Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-01-28
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FRIDAY MORNING. JAN. Is, 1881.
Local
Deaths.

ness. He was a son of the late John
Churchman and leaves a brother. Mr..
John s. Churchman, and two sisters. Miss
Virginia Churchman and Mrs. Fannie
Geiger He was a finely educated physi-
clan and a graduate of the medical school
of the University of Virginia, and of JEFF
ferson College Philadelphia, and practiced
his profession successfully in Chllicothe,
Mo, and Quincy, Ill. He was living in
he West when the civil war broke out and
on applying for the post of surgeon in the
Union army stood first in the class in
which ne was examined. While serving
under Gen. Sherman as a full surgeon, he
was thrown from his horse and received
injuries from which lie never recovered
and which eventually caused his death.
After the war he returned to stanton
where he has since lived, the greater por-
ton OF the time as all invalid His dis
ease was such as to render his death from
it a matter only Of time and when that
ime came it found him prepared. He
was man of marked strength of charac-
ter and the strictest integrity, and his con-
scientiousness was one of his most promi-
nent traits. He had earned and inherited
together considerable fortune which he
used carefully but with strict justice to
those who had claims on him. The edu-
cation of the three children of kinsman, ,,
was an evidence of his kindly heart He
was a member of the Episcopal church and
is his last moments as lie had often been
Turing his sickness was attended by Rev. W
Q. Hullihen, its rector. He was prominent
member of the Young Mems Christian AS
ociatlon, and at the prayer meeting of
that body Sunday afternoon, the announce
ment of his death was received with much
regret. Mr.. W. T. Rush, an cid friend of
the deceased, who had been much with
him in his last moments, gave most sat
lsfactoly account Of his state Of mind in
view of approaching death. Messrs. H. L.
Hoover, H. M. McIlhany. and G. G. Gooch
who were appointed q committee to pre-
pare resolutions expressing the feelings of
the Association reported the following,
which were adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased our Heavenly
Father to remove from our midst our
brother and friend, DR.. Henry j. Church.
man, therefore
Resolued, That in his death this Y. M.
G.. A. has lost faithful and Jealous MEM
Der and each of US a Christian friend.
Resotred, That we bow submissively to-
the will of God in his death, rejoicing IN,
the belief justified by Christian co-opera--
ton that 1t is we'll with him.
Resolved, That these resolutions DO
spread upon the minutes of this AssOcia-
ton and that a copy be furnished the fam
lily of the deceased.
H. L. HOOVER,
II. M. MCILHANY,
&. q GOOCH.
DR.. Churchman was buried on Monday
morning from Trinity church, Rev. W. @
Hullihen conducting the services and the
following gentlemen acting as pail bearers
J. A. Cochran, J. FL. Wayt, P. H. Trout,
A. F. Robertson, VIM. j. Nelson, W. C..
Eskridge, T. G. Elder and Geo. M. Harri-
son.
MI. Richard II. Dudley, an old and we'll
known citizen of this county, died sudden
ly at his residence, near Messy Greek, on
Thursday morning last. He was about
sixty-eight years of age. and had been in,
bad health for years, but up to the day of his
death was attending to business. On That
morning, intending to go to another farm,
of his five or SIX miles distant, he was on,
his Way to the barn when he fell uncon-
scious. He was carried into the heny
where in short time he recovered co n
seriousness and started to walk across tb
floor but fell again. He was helped to he,
where he almost Immediately expired n,
was buried Saturday in the eeBaey erv q
Messy Greek church. of which co ooreoa
tion he was a deacon, Rev. j. W. Rosehrf
conducting the funeral servSc es. Mr.
Dudley leaves seven grown chill ,ren
On Friday last, Richard M' auzy. ESQ.
editor Of the Staunton ''Spe ,ctator.'' re
ceived a telegram Informing bim of the
death, at McGaheyesvile, Rockingham
that morning, of his so,i-n law, DIR. Thos.
H. Weaver. DR.. Weaver was = vounp
man, only thirty years of age, and bid fair
to be of great usefulness IN his profession
One of the most sudden and sad deaths
we have had to record is that of little
Margie Berkeley, only nine years of age a
daughter of DIR. Carter Berkeley. She had
taken violent cold which brought on inflam-
nation of the stomach, On Tuesday
she came from the school room
complaining and from that time suffered
intensely until her death at O'Clock the,
next morning. On Tuesday morning she,
had been among the merriest of a coasaSno.
party on a hill near her residence. She
was bright, interesting child and in the,
great grief her sudden death has brought her
parents they have the warm sympathy If
the whole community.
She was buried from Trinity church ros-
.erday afternoon, Rev. W.Q. Hulhhen
The following gentlemen act
ID as pail bearers-Messrs. Alex. E. Mil
er, Ed. Echols, Waldo Allen, 3. F. Snr-
Der, G. d. Euritt and w. c.. Eskridge.
On Wednesday morning. Mr.. St,,.rs
'"lnk who had room on Augusta Street
lied of typhoid fever. During his illness
hough receiving medical sttendance
trough the kindness of DR.. Reese the
physician, he had been without the neces-
ARIES SO important to the sick and on one
occasion was wandering about his room in
with no fire in the room. He was
member OF the Staun ton Artillery and
he members of that corps having on Tues
ay, fer the first time, heard of his illness.
Id stove put IN the room, sent COM
ade to sit up with him and made other
rovisions foT his comfort, but he died in
he morning. He was buried by the Com
any, yesterday.
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