The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-31
.u1DGE BI,ACK DEAD.
Death OF Judge Jere 8. Black OF
Pennsylvania, Who Passed Away
NVitha prayerO on His Inns.

Death OF Judge Jere 6. Black OF
Pennsylvania. Who Passed Away
With Prayer on His Lips.
York, Pa, Special Telegram, Aug, ~.
| Brockie is in mourning. Judge Black, the
the central figure OF Brockie, lies coio ID
| death. His deal was peaceful anf calm,
| aud his %eventful life went out beautiful az
| the setting OF a summer sun upon ne cioao-
| less sky. His death was a courageous one,
and in hope of a blessed immortality. AT
2l5 o'clock he breathed his last. Kissing
his wife coed. bye, he turned over on hls
side, and with a smile playing upon his lips
| he passed away His two sons, Gnauncey
F. and Henry, his daughter, Mrs. Hornsby,
AID bis son-in.law, Mr.. Hornsey, ami a. +.
F%arqnhar. were present wheh
the vital spark fed. Shortly before death
had laid his icy hands upon him. ne spoke
with confidence of the future, saying to his
son Chauncy he had no fear OF crossing the
dark river when his Heavenly Father
awaited him on the other shore. ending,
Il would that | were as comfortable about
what / leave behind in the world" Whes
| his beloved wife knelt by his bedside CONF
| forting him with her sympathy and love,
| he gave utterance to the following impress.
sive prayer: "Ob, bot NJ ost beloved and
mercitul heavenly Father, from whom /
had my being, and in whom I have ever
trusted, if it be thy will, grant thai my srf-
feriDg end and that / be called home 20
thee. And oh bless and comfort thou my
Mary"
The judges illness only dates from! Mon
dry last, and fr m the first appr0aoh of the
! fatal and painful disease, lie was perfectly re-
| signed, feeling that it would terminate fatal
". After his case became critical and it was
| found necessary to resort to a surgical cper-
alton, he observed that the doctors were in
council, and asked its import. They told
him of the intended operation, and tina,
they had asked the consent at the family.
Good hunloredly and with mis- accustomed
Wit, he remarked:
You have reckoEPd without your most |
am the victim and the only one to be cor
suited. l Will not submit. l cen hold OF.
unit! Drs. Aztec and Garnet can be SUM-
moned in consultation.
Agreeabiy to the judges desire the doc.
tors were brought and he consented to the
operation. 1t vas successfully performed,
but blood poisoning followed, which was
the imHlediaie cause of his death. All
through his sickness, although suffering in
tense agony, he was cheerful, aud ais great
mind gave vent III frequent sGtuIiiistiohs of
witty u'teranceS, ard at times he repeated
selections from his layorite althGrs. Bfp-
ants Tnanatopsis aud the words 81 Lady
Mac eth. Ia bis dying moments the jurist
lost none of his force OF character, mis- GEM
all;y and brightness Of disposition, nud has
flow Of language, when not under The infU.-
ence OF op'ates. Judge Black suffered
greatly dutnlg his Illness, but bis last mo-
ments were without acute pain, and
he passed quietly away, retaining CON
sciou>ness within a few minutes of his
death.
jeremiah sullivan Black was born i'll
Somerset county, Pa Jan. 10, 1910. HIS
ancestors came from the north OF IrelaLd
and settled near the present site OF York,
the seventeenth century. His father, Henry
Black, being a farmer, Jerry, as he was
tamiliarly called, passed his early Yeas
upon the virgin fields of the clearing
among the glades," and his love of rural
life remained with him through all his days.
1t also fixed his religious faith and turned
him to the Campoelli,e church, which he
Joined at the age OF twenty-eight. He re-
ceived his inst nind-training in the schools
about his own home, blu he com.
pieted his studies ut a private acad-
emy in Fsyette county. He had at i'm
mems legal prac ice from the first and in
1888 he married Miss Mary Forward, his
p-eceptors daughter, who survives hin1.
In lS42 Gov. Porter appointed him Judge
of Common Pleas. He was made CHIEF
justice of the supreme court of the State in
1851. by drawing the short term of three
years after having been chosen upon the
ticket with Lewis, Groson, Lowery, and
Coulter, under the new constitutional pro-
vision, making the judges elective. In
1854 he was re elected 10 the supreme
bench by a large majority. Afterwards
he became Attorney General of the United
States under Mr.. Buchanan. Judge Blacks
loyalty during those trying months is un.
questionable. The late member of that
cabinet, furnished in January, 1877, a writ
en- tribute to Judge Blacks answering
loyalty during that period: and Judge Holt
another Of his cabinet colleagues, has said:
mo man could nave been more ardent or
earnest i'll his attachment to the union or
more persisten; in urging those things cal.
culated to save ii from the designs Of the
southern men than Judge Black"
rs q lawyer be was considered one of the
greatest IN the country. Two years ago
he published a vigorous Gelense of the
Christian religion in the North American
Review against the onslaughts of Robert G.
lngersoll.