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fortitude and waited patiently for the time
of her release from her bodily suffering. She
had often made the following remark to her
children while in their care: ''ThIs world has
no more attraction for me to remain in it, The
Il week before her departure, asked her
her hopes in Christ. She replied,
is well, l am willing to die, and l wish no
longer to liye.' ''AIother'' Koch was kindly
cared for up to her death by her children, and
God alone Will reward them. She was the
of thirteen children, five of whom have
her to the spirit world. Five daughters
and three sons are still living, and torty-nine
grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren
beside Il sorrowIng companion survive to mourn
her death. May the Lord comfort the sorrowIng
husband and many friends, and may they all
meet her IN heaven. She was the mother of Mrs.
Jerry Ahart, formerly of Greenton, Lafayette
county, Missouri. The funeral services We're
conducted by the writer. First Revelation. 2lst
csapter and 4th verse, f.. S. SCTAFER.
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OBITUARY.
Dedicated to the memory Of Miss Sallie Sea-
we'll, who died ut her home near Chapel Hill, |
October Goth, 1879.
And God had need of her above,
And though we gave our darling mp,
Complained at his unchanSing love,
And mourHed to drink the bitter cup.
Yet ever thus is life,
stream OF mingled peace and strife;
A fount that scarce begins to gush
Before its gurgling mRrmurs hush.
But in that far off land of peace
Her cares and tolls OF life shall cease;
Her dying words are sounding still,
I'll 60 to do my Masters will. 5.
IN MEMoRIAN.
1t is with no ordinary feeling of regret and of
interest that the writer Of the following tribute
a. cant TIpfon p Wins0r oddrpSSpS hIIu6p1f To
the mournful task. An acquaintance and a
friendship for thirty-fve years, a companion
ship at school, around the iireside, in travel by
land and by sea, an ASSOCIATION in peace and in
war, has given to the writer, perhaps, as clear
| An insight into the character Of the deceased as
| that possessed by Utmost any one. UPTON r..
| Winsor was no ordinary NAH. He possessed u
strong and vigorous intellect, capable Of analyz-
ing and mastering almost any subject that he
chose to consider. He was Il deep thinker, a
ready and versatile writer, equally ut home in
the realms of graceful rhetoric or hard matter
of-fact logical argument. He was u man Of
great energy, of untiring industry and a peril
nacity of purpose that never quailcd before
difficulties; indeed. opposition and difficulties
seemed to inspire him with renewed energy and
perseverance. He was one of the few who could
have succeeded admirably at almost anything
that he saw proper to devote himself exclusively
particularly IN The law or journalism. Ihe
former profession he did devote himself TO Tor a
time, but Abandoned 1t Tor Il trip to California
in 1919, when the news OF the discovery of gold
on the Pacific coast was heraided through the
country. Ike was one OF the klndest men 10 the
sick and destitute that l ever knew. In May
1917, On one journey 10 California The choiers
was raging with terrible elect all along Inc roat
a MI
from independence, MISSOURI, TO Fort Laramie
In almost every train, whether large CT small
could be found the sick and the dying. Our ovi
i train of some ten or twelve wagons, accom-
, panied by thirty-hve or forty men, was attacked
on the 18th of May with the dreadful scourge,
German from Dover, whose name cannot nov
recall, and }. W. Greenfield, of Tennessee, on
of the writer's mess mates, being the victims o
attack. The German died. Greenfield hoverc'
$ for som days between lie anu death, but inall.
p recovered. The morning OF May 18th developed
the material OF which the men composing tn
camp was made. Some three or four of til
messes hitched their teams and fed terror
> stricken back to Missouri. The subject OF thl
; sketch stood unfalterIngly by the dying man
u and seemingly took us much interest in him q
{; II he had been a brother, though to HIM a CON
S paratlve stranger. l will relate one other il
# stance, though could relate many of the dis
Interested kindness of heart of the deceased
Upon his arrival in California he stopped at
mining camp called Placerville. Shortly aft,
his arrival one moor fellow died without a,
uuaintanccs. and as the sequel proved with b
one friend in all the thousands who compose
'e the town. AT that time there was nothing b.
n urovisional government in California. I'll
ID constitution had not been adopted, IL legisl
ture had ever convened. There was no municIp
authority TO lew n tax. not a dollar of publ
" money to care for the INDECENT sick or bury t
20 pauuer dead. The moor man was ro,tiny abo
c. urounl with M one TO care for mr. hurry hir
es linton Winsor looked for a moment on his Inf
n ,ess form and said that he sbouId he buried
to decentlv as circumstances would hermit.
nd b;r.d men tn DIG his grave, others tn SAW p,,,
from a nine Inv with a wbin saw. mt a sniff
clothes unon bis bodv- had him buried. n
foo,ea III. hin from hrs own nocket ,monnti
?, aim
CAPTAIN winsor was born in Mountgome