Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1875-04-29

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18th inst, Col. PETER CLINE BUF'
FINGToN, in the 62d year Of his age.
At the time of his death Col. Buff
fngton was the oldest person residing
in this city whose birth occurred with
in the city limits, and his permanent
residence has always been inside its
borders.
The subject of this notice was the
oldest child of the late Col. William
Burlington and his wife Nancy, daugh-
ter of Nathaniel Scales, and of these
parents Peter e. Burlington was
born, on the 22d day of September
1914, at house near the locality of
Col. Emmon's residence. Col. WIN.
BURLINGTON died about twenty years
ago, his wife Nancy, still lives on the
vergaof time, among the last of a
worthy host OF men and women, her
contemporaries, who have nearly all
gone to the spirit land.
Col. VIM. Burlington was Justice
of the peace and county Surveyor du-
ring the larger part of his life; his
SON Peter was his deputy Surveyor,
and was also deputy Sheriff in early
life, for his father or some other
magistrate, who in turn, became high
Sheriff, and thus in early manhood
Peter c., was thrown in contact with
men in the transaction of public
business, and was disciplined in the
modes and forms of business, in a
school that has always proved to be
most successful for the men who re-
ceive its training.
1t was at this period of life, when
character is formed. that Col Buff
ington was surrounded with influen-
ces which tended to develop and
stamp his nature with the distinctive
features that marked him in life. 1t
was the golden age OF Cabell County,
it's public duties were performed by
men of exalted worth, and sterling
integrity, in private life, and who
were guided in the performance of
public trusts by principles of in
flexible honesty, roman firmness,
and patriotic zeal, and thus was
moulded the unobtrusive, cautious,
prudent, character in which practical
good sense was the predominating
feature and made him the influential
citizen, esteemed neighbor and safe
adviser that he ever held i'll the
opinion of his friends, to the hour Of
his death.
In his private business, Col. Buff
inston was attentive, energetic, and
industrious, and during life with a
large and complicated business, he
but seldom appealed to the courts for
redress or settlement He left to his
family n competence. which he
disposed of by will in accordance
with his purposes.
Perhaps there is no man in our
city who will fill the vacancy made
by his demise; whose los would more
deeply affect the community and the
material interests of the city.
Besides the public positions before
mentioned, held by Col. Burlington,
he represented this county in the
Legislature of Virginia for two or
three sessions, he was commissioner
of delinquent and forfeited lands
under the act of 1912; was county
elector and exercised the duties of
other MINOR trusts; was first Mayor
of this city, and member of Council
during its whole existence was
President of the Bank of Huntington
from its foundation to his death, and
so ordered counseled and conducted
himself in all the various duties and
responsibilities of the different posi-
tons he held and the trusts he car
ried out, that no blame or accusation
ever rested upon him, hut the APP
probation and commentator of those
he served.
In all his family relations Col.
Burlington was kind and aAectionate
and safe protector, and those who
have been accustomed to lean upon
him for support and to look to him
for counsel, have met with loss
that is irreparable and can only look
for consolation to the author of all
good and the healing process that
time alone can bring.
For some months previous to his
death, Col. Burlington exhibited a
seriousness noticed by his friends.
He attached himself to the Method
ist Episcopal Church South in May
last. In his last illness he expressed
willingness to submit TO the will OF
his Master, and that he had hope
of happiness beyond this life. He
also expressed himself in converse
ton before confinement to his room,
that the things of this world. un-
certain in tenure, unstable in charac-
ter, and subject to constant mutation,
were insufficient to satisfy the con
slant cravings and aspirations OF
men; that the wiser policy was to
make the beyond" our chief care
and study in lite instead of material
things which must soon pass away.
May he who tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb" guide, guard, pro-
tect and direct the future of those
who have been 50 sadly bereaved,
and may we all apply the lesson SO
oft repeated. yet never realized, that
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