Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-08
DIED.

FULLER-In Portland. Connecticut, Aug Goth
Mr.. Jonathan ]. Fuller, aged 50 years.
VENEN-In Conneaut, Aug. 10Th, Lucinda,
wife OFF. d. Venen; aged 30 years.
GREENLEE-In Amboy. Aug. 23d, at the resi-
dence of his father, of cerebro-spfnal me-
ningitis, John q. Greenlee; aged 80 years.
RICHMoND-At Geneva, Ashtabula County,
Ohio, on Friday, August 18th, 1876, Judge
John G. Richmond, of Ottawa, Kansas, in
his 81 year.
Our lives are not measured by years, but by
what we do by heart-throbs, and pulsations
of kind and generous feelings, with love to
God and man. The subject of this notice,
with his young bride, moved from this county
west nearly q third of a century ago, and set
tied at Sturgis, Michigan, where he edited and
published a weekly newspaper. After a few
years he sold out and moved to Ligonier, No
BILE County, Indiana, and for many years his
influence was not only felt politically in that
county, but in the lobby at Indianapolis. He
never sought public office, neither would he
accept it; but scores of persons were indebted
to him for positions of profit and trust.
About fifteen years ago he moved to the
Kansas frontier, among the Ottawa tribe of
Indians, and put up the first house that was
built by white man in that now beautiful
city of Ottawa on the Marie de Sygnes.'
When the proposed route of the Leaven-
worth, Lawrence and Galveston railroad was
being run south into the Indian Nation,
Judge Richmond was appointed agent for the
road to obtain the right of way, and it was on
one of his trips into the Indian territory that
he contracted a sickness which has culmin-
ated in his death. Probably not a man in
Kansas had more influence with the Indians
than he. They respected him for his honest
dealings and generosity. He made valuable
presents to their chiefs, as their improved
breed of hogs and cattle will testi J to-day
The circumstances of his death are peculiarly
sad. For many years the " Richmond Fami-
"" have held their reunions. Circumstances
prevented his meeting his kindred. He
greatly desired to meet them on the 18th of
September in cne reunion on this side of the
river. So anxious was he that assistance was
necessary to place him upon the cars, and
when he reached his brother, Rev. c. R. Rich
mond, in Geneva, he Immediately took his
bed to die. Skill, and kind attention of rel
atives, together with the Masonic fraternity,
could only smooth his passage TO the tomb.
For many years he had taken a lively in
terest in Masonry, had been Deputy Grand
Master of Kansas, and filled important posi-
tions in the Grand Lodge of his state. In ac-
with Masonic honors, beside his father,
mother and brothers, in Sheffield. He was
not a member of any church, but often ex-
pressed a firm belief that all would be well
with him. His faith was undenied in the
Name of names, as he was about to depart for
that better land, "Where the wicked cease
from troubling and the weary are at rest"
There we trust he will enjoy in full fruition
the realization of all the bright hopes he has
cherished of The home beyond
How sweet as we pass down the vista of
years
With hearts deeply buried with sorrow and
To know when nfe's pilgrimage comes to a
There's rest for the weary, balm for our
woes,
We know there's time when our labors are
We shall stand on the brink of eternity's
And closing our eyes to the bright world
Shall hear at life's parting the gavel's last
sound,
We know who will welcome the pilgrim on
We shall bask in beams of the omniscient
And the Living Judah will greet US all
Ifwe've worked by the plumb with the level
and square,
In the temple above the Great Architect
Wen seek e through its aisles for some hallow-
ed spot;
The sdnctstni sanctoruna, that sacred retreat,
Where brother with brother in glory shall
meet,
While ages and ages are rolling away
No cloy to our pleasures, no night to our day
Our hearts ever throbbing with impulse of
love,
Shall praise the Grand Master who ruleth
above.