Friend Mattie
How grand is age,
How fair in youth
Are holy friendship
Love and truth
Remember me when death shall close
My eyelids in their last repose
And evening breezes gently move
Above thy brothers lonely grave.
Ever your Friend, Ida McClure
Feb. the 2 1886 Belle Plaine, Iowa.
From the autograph album of Martha M. "Mattie" Roach of Chelsea, daughter of
Fred and Eliza J. (Hutchins) Roach. She was born in 1866 and married Samuel T. May in
Toledo, Tama County, in 1891.
Submitted by: Bob Hutchins tecxas@earthlink.net
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