The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-01-28

lie made no pretensions to artificial
or ornamental refoemont, but was
endowed With most generous impuls-
es--cvor frank, truthful, aud honor
able in his dcaliugs and Intercourse
With mankind. lie was rcsolute and
inacxible In his purposes and yet
Kind, charitable aud hcnevolSut to-
wards tho poor and afflicted around
hun. lie was a Whig Of tho Henry
Clay chara cteristics aud n great ad.
mirer Of that distinguished states
man. lie after wards became Re
publican aud deeply regretted his
inability to vote for uraut and Col.
f0x. His loyalty to the national
government was sincere, aud his Dc.
nunciation Of secession, under what.
ever pretcuse, uucquivocal. lie was
a Free Mason while residing in this
county, aud how long before is uu-
known; and he was consistent, fi,h-
hl aod true TO all its cardinal duties
and requirements. More than twcu.
ty years ago, hc became communi-
cant Of the Presbyterian Church, aud
adhered to its doctrines and attend
cd it mioistrations with uuccasing
hdclily during tho residue Of his
lifetime. Here as elsewhere, he was
ac,uatcd by prinCiplcA-looking rev
oreDtly TO the Inspirations ofthe BIZ
BILE rnd its enduring riches as be-
speaking Saviour aud Drown of
everlasting life. The first wife
of Dc. Graves, ono Of the most amia-
Dle Of her sex, died in 1886 at Eden
township with that fell disease
consumption. BY her no had ten
children of whom only two are now
living, lie married Miss Clarissa G.
Brown at New Haven, Huron County,
Ohio, in February 1887, for his sec
ond wife by whom he also had ten
children, Of whom four are alive. Ii
will not bo expected that I should
dwell upon tho delicate subject Of
this marriage, but suffice it to say
that like the first. it was auspicous
both to DIR. Graves, and his estima-
bic cousort who survives him.
Dr. Graves was, by appointment Of
the Legislature, one of the associate
Judges of this county for term Of
seven years from 1881 to 1888 and
he discharged the duties Of the Office
with credit to himself aud satisfac
ton to community. He was unspar.
ing in his efforts to educate his ris.
ing family. This exhausted much
OF his available means, aud also com
pclled him to meet annually no in
considerable expeus therefor aud foi
labor aud otherwise in carrying on
and managing his farm and taking
care Of his stock. Nevertheless he
was uniformly provident, aud at the
time of his decease, he vas compara.
lively out Of debt, aud besides hi,
personal property, he still owned his
homestead then containing about
three hundred and twenty acres o
excellent land. Ho had arisen, like
sturdy oak, by slow degrees, and
maintained his vigor aud capacity
for physical oaduraDce. Like the
oak, he had withstood the buifeting,
aud hardships peculiar to the prac-
tice of his profession aud the settle
meBt of dcnsely timbered wilder
ness; aud hS lived to contemplate /
the abode Of civilization, aud himsc!
in the enjoyment Of all the upplian
ccs of society and domestic comfort
At last, after long and repeated as
saults aud besct with the iufrmitici
of ago without the power Of recu'
poretiou, his robust constitution grpd
ually sank beneath its manifold uiilic
tions and the corrodius impress of
time. a. II.
TIFFIN, o.