The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-10-10
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Philadelphia Special to the Chicago Tunes.
The Kew. Joshua PrOvine Bond Ed
dy is dead. For years he had lived
the life of miser, in filth and vermin
and rags. He will I've hurled OH Fri
day, and will leave behind him for
tune of upwards of 800 900. Eddy
was cOlo-ed man, and lived in the
midst of 10000 negroes. at No. 511
South street. The house is little bet
ter than a shanty, leans rs if it would
topple over, and there is hardly
whole window pane. People who
went into the shanty to-day found
there broken table and two or three
rickety chairs. and that was all there
was in the way of furniture. A heap
Of rags in one corner was the bed up
on which the rich old miser had slept
for years. 1t was covered with YER
min, and the whole place was lthy in
the extreme. Although worth $780,
900, Eddy denied himself every COM
fmt. He dressed in rags and made
his meals off refuse and garbage. And
i'm winter he shi7ered and shook with
cold and counted up his gains. His
history is a remarkable one. He was
born in 1889, in Virginia, and his pa
rents we're slaves. The boy was sent
to Pennsylvania at twenty years of
age, and at Gainesville learned the
barber trade. Then he took up relig-
ion and travelled about as a preacher
with the sanction of the famous Bishop
Allen. He became an elder in New
York and was placed over eight
churches, and travelled over the cir
cult from Elizabethtown, n. j., to
Mount Holly. During this time he
became enamoured of Bishop Aliens
daughter, and after a short courtship
they were married. After his mar
rage he became DESTROYS of having
local position, and settled down in
Columbia, Pa. This was 1920. He
remained there few years ami then
came to Philadelphia. Soon he found
that his wife was untrue to him, and
divorce suit followed. The discovery
broke Eidy's heart. His only solace
was in collecting money, and he grew
to love it better than anything else.
His passion for boarding became ma
MIA. He worked hard at the BARRIERS
chair, and put his money into houses
and lands, until at the time of his
death he owned thirty seven houses in
different parts of the city, nine in
Cam,ien, two farms somewhere else in
New Jersey, some property in Frank
fort and some in Chester. There is
other property scattered about here
and there. A generation has grown
up since Eddy has been living In the
South street shanty. Every man,
woman aid child for miles around
knew him, but he cared nothing for
them, and had not a friend among
them. Every day old man Eddy
would hobble about the streets in his
filth and rags. Three weeks ago he
was missed. aud then people began to
inquire of each other what had become
of him. Finally some one more cour-
ageous than the rest ventured into the
filthy shanty, and the news spread
that the old man was lying on his pile
of rags very sick. Eddy had broth
er living OH Vine street, and he was
notified, but the old man could not
be removed. and surrounded by dirt.
and in the midst of squalor, he died.
The news was spread by the brother
to day. who took the body away to
prepare il for the grave. Although
Eddy had been a minister, he gave
up all his gospel teachings after his
divorce. Someone once had the te-
merity of asking him to subscribe for
a charitable object, but the old man
turned ON his heel and hObbleI of.
lie was never known to weep but once.
although what he did in his shanty is
of course, beyond revealing A few
years ago the wife of his youth died.
She had been twice married since the
divorce. He went and looked in her
coffin, and tears rolled down his
cheeks. He had not lived with her
for forty years The death of Eddy
removes an old landmark. There was
will. and it will be probated in
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