Mrs. Minnie E. Dudley
May 12, 1892
Salem, Indiana Democrat

Mrs. Minnie E. Dudley, wife of Tucker Dudley, was born April 28, 1865, and died at her home near Pekin, Saturday, April 23, 1892, aged 27 years and one day. After a short service at the house on April 25th, her body was tenderly laid to rest in the Elrod grave yard. She was the eldest daughter of Wm. S. and Melissa Walker and leaves a husband, three children, parents and two sisters to mourn her loss, together with many sypathizing friends.

Deceased was religious from her childhood, and at the age of twelve years made a public profession with the Christian church, of which she was a member at the time of her death. To say that her crhistian fortitued was severely tried in her last illness, is but to say that she was human, yet though her suffering was great, her triumph was complete. Death came unheralded, and so quickly chilled with his touch the vital powers that there was no time for parting words, and she left no dying but a living testimony. Her excellences were so many that her faults easily disappear in comparison.

Her pleasant ways and her kind and cheerful disposition won for her
a wide circle of friends, from which she will be sadly missed, but her
memory will ever be associated with our fondest recollections and
forever cherished.