The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-12-15
FUNERAL Of Hon. ALEXANDER EVANS
Impressive Service at ms Relationships
course of Rev. VIM Schouler-The Distin-
guished Dead Attended to his Last Resting
Place by the Distinguished Living.

Impressive Service AT ms Residence-Dls
course of Rev. VIM schouler-The Distin
guished Dead Attended to his Last Resin:
Place by the Disting uished Living.
The funeI al of Hon. Alexander Evan.
was held on Saturday afternoon at two
O'Clock from his late residence in this
town. A large number of friends and
relatives attended. The impressive service
of the Protestant Episcopal Church was
read by Rev. VIM. Schouler. The Rev
ereud Gentleman also made the following
address:
We meet to-day in the house of mourn
ing to pay the tribute of tender remem-
brance to a long time friend, neighb or
and fellow citizen; giving expression at
for those upon whom Deaths visitation
| falls heaviest.
| The mortal stroke in this instance
comes not without warning. For weeks
the prospect of fatal result to protracted
and wasting illness has confronted family
and friends. To those who miuistered with
faithful assiduity and devotion to the
sufferers needs, there is granted the life
long remembrance of the privilege accor-
ded of smoothing the passage of loved
one toward the brink of that stream that
bounds these earthly shores. May the
compassionate One who is "a Father of
| the faCherless and defendeth the cause of
the widow" reward their fidelity by miu-
| istering to them of His choicest blessings;
preparing them for the greater reward in
the better country that lies beyond;
and making Himself near in the day
| of bereavement as tender Parent;
| a sympathizing Friend and Brother in
the Divine Redeemer; nearer than the
neacest of earth can be, sharing our most
intimate condolences; an inward Com
forter in the good Spirit whom He hath
sent.
They who sorrow most deeply to-day
need no reminder of the heaviness of the
loss which has fallen to their poi ton
through the Divine allotment. The quail
tiles that endeared the departed to those
who knew him SO long and SO we'll, as
husband, father, or brother, they can
best understand and appreciate. He was
a man emiuently of domestic tastes; fond
of his home, seldom absent from those
he loved best. Those who have lived in
,orcnn,1 oScnpiat inp
with him as neighbor and fellow citizen can
bear witness to his kindness of heart aud
his sterling integrity; his Indignation at
injustice and wrong; his impotence with
shams; his retiring modesty as we'll. For
my own part, the memories of past
years will recall his kindness and
personal interest aud cordial express
sions, while furnishing the data that
formed the basis OF judgment as to char
acter qualities. We may profit by his
example of unselfishness, his desire to do
integrity as citizen. and in the dis
charge of public trusts. His noted career
as advocate; his eminent services as a
member of the National Legislature; all
this is an open record; one IN which his
native town and county, the State, too,
whose interests he served both at home
and abroad, may take a just and becom-
ing pride.
The recent past has been sadly fruitful
to US as community in visitations by
the destroyer that have removed from
our midst prominent citizens of an elder
generation. To those who remain to
cheer us by word and example there
comes the reminder of life's uncertain
ties IN view of an ever contracting circle.
And to all indeed. For we have learned
too well that death spares neither youth
nor age in his ingatheTings. Citizens of
higher and enduring kingdom seek we
then to be; serving the Lord Christ;
fulfilling Gods beueticent designs that
have regard to the interests, IN the most
comprehensive sense, of community,
country, and of mankind at large; mind.
full of the limitations that our brief NOR
tai life imposes; and laboring with all
diligence while it is called to-day.
The interment was made in the family
lot in the Elkton Presbyterian Cemetery.
The active pall-bearers were VIM. J.
Jones, Albert Constable, Clinton McCul
Tough, John NJ. Miller, DR.. Charles NJ.
Ellis and Adam R. Magraw. the honor
airy pall-bearers were ]. A. J. Creswell.
James B. Groome, Judge Frederick
Stump. Judge James McCauley, John
Prentice Poe, of the Baltimore Bir and
Henry L. Cav, of Philadelphia The
members of the Cecil County Bar at
tended in body, walking next to the
pall-bearers.