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Lafayette Weekly Courier
Friday, April 4, 1902
Lafayette, Indiana
MRS. WILLIAM HORN, Sr.
The death of Mrs. William Horn, Sr., which occurred suddenly at the family residence, on
Perrin avenue, at 5:30 o'clock Thursday night, is a great shock to the community.
Death came with hardly a moment's notice, snapping the thread of life and sending into
eternity one of the city's most excellent women. Mrs. Horn was apparently in her
usual health Thursday and with her daughter, Miss Flora, was engaged in the spring house
cleaning. She was standing beside the grape arbor, when she suddenly remarked to her
daughter: "I feel faint. I feel as though I would fall." Almost with the words
she dropped to her knees and then fell forward, the hand of death on her heart. Miss Horn
ran to her assistance, called for help and administered restoratives. Her mother was
unconscious and there was a faint pulse beat for fifteen minutes after the stroke came.
When Dr. Smith arrived she was dead. Mr. Horn had been called by telephone in the
meantime and was at her bedside. The blow!
fell with paralyzing force upon the members of the devoted family and they could hardly
realize that death had come to the one whom they all worshipped. Mrs. Horn was prepared
for the end, which she believed would come quickly some day. Heart trouble is given as
the cause of her death.
Maria Elizabeth Bartmess was the sixth of eight children born to Jacob and Sophia
Bartmess, pioneer settlers in this county. She was born October 22, 1831, on a farm near
Circleville, O. When she was but 3 years old she came with her family to Sheffield
township, a short distance southeast of Dayton. Oliver C. Bartmess, 82 years of age, now
living with his son Samuel at Hood River, Ore., was the oldest of the family; then came
four girls-Ann,, a maiden lady, who long made her home with the family of Edward Asher;
Jane (Mrs. A. J. Bull), Harriet (Mrs. Edward Asher), Mary (Mrs. David Thompson), Mrs. Horn
and Eliza (Mrs. William Gregory), and Rev. J. F. Bartmess, of Buchanan, Mich.
Mr. and Mrs. Horn were married April 28, 1857. Had she been spared for a month longer
they would have celebrated their forty-fifth wedding anniversary. The recent death of her
brother-in-law, Edward Asher, and the illness of J. F. Bartmess grieved her deeply. That
she should precede this sick brother to the grave was seemingly an improbability, but fate
rules. Her sisters are dead and the two brothers, the oldest and youngest members of the
family, alone survive.
Mrs. Horn was a devout member of the Presbyterian church and her death is a severe loss to
that congregation. She was a woman of rare charitable proclivities and her heart was as
gold. Her husband and four children survive - George F. Horn and Miss Flora Horn, of this
city; Mrs. Anna Gardner, of Moline, Ill.; and William L. Horn, of Indianapolis. The
funeral was held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the home, Rev. H. T. Gary
officiating.