heroic fortitude of Mrs. Bailey is known beyond the need of further description. Suffice it to say that after more than two years suffering with cancer of the breast, and after more than two months lingering at the threshold of death, she quietly and peacefully gave up the unequal struggle last Monday morning at a little after 9 o'clock.
#2 - GROWS WORSE In the early spring Mrs. Bailey's condition became so critical that she was taken to St. Louis for treatment. But after remaining there for some time under the care of the most expert physicians, it was found that nothing could be done, and, at her request she was brought back to Cassville on the 3 of July, and since that time she has been growing gradually worse.

But, all during her long suffering and in the face of the inevitable, she resigned herself with a heroic fortitude and a Christian like trust that was truly characteristic of her noble life and her strong character.

Mrs. Bailey was, before marriage Miss Lela Amelia Johnson, daughter of Mr and Mrs. John T. Johnson of Wheaton. In 1901 she was married to Dr. W.T. Bailey and has lived for the past few years in this city where her labor as a home builder, a church worker and a charitable, Christion woman has be felt by all who knew her or came in contact with her good and noble work. At the time of her death, Mrs. Bailey was just 33 years and 6 months old, and up to the very last she was the picture of beauty and sweet life as is found in queenly womanhood.

The funeral services were held at the Christian church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and were conducted by the elder Geo Yarbrough. Interment followed in the Oak Hill cemetery. She is survived by her husband, mother and father, 7 brothers and one sister.

To Dr. Bailey her grief stricken husband, to the other members of her family and to the host of friends who will grieve for her as though she were one of their blood, THE GAZETTE extends sincere sympathy and condolence, and asks them to remember that their loss is her gain, and in their suffering, she, for whim they suffer, has found rest and repose and the sweet rewards of her noble life.


Research Note:Feb. 29, 1883 - Sept. 1, 1912
Death Cert Link Death Certificate
Resource Scrapbook bought at the estate sale of Vivian Roller
Submitted by Ted Roller - Dates courtesy of Great Nephew Richard Johnson - arejay1@pdq.net