DOUGHERTY, Mary Virginia, Beeville Bee, 26 Jul 1912, front page:

A Sad Bereavement.
With broken hearts heavy with sorrow, Mr. and Mrs. John Chrys Dougherty returned 
from Long Beach, California Wednesday afternoon bringing with them the remains of 
their little daughter, Mary Virginia, their only child. They had gone to California some 
weeks before to spend the summer and letters to their friends and relatives told with 
joyous hearts how well the little one was thriving in the bracing climate for which the 
Pacific Coast is noted. Recipients of this news all shared with the young parents the 
joy which these letters bespoke over the little one's welfare and were ill prepared for 
the message which came Saturday bearing the sad news of its death. The parents 
having been trice similarly bereaved more than common instead had been felt for the 
little one and it was hoped and prayed of all that it be spared to fill the home with 
happiness and to be a source of comfort and pleasure to hearts already grievously 
chastened. 

Many friends were gathered at the station to meet the train which bore the little one's 
remains and its sorrow stricken parents and escorted them to their home made so 
sad and somber by the dimming of the bright ray of light and hope which the baby 
daughter in life had shed throughout the household. The well springs of the heart 
involuntary flowed out to sympathy for the parents who so shortly before commented 
in happiness over the little one which had come into their lives.

The funeral took place in the afternoon, the little body being taken for the sad last 
rites to the Presbyterian Church where but a few months before it had been consecrated 
to Him who had called its own. As the last rays of the sun were fading in the sky, the 
beautiful molded bit of lifeless clay was tenderly laid to sleep out in God's Acre beside 
three little brothers who like it, had been called to heaven in the sweetness and purity 
of their babyhood.