The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-04-06
DEATHS.

DEATHS.
Died, near Prairie church, March q,
1895. Mrs. Annie Fox, aged rs years.
At his home, 6 miles south OF Odessa,
on Tuesday, April 2, Reuben Fugate, aged
about 63 years.
Died, in this county, at the residence OF
his son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. 9. r.. Hamburger, March 26, 1895,
Michael Burke, aged about rs years.
He was a man Of quiet ways and simple
tastes; of strong common sense and the
strictest integrity; of decided opinions,
but not given to offering them ~unsought.
The last twenty-five years Of his life were
calm and peaceful ones in the little home
circle where love was given and received.
During his last Illness he was ministered
to with that unwearied faithfulness which
affection prompts. His mind was clear to
the last, and with unfaltering steps he
went from day to day towards the valley
Of shadows. By the hands Of sympathiz-
ing friends he was laid to rest on a bright
spring morning when all nature was
awakening from winters sleep; such q
morn as those which have for ages made
men hope that they too. after the frost oil
death, will live again; and leaving, we
translate from an old Roman tomb the
form Of our farewell and say: "Good
friend, goodbye" A FRIEND.
Odessa Democrat please copy.
Died, near Odessa, at the residence OIL
her s~on-in-law, Mr.. ID. Wade, on March
31st, 1896, Mrs. Mahala Whitsett, aged 81
years, 8 months and 3 days.
Mrs. Whitsett had patiently borne hel
sufierings for many long, weary weeks
when the loving Father called the aged
saint to come home. Loving hands min
istered to her wants, but her earthly work
was lone. She was born in Kentucky,
November 9th, 1912. Having lost both
parents when she was a little child, she
was brought to Missouri by Robert Nor
row. a Cumberland Presbyterian pre-. cher.
She united with the c. p. church in her
18th year, and was a consistent member
ever after. In 1882 she was united in mar
riage to Samuel T. Whitsett. Several
children were born to them. The hus-
band and all the children, except one,
preceded her to the home over there. Mrs.
Whitsett was a true friend, ready to help
w "a NAocS III Aiousu o.
years old, she was always busy; her
hands always found something to do for
some one. Her earthly Joy was centered
Ia the families of her daughter and grand
daughter, Mrs. d. Wade and Mrs. Z.
Campbell. But she rests from her labors,
and awaits her loved ones. BLESSED are
the dead that die in the Lord"
Died, at his residence. three miIes west
OF MAYHEM, Wednesday, March 9th, of
pneumonia, Mr.. Samuel Smith, aged go
years, II months and 81 days.
Mr.. Smith was born aud reared In
Lafayette county, and has never lived
anywhere else. When he was only eight
years old his father died, leaving him as
the main support for his mother and her
family. He o showed the material Of
which he was made, and the rough usage
Of his early boyhood helped to develop
the honest, sturdy man. He was married
twice, his first wife being Mrs. McLaugh-
lin, by whom he had two children, both
of whom preceded him to the grave. His
second wife was Miss Matilda Morrison,
whom he leaves a widow, with six child
rem, Fannie c., Mary L, Samuel B.,
Emma, Hettie B. and Betsie NJ. MIR.
Smith was for twenty-five years an elder
In the Cumberland Presbyterian church
at Mount Hebron, and on Thursday his
body was buried in the little church yard
near the little old church he loved 60
we'll. Rev. MIR. Clemmens, his old pastor,
conducted the funeral services, assisted
by Rev. Mr.. Logan, the present pastor OF
Mt. Hebron, aud Rev. Mr.. Thorp, pastor
OF the c.. p. church at Odessa. The whole
neighborhood was present at the funeral,
for everybody knew and loved him. No
man In the county had more friends,
warmer or better friends, and no man was
more deserving OF them. Lafayette
county can i'll afford to lose such q man,
and the INTELLIaENoER extends to the
bereft family the sincere sympathy Of all
who knew him, and of all who admired
true manhood.
Died, at his home. near Corder, at 2:3O
p. M, April LIST, 1895, OF pneumonia, Mr..
John Garland Webb, aged 81 years, 1
month and II days.
John Garland Webb was born in Orange
county, Va, on the 18th day of February,
1928, and came to this county when a boy
Of eight summers, with his parents, John
Vivion and Mary Graves Webb, in 1886.
He was one Of nine children, seven Of
whom are now living. He was married
June 9th, 1853, to Miss Elizabeth c.
Carter, t. which union ten children were
born, six of whom are now living, and
with their devoted mother are bowed
beneath the sad afiictioa.
John Garland Webb was a mana
pure minded, honest. conscientious, noble
man. In sorrow We note his death. We
have known him from our infancy, and
record this as our opinion of him:
He was q man among men; a gentleman
ip every sense of the word, and d citizen
whose ambition it was to serve well his
fellow men He possessed the best vii
tues of high-minded manhood. Gentle
as a father; kind and true as a husband;
faithful and afectionate as a brother;
generous and accommodating AS n neigh
and noble AZ a citizen, no man will he
more greatly missed from his usual
haunts, at home and elsewhere.
He was a champion Of pure politics, and
everything that was right and just. He
chose in life the humber wake of a pri-
yate citizen; he preferred rather the quiet
home on the farm to the utopian arena Of
politics. He chose rather to walk in the
eyen and conservative paths of life than
TO give himself to another profession (;
but in Garland Webb's character were
blended those noble talents and virtues
that would nave adorned any avenue of
life. Honesty shone out in his character
like the MONDAY sun thro' a rifted cloud.
Where'er he went, in all the changing
scenes Of daily business, he bore the
stamp Of a true man. He was fearless in
a righteous cause, and invincible in his
position against vice in every form. He
hated the wrong because II was wrong;
he loved the right because 1t was right.
Garland Webb would have severed his
right arm before he would have supported
an unrighteous cause; he would have
willingly sacrificed his life upon the altar
of principle. Ia the late wari he offered
his all for what he believed to be the
right. His sympathies were with the
! South, and believing that he was right,