The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-06
REV. ". B. 10UB DEAD.
The End Came at ego
Monday Evening.
A GOOD MAN GONE TO HIS REST
He Had Been Sick just One Month
With Typhoid Fever---Funeral
Service this Afternoon----A
sketch OF His Life. @

With Typhoid Fever---Funeral
Service this Afternoon----A
sketch OF His Life.
Rev. William Doub. the popular
and much beloved pastor Of Main Street
Methodist church. passed over the River
of d, ath Monday evening at $50 o. *
alter an illness of exactly one month
having been taken sick on July 8.
The news that he was dead spread
rapidly and soon large portion Of Dur
hams population had heard the sad It'd.
ings that the end had come. 1t caused
sadness everywhere as he was loved by
all who knew him.
Kew. Mr.. Doub was taken III on July
sd and physic an was sent for. At
first nothing serious was thought Of his
illness but the stubborn disease bafled
the skill Of his physicians and the medi-
cine did not check its deadly course. He
gradually grew worse until yesterday
afternoon when he gave up the fight for
life and passed quietly over the river to
his eternal home beyond.
When. the last minute came he was
surrounded by his beloved wife, chill.
dren and few friends Typhoid fever
and a complication Of diseases was the
cause of his death. He had been in
feeble health for quite while.
The funeral service win be conducted
from Main Street church this afternoon
at S O'Clock by Rev. j. N. Cole, pastor
of Trinity Methodist church, after
which the remains will be laid to rest in
the city cemetery, beside the grave Of his
little child, who died only short time
ago.
A Short sketch or His Life.
William B. Doub was born in Raleigh,
this state, on January Ie. 1894 He was
son Of W. c. and Mrs. Laura-Blake
Doub. He attended the best schools in
Wake county and then went to Trinity
College. In December 1876. at Methc
dist conference held Greensboro, he
was admitted to the ministry and as
signed to the Pekin circuit. On Janu.
airy 7, 1880, he married Miss Josephine
Bryan, Of Jonesboro. and has since thai
time held number Of charges, some
of which were very important ones. He
leaves the beloved companion of the
last sixteen years Of his life and foul
daughters and two sons. He also ha.
two brothers and two sisters living. On,
Of his brothers-L. L. Doub--lives il
Wake county and was with him whei
he died. The other brother, Harr,
iDoub, and both OF his sisters, Mrs S. A
Kerr ard Miss Laura Doub, live II
| Greensboro Mr.. Doub was assignee
to Main Street church in Decen
Der, 1894, and during his one year and
half service has made many friends VIII
are not confined 10 his denominatio
alone but are found mall denomination
and among those who do not belong /,
any church.
J His death has cast pail Of gloom owe
Durham and over bis legion Of friend
who will know him no more forever.
The Recorder extends its sy.npathis
to Mrs. Doub, to the little children VII
are left fatherless, TO his brothers an
sisters and TO his many friends who vi
miss him 50 sadly along the many wall
of life. May the Divine Healer chi
: their wounded hearts and prepare the
!. to meet him in the beautiful and brigl
y beyond. where he has time and aga
o urged them to 60 and where he Is no
E "waiting and watching for them"