Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-28
Died,

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At his home in Custer City on the Goth
day of February, 1908, Carl Frederick
Wilhelm Porath, aged 5S years and 8
months.
Mr.. Prrath was born in the town OF
Reisno, Germany, on the Goth day Of
April, 1915. lie leaves behind to mourn
his loss, q wife and ten children, six Of
whom were born in Chicago, ILL.,, and
| four in Custer. He has three sisters in
Germany aid one brother living in Can
ada, who will grieve to learn Of his de-
partufe from the land of the living. Mr..
Porath was married in Germany in 1871
to Miss Bertha Leuza Sager, and to-
gether they came to America in 1872,
settling first in Chicago where they re-
sided until the spring of 1880 when they
came to the Black Hills, since which
time they have resided in Custer City.
He was a member of the Presbyterian
church and died with full belief in
that faith. The funeral took place on
Sunday the 22nd of February, in the
Congregational church, Mrs. Katherine
Powell officiating as pastor, and his re-
mains were buried in the Custer ceme-
terry, where long procession of sorrow
ing friends followed him to the grave.
For many years of his life Mr.. Porsth
followed the occupation of a sailor both
in Germany and America, and during
the eight years he made his home in
Chicago he sailed on the great lakes.
A sailor and a soldier for the record
shows that he served his country as a
soldier for ri months during the Franco
Prussian war. And thus we have in
brief the record of him who has left us,
and his family and his friends are bowed
in mourning, yet they have the satisfac-
ton of knowing that at all times, and in
every situation, Charles Porath was q
good man. AS parent he was affec-
tionate, kind and faithful. AS citizen
he was honest, industrious and ready
for any duty that devolved upon him,
aud as a friend he was steadfast and
trne. We who knew him can say this
in justice and in truth, and when this il
said what more can be told in honor or
praise of the living or the dead. Dead,
did we say, we are too fast, there are no
dead, the whole universe is animated
and pulsating with life. A man dies as
We say and we consign him to the tomb,
but when we bury him what have we
buried. Only the worn out overcoat, all
that made the man what he was still
survive, his loves, his hates, his thoughts,
his opinions still live on. They are
things, they are realities, and they can.
not be covered by cold clod of earth.
The soul required a body to connect II
with the material things of earth, and by
and through that body the soul has be-
come grown and developed as human
being. His form, his brain, his lungs,
heart and stomach and all the organs
were needful to enable him to draw the
life elements from the vast reservoir by
which he IL stftrounded. The earth, the
air, the sunshine, the magnetism that
permiates the ether, he needs them all
and through the organs of his body he
appropriates them and refines them un-
til they become full grown human be-
ing. When this is accomplished he is
ready for the next step, he shuffies of
the mortal and enters upon immortal
life. It Is one step higher up the ladder
of life, and is the resurrection and the
new birth. The change rs great, and yet
not so great in sune respects as We i'm