Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-16

D1ED-In Rowlesburg Va, January sth. 1862. Mt
o.: % minutes rs past r ALBERT Lee HooTON, aged
81 years, 10 months and 10 days.
The accident by which the deceased came 70 HE
death was noted i'll the Press of the 9th inst but the
deep grief of this community, the respect due the
honored dead, as well as the prominent position lie
occupied, alike demand more extended motto. than
casual newspaper paragraph.
In the perfection of glorious manhood-on the
very threshhold of a future radiant it'll hone ana
promise, without single outward premonitiop of
impending fate, lie has been snatched from the en-
brace OF family and friends and all the lows of eOrth
and ushered through tile dark valley aud shadow nj
death, into the unknown and invisible world eyond
"a bourne from which traveller ever returns
of him appropriately it may be slid:
1sec what grace is seated on that brow.
lis n throne where honor may be crowned
In the Celcsti Paradise obove-tbot bI;s.r,, ,bo,o
where SIN never enters and sorrow never comes he
his then the brightest coronal of unbroken peace
ana perennial Joy. While gazing upon that I'M
turned and marble brow. with the past rising before
Him. his aged and venerable sire could but excain,
IN all the passionate eloquCnce Of woe-"Oh nv
son, my son, you hOnOred your father and mother
you have paid every debt of gratitude, it must he
well with yOu and the great heart of this comma,
MEy throbbinE in unison, responds amen and .inie,l
me deceased was n rare example of practice with.
ont professional correct moral department devoid
ol sanctmonious cant and PharsaCal prctension
10 DO right was the business of his life With rare
intellectual gifts, he united the essential eqpois
OF quick moral perCepti and kind and generous
heart From early youth to incipient manhood he,
was Judge and champion among his boyish comDanf-
ons to arbitrate their disputes and avenge their in
tuFies; ard IL maturer years he was likewise a man
OF marx Ill the community-vindicating tho right
anu condemning the wrong but in place, perhaps
were these shining traits conspicuous than in
ms connection with the Independent Order of C56
Fellows. to which he had long been attached and
where he attained the highest honors of a subordi
nate Lodge. In deeds of charity he was ever fore.
most. AID in his contact with mankind, in ali Tho
Inherent Lhases OF human nature, lie was the per
soned representative and practical exempliiier of
the principles of that noble Order whose benutffI
motto Is Friendship, Love and Truth.
He Is gone. But with his brethren of the Lodyc
ne Is ever present; not in the flesh but in joyo1s
Itaternal spiritual communion; the recollection If
him is embalmed i'll their hearts never to be erased
while life shall last or memory hold its SWAY
In :his extremity of sorrow, well NAV we odont
the language of the poet:
'Come again on fairy piniops
Lure me out of grief 3 dominions;
Drive away my pain and anguish,
Let me not in sorrow languish;
In my dreams oh hover DER me,
Light the gloomy path Gftore me-"
Farewell, husband, father, brother, son. At tho
mountains base, where Lethe, like our own beuti-
iuL Cheat dark waters in sullen his
mortal remains repose in Iuietncss await the blast
OF the angelic trump which shall summon the ma.
tons OF the earth before the great white throne of
the Invisible and Eternal
"And so his knell is tolled"
In the behalf and by the authority of Ai1ey Iodoc
No. 131 1. o. o. F. in F, L. and 7.
WA. HALL,
CHARLES SCHOONOvER,
FRANK W. PURITON.
ReSOlUed, That Airey Lodge No. l31 1. o. o. r. Of
"a, hereby tender unto the family of our deceased
bFotheF our sincere coincidence for the loss theV
have sustained with the assurance that our
All OF which is respectfully submitted In F. L. aud r.
'e. WM. HALL, Secretary