The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-09-04
The LGte Pr. John X. S0pping
fOn.

At tho meeting of the Medical Society ofIarord conn
y. held on the llh fAugust last the following
marks IN reference 10 the death of Dr. John X Sappng-
ton, were madeb BY Dr. Geo. Thos. Hays. They were re-
csyed too late for publication heretofore
DR.. Geo. Thos Hays moved that all business be now
suspended and postponed, until the regular meet
ing OF the Medical Society. He said:
make the motion, Mr. President IN love aid respect
for the memory OF our late friend and brother and the
FIRST President of our Society Dr. Johu Kentucky Sap
county, Maryland, Saturday August Sth 1865 about
o'clock, A. NJ, in the 18th year of his sge.
His health had been gradually failing for above year.
and although convinced, whenever We visited
HIM OF late, that he was failing much more rapidly than
was generally supposed yet, when death to him. it
was not without shudder and lament, when heard
that noble soul had fled, Like all mankind, Mr..
PRESIDENT he had his short comings aud foble aud if
there moments when he seemed hasty and PEE laps
harsh and ii in high political excitement-or no one
loved past history aud coontoy than heor In
professional rivalry he spoke an unud or hasty word
that wounded even an opponent, none ready
and willing than he to make all proper amends-weil
knowing that ut is human to err but divine forgive"
Ills heart obounded in the milk of human Kindness
and neither friend foo was turned away from his hos
pitabe door empty handed when they applied for vors
or for charities He always said, "what he gavo to the
poor or to charities land few, If any knew the amount)
returned to him tehfold."
lie was AS hospltable as he was generous and when
prostrated by sickness and confined to his bed and the
dark waves Of dissolution gradually appaoaching he
never forgot to offer his Inequalities to friend There
u standing order at his house that "wheneyer a
eaten the previous meal and to have his fed This
order was always adhered to by his family If lie was ab
Bent.
As practitioner Of the Medical Science but few stood
higher and none were Jealous attached to
his profession and prac tced it with and
success lie WIS the oldest physician in the county
the time Of his DEATH Dr Jacob A. Preston having died
only about week previous, and DIR. Horton about a
year before him) he Dr Sappngton) having practced
over fifty years in this State and Pennsy lyania with
great acceptability TO the people,
His funeral was very numerously attended and was
one of the largest in country place and as
we consigned his body to the tomb, with Masonic and
Odd Follows honofs, and with the regrets of te whole
community, we earnestly hoped if there any fault of
his not balanced by his many charities and urepented
Of that the recording Angel in writing it down. dropped
q tear and blottcd II out forever.
now move Mr. President, that comIajttee of three
be appointed to draft resolutions expressive of loss
and our sympathies with the family of the deceased
Drs, Hays Forwood and Virdin we're apponted1 and
will now move that the members of the Medical Society
Grape the left for thirty days. In token of
respect to the memory of departed brother and
friend.