Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-05
SUFFER-.
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE GENERAL
JOHN A. SUFFER-.
Eulogies by Generals Gibson
and Fremont.
New YORK. June d. 1850.


l have just returned from the funeral of
General Suffer. At the house of mourning
in the little town which had been his home
for the last fifteen years of his life I first
learned the particulars of his death. If
ever man died of broken heart, surely
John a. Suffer was that man. The hope
deferred that maketh the heart sick was
in his case a sickness unto DEATH He
left Litiz little over two months
ago TO resume his painful watchings and
working at the seat of Government for the
bill for his relief, which has been before
Congress for the last eight or nine years.
He was very feeble when he left home. He
took his usual humble quarters at Chris.
Modes hotel in Washington, corner of
Third street and Pennsylvania avenue,
very near the Capitol As the adjourn
ment approached and the signs began to
multiply that he was doomed to another
defeat, he became exceedingly nervous and
anxious. The measure had passed one
house, but it was Distracted in the other
branch of Congress by the crowd Of other
business and the exigencies of the
situation, which required a final pairing
down of all the appropriation bills. SUIT
ters Naturalization measure was one OF
the provisions stricken out at last,
and the hand that struck it out, struck
down the old pioneer and nations bene.
factor at the same time. He began a let
ter to his aged wife, breaking the news of
HIS FAILURE.
1t breathed a spirit OF the utmost detection.
It was never finished by his hand. The
friend who closed his eyes in death, F. B.
Schaeffer, found it among his loose papers,
and inclosed it, adding some particulars
Of his decease. Mrs. Suffer had been ap-
prised by telegraph of his passing away.
1t was evident the General did not
deem his life so near its close. He
was taken to bed day or two after
the adjournment of Congress He died
perfectly conscious, and evidently without
pain He apparently found himself sink
ing, reached forth his hand to Schaeher,
pressed it, and sank to rest. The gentle.
man mentioned here viii be remembered
by all old residents of San Francisco.
Frank Schaeffer is said to have been un-
renting in his devotions to the old gen.
tleman, day and night, during his illness.
The remains were embalmed in Washing
ton and conveyed to his home in Litiz,
Lancaster county. They were escorted to
the train by number OF Callfornians and
friends OF the General resident in Wash
ington. The following gentlemen acted as
pail bearers on that occasion, all old resi-
dents of yorr State except two General
John Hammond, Colonel /. S. Tichenor,
Colonel +. B. Schaeffer, a. NJ Kenaday,
Captain Peter Ailabach, Captain C. 7.
Crandall, Colonel James S. Pierce, L. o.
f. Hastings and Hon. John Hitz, Swiss
Consul. Rev. DIR. Sunderland officiated
at the religious service held in Washing
ton The body arrived in Litiz ON Sun
day, the 10Th instant in charge of Mr.. H.
H. Tshudy, 4 near neighbor and townsman
of Litiz.
Suffers HOME AT LITIz.
Litiz is place of about /, 100 inhabi-
tants, situated on the Reading and Co.
lumbia Railroad, about So miles from
Philadelphia. 1t was originally Mora
Wan settlement, and the town was laid out
in 1856. 1t is quiet, rural place. now
chiefly noted for its Moravian schools and
mineral springs. General Suffer first went
there about fifteen years ago to place his
grandchildren in the schools, and, pleased
with the simple beauty and repose of the
spot, took up his abode there tor the sum-
mer, boarding in one Of the small hotels of
the town. The summer passed away, and
the winter, and he found himself so COM
Portable in its seclusion and in the presence
{ l. lnl,, ttos bo fpoltx,
solved to remain there. He seems in his
old age to have been devoted to his grand
children-eyer thoughtful of Others to the
end OF his days. These grandchildren
are the two daughters and son
of the Generals eldest living male
issue. who has been United States Consul
at Acapulco for several years. They are
now grown up and married, the grandson.
J. A. Suffer, Jr., carrying on a tobacco
business in Brooklyn, l.. l., and the grand
daughters, Mrs. II. G. Hull and Mrs. Jesse
Smith, living-the former in Litiz and the
latter in Woonsocket, X. |. The General
leaves also one son and daughter besides
the Consul at Acapulco, Emil Suffer, the
Swiss Consul at San Francisco, and Mrs.
DIR. Link, residing at Acapulco. Emil is
now on his way East am informed by
his relatives and friends that Gen. Suffer
passed his days quietly in the little town
he had chosen for his home, rarely going
out of the house except to walk through
his garden. He had built himself
a plain but commodious and very
comfortable dwelling in the center
of the town, on lot 50xl00 feet. The
building was of brick, two stories high,
giving him spacious double parlor, din
ing room and kitchen on the ground floor.