The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-03-23

medicine 10 be administered and he is now
under arrest charged with having given her u
dose of poison. Mr.. AM Mrs. Walk had been
married 4 ve,rs and she was Just in the prime
of life. and being thus cut down IL Is Il SAD
blew to her husband and two small children,
both boys, one aged ) years ana the other SIX
weeks. They have the heartfelt sympathy
of "A host of MIR. Walk friends in this, his
bnyhood home. Her remains were taken To
Susnurhmna, Penn, for burial by the side
of her mother.
AT his resllence on Franklin ave-,
Ieyiugton, Mo-. at II o'clock =. IN Monday,
March IL. of paralysis Of the brain, DR..
PETER TEMPLE, aged u years.
DIR. Temple was a son of John Temple, II
Btptist minister, OF Hing William county.
Va. where he waJ born September, 1872.
lie graiuated in medicine IN The "J"iferSon'
! Medical School, at Philadelphia. in the class
of 1888; he returned to his native county,
King WiIlism, where he practiced his profess
SION until 1887. lie was MAJ RED To his pre-
SEM wife, Lucy W. Matthews. daughter of
John X. Matthews, attorney of Essex county
Va, May II, 1888. at Richmond. Va. After
his marriage, in 1855, he removed to the then
village of Chicago. again embarking in the
Ai'A-' "
ursctice of medicine. Here he accumulated
"A barge fortune bv dealing in real estate of
the embryo OF the present city of Chicago.
In ISIS he moved to Chillicothe, Illinois,
where he remained until 1913, when he came
to Franklin county, Mo-. and removed from
there TO Lafay cite county, Mo-, in 1913.
In the year 1860 he or ,duated IN homeopathic
medicine IN the Homeopathic College OF st
Louis, Mo, and WAS Il sincere adherent and
l successful practitioner of that sy stem OF medis
cine up to the time of his death, haying been
: in the practice of medicine for more than half
j Il century. lie wa9 u devoted and consistent
= member of the Christian church for fifty
three years, in which his seat was never
vacant. He was the father of ten children.
four sons and six daughters, three of whom
= have preceded him to the spirit world. He
was an indulgent, alfeciiOnate and devoted
father and husband and was idolized by all
Il his Children. The writer of this. after an
e every day intercourse with him for twenty
n years, has never heard him give utterance to
a harsh or angry expression, but was genial,
d gentle and afa5lc to all. with q kind word for
every one. Thus he lived and died without an
Il enemy.
y lllCnlOOHu, NTSlnids duu SHlCdSO iabSi
a. please copy.
:, - Near this city. March 1. Mrs BETTE
lie SMITH, wife OF Thomas IL. Smith, aged u
n years.
There are. in the Flora of this world, rare
plants, which, when transplanted to q les
favOring climate and nurtured under les
genial skies, do not bloom out in all the at
. ~tractive beauty that was their wont In thei
native home. So of persons, and so Of her t
H. whose blessed memory, as a friend alike, o
her days of sunshine aud Of sorrow, | brini
thiS tribute. Miss Elizabeth Dale was earl
left an orphan but was adopted by her uncle
,r MIR. DanielBrannin "A wealthy planter and wa
reared IN all the splendid uvuries OF an ele
;u giant southern home. Beautiful, alike in perso
-, and in character, she was also charming i
disposition. possessed of both native and cul
- tivated refinement, and all the sweet grace
-, so easily charmed her associates and won tn
y respect and affection Of all who met her.
- see med only Il process OF natural ~selectio
r.. for her to become a Christian,'' which sh
early did, and TO associate with Christia
people. AT Il mature age she was wpOed al
nn won by her now Borrowing husband, NJ
Thomas IL. Smith, then of New Castl
Nv. Il man of noole and generous impulse
=. aud among the number OF THOSE fifty CALF
-, the noblest work of God.' an honest ma
" HIS iather was only tile second citizen of Il
. county In point of wealth, and among Il
- first in point of honor and social positio
-, Thus beautiful, sweet, Bette Dale and Thorn
=, Smith VERY welded and started out togeih
Oh IIfe's further journey. About 1856, III
, cime 10 Missouri and purchased Il large far
-. in Il fertile portion of Saline county, IN It r
lined ommunltYO of people. where they part
reared II family OF daughters. Desiring
afford their children the educational adva
tagcs Of the Lexington schools. he sold /
farm, largely on credit and removed TO lie
Ington about the year 1871. Such was
- own perfect honesty, it did not occur to h
" thnt others were not equally go, and in Il
,o truthful spirit, he did not even record
deed of trust by which the deferred pu
meuts were secured and the purchaser 10
advantage OF this to sell the land and ma
~, a deed of trust to an Innocent man. where
Mr.. smith was reduced from wealth TO &C
paLiye poverty. Bat here the patient spi
,ho of his lovely wife, triad in the fires of adv
49,. sity. shone rs a beacon light to the small u
diminishing circle that knew her. Trou
b, thickened about her, after Il time, when
after another she followed several OF
81 children to the grave. Having known all
1Oi sweets of u luxurious home life, she co
y but long again. IN her Older life, for
I.s, comforts of a peaceful, permanent hor
.jIv Her pure spirit was being tried aS by lire
fitted all the better, perhaps, for the hom'
> tor the blessed, where "GOd shall wipe all tc
ROW from all ewes. and "where the weary are
+, a, rest" After twelve weeks of suffering on
will last bed of atllictiou, after she had eXhor
lday, neF sorlo"'nH nu,oan" '"ue'o''
Far OF us HE 10 Nou' her lIeeu 'p"' ''oh
heavenward flight TO the mansions of
,:gbt blest, aud il at home. M. ). l
,r.h Marshall, March -, 1889.