New Market – About 8 o'clock yesterday morning, Jo Hood Catlett quietly passed over the dark river.
For a little more than a week she has been indisposed but not until last Friday did her friends realize that she was dangerously ill and Sunday night were encouraged to hope that she was better, but typhoid fever had marked her for a victim and yesterday morning she succumbed to that fell destroyer, leaving her doting mother and family heartbroken.
She was the youngest of a large family and was the pet and favorite of all, among her little friends and playmates she was universally popular, and her sweet friendly manner winning for her many friends among the older people.
This is the second affliction Mr. Catlett's family have suffered since the beginning of '92.
Source: The Knoxville Sentinel, Tuesday, September 6, 1892
Transcribed by Robert McGinnis