The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-05-18
THE TOMB.

Died-In Sni-a-B Bar township. May 1870 old
age and general debility. Mrs. WIN. WHIT
SET, aged about so years.
- In Odessa, May 10. of kidneay and
heart troubles, after II long Illness, MIR. JOHN
NJ. EWING. aged 81 years.
Mr.. Ewing was among the earliest settler
of the county and was highly respected by
all who knew him.
- 1t his homo, near Morton. Ray county.
Mo-, May D, Mr.. GEO. w. DAVIS, aged so
years
MIR. Davis was born in North Carolina, and
came to Missouri while quite u young man,
settling in Freedom township. Lafayette
county, where he remained several years. He
then moved to Dover township where he re-
NAMED until 1876, when he moved to Ray
county, Five children survive him, viz:
Mesdames Kuntz and Cooper, Of Dover, Mrs.
Cole, of Freedom, A. Y. Davis. of Ray coun-
ty, and Jas. Davis, OF Springfield, Mo. Mr..
Nathsiel Davis who died Il few years since,
near Corder, was also II son Of the deceased.
| Nearly 10 years ago the subject of this sketch
united with the Methodist church and from
that time until his death he lived q consistent
and exemplary Christian life. Peace to his
ashes.
- At her home near Higginsville, Mo-,
March 81. Mrs. CAROLINE CARTER, aged
10 year. 10 months and II days.
Mrs. Caroline Carter was born June IS,
1913, joined the church at II. and was mar
| ried October, 1888, to Nathaniel Carter with
whom she moved to Lafayette county, Mo,
| IN 1888, where she lived ill the time OF her
death. She was a true wife, a wise and
patient mother, q kind neighbor and a faith
full Christian. She said little, made few
demonstrations. but daily acts of dlsinterest-
ed devotion showed that she loved her neigh
Dor, her church and her God. To her pastor
she was a constant inspiration. she has gone
to her reward, she is with her adorable Re-
deemer, and doubtless He has already said of
her, '.She hath done what she could"
The Lord watched between us and thee.
mother Carter, while we are absent one
from the other" and until we meet thee in
our heavenly home. b.
A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved Is stilled;
A place Ia vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
God In His wisdom As recalled,
The boon His Ioye had given;
And though the body mDulderS here,
The soul Is safe in Heaven,
Major John N. Edwards:-1he press of the
state has given voice to the sorrow felt at the
death of this accomplished journalist and
elegant writer of his mother tongue. 1t is
not TO late for a friend whose friendship was
born amid the messenger Of death to place u
chapter on the tomb of one who though gone
from sight, can never be forgotten. He was
to the writer all that was noble and true in
manhood, aud his memory will be cherished
until the hand now penning this tribute shall
alike be cold in death. How sudden it all
came. l had just written a letter to him in
Producing u young relation, when the sad di
patch came to me in my cottage home, IN tht
Wayne county hills, (painfully too late to al
tend his funeral). II struck at my heart like
the dull thud of a trip hammer, deadenine
sensation Comparatively so Young, so fearless,
so mugnanim0us, so warm hearted, with thu
esteem OF all and the love of those who truely
knew him, Major Edwards without pre-.
mOnition is called from this bright and beau
tiful world, which to US seems less beautiful
Than before. To the writer there il an empt,
chair that can never be filled. | knew hiu
"a hih H. , III bihLCu Gu
On the march, In battle, in bivouac, in foreign
lands. IN business life, in the home circle
every where he was to me the same goot
noble man. He WAS to me the ideal man
and out side OF kindred blood, the deares
frienl [ had ON earth. When that sad dis
patch from a warm friend of his announced
his death, tears would start from the prompt
inSs of "a heart that loved him., with II low
' that passeth show" and not q line can b,
written or Il syllable spoken in his praise tina
Is undeseryed. As Il soldier he was brave
3 faithful and true; rs an editor was original
trenchant, fearless auI honest; as an autho
picturesque, vivid. aud with a style boil
. fascinating and dramatic You can hear tn
roll Of drums, the tread of marching squad
r rOns, the bugle call and the sound of battl
= In his books. pathOs, energy and vigOrOu
. J description combined with the play Of hume