The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-06-09
A Tribute to Our Parents,

NEW YORK, June 9Th, 1883.
On Wednesday, May %, among sympa.
thising friends, at the home of our child.
hood, we paid the last sad rites OF tilial af.
lection to our dear Mother, and she now
sleeps beside our honored Father.
The vacant chair where she was wont to
sit, with the Bible upon her lap, and her
gentle voice of recognition that welcom ed
us at eventide, now silent, proclaim to our
sad hearts that she is gone.
She was one of the dearest Mothers that
ever lived; no trouble could shake her un-
daunted courage, but she would meet il
with accomplishing tortitude, which be-
spoke her heroic spirit.
To our Mother we were always as child
rem, and loved her with an affection that
words are inadequate to express. But while
" our eyes drop tears as fast as the Arabian
tree its medicinal gum" yet is there for us
this consolation: She could say with St.
Paul" The time for my departure is at
hand. | have fought good fight, l have
finished my course, | have kept the faith;
hencefnrth there is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness, which the Lord, the right
eous Judge, shall give to me at that day;
and not to me only, but unto all them also
that love His appearing"
Farewell, dear mother and flights of
angels sing thee to thy rest!''
Six years ago our Father died in the bright
hope of blessed immortality. We laid
him to rest in the little churchyard of the
Presbyterian Church, at Elkton, Md, a
place sacred to us by the associations of our
boyhood days. We and the friends who
knew our dear Father intimately, could
say" His life was gentle; and the ele-
ments so mixed in him that Nature might
stand up and say to all the world: This
was mani"
OF the friends of Fathers early manhood,
how few are left! Col. Groome, Albert Con-
stable, Ohio Scott, Noble Pennington, VIM.
Knight, Augustus Rowland, Samuel b.
lamar, James ii. lamar, H. c. Mackall,
H. d. Miller, Thomas and Jacob Howard,
Coils. William and Samuel HollingswOrth,
William and Henry Gilpin, Thos. Ricketts,,
George Mccullough, the genial and warm
hearted friend, one whom every boy in
town loved; Thomas Boulder, Col. Whann,
William ii. Ricketts,, DIR. Amos Evans, Dr.
Wallace, DIR. Parker, Joseph Nathan, Sam
uel Miller, Andrew Harvey, Thomas and
Joseph Miller, Norris Lewis, Robert NJ
Walmsley, and many others, are all gone
Many of these gentlemen were talented,
and all respected citizens. What a grand
physician was DIR. Amos Evans. In our
mind we can see him now sitting erect ON
his bay horse, and going out in the heat,
cold, or driving storm, on his GRAND of
mercy; had he lived in Il cosmopolitan city
his fame would have been as noted as the
great Abernethy, or Sir Ashley Cooper The
people of Elkton have been fortunate in
having skillful physicians, past and pres
ent. Another name comes up with grateful
remembrance:-Mr. ThOrp, our teacher at
the Academy. He was indeed gentleman
and scholar; his soul was in his effort to
enlighten and ennoble the minds and man
ners of the youth under his charge. He
would have been az honor to Elton, Oxford
or Cambridge.
There are few of the old guard" left
in Elkton and vicinity, but very few, and
they are declining in the vale of years. Lot
US respect, reverence and love them, as they
were the friends and companions of our
Parents, who have already passed beyond
the River. DANIEL w. MCCAULEY,
HUGH b. MCCAULEY.