The Payette Independent
October 15, 1891
DELANO - At his father's home in Payette, at 3:50 a.m., October 12th, 1891, of typhoid fever, Frank Delano, aged 18 years and 21 days.
Deceased was a dutiful and trustworthy boy. Of a kind and loving disposition, he was ever ready and willing to inconvenience himself, if by so doing he might give others pleasure. His friends wee many among both old and young. He was a boy whose life was as open as a book, was studious at school and painstaking, and energetic in all his undertakings; had made considerable progress in the art of photography and the use of the type-writer,(that is how it was spelled in the paper) and there are treasured away by the sorrowing parents more than one of the evidences of the ingenious mind and remarkable handicraft of him who is gone.
An impressive funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Alexander at the M.E. church, on Monday at 2 o'clock after which the solemn procession followed to the cemetery, and with tender hands and sorrowing hearts, returned to mother earth all that was mortal of Frankie Delano.
To the afflicted parents, whose hearts are almost broken at the loss of a noble boy and only child, one upon whom they had hoped to lean and rely in their declining years, we, with all of Payette's citizens, extend our heart-felt sympathies.
