Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-02-12
OBITUARY.

John Madison Hoss, son of John'anG
Sarah Hoss and the youngest and las
surviving of ten children, was born or
Brush Creek, in this, Washington
County, December 10, 1894; his father
homestead, which had belonged to the
family from early settlement, being
now the site of the town of Carnegie.
He was educated at the well known
Washington College, and was a nephew
of Henry Hoss, who was, for q number
of years, President of the equally noted
Tusculum then ~Greeneville) College,
On attaining manhood he chose q
business career and came to Jonesborc
as clerk for the firm of Hoss and Wilds
and after some years with them, form,
ed a partnership in the mercantile
business, with his brother, L. G. Hoss,
On the dissolution of this partner.
ship, w. p. Brewer succeeded l.. C,
Hoss; j. l.. Lampson became partner
on brewers removal to Bristol and
AFTER ten years partnership, that firm
dissolved and John M. johnson took
his place. All the firms, j. M. & l.. C,
Hoss, Hoss & Brewer, Hoss q Lamp,
son, and Hoss & johnson were widely
and favorably known, did a large bust,
ness and were worthily honored names.
On November 20, 1864 he was married
to Miss Priscill Smith, of Smiths Land
ing, Tennessee, who with eight chill.
dren, all grown, are left with hallowed
memories Of a devoted husband and
father.
Prior to the last eight or ten years of
his life, until bodily Affections and in.
firmities began, and from thence until
death, laid heavily upon him, there
was, for a quarter of a century, no one
among us whose name represented
more that was progressive, helpful and
public spirited, no man who more
thoroughly identified himself with the
best interests of the community than
j. NJ. Hoss.
He was a loyal friend, a just and
kind employer, a good Samaritan, in
that he passed not to the other side
when want and suffering made their
appeal, if only a dumb appeal to him,
a courteous gentlemen, generously hos
pitable, and nowhere did his loyable
qualities find happier expression than
when he sat at his own table surround
ed by the friends he delighted to gather
in his home.
Under physical ailments of the most
severe and wearing character, through
misfortune and reverses, he bore him
self ~courageously, meeting the first
with patience and submission, the
other without complaint, though reso-
Lutte, with all his strength to receive,
and standing the test of true manhood
in that he kept his heart free from
bitterness and resentment.
For years he was an official member
of his church, the NJ. E. Church, South.
and his interest in its welfare was
manifested in many moIe liberal WAYS
than by his liberal contributions.
OF the sanctities of his home life it
is not for us to speak. They belong 10
them within the veil. Like every true
man, he made no parade of his love,
but all the currents of his affections
set, strong, deep and unvarying, to his
wife and children.
In their love and honor and in par
ticular their beautiful tenderness and
protecting care for him in his sightless
age, he had his reward.
Free spoken and familiar with his
friends as to his every day affairs, he
W1GInnlIu AfaVNl Nod m rnN,anraA i'll
them about religious matters and his
individual relation to God that is by
no means inconsistent with, but often
goes along and with him, did the deep.
est reverence. But before he died
speech came to him in these things
and he left to his family precious testi-
mony, of word, that he feard not death
and that all was well with him.
One thing was strongly character.
istic of Mr.. Hoss, and we emphasize il
here because it was his in common
with the large class OF citizens whose
lives have been almost, or altogether,
here; the few remaining, with feeble
step and whitened hair, and because
we hope the same spirit will find place
and grow stronger in our young PEG.
pie, and that is, the strength and fer.
vor of his, and their attachment fol-
Jonesboro, as a home. 1t is O kind OF
local patriotism, too circumscribed.
perhaps, and not understandable by
al outsiders, which makes this place
of ours, with but little of the color and
movement of modern life about it
with more of rock and creek and gully
than of arch and ~aqueduct and paw
ment the pleasantest of all abiding
places for the stay-at homes, and q
Mecca for those who must be away,
But the sentiment is beautiful here,
in itself, or wherever its coulter
part is found. 1t gives to those who
hold it for our quiet mountain town
something of the strength of the hill
by which it is surrounded and the sim
pie joyousness of the waters of its
many springs. 1t makes them strong
for its good while here interested al
ways in its welfare when away; and il
by circumstances forced to have fol
years, their homes of brick and stone
and mortar elsewhere, think with long
ing, when life is ebbing, of its long,
shaded street, level in it's center; o.
its everywhere unbroken view of the
near, purple misted mountain. and beg
that when they come to lie, as we al
must, in the Low green tents whose
curtains never outward swing" theirs
may be spread for them on the grassy
hill slope whose marble stones catch
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