Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-08
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ter of Mr.. Christian Auber, aged 4 months.
- In Sni-a-Bsr township, Lafayette
county, Mo-, August 3, infant daughter of
Mr.. j. A. Swetnam.
AT Alma, Lafayette county, Mo-, Au-
gust 8, youngest child OF Mr.. Charles Busch
mann. 4
- In Clay township. Lafayette county, '
Mo-, August 8, of old age and general debIli-
ty, Mr.. LEVI SCRIBNER, aged 81 years.
- At Odessa, Lafayette county, Mo-,
August 8, Mr.. BERRY CHEATHAM, son
of Mr.. W. T. Chestham, aged 81 years.
- At Brownsville, Saline county, Mo-,
July %. of tumor of the bowels, Mrs. WILL
Small, aged % years.
Mrs. Armstrong and her husband formerly
resided in this county, near Wellington.
- In this city, August 4. JAMES
MCPHERSON, colored, aged about 60 years.
He was we'll known to many Of our citi-
zens and died after a protracted and painful
illness.
- In this city, August 3, of pneumonia
and perltonitis. after q long and painful ill
ness, RICHARD, son of Richard and Fanny
Field, aged 8 years.
The child was known by nearly all of our
people. and by his manly bearing and frank,
ingenious disposition had won the good
will of everyone, so that his illness ELECTED
the interest and sympathy of the entire COM
nudity. OF very few persons in sickness are
so many kindly inquiries made as daily occur
red while he battled with death. For nearly
three weeks the struggle was a desperate one.
| Once it seemed as il the hand of the destroyer
had been stayed, but again hs returned to the
encounter and finally triumphed. So the boy
is dead. The parents are bereft of him here,
but they have him there, in that heavenly
mansion where an is beauty and peace, no
trials, no pains, no suffering, no temptation.
Pure and innocent here, he will remain so
there forever and forever; and with his sis
ter, May, who died at about his own age, will
await the day of r%e-unio with the father and
mother, brother and sisters that loved him so
while he was with them. 1t is a beautiful
thought-the Christians hope. And then to
the mother, for who can feel as does she :
there is the further comfort that immortalized
as children, come what may, she will have
two children in heaven. The others will
grow up. They will be men and women;
they will be father and mothers and have their
loves and trials, and other beings and other
circles will claim their thoughts as man and
women. But May and Richard. They will
always be mothers's darlings, mothers chill
dren! 1t seems cruel now to have taken
them, cruel aud hard, but may not the day
come when it will prove to be blessed! God
knows; and he is a loving father. Then, at
best, what is life? A span a breath; and full
of pain and misery and sin. The boy was
pure; he was innocent; he was shielded by
the loving hearts and hands of Cody people.
} but what then? Could they save him from
trouble, from suffering, from temptation and
from sin? No, no. 1t is better SO, else God
would not have called him away. Still
human hearts must feel, and it is hard to give
up our loved ones. How hard Qone can know
but those who themselves have loved and
: been bereft.
The funeral took place from the Presbyter-
! ian church, last Tuesday afternoon, al 4
O'Clock. Mr.. Leyburn preached an eloquent
and feeling sermon. The boy was to him
D almost as his own, sharing rs ne did the
5 sports, studies and more serious duties oil
his son of the same age, aul none could have
D been in that large congregation without being
D touched aud benefited by what was said.
. Mrs. Davis sang the hymns exquisitely, and
Y the entire service was most beautifully solemn
v and impressive. The very large attendance
y was the best possible attestation of the great
= sympathy which was felt for the athlete q
n family.