Grace Ermia Blackburn

© Roger Mills Sentinel, OK

02 Jan 1913

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Miss Grace Ermia Blackburn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Blackburn of Sayre, formerly of Grimes, died at her home in Sayre, Tuesday afternoon December 31, 1912 of pneumonia.

In the death of Miss Grace E. Blackburn we fully and keenly realize the loss to her family and hundreds of friends. She was a true friend and her devotation to those she loved would make a bright chapter in any life.

She has gone from the scenes, the conflicts, the sorrows and the pleasures of life but she will still live in the hearts of those who knew her best.

Miss Grace was of a retiring nature which led her to hide her best qualities from public gaze, but they were revealed to those who enjoyed her acquaintance, yet it was in her home that her true worth was most conspicuous. She was a kind loving teacher to her pupils and her devotion to the family circle had no limit. Her future was full of promise. It is sad, indeed to see one so well equipped for life taken so unexpectedly, yet for her then was no standing on the border land gazing into the unknown for death came as the sunset dies along the hills when the day is over.

The life that imparts such lessons as has Miss Grace's is worth the living.

Miss Grace taught last year in the schools here at Cheyenne and a good part of the school year was in our home and here is where we learned her real worth - a noble character. Miss Grace and Mrs. Nitchell were devoted friends aand nothing but the thought of the loving hand that removed her can reconcile us to her absence.

Burial in Fairlawn Cemetery, Elk City, Oklahoma.

But now she sleeps where the daises nod, And the clover hangs its head

Where the wild birds come and the wild bees hum above her lonely bed.

She fought the fights, she kept the faith, Her fame shines bright and clear

After her memory lives in all our hearts, which will hold it ever dear.