The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-05

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scythe Of destruction, aud at whose bid
ding the heart that has for these long
years been drumming the life march of
earth, has ceased TO perform its func.
tions. Thus another spirit has returned
unto God who gave it,
Still with eyes O'eiflowing with tears,
and heart full of emotion and sadness.
/ try to pen these lines as "A last tribute
of respect to the sacred memory of de
parted father, whose association during
his last days of earth had not the priv
iege of enjoying, and at whose obsequies
failed to be present.
o, the sad thought of that evening
when | received that awful mssive
whose first line says: Your father is
dead" Knowing that he was then bur
led. o, to realize that | am now an
orphan. The face and form that have
always met on visiting the old home of
my childhood, and who always met me
with fatherly welcome, is gone forever.
No more can hear his fatherly counsel,
or assemble under the parental roof and
hear him read from the old family bible,
and offer prayer for his wandering boy.
The tongue that has been ever ready
To give me counsel, the hand that
guided my footsteps and the eye that
has ever watched with vigilance my
pathway, is now stilled in death. Now
/ can only say farewell father; II long
earthly farewell For h, has entered
the fruition of his immortality. He has
answered the morning call of eternity.
He has heard the master say: at is
enough; come up higher"
ANIREw KAsH, the subject Of this
sketch, was born on II farm, near where
the town of Daysboro now is in Wolfe
(then Morgan) county, KY. on Sept. 4th
1919, aud died at his home about two
miles from his birthplace, on the Bird day
of April 1894. Had he lived till the
following day he would have been a
years and seven months old. His father
was Caleb kash, one of the first emf
grants from Virginia, who settled in
Eastern Kentucky.
His occupation being that of a farmer
his life had always been quiet and unas
Stunning, never having any aspirations for
an Office of any kind. He was married
ut Hazel Green, KY, on the 2nd day of
February, 1910, to Miss Frances Nc.
Culley of Bath county, Kentucky, Rev.
L
BILE and wife, of Hazel Green, were mar
rled at the same ceremony, she being
sister of the deceased. This marriage
was blessed with nine children, four of
whom died before they attained their
majority, two others dying after they
were married, now leaving a family of
onl ' the widow who survives him, X. A.
Rash IF Gilmore, Frances f., wife of
Oscar Fallen of Daysboro, and NJ. G.
Rash Of Farmers, Rowan county, Ken
lucky.
The deceased Joined the Christian
church at Hazel Green, under the preach
ing of Rev. (Raccoon) John Smith, in
1888, was ordained elder of the Christian
church on Gilmore creek in 1914, and
had held that office almost continuously
till the time of his death, excepting
about three and II half years that he
lived in Ohio during the late war He
always tried to live an exemplary chris
tian life observing the golden rule, Civ
ing good advice to the young and was
an earnest church worker, having taken
a great many into the church by confess
sion and baptism.
Although he was constant sufferer
teen years, he bore it all with christian
fortitude, saying: 81 have fought the
good fight, my course is nearly finished,
and | am ready to be offered when the
Master calls for me-"
o, when | think of the times thnt |
have been called to his bedside in the
last few years, and found him struggling
it seemed with the last enemy, to hear
him say: My son, can you relieve this
awful suffering, and let me die in peace,
for fear nothing but the sting of death"
But alas, medical skill and the science of
man Is inadequate to compete with that
relentless foe. And now, sleeping upon
the eastern hill top that overlooks the
old homestead-the farm where he had
done SO many honest days toll for our
support--rests the honored remains of an
affectionate father.
= But oh, when | go to the place of my
birth, where in childhood I've played at
the door, to meet my old parents, the
best friends of earth, dear father. I'll
meet thee no more. But to heart
broken and widowed mother, one remain
ing brother and sister, will say let us
never neglect to meet around that lonely
and sacred mound. aud garland with the
choicest flowers of spring time the spot
that marks his last resting place, aud
there, amid mingled tears and sobs, re-
fresh our memories with the good advice
he gave us So when the voice that
called him hence shall summon us, from
whom il gave him grief to part, may we
join him in that world of rest and peace,
"Where no storms ever beat on that glitter.
ing strand,
While the years of eternity roll"
Farmers XIV Nj g. KASH Nj d.