Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-03-04
DEATHS.

REIGER-At his home in Cleartield
township March ,, 1897, Henry
Reiger, aged Ga years.
YOUNG February 21, 1897, Josephus,
youngest child of John and Sarah
Young of Oakland twp, aged 3 years.
CHISTY-Feb. Is, 1897, infant son of
Thomas and Susan Christy of Wash
ington twp.
MCLAUGHLIN-At his home in Fair
view twp, Feb -. 1897, Daniel Nc
Laughlin, aged 60 years.
CAMPBELL-At his home in Renfrew,
Feb. -, 1897, James p Campbell, aged
81 years.
GILL-At his home in Brady twp, Feb.
81, 1897, William Gill, aged 81 years.
TIMBLIN-At his home in Butler twp.
Feb. "a 1891, John Timblin, aged 50
years, months and II days.
He leaves wife and nine children
TO mourn his loss.
Dearest father, thou hast left us,
And thy loss we deeply feel,
But. tbs God who hast bereft us,
He can all our SORROWS heal.
Yet, again we hope TO meet him,
When the days of life are fed,
When in Heaven once more to greet
him.
Where no farewell tears are shed
FRITZ-At his home in York, Pa.
Feb %. 1897, Rev. John H. Fritz for
merly of Butler, aged 76 years.
Rev. Fritz was pastor of the English
Lutheran Church of Butler from 1861 to
1870, His wife survives him. The
couple were childless, and while in But
Ter adopted Mary and George w. Shiev-
er Mary died at Doylestown Pa, five
years ago, and George now has an in
terest in the Eagle
GALLAGHER his home near
Thorn Hill, Pa, February %, 1897,
Samuel Gallagher, formerly of Mud
dycreek twp, aged about 70years.
We first knew him as a member of
that famous assembly known as The
Oak Grove Literary Society" twenty
years ago. At that time he was in the
full prime of physical and mental man
hood, and majestic in appearance, over
six feet in height. and of form that
indicated agility as well as strength,
his well raised forehead, shaded with
masses of dark hair expressed uncom-
mon capacity, his eyes were large, dark
full of ardor ana animation, his face
was rugged and well formed, and his
countenance strikingly interesting.
Though born imam humble station of life
the originality of his genius. the energy
of his language, and the richness of his
imagination, merited the gratitude as
well as the admiration of his friends.
Like his native and lonely hills, he was
subject to every blast, and exposed
naked and bare TO every tempest, he
was an elevated point round which the
storm clung and gathered, a prominent
rock, condemned by nature as it were,
to endure the buffettings of the surge
yet his rude splendor remained unin-
jured.
Amidst the bitter waters of indulgence
and sorrow, of drudgery and neglect,
the exertions of his mind scared to the
highest pitch of intellectual greatness,
and he produced those beautiful
thoughts which will ever exist for our
delight, and still heard by us in the
lingering echoes of his stentorian voice
as it is waited from beyond the purple
hills, now hushed in the vale of death,
His mind was fraught with indepen'
depco, magnanimity, and every manly
virtue. He estimated his friends and
associates at their proper value; no man
! had a quicker apprehension of right
and wrong or q stronger sense of what
was ridiculous and mean-chicanery Oh
sordidness never appeared in his conduct
even in the midst of distress, while
his feeling heart sunk under the secret
consciousness of Indulgence, and the ap
prehensions of absolute want ne Dor,
himself loftily to the world he dice
poor but not in debt he was the tru,
representation OF perfectly natura
/ man
No scriptured marble here, Nor pom
| p0us,
No storied urn nor animated bust
This simple verse directs pale Oak
Groves way
! To pour her sorrow DER his honored
dust
JAS. C. SCOTT.
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