Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 01/03/1889

Safford, Georgia (1871 - 14 DEC 1888)

Died, at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf, on Friday, Dec. 14, 1888, of Pneumonia, Georgia Safford, of Neillsville, Clark County, aged nearly eighteen years.

Georgia had been ailing for some time, but not until the first of last week was her illness considered serious enough to warrant sending for her mother, and even then it was fondly hoped that God in his Providence would still permit her to live. But it was not so to be, and on Friday forenoon, surrounded by her mother, only remaining sister and the friends here in the school, who had learned to loved her and who had ministered to her during her illness, she fell asleep.

Friday evening, at 7 o'clock, the officers, teachers and pupils gathered in the chapel to pay the last tribute of love and respect to one who had won all our hearts.

A sadder scene is not often witnessed than when the assembled pupils arose as all that was mortal of their late companion was borne into the chapel by her classmates, Messrs. Schemenauer, Lau, Maertz, Murray, Brethauer and Wachuta, followed by the sorely stricken mother and sister and her sorrowing classmates.

(Much more in the way of a tribute by the school headmaster follows, but is not included here)

Mrs. Safford and her daughter took the evening train for their home at Neillsville, bearing with them the body of their loved one, Supt. Swiler accompanying them as far as Clinton. (Wisconsin Times)