The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-08
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some one of our fellew creatures
makes his exit into the great un-
known, the seal of whose mystery
has never been broken by mortal
man, and in thousands of instances
men have gone without previous
preparation or single note of
warning. This was not 50, how
ever, with him whose name appears
at the head of these lines, written
by friend, in memory of his vir-
tues His equipment for the final
journey to the far away home of the
soul, began thirty years ago when
he joined the Baptist church, in his
native county of Writ, West Yir-
ginia. and the hope of eternal life TO
which he then gave expression, he
ever afterward cherished; and he
folded bis arms in the presence of
the grim monster Death, without a
murmur and without tremor
weakness or fear, and with smile
of peace shining upon his manly
face, he quietly Joined the inhumer-
able throng OF the dead. His was n
triumphant death, made so by lifc
of good deeds and filled with love
for his neighbors and acquaintance.
No winters storm was ever so furi-
Gus, and no summers sun ever so
burning, as to keep him from re-
spending to the call OF the sick and
needy. He begun the practice of
medicine thirty years ago, and dill
gently followed it until few weeks
prior to his death, which occurred
at his home in Cooper District, Ma
son county, West Virginia, April
16, 1895. During the entire thirty
years. of his professional life, he
never refused to visit patient, it
mattered not what his means or
station in life was. All that no
wanted TO know was that it was the
voice of the sick and suffering that
called TO him, and he hurried away
to administer aid and to offer relief.
He was kind and indulgent
husband and parent, and in his last
hours he remarked that his family
had been to him a source of constant
happiness and delight, and that no
members of it had ever caused him
a single regret.
He moved from the county Of his
nativity in 1870 to the neighbor-
hood in which he thence, ever after
wards resided, and where he was
loved and esteemed by all the COM
munity. He lived on farm
and united the pursuit of agrieul-
ture with that of the. practic ofmed-
icine, and in all things led a most
honorable and upright life.
He leaves n widow, most esti-
mable woman, and who was to him
an afectionate and devoted wife
and six children, four sons and two
daughters, as his survivors. The
soDs are Drs. D. W, Charles and C.
Y. Petty and Robert, who is at
home on the farm, and the daught.
ers are Mrs. Lucian NJ. Hogg and
Mrs. Joseph E. McMillen. lie was
spared to raise all his children up TO
the estate of manhood and woman
hood, though but in the sixty sixth
year of his aye at the time of bis
death, having been born on Decem-
Der 2G, 1929.
The author OF these few lines had
the pleasure of meeting and form
ing the acquaintance of DR.. Petty
few weeks after his removal to this
county, and was intimately acquain-
ted with him for many years next
preceding his death. We can state
of him that he had an exalted view
of the dignity and importance ofhis
profession and fully appreciated It's
! privilege and responsibilities; he
practiced it for the good he could do
and not from sordid or mercenary
motives He made friends of all he
met, and retained them. He was a
man of sterling qualities Of head
and heart and showed them both in
his social ard daily walks of life.
His whole demeanor indicated his
belief to be that
I'VE live in deeds in Thoughts, not breaths.
In feelings, not in figures on q dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He
most lives
Who thinks most. feels the noblesi, acts the
best" C.E. II.
On last Saturday evening Jake
Mcdaniel and viii Bickel got into
a scuffie overs stogie, which Bickel
had and Mcdaniel wanted, and
while they were clinched Mcdaniel