Kittie

Within the space of a month in the spring of 1910, Death had taken from among the Chesters a young wife and mother and a patriarch, but it had not quite finished its springtime harvest.

Nine-year-old Constance, named for her mother and nicknamed "Kittie," was the youngest daughter of Charles and Constance Chester, who lived on a farm southwest of Hobart. Kittie had always been a delicate child, suffering from some uncertain heart and stomach troubles. A couple weeks after her grandfather's death, she fell ill. On the evening of Monday, April 25, she died.

Her brief obituary said, "She possessed a loveable disposition and was endeared to her teachers and playmates and her being taken away is greatly deplored by all."

After a funeral in her home, Kittie was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery.


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She lay beside her baby brother, Raymond.



The spring of 1910 must have seemed cold and bleak to the whole Chester family.