The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-24
FUNERAL OF THE
LATE DR.. BLANCHARD
Services Conducted at the Residence
by Rev. James Mcleod, D. d.
His Touching Eulogy.

If sympathy can relieve a breaking
heart, then 1t would seem that the
young wife and the relatives of DR..
George A. Blanchard must have felt to
some degree this comfort yesterday in
the all-pervading grief for their sorrow.
A throng of friends gathered in the
pretty home, whose happiness had so
soon ended, and many were the tears
shed for the man gone away In the
morning of life, for the stunned and
desolate bride of year, and the aged
mother and brothers. Comrades were
there who had seen the young surgeon
on duty during the war, and who loved
and honored him for his gentleness and
| his unWcarying service. Church asso-
ciates were there who mourned sincere
| ly the nobility of soul and purpose and
| the great loss to the church. Brother
physicians were present who thought
with sadness of the brilliant promise so
| bliehted. and of the pleasant relations
so rudely severed. A sobbng group of
| young people in one room represented
a Sunday school class, in whose eyes
this teacher. with his lofty aims and
beautiful character, had been an in
spiration.
| Others who were not there could have
told a tale of the sick poor relieved of
the time and kindly aid so freely given
| by the young doctor, to whom time
meant much at the opening of his
career Clergymen of the city outside
| his denomination remembered the val
ued assistance so cheerfully rendered,
and sighed as they realized that the
loss was irreparable.
The rooms were filled with flowers,
which hid the casket lying in a shad-
owy corner Rev. DIR. James Mcleod
had returned from his summer home at
East Hampton to conduct the service,
and speaking to friend earlier In the
day, he said. sorrowfully, II have come
| to a sad earth"
He recited from the service for the
dead and supplemented this with a
tribute to the departed. He was a
rare young man." said the speaker
with emotion. Rare in his Christian
life, and in his ideals. He had wrought
out his own way in the world, and had
he lived. he would have achieved a
great place in his profession. We can
sometimes see why it is that we must
lay away friend when age and feeble
ness has overtaken him, but why this
one, in the flower of his youth, must
be smittcn we cannot see. 1t is true,
indeed, that here we see through a
glass darkly.' | can see but little
lway today. feel that my place should
be with the mourners. Our young
friend has left a noble example to his
associates in all walks of life, a beaut-
full heritage to the bereaved ones whom
we can only commend to the Comforter
above"
Chaplain Swift of the Thirteenth
regiment, who with Captain Arthur
Foote was sent from the encampment
to represent their organization, of
which DR.. Blanchard was a member
followed with prayer The service con-
cluded with a solo, I'm but a Stranger
Here, Heaven Is My Home" sweetly
rendered by John r. Watkins, Miss
Richmond acting as accompanst.
The pall-bearers were Captain Her.
bert b. Cox and Captain l., T. Mates
A. G. Twitchell, Selden II. Kingsbury
H. w. Rowley and Edward Langley.
The relatives of the deceased present
from out of the city were his mother
Mrs f.. j. Blanchard, of Hudson, n
H.. and his brothers, Rev. Edward
Blanchard, of BrOoktield Mass, anC
Henry w. Blanchard, of Nashua, Mass
, Others in attendance were Captain Cox
of Lebanon; Captain Foote and Rev
w. II. Swift, of Mount Gretna; Rev
Stewart Dickson, of Philadelphia anC
Rev. Spencer G. Dickson, of Poin
Pleasant. \. j.
Interment was made in the plot of A
w. Dickson in Dunmore cemetery
Director Price was in charge of th'
funeral.