The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-06-20

it's best wishes to them, and wishes then
health, happiness and prosperity.
DEATHS.
Died, in Dover, June -, 1895, of soften
ing OF the brain, MIR. Allen If1eGeT, agec
66 years.
He was a native Lafayette countyau
having been born near Dover, July 20
1929. He leaves a wife and daughter, Mrs
l.. b. Cole, to mourn his death. Mr.
Pheger was one OF the best and most sub
stantial citizens this county ever had. HI
was unassuming in character, but all who
knew him soon discovered his real worth
as n man and Christian. He was highly
respected, and his dealings with his fellow
man were always prompted by n strict
sense OF honesty. A member of the Chris
tian church he died as he had lived, in the
faith of the Creator. In his death Laiay-
cite county sustains n great loss.
Died. at his home, near Akinsville,
Morgan county, Mo, Saturday, June Is,
1896, of heart disease, Mr.. Peter Thoma,
aged II years, one month and two days.
Mr.. Thoma came to this county from
Germany when quite n young man, and
settled at Lexington, where he engaged
in the harness and saddlery trade. There
he was married to Miss Sabena Shoup.
Soon afterward he moved to Dover and
engaged in other business. Ten children
were born to them, all dying in infancy
but four-three sons and one daughter.
His wife also died in 1869. There he lived
till his children were grown. Then he
moved to Higginsville and built what is
now known as the Arcade hotel; but not
liking that business, traded it for a farm,
and lived on a farm until his death.
lie had many old friends in Lexington
and Dover who will regret to hear OF his
death. He was ever 4 true, honest and
good man, upright and loyal in all his
dealings with men; n good husband and
kind father, and highly respected by all
who knew him..
Two sous-Otto, living in Morgan
county, and Theodore, living ner Aull-
vile, his county-and seven grand
children are left to mourn for him.
Died, at her home, in Lexington, Mo-,
after n prolonged valvular arrangement
of the heart, Mrs. Mary j., wife of Mr..
David Russell, aged 62 years.
Mrs. Russell was the daughter OF Mr.. a.
ID. O'Leary, of friedrich, Md, where she
was born June IL, 1884, and where her
father still lives, and at the advanced age
of 50 years is the president of one OF the
leading banking institutions OF that old
and solid city.
She was united in marriage to Mr.. Rus
sell in June, 1859, and with the exception
OF a few years absence in her native city
during the civil war. has resided in Lex
ington. She was educated in the city of
her birth at the old and renowned Vista
convent, where her course of study
was marked with dutiful assiduity and
especial proficiency in music, to which
her tastes inclined.
She was the mother of three daughters
and six sons, all of whom survive her, eX-
cept one, the first born, who died in
infancy.
BY nature Mrs. Russell was extremely
reserved and retiring, and her life seemed
to be simply bound up in entire devotion
to her husband, her children and to her
church, and to all acts of gentleness and
kindly charity that came within the
of her simple, transformations life.
Refine in her tastes, her reading was
Of the fine and elevating type, and she
kept her children from all
was coarse and unseemly. In her
long Illness SHE was patient and uncom-
planning; her absorbing thought was for
The beloved family, all of whom were
1evotedly clustered around her at the
close of her illness, and when the spirit
immortal took its flight from earth.
The character OF the children she leaves
her, so well known in this COM
nunity, gives ~attestation of the power OF
gentle moulding and yet potential
of the mother, and her devotion was
with, to her, the extremely great
OF gathering them all within the
communion of the church in which she
vas nurtured and to which she was so
ieeply attached. A FRIEND.
The funeral of Mrs. David Russell took
place Monday morning, the Sth inst, at
!, O'Clock, from st. Johns Catholic church,
Frederick, Md, and was largely attended
by sorrowing relatives and friends.
Requiem mass was sung, aud the SER
yices were beautiful and impressive. The
,ficiating priest, Father Ham, spoke
beautifully of her well-spent life, her zeal
or the cause of both religion and charity,
md as an example worthy of imitation.
The casket was covered with lovely floral
tributes, and when the body was lowered
nto the grave my heart was filled with
,motion, and l could scarcely realize that
me who was so owed in life was now
rome forever; but then we know it is only
he body that passes into dust; that the
is now dwelling in the realms of
bliss, reaping the reward of her
good life and noble deeds.
There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore,
And bright in heavens ieweled crown
They shine forever more.
There is no death! The caves may fall,
And flowers may fade and pass away;
they only wait through wintry hours
The coming of the May.
There is no DEATH An angel form
Walks DER the earth with silent tread;
lie bears our best loved things away,
And then we call them dead"
lie leaves our hearts all desolate,
He plucks our sweetest lowers;
'ransplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
nd ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread;
all the bOundless universe
Is life-thero are no dead"
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Never was n more sudden and sad :
hook circulated in our midst than when {
he news that Mr.. L.. l.. Benton had died @
Thursday night was waited to the Z
ars of his many friends and ncGuain-
ances. 3
lie seemingly had enjoyed unusually
God health for the past few months, and
ad spent the most of the day before
idinR around the nei0hDOThOOl making
hort calls at different houses, quite
Ively and jovial as was his nature, at
yhich time no one suspected that death
you'd claim him rs its own before 4
mother day should dawn. :
Returning from his I'VE might say '
lmOst daily tour of the neighboThood,
g sat at the table after supper until Il |
ate hour in social conversation with his =;
lmily, relating the incidents and pleas l
res OF the day. But in less than one c
our, after awakening the household and
known his trouble and suffering, ,
mile all were doing what they could to !