The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-02-21
The Burial Of Bill Terrell
Another Gore OutraEe.-In.
suit to the Dead.

Bill Terrell died in the Col
umbus penitentiary OH last Fri
day. 1t was first proposed to
bury him at Flint station, where
his sisters reside, but his relatives
requested that he be buried by
the side of his mother at Gore
cemetery.
His remains were brought
down on the morning train and
taken to Gore.
About four hundred people
were present. The trustees of
the cemetery refused to allow
interment IN the grave yard. Mr..
Culver proposed that he be bur-
led in the old grave yard. His
uncle offered to pay the trustees
fifty dollars for privilege of in
[terment by his people.
On a high hill on the old home
farm on a spot overlooking the
scene of the Weldon murder. and
overlooking The Humble home of
his youth, his bones lie mingling
with mother earth. That earth
which, sooner or later, will open
her arms to receive US all, has
folded him to her bosom, accord
ing to him the. same rest that is
given to kings, and 10 saints
She makes no distinction, but
fulfills the decree of God, that
all must return to dust. 1t mat
tiers not to Billy Terrell nor to
any of us where his remains are
buried; whether in the most
costly sepulehre, or in the OBJ
scure and neglected. grave Of the
Potter's Field. 1t matters not
to him whether his obsequies are
chanted in the vaulted isles by
christian voices or whether the
bleak night winds wall a sad re-
QUEEN around his despised sep
ulchre. His body has served the
purpose for which God created
it, a tenement for the immor-
tai soul. That soul has returned
to God who gave it, and that.
same God has delivered the body
to christian men in a civilized
community for decent burial
and they, in the face of the pitt
ful pleading of Billy Terrel's grief
strlken sisters, have refused to
permit his body to be buried in
the little church yard at Gore,
where his father and mother are
at rest. And this because he
was convicted of murder, and
died a life convict in the Ohio
penitentiary. This is christiani-
ty in the nineteenth century
Shades of Apostles and Saints
preserve us !!
Alas for the rarity
Ofchristian charity
Under the Sun!
Oh, it was pitiful,
Near whole city full,
Grave he had none!
Grant that he was a murderer;
has he not suffered the severe
penalty of just laws Has he
not suffered the penalty of a just
and righteous Gods That God
has the soul of Billy Terrell in
Judgment, and will deal with it =,
in the realms of eternity accord +
ing to his own immutable laws !;
with the body He has nothing to ,
10; that is the mission of the !;
christian people of Gore, his for ,
mer home. g..
To them is entrusted the NOR !;
al and legal duty of giving him Z
decent, christian burial. Billy !
Terrell was his mothers only son. ,
he pride of her household, the =
oy Of home and the hope of her :,
declining years. How fondly ,
The loved him was best shown in .
ler wonderful devotion to him :
n his terrible trial, and in her :,
lwful sorrow at his adjudged ,
guilt and sentence to punish E
nent. She is dead. 1t is we'll, =
or, perhaps, if she had been liv- !,
ng on Monday, when this wrong E
vas perpetrated, she would have 9
allen crushed and lifeless be- :,
leath the terrible humiliation y y
md outrage. That she was a =
no one will deny, and o
although summoned in an in Il
tant by the grim monster death, =
vas prepared to meet her God. a
N the little church at Gore for :
nearly half a century she wor-
hiped at the altar of God. There g.
he labored in the Sabbath School t
o train her boy and the children r
If the parish in tie paths of y
and many Ii sc to- Z
lay in that community who are a
,etter men and women through Il
he christian teachings and ex a
lmple of Mother Terrell. Let US u :.
hank Heaven that she was not a
living, but that the gross insult p
ell alone upon her lifeless dust. IL
Silly Terrei had two sisters who a
10 10 of all the family survive .
lin. They were present, and c
,esging that his poor remains, be T.
Inferred beside those of his faith n
+ and mother, but their plead II II
ngs were of no avail; their cries s.
ell upon ears Of stone, and the n
leathen wretches, in addition to V
he insult to the d cad. most cru 81