St. Clair County Obits

GEORGE & MARY A. ALLCORN

Osceola Herald
3 November 1870
Died.
On Sunday, the 23d day of Oct. George Allcorn, aged 22.
On Tuesday, Oct. 25th, 1870, Mary A. Allcorn, (wife of above) and daughter of A. Morton, aged 21. Both of typhoid.
George Allcorn, and his wife Mary, daughter of Anderson Morton, composed a quiet, happy family. They lived together in harmony and love, exhibiting practical piety in all their associations. George was first taken sick, and for three weeks his wife was constantly at his bed-side, seeking every opportunity to administer to his wants and render him comfortable.
Her devotion to him was so great, that it may be said she destroyed her own life in efforts to save his. She was so exhausted by long physical toil and mental agony, as to offer but little resistance when attacked by the same disease, that had slowly destroyed the manly form of her husband, and sank beneath its depressing power within two days after his death. It seemed ordered by a divine Providence, that those who had so pleasantly lived together, should not be separated in death. She had said before their illness, that if her husband should die, she would not want to live 24 hours, and she only lived 36 hours and 30 minutes, and without a murmur, breathed her last breath. Her father had taken her to his home two days before the death of her husband, by the advice of the attending physician, and she had never been informed of his death.