The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-07
Death of Joseph A. Dusang.


After twelve days of intense suffering
from a stroke of paralysis, death came
to the relief of Joseph A. DuSang, Cash
Ter of the First National Bank, at the
residence of Levi Silver, on east IsraeI
street, on Sunday evening last at about
SO o'clock, in the 74th year of his age,
Mr.. DuSang was born in Hagerstown.
Washington county, Maryland, October
31st, 1909. His father was q French.
man, who came into this country about
the year 1894, and settled near Lancas-
ter, Pa. The subject of this notice left
home when quite a youth and made his
way into Dayton, O., where he served
as a clerk in a dry goods house a few
years and then emigrated to New Or
leans, went into a commission house as
book-keeper a short time, then teller in
the State Bank of Louisiana until 1851,
when he left the Bank and went to Jack
son, Mississippi, where he took charge
of q plantation and remained in that
place until 1858, in which year the raw
ages of the yellow fever were very fatal
in the town. Fourteen gentlemen OF
Jackson met together and formed an as
ISOLATION to attend to the sick so long as
their services were needed. Out of the
number eleven took the fever-among
them the deceased, and was the only
one spared from its fatality! In speak
ing of this event the MISSISSIPPI STATE
GAZETTE, of Sept. %, 1858, said:
eve desire particularly to return the
heartfelt thanks of the community to MIR.
DuSang, paymaster of the New Orleans
Railroad. He is a strangerin our midst,
scarcely known by sight to a score of our
people. No persuasion could induce him
to leave on the appearance of the epide-
mic, but although from the ~up-country
and unacclimated here, he was one of
the first to volunteer to nurse the sick,
and has done SO a~ssiduously ever since.
A more noble-hearted, generous man
does no, breathe, and so transformations
is his goodness, that WI know we offend
him by giving thus publicity to his
name"
After nursing yellow fever subjects for
about thirty-fve days, and passing
through the attack of the fatal scourge
himself, he returned to the city of Day
ton, and in the summer Of 1854 located
in Eaton as teller in the Preble county
branch of the State Bank of Ohio, where
he remained to the day of his death,
with the exception of an interruption of
a few months, spent in the city of Day
ton in an effort to settle up the estate of
a deceased friend of that city. Being
unmarried, he leaves no family, and of
family relatives known to the writer,
only q half brother living heal Muncie,
Ind.
Mr.. DuSang possessed many remark
able characteristics. In his likes and
dislikes of men he was equally positive
and pronounced. With the same zeal
and determination that he would pursue
an enemy, would he cling to a friend
He was in manners; generous and
kind, his hand and purse was always
open to the wants of the needy or the ap-
peals of humanity, and no man stood
IN our community for honesty and
integrity. But we shall see him no more
as we have been accustomed to see him
for over a quarter of a century, as he
went in and out among US. Death could
have taken no one of our citizens who
would be more missed by the old, the
middle aged and the young of our place,
than will the deceased. The public will
miss him in his place of business and in
its accustomed rounds. When the tree
the thick forest falls, it leaves but a
small opening, and the kindly arms of
neighboring trees repair the breach, but
when a landmark is taken away, those
who have known it feel the loss of that
which had grown so familiar. The life
has gone out was a landmark in the
of this community.
Kind neighbor, genial companion, 10y
friend, we shall realize that there is a
vacant place in the circle of those we
loved and respected, that "a never be
flled-a link dropped from the golden
chain of friendship never to be restored
on earth. Your life race was well run
your life battle well fought-and we trust
you have gone to that land of promise
where they tell us we shall all ''meet
again on that beautiful Shore"
His funeral took place Tuesday after
noon at 2 O'Clock. Services at the Pres
byterian church, by Revs. J. H. Brat
ton and w. H. Orr.