The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-21
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.SAafytrt BUZZ . ,sFEIltA e y YES born in East
Granville, Hampden county, Mass. January
II, 1856. and died August IL. 1873 aged 81 years
He was the eighth ina family of twelve chill
dren. His parents were devoted Christians and
very conscientious in the religious training of
their children.
The years of his minority were spent on
rugged New England farm. By faithfully i'm
proving the winter months at the common
school, hequalffied himself to teach, and en-
plOyed his winters for S, Veral years before his
marriage in teaching. At the age of twenty
four, he married Lanra Seymour and in the
spring of 1911. with his young wife, and such
household effects as could be carried in a two
horse wagon, he started for the West, passing
through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, over the
Allegheny mountains to Pittsburgh, thence to
ROotstown, Ohio, then an almost unbroken will
derness. In fording the Beaver river at the
time of the spring flood, one of their horses was
rdowned. They bought yoke of oxen, and
putting the surviving horse in front, they pur-
sued their Journey.
In the war of 1919. occurring the year after
their arrival. when life and property were i'm
periled by the encroachments of the Indians
aided by the British Mr. Spelnian, leaving his
wife and infant child in the care of Provide nee
Joined his neighbers in a military campaign of
afterwards took an active interest in military
Affairs, and was for seYeral years Captain of the
militia company Of Rootstown For many con
secutive years he filled the Office OF Justice of
the Peace to the entire satisfaction all classes
Although not partisan, he was thoroughly in
formed upon the political and religious ques-
dons of theday, and cherished decided personal
convictions, and was ready to express them on
all proper occasions. From the time of his set
tlenent in Rootstown up to the day ofhis death,
he was an earnest and liberal supporter of the
institutions of Christianity. especially the Con-
gregational Church of Rootstown, with which
he worshipped Although he never made a
public profession of religion his stern integrity,
his exemplary life, his conscientious discharge
of duty, his earnest sympathy with every good
cause, his clear and discriminating views of re-
lIgious truth, his deep and abiding sense of
personal sihfulness, and his trust in the mercy
of,Chrtst as the ground OF salvation furnish the
most satisfactory proof of genuine work OF
grace in the heart, and give to surviving fl lends
the assurance of his final good estate.
Few men have passed through the furnace of
a1lliction more frequently, or with it more in
tensely heated, than the subject of this notice
His father died leaving him at the age of four
teen, with the other members of a large family,
in the care Of an cider brother. Three times
has ebeen 'madea widowef by the decease of
his first, his second and his third wife. The
piety, strength of character, and devotion to
the family, of these several women, made his
loss in their death the more severe,
OF the six children borne to him by his first
wife, he has been called to close the eyes of four
in death. Two children by his first, and one
each by his second and third wives, survive him
In the year 1866 hemarried as his fourth wife,
Mrs Fanny Dye, he being her fourth husband
This marriage proved especially fortunate in
the qualities of head and heart which Mrs. Dye
brought into the relation assumed, and her
tender and afrectionate devotion to the welfare
sof her aged and infrm companion, have won
for her the sincere esteem of all who know her.