The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-07
IN MEMORIAM.

IN
Departed this life after a short illness
of mountain fever, at Cheyenne, Wyo-
ming Territory, on the 18th of Noyem-
Der 1S76,a II O'Clock NJ. in the full hope
of a blissful Immortality, in the 23d
year of his age, Mr.. ASHLEY COOPER
SMITH, only sol of the late DR.. James
Z. Smith, leaving ~sorrowingly surviving
him his doubly stricken and bereaved
mother and disconsolate sisters, Mrs.
Julia Haltom and Mrs. Lizzie Poe of
this city, besides a number of mourning
relatives.
In the death of this amiable and
promising young man, his relatives have
sustained an irreparable loss and the
community generally in which he was
born and reared, have experienced a
disaster from which there will be no
speedy recovery. Born in Rusk county
in 1854, he grew to manhood in the
county of his nativity, giving to his re-
latives and friends an earnest of a use
full and honorable life. He was left
fatherless at a very early age, but this
usually depressing event was in a great
measure assuaged by the tender nurtur-
ing care of his fond and devoted moth
er and kindness and affection of his
second father Col. Rob. r. Haltom.
Sprung from a line of gentlemen and
surrounded by the genial and ~softening
influences of easy, elegant life, he came
to his majority, with auspices most fav-
orable, to a career of high and honora-
BILE distinction. He was, las was his
father before HIM the favorite of a
large circle of enthusiastic friends and
the very idol of an affectionate and de-
voted host of kindred in Texas and
Louisiana. Yielding to the prompt
ings of a laudable ambition, and the in
vitations of honorable adventures, in
September 1875, our young friend bid
adieu to his kith and kin, to the COM
forts of home and the society of friends
to brave the perils of frontier life and
encounter the dangerous proximity of
the savages of the Black Hills. High
were his aspirations, golden were his
visions, brilliant were his hopes, san
guine his expectations, that in that au-
riferous region, he would in early life,
achieve that success, which in older
settlements, requires unremitting ener-
gy and never tagging industry of long
years of patient toll and labor. But
alasl for the uncertainty of life
with all its appointments, its
ambitions, its hopes and its melancholy
v~icissitudes, our young friend, so lately
full of all that may make life desirable,
now lies in a bleak, cold grave, dug by
strangers hands, hundreds and hun
dreds of miles away from his home in
the bright sunny South. with no loving
mothers hand to smooth gently the pill
low of his last dread repose, and no sis
ter's tears to bedew and moisten the
turf, which wraps his clay
"Oh Why was he tempted TO roam?i'
We have indeed the consolatory as
%surance, that though far away from
home, kindred and friends, he had in
last sickness, careful nursing, skillful
medical attention, and the kindly min
istrations of a Christian minister, and
after death, decent honorable sculpture.
We have further the satisfactory intelli-
gence, that he met his fate with the
calm confidence, resigned spirit and
cool courage of a true soldier of the
cross, affirming to his spiritual attend
ant his full faith in that Savior, who
has brought life and immortality to
light, through the Gospel. Blessed as
%surance! Glorious truth! Delightful
certainty! While we MOURN and de.
plOIb Jul yOulS hlnSIndu utdlu, we 10
not mourn, as those who have no hope.
Astley's friends and relatives take this
m%ournful occasion to return their
thanks to Mr.. j. A. Shaw, MI. j. d.
May, and the Rev. w. F. Warren, pas
tor NJ. E. Church, Cheyenne, for their
kind attentions and ministrations, in
his last great struggle. Also to others,
whose names are not known to us, who
gave to our young kinsman that atten-
ton, which smoothed his pathway to the
tomb. They shall each and every one
be held in grateful regard by us all,
while mind and memory remain. Our
dear young friend and kinsman has
gone
AFTER LIES ftful fever, he sleeps WELL"
Let us indulge the fond and pleasing
hope that he has entered into the Saints
everlasting rest, in the calm Of Hea-
ven
.No further seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his ~fraiIties from their dead abode,
There they alike in trembling hope repose,
The bosom Of his Father and his Cod"
c. A.. s..
Henderson (Texas) Times.