Daily Republican., 1882-06-13
THIRD EDITION.
OBIlU RY.
Death of DR.. teWhs "Oo0Wasu'
DelawaIea, nj Wesan1i s'er'
Maryland.

Maryland.
The following obituary sketch is fir I'm
the American Sentinel, Westminster,
Maryland: i
The subject of this notice departed
this life at his home in this city on
Monday, me 5, ag,d 50 years, d
months and l3 days
Few die in the humble and un'
pretentious walks of life who will be
longer remembered than DR.. Wood
ward. In our midst but little more
than ha.f score of years he had in
quiet and unObtrusive way gathered
around him host Of friends. A man
of Jew words and retiring disposition
he was yet filed, i'll the cause OF his
church, with a zeal that ever comes
from devotion to the principles OF truth
and which hindled iD the hearts OF
those who associated with nm cor
responding fame. of him it nay with
strongest ruth be said
ANone knew him but to love him;
None name5 him but to praise MIN.
1t is appointed unto ali men once TO
die. He who has lived out his allotted
time, who has flushed his WORK, ules
and disappolnts 30 hopes. A lie OF
usefulness finished tiuds its reward. Its
purpose il complete, Its termination
NAV indeed triug pangs OF sadness
and sorrow. But sadIer still it is when
in the providence of God we are called
to mourn the loss of one whose life in
many respects had already accom-.
plished much, but promising still more
is cut off in early manhood and in the
very midst of its usefulness.
DR.. Woodward, the youngest son OF
Joseph and Mary (Klair) Woodward,
was born 22d OF November, lS4S. near
Wilmington, Del. He read medicine
under DR.. Caleb Harlan, OF that city,
and on the 10th of March, 1871, gradu-
ated at the HahAeman Medical College
of Philadelphia. A month thereafter,
April 11th, he came to this city and
began the practice Of his profession.
For two years previous to his sickness
that terminated in his death, he held
the position of U. s. Pension Agent for
this county, which he resigned by rea-
son of his rapidly declining health. De.
cided symptoms of the fatal malady
(Brightis disease of the kidnevs) we're
first exhibited during his recovery from
an attack of diphtheria during the holy
days, first iu an impairment of vision
which in one eye socn resulted in al
most total blindness. Despite the best
medical treatment obtainable his condi'
tion rapidly grew worse, and a change
of climate suggested itself as o possible
remedy. On the 4th of April, unable to
walk, he was carried to the train. That
night he passed his first peaceful slum.
Der since the beginning of his sickness,
on the waters of the Bay. He re.
mained q week at Old Point Comfort,
going thence to Aiken, s. c., where
he remained for four weeks.
The few signs of improvement that
for a while manifested themselves at
this resort soon passed away. AS a last
hope ne went to Hot Springs, in Gar
land county, Ark, but 1t was the same
sad story. Upon the plains Of the terres.
tIial Gilead there was for him no balm.
Fuor weeks were spent at Hot Springs,
his condition growing worse day by
day. He at last realized that the end
was rapidly approaching, and having
done all that was possible for him to
do, to live for his wife, children and
friends and all else that makes life dear
he asked for home. He was told by his
physician that the chances were against
him reaching there alive. The will
power, however, was yet superior tc
the disease even tho the seal of death
had set its mark upon him.
On Saturday, the 3rd inst, with his
devoted wife, who had, save for few
days only in the beginning, been his
sole companion through all his journey
ings, and his brother, who arrived a
day or two before, he set out for home
reaching Westminster on the $50 train
Monday evening, not to live as many
hoped for even few days, allowing al
least those who knew him best to see
him in the fesh--but to be cold in the
hands of death in less than two short
hours thereafter.
The German Baptist Church, ofwhich
he was a Der, loses one of III
brightest examples. To him in larg'
measure was due the exertions that re
suited in the purchase of its house 0
worship in our city, and to him entlrel!
belongs the credit of the organization
of the Sunday School of which he wa
superintendent from its commencement
until his death. His loss to the schoo
is irreparable
DR.. Woodward leaves widow, Mar
tina j. daughter OF the late John Roo
OF this county (to whom he was mar
ried April 18th, 1866, and four child
ren.
On Thursday, followed to the grav
by large assemblage of friends fron
abroad and at home, he was laid ava
in the cemetery near the church of tn
Brethren at Meadow branch. The ex
ercises were conducted by Elders Sole
mon Stoner and VIM. H. Franklin, al
sisted by their ministerial colleagues
Amos Caylor and Joel Roop and az
propriate remarks ma'e on the las
clause of Numbers 23d chap. lot
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