MATTHEWS, Sadie Chancellor

News-Herald (Wickenburg AZ) Saturday, April 16, 1904, p 4 Saturday afternoon at 1:30 Sadie Matthews died of consumption. She had come here a few months ago from her home in Washington, D.C., for her health. She came here for the reason that she had relatives here, and for the further reason that this is really a model climate for people affected by lung trouble. When she first came here she went to Congress and stayed with Mrs Cannon, and seemed to get along quite well until about a month ago, when she was taken suddenly very ill, and then she was brought here and made comfortable in the house of her uncles, John and Dick Bullard, a trained nurse having been brought here from Phoenix to take care of her. Her brother, Charley Matthews, who is treasurer of the Martinez Mercantile Company, with her uncles, spared no trouble or expense to restore her to health. Many of the ladies of the towns around lent willing and kind hands to help the sick girl, in fact, all that tender nursing and medical skill could do was done to save her life. Several days before her death it was announced by Dr Dennett, who had labored faithfully, that the case was beyond the aid of medical skill, and the many sympathetic words that were heard showed what a lovely character the suffering girl possessed, for, though she was ill when she came here she made friends like magic. When it was known that her angelic spirit had taken flight from this world of trouble and suffering a large number of her friends gathered to bid adieu to all that remained of their little friend, and none went away dry-eyed. To stand in the presence of death is, at any time, sad enough, but to stand at the bier of blooming youth, stricken at the beginning of a brilliant career, is the saddest sight in store for sympathetic eyes, and the sadness that touches the heart of mere acquaintances and newly made friends with such aches must indeed crush the hearts that had known and loved the dear departed from her days of cooing babyhood, through her years of prattling childhood, only to see her called over on the other side, just as she reached life's happiest estate. The heavy grief that is thus realized by the friends of the relatives can prompt none but the deepest sympathy for the bereaved relatives. John Bullard, an uncle of the deceased, accompanied the remains back to Washington for interment. Besides the relatives left here to mourn her loss there are her mother, Mrs Mary E Matthews of Washington, D.C., with whom lived a sister Annie; also a married sister, Mrs William Wheatley of Culpeper, Va., and two brothers, Robert and William, of Pine Bluff, Ark., and a large number of uncles and aunts in various parts of the country.