Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

OBITUARY

Flora Beatrice Christian Dunlop, wife of Robert Dunlop, died Sunday, July 30, 1905, at her home in Newkirk, Oklahoma aged twenty-eight years.
The funeral services were held in the Christian church at Newkirk at 10 o’clock, and were conducted by the Rev. R. H. Love, of Ponca City. She was buried in Prairie View cemetery south of Tonkawa.
Mrs. Dunlop’s untimely death left an infant daughter – motherless.
Into this brief paragraph is crowded one of Life’s greatest tragedies.
Motherhood means the same to all of us. In its divine prescience is centered all the marvels, the beauties and possibilities of human existence.
Mankind gets its inspiration from the dimpled, smiling infant drawing its sustenance from its mother’s breast. Here woman becomes queen indeed, with the world not at her feet, but in her arms, and when death invades the sanctity of this holy circle it becomes truly a monster, and leaves a trail of suffering heartaches and blasted hopes that human agencies appear contemptible in coping with. Here mankind turns instinctively to its God, and the greatest and most powerful, like the humblest and weakest, can only cry – Mercy.

DIED – DUNLOP

DUNLOP – July 30, at 11 o’clock a.m., Mrs Robert Dunlop died at her home in Newkirk. Mrs. Dunlop was a granddaughter of Capt. J. A. Shaw, of this city. The funeral will take place at the Christian church at Newkirk, Wednesday morning at 10:00 o’clock. From ther the remains will be taken to Autwine by rail, and then in the hearse to six miles south of Tonkawa, Near where Mr. Dunlop has a farm. Her mother, Mrs. Etta Christain, of Council Grove, Kansas was summoned, and arrived twenty minutes too late to see her daughter alive. Mrs. Dunlop was unconscious for some time before she died. She leaves an infant child, a husband, mother and three brothers to mourn her death. She has hosts of friends that will be very sorry to hear of the sad news. She was married to Robert Dunlop, who is now county treasurer, June 7, 1904, having been married thirteen months and twenty-three days. She was happy and in the prime of life, and it seems hard that she must go so young, but bereaved ones can find comfort in thought that she is better off. And that we can meet her and no sorrow can ever come. – Blackwell Daily News, Monday, July 31.
[Same is in the Blackwell Sun August 3, 1905]

Several of our citizens attended the funeral of Mrs. Robert Dunlop Wednesday of this week. Some of them drove through to Autwine and met the funeral party there while some went to Tonkawa on a train and drove from there.