Carrie Merscher was born on January 26, 1889 in Illinois, and was admitted to our orphanage on October 15, 1891. She entered novitate on February 18, 1911 and received the name Leocadia as an Oblate in our community in 1912. Though frail, was a diligent worker. She contracted tuberculosis and lived only three years after her reception as an Oblate. Eager to die and be with God, she passed away peacefully on January 9, 1915 at the age of twenty-six.