The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-09-28
TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF
DIR. w. +. TROUT.
Written for the NEWS by u friend.

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scribed on many a pictured scene
with which our memory walls are
hung.
Like all strong natures with
positive IDEAS of right and wrong,
he had enemies as well as friends,
the former will never know how
much of pleasure they have miss
ed in not having had him for a
friend, and the latter will only re-
alize more and more as time rolls
on, how great their loss in the
death of DR.. Trout. To know him
well was to love him and especi-
ally in the double capacity of
friend and physician, as it was
the valued privilege of the writer
to know him intimately in both
positions, for q period of over
thirty years, through sickness,
sorrow and death.
His professional services were
given with untiring energy, and
though firm in dealing with all
his patients, his tender sympa.
thy to the suffering afflicted ones
under his care, won him the graf
itude of q whole community, as
was partially attested by the
larger supposed without doubt
to be the largest ever seen in the
Cove funeral procession which
followed his remains to their last
resting place in Union Cemetery:
when strong men, women and
children sobbed in unison with
the grief stricken family.
AS a friend, he was loyal,
staunch and true, tenderly sym
pathetic, rigidly just, resenting a
wrong, condoning a fault. Never
turning a deaf ear to the needy
or suffering with pecuniary aid
or professional services, through
summer heat, or winter-cold, sick
or well, day or night, rich or
poor, it was all one to him, wher-
ever and whenever he was needed
he went. His hospitality was so
well known that it is useless for
one to say more than this, "few
could equal, and none excelled
him." AS a guest, his fine educa-
ton, large experience, polished
manners and genial humor made
him welcome everywhere.
AS a citizen, anything that
would be Of an advantage in the
way of advance and improvement
for the community, found ready
advocate in him. 1t was his oft
expressed wish that he might live
to see railroad here.
In his own home as a husband
and father, he was loved with
passionate devotion thatwas beau
tiful to see, and his short illness
and sudden death came with
shock that was prostrating to his
family and startling to all who
knew him, causing an awe to fall
over the whole town, as was evi-
denced by the hushed voices and
silent tread everywhere.
DR.. Trout was man of singu-
larly temperate habits, and to
that, under Gods providence he
his perfect health all
mis- life until the time of the acci-
cident which resulted in his
death.
Rather reticent regarding his
views among strangers,
he had nevertheless q very great
reverence for all things holy and
good, and the deepest Indignation
for cant and hypocrisy. A firm
believer in answered prayer,
both in his own behalf and |
that of others; by many a bed Of
agony has he knelt and earnestly |
entreated Gods blessing on the |
sufferer and the means used for
restoration; and in the last con
scious hours of his own life, his
faith was strong in his Saviour,
rs was manifested in his farewell |
prayer for himself and family.
Words of consolation seem but a
in the face of such grief
Us has fallen ON the family of DR..
Trout; but that God will send his
Con fortop lOto fbor1 onH orro,,t