The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-12
THE TOMB.

MOsBY. aged "a years.
- At Butte City, Montana, September
20, of pneumonia, Mrs. ANNA ODONNELL'
aged so years.
Her remains arrived in this city Sunday
and the funeral was preached In the Catholic
church, BY Rt. Rev. j. j. Lilly.
- Suddenly, at Montrose. Henry county.
Mo-, on Saturday, October B., after years OF
suffering, while returning from EldOradO
Springs, where he had been for his health.
Mr.. HARLEY KLINE, son Of Peter Kline,
aged 90 years.
He was an honest and honorable man and
his many friends in the central and western
portion OF the county will greatly sympatbize
with his aged father in the loss of his only
child.
- At his residence, In Dover township,
October 10. Of cancer OF the stomach, Mr..
JOHN JOHNSON, aged about 80 years..
Mr.. Johnson was one of our Oldest and
| wealthIest citizens. The Commercial bank,
| of this city, Of whose board Of directors he
was an influential member, was closed In his
| honor Yesterday. His remains were buried
at Dover yesterday.
- In Chicago, Ills, October Sd, after a
short illness, Mr.. GEO. BUCK.
Mr.. Buck was a prominent druggist Of that
city from 1850 until the time OF his death,
and was well known throughout the country
and Is well spoken Of by the newspapers.
He was the father OF Mr.. Chas. J. Buck,
who was married to Miss Johanna Kriehn, of
this city ga short while ago. and who now
resides In Denver, Col.
u
Mary II. Ustick Thistle died at her home
In Columbia, Mo-, Sept. 81, 1889. As ms
dear sister departed this life away from her
native town and county, far removed from
the friends OF her childhood and earlier
womauhood, l feel that 1t would be u COM
fort to )ur dear friends Ia Lafayette county
to know something OF her last days; so have
decided to perform this painful yet loving
task.
Dear sister was Ill for nearly three months,
and though she had the very best medical
aid from physicians in Mob erly and Colum-
bia. who, we believe, did all that lay In
human power, her disease grew constantly
worse, and her sutlerings were intense.
, Never excitable she received the intelligence
|, OF her dangerous condition calmly and quiet
ly, saving she was willing TO go, II 1t were
Gods will, but 1t was hard for her to leave
3 her children alone in the world. orphaned
0 indeed, without father or mother.
Her minister came often to prav and talk
with her; 10 him she spoke freely, often re-
GREETING she had not lived nearer the cross.
duu COsiIl " VIZ ~ NhS tse"p" VI s"N
= Christian faith.
:, She "set her house in order" made all her
u earthly arrangements, gave charges TO be-
children, and gave all directions in regard to
, her funeral. asking TO be taken back to our
u home in Dover, and be laid beside her hus-
. band, and with our dear father and our other
d loved ones.
q She had only been living In Columbia two
wears, yet she received so much tender and
kind attention from the people OF that city,
that we as u fs oily feel greatly endeared to
4 them, ami shall always remember and thank
them Cor their loving care to our suffering
dying sister.
death, sister grew suddenly worse; mother
was already with her. then. one by one. ali
u our sIster-band was gathered to her bedside
Is once more to see her face In the flesh, Il
Z hear her voice, and. to follow her to TIT
brink of the dark river that should separate
Us always in this life. Her son to :, for whom
l. she had PRAYED 80 earnestly, had come, and
with delight she clasped him in her arms
=, saying: MY dear boy, | have lived two
" weeks to see you"
,r ON Saturday evening. Sept. 10Th. as she fel
her end was near, she desired to be prOppe,
up 10 her bed, that she might see and speal
" with oil her family and friends. She said
al ~ he blessed hour Is come. and all Is bright
b, [ am glad to die, 1 have read and known Q
so many happy Christian deaths, and | hav'
been praying 30 much that l might have tina
happy experience in my last moments, an
IL God has answered my prayer. IL has come
or all Is bright, and happy; the way is as clea
-, as the MONDAY sun; all Is bright before me.
" And browning out her thin, emaciatej hand
or she said, 'Ohl l am so happy, so happy; tn
n Is the happiest hour OF my life. 1t Is so muc
better to die when the way Is clear" TheI
one by one. she called all her friends VIII
ne were present to her, thanked them for the
y. kindness, bid them good bye and had thel
NO promise to meet her in heaven. The minis
&c iers who came in she requested to p aS
llb Az - ln. l4,n, 10 than, lad fhnE
n good bye, with the request 'meet me
ass heaven" Then she took the hand Of her DEF
IN doctor ia hers; he had been like u father
her; she thanked him so much for his cal
aud tenderness, and begged him to meet hi
ed in heaven; not one person about the hou'
~. was forgotten. She said, "tell everybody
meet me In heaveD"-one by one she kisst
each dear sister goodbye, sending a loyit
lul word TO every brOther-in.law, and to ever
OF one, by name, of our respective children wi
IN, this special word to all meet me In heaven
- aud with the same loving request she kis-t
.9n dear mother goodbye. And, AS her thr'
children, in grief and anguish. hung ov
Ids their dying mother, with her arms abO
ew them she said: my dear children, Will "
promise to meet me in hesyen" and as tn
promised, she seemed to feel that God won
~. surely bring them all safely home. She SAL
err ''it is only a little step 10 Heaven"
- After this rs her strength failed she seem'
to resign all her earthly interests. and espe
lAAlN W.
i'm to 90 back. like childhood, to mother, ralliI
,a only to her in her moments of pain. rs s.
ns slowly passed out of this life, till just beto
dIY she ceased to speak. rs we hung over her
to catch her last words, she whispered, "Hom
ri. home"
She had expressed Il wish to die ia the d
u time aud so IL came-a little alter Ell"
haa o'clock, n m. she hreatbed her last. As I
clouds parted ard the sun came out, h
happy spirIi, released from lis prison Of 81
and Its body Of suffering, winged its " y
our Fathers house on high. Sister il I
re- dead.
,rn at IL not death TO die,
TO leave this weary roIl;
pom And midst the brotherhood on high
An To be at home with God"
Eat She has only gone home, gone to meet G
t,ci dear departed loved ones. We have laid
n frail body IN the tomb, all that Is earthly
u VI her, to await the morning of the resurrrcti,
ppy the "voice OF the srchangcl, and the truI
e of of Cod" when this corruption shalt put
A.. interruption and this mortal shall rur on i
W.T. mortality; When together with all u no .,
our Lord Jesus we shall meet 10 par
the more. SARAH EASTWOOD