Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-15

His Death and Funeral at Green.
Vile, Mo.
"A Bar Meeting Held.
Resolutions Adopted Expressive of His
Life and Character.
rFrom the Greenville journal !

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The was quite gloom cast over on
little village Friday last, April I'd, 1880
by the death of Col. John P. Dillingham;
of Ironton, who was attending circui
court. His health has been in very bat
condition for several years, but he wa
able to attend to business during tn,
first few days of the present term O
court. He took suddenly worse, how
ever, on Wednesday of the week before
last, and was confined to his room al
the McGhee Hotel until Friday, Apri
I'd, when he breathed his last. He
was kindly cared for during his sick
ness, and had the benefit Of the best
medical skill the country afforded.
On the announcement of his death in
court preparations were at once made
for bar meeting and proper funeral
services.
The funeral took place on SATURDAY
from the McGhee Hotel; the following
gentleman acting as pail bearers, viz:
J. w. Emerson, VIM. Carter. John F. T.
Edwards, w. N. Male, j. n Morrison,
G. d. Yancey and VIM. r. Donaldson.
The coffin having been placed beside
the open grave on the bank of the riv-
er, Judge Emerson, of Iron ton, stepped
slowly forward to its head, and in a
voice full of emotion and pathos, pro-
nounced the following elegant and
beautiful Grafton over the body of his
departed friend:
BRETHREN AND FRIENDS:
We stand in the presence OF the dead
With the ear, beneath our feet, and the
arched heavens above US, We staud here on the
rivers bank, weak, feeble, alone-ln the hands
OF the Infinite and Eternal.
He gave.
He hath taken away!
Va h,,,vo 1lae ~
the will Of that Majestic BENZ who spake, aud
the heavens were decked with stars. Who
Willed, and man came forth mortal and i'm
mortal to make visible on earth an image OF
Deity. Tae form that lies PROSTATE be-
fore us is not the mortal remains of an ordin-
ary man r. .rs non,aea !, ..... 1,,,o, ., %
us no unusual mental or moral characteristics.
But Col John Pitt Dillingham; was ate and
bevond this. He was above 1t in his moral at
tributes and perceptions.
He was beyond it in his intellectual power
and attachments.
He was born about fifty-fve years ago. and
was Graded in the Wig orous atmosphere and
among the rugged hills of New England. In
the lovely scenery of her hills and dales-her
mountains and yaileys-the soul OF our de-
parted brother was moulded to a love of all
that was beautiful in nature, lovely and ele-
waiting in thought, honorable, manly and he
roic in character.
In her college and university halls; his
yOutn1ui mlnu was 1aS0fOneQ 1ntO peTiectlOn
OF beauty which no Raphael could delineate-
which no pen could describe.
His learning was accurate and extensive.
Whether Ii were on the subjects OF law or
logic; of history, art or literature; affairs of
State, or OF the Church; of the triumphs of
peace, or the art snd desolations OF war, he
converted with equal familiarity, and with
power and knowledge wholly his own.
His love of poetry and of refined and elegant
literature was strong and dominant The
sweetest singers of every age were his COM
panions; and the Hottest thought of the great
est and purest Of earth's most 81 ted sons we're
the subjects of his CONCENTRATIONS.
He was . ripe scholar, vigorous and dis
thinker.
He appropriated and refashioned into new
forms suited to the age to which he lived the
best thought of the lesrned and wiee of all
preceding time. And out OF all this, and all
these, he evolved new thoughts and new phil
which on a suitable field of sction.
to the capacity of the man, would
have made him fame as we'll as fortune.
New England gave to him bright intellect,
hieh culture, lofty ard elevated principles.
He gave these and ell the energies OF manly
life TO his adopted Sunny South.
Except the few years spent with Us mere ID