The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-08-30
4 pioneer MASON GONE.
Tribute to the Memory of an
Honest Man.
THE MAsONs PASS RESOLUTIONS,
-Four Score and Ten Years Of Useful Life
A Worthy Example.

The Masonic order of this city
appointed a committee to prepare an
obituary on the death Of Cyrus W.
Osborn. The following memorial was
prepared, submitted, adopted, ordered
spread upon the records, and the
INTELLIeENcER requested to publish;
To the Worshipful Master, Wardens
and Brethren Of Lexington Lodge,
No. l49, A. +. s. A. NJ:
1t was a sad and yet a pleasing task
: you assigned us as a committee to
prepare a suitable memorial comment
Grating the name and virtues of our
departed brother, Cyrus w. Osborn,
made sad by the fact that we
have lost from our fraternity one who
for so long a time helped to make it
honorable among men, and pleasing
because it affords us the opportunity
of contemplating and bringing before
you the virtues of a true man, whose
life was spent In doing good and in
helping others to be good men and true.
Cyrus Osborn was born In Greenbriar
county, Va, January 26, 1912. When
he grew to manhood he came to Mis-
souri, and settled in Lexington about
the year 1887. He continued to live
in Lafayette county until the day of
his death, which occurred at his home
In Bates City on the goth day Of July,
1902, having passed more than his
four score years and ten In this world,
Pmaking his pilgrimage through it to
another and higher, and we believe a
better world. He was twice married.
His first wife was Eliza Henning, who
only lived about a year after the
marriage and who left no children.
On the 9th day Of June, l84S, he was
married to Sarah A. Walker. BY this
union he was blest with nine chill
dren, four of whom are yet living,
Judge P. w. Osborn and George w.
Osborn, Of Lafayette county, Mrs.
E. o. Woodbridge of B~oonville, and
Mrs. ]. d. Hitchcock, Of Alton, 1. T.,
and enjoy the good name and fame Of
their honored father, and with their
aged mother and his numerous friends
mourn his loss. To write the Masonic
biography of Brother Osborn from the
time he came to our city, then a small
village, in the year 1887, up to or
about the year 1870, would be but to
write the history Of the fraternity in
this portion of our great state, for he
was actively engaged in teaching the
principles Of Free Masonry and in
practiclng its precepts all these years,
and 1t was ever his delight by word
and by example to enforce the tenets
OF the order wherever he went. He
was one Of the charter members Of
old Lexington Lodge, which was
granted a ~dlspensation on May 81,
1910, and was afterwards, on October
s, 1910, granted a charter under the
name Of Lafayette Lodge No. 80, and
be remained a member Of that lodge
until he removed to the western por-
tion Of the county when he Omitted
and assisted in the organization OF
Houston Lodge in the town of We'll
liugton. OF which lodge he continued
a member until it lost its charter,
when Brother Osborn anne back to
his old lodge which had been con-
solidated with and now forms a part
Of Lexington Lodge No. l49, and was
a member thereof when he was called
from labor to %refreshmeut. In the
year lS47 be was elected Junior Grand
Warden Of the Grand Lodge Of Mis-
sour, and 10 the year ls4s he was
elected Senior Warden of said G aud
Lodge, and it was always a great
pleasure to him to attend the sessions
Of the Grand Lodge and assist 10
making Masonry IL Miss uri honora.
Bile aud worthy OF the confidence Of
good men in all the walks OF life
From a mere handful Of lodges, les
than two score, he lived TO see the
Grand Lodge Of his adopted state
grow and Increase IN membership
until now it is composed Of nearl,
five hundred lodges, and the member