The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-04-30

the following letter from DR.. P. B
Morse. of Valley View. KY. an as
sociate in business with DIR. JOHN
M. Moore. of this city, who depart.
ed this life on Wednesday, April
10th, 1902. The letter is one filed
with profound sympathy for his
bereaved mother. DIR. Morse con-
sidered DIR. Moore a typical young
man. and his words of coincidence
are pathetic.
VALLEY VIEw, Ky.
April 21st, 1902.
Mrs. MARY MOORE,
Point Pleasant, W. Va,
Dear Friend:-The sad news of
your sons death came to me
through Mr.. Hale. Never did the
knowledge of a death of any one,
excepting near relative, send a
sadder thrill through my house
hold than did this one. Though
not at all unexpected, yet that
fact did not lessen the grief in the
least, and when reading the letter
In the store to his many friends
there was not a dry eye in the
house, all realizing that we had
lost one of the brightest minds ever
in Valley View, and they were all
awaiting his return with great
pleasure every day, anxiously ask
ing how he was, and if I thought
he would return.
Dr's. frank manner and kind.
gentlemanly principles gained for
him the friendship of the young
and old rich and poor, wise and
ignorant. I am only too proud to
say that 1 have had many a part.
ner in business, but none was ever
superior to your son. Honesty,
honorableness and charity, togeth.
or with the true type of gentle
man, and his active and earnest de-
yotion to his chosen profession
seemed to make up his whole life.
Never did / see a man at his age
as devoted to his mother. Prov
ing conclusively that he apprecia-
ted, as SO few do, the one who had
cared for him when not able to
care for himself. That should be
one of the greatest pleasures in the
many pleasant memories of your
only offspring. How few mothers
can say the same.
Mrs. M. I'll. Smith sent me two pa
pers in which were articles on his
death. These papers have been
called for by every one in the
neighborhood and read with sad
eagerness.
Mrs. Sallie Calvert, the lady with
whom he boarded for while be-
fore he left for home, and with
whose family he had been associa-
ted as he had with mine, for she is
my -sister-in-law, said it seemed as
though she had lost son. His
pure, noble spirit and kind heart
edness while in her family, gained
her as it had all with whom he was
associated while in our midst.
My dear friend, while the vacan
cy making the place occupied by
that noble son, heartrendering to
you, yet you must consider that if
the Bible is true, he is only reliev-
ed of the hardships of this sim
CURSED world and is now in the
land where all is happiness and
joy. The Bible says, Faith, Hope
and Charity, These Three, But the
Greatest of These is Charity"
Now, as to his faith or hope, 1
know nothing about, but 1 am
proud to be witness to his being
the embodiment of charity, as the
many examples of charity in the
practice of his profession while
here, proved him to be ever ready
to contribute charity whenever an
opportunity afforded itself.
Mrs. Moore, you have the deep
est sympaty of my household, and
Mrs. Calvert requests me to say.for
her that her sympathy for you is
too deep for words to express.
May God help you to bear this sad
bereavement with all fortitude pos
sible under the circumstances, and
that you may realize. while it is SO
hard to take the only hope in life,
yet God in His wisdom knows
best.
Your deeply sympathizing friend,
P. B. MORSE.
The Merchants Carnival and
Street Fair will be Point Plesant's
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