OBIT: Malvina Botts, 1875, Barren Co. Submitted by Sandi Gorin NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. " The funeral service of Miss Malvina Botts, on Tuesday, were largely attended by our people and witnessed with great solemnity. Elder N. G. Terry officiated in his usual impressive style, after which the remains wee interred in a lot on the premises of Major Botts, adjacent to the burial ground of the last [sic -late] W. B. Munford. "Miss Malvina, second daughter of our fellow citizen, Maj. W. H. Botts, died on Saturday morning last, about ten and a half o'clock, after an illness of nearly five weeks. "Death at all times is sufficiently sad in its visitations, but when a young life, in all the warmth of domestic tenderness, and buoyant youthfulness, is stilled with the icy touch of the dread messanger, we not only feel deeply the intensity of grief, but the heart is powerless to appreciate the fact that God doeth all things in wisdom. The subject of this notice only a few weeks since, was ruddy with the morning glow of rose life, and her elastic step, and cheery voice gave no imitation that so soon would she be compelled to lie down in the silent earth. Her passage to the grave was marked by singular calmness and extraordinary resignation, and no one who stood, at any time by her bedside, and listened to her calm and pleasing reference to death, could for a moment believe that she was not wholly prepared, for the solemn event. Her mind - her young life, after a long and sleepless struggle, went down as calmly as the summer's sun, surrounded by grief-stricken parents, weeping brothers and sisters, and deeply ... [rest of article missing]. Glasgow Municipal Cemetery Malvina Botta 1851-1875