The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-09
TIE DAILY T1MEs-sUxDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1885,

T the hearing Of tho finest musi-ians {
turo'e, 20 loud and Garnet applause
ma iemarkable musician died uu.uar
ned, as dbl his sister Sarah, hut their re.
NAMING brother, Samuel, married and
transmitted some Of the ancestral
talents 10 his postcritv. lilo was the
seventh child OF Charles Wesley, and
although not quite 10 prccociov5 as III.
ofotncr Charles. could produce iaiii-
goo1 music at j years Of acc md gooa
@@,tcr ccAll supply tue tl75 to onT ali
u- li.y-I iI-m LIS iLn-I C-I-ciou-les5
bAt d-tLJll.tl Of Bristol viewed H..
a~tOi-i piis 81 those youAa Meslsss
Nith 0nN dung bat pleasure. and nttlc h..
lule thric grew up strained feeling be
tween tie two branches OF the Wesl4.
iahiitN. 80 much sO that the children oi
one branch objected very strongly to ait
he religious proceedings ~ the other
But This samuel Wesley. having more
practical sense than his brother Charlie
became q settled citizen aud married
Miss Charlotte Louisa Martin. daughter
Il the then demonstration OF anafom,
10 st. Thomas hospital in April. 1913
aud yet h. had 50 much Of the f.mil,
eccontficiiv dat he lived with h.,
two years before informing hi.
mother that lc had taken q partner
She died young and lp married aoair
about lelOand had sevcral more children.
he acquired some means hy The exercise
oi his talents, and ca his dcath bed
nc SAID tJ his son: Keep thy knowledge
Of Latin. remember the Ncslcys were an
gentlemen and scholars" Rev. Or.
Charles Wesley, sub-deac0n Of the
Chapel ROYAL. and Dr. samuel Sebastian.
Of Gloucester cathedral. were Sons Of
Tins Samuel Wc-lcy, and therefore grand.
scns OF Charles. and their scns now in
England ere the only representatives. by
name Of the once prolific Wesley family.
Charles Wesley. the poet. was born al
EPwofth lcct0fy Dec -. 1908. and died
IN London March 20, 1883. lie was edu.
Gated at " y-tminster school and at OK.
ford. and during all thc early and middle
part Oi his life pursued substantially the
same career as his brother John. and wa
50 closely associated with him that those
familiar Win Che lie Of john are nccos-
5auIv so with that OF Charles. HI
hymns and spiritual song. afe litciali
household word ia every country Whof
.hc English language is spoken: bul hi
personal cc,cntIicilios are. d. course
much less known Samuel. tie Ode
brother OF John, lelt but che surviving
hid. q daughter John married late l.
life and never became & father. Charles
having escaped fancy free I'll his tlt
felr. mafii. 4 Sarah Cvtale. thu ccCL
j. She YVES unusually Wt1 ,Gacatco
.or 'hc day I'D which eh. lived, cnd haC
llWett N1ic. and good musical tr4inipg
In l,J. their eldest son Wac bonn AID,
named John Tie surprised every OH
by hunming tunes and beating time
correctly when only f. months DID, 10
lied soon ancr wit, the smallpox. and
ID nothcr, who had never J1ea ysCcin.
Ted was SD horribly dhileU,i by The
shCasc that from being noted bCaut'
she lccamc almost absolutely repuCnant
IN 1851 another BON wa born, tAe note.
md musical OhMlts, thcu daughter.
SARAH Their tnec subsequent children
died in infancy Mr. Wesley lass ac
customea o .oo,he her lOneinesi anc
lwu-e her babe BY playing on the harp
sichorl, and before At.le Charles could
peak he showed ~ sense o. complete
mes by taking her Lett hand and placing
it On the instrument Nhenev~i lAt
PLAYED The ueble with her night hand
alone She soon found that when al,
tel MIN m chair toiOl~ th1 Laip
sicLoll ~ could amus~ hiMsoii, at e.,
three y,aIs of age he could play.
Oh Chaile5 Wesley. the po5j, lis.le
need h SAD 80 -dIlDcn a5 his ~IitiIsss
~, lis history. With Il brother John
be went IS a minister to Georgia, and
bcilg unable 90 cary cat thel. stl.ct
ideas oT discipline, returned - Europe
AItel lis marriage lac confined lis l-Ccl=
mostly ~ ondcu and vicinity