Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-12-08
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He Passed Away at 2:25 This

He Passed Away at 2:25 This
Morning.
From Wednesdays Daily.
In all ages of the world, pallid
death has been knocking at the door
of the old and young alike, and with
frozen hand has taken away friends
and loved ones to that unknown
land, yelled in mystery, whence no
traveller returns.
A child is born, it may be he
reaches mans estate, or old age, then
the curtain falls, and he passes out
beyond earth's sight.
Always sad is death; but by ma
ture, looking forward to days of old
age, sad indeed it is for the young to
die.
For many weeks our young friend
and townsman Richard Kenneth
Freeman, eldest son of MI. and Mrs.
r. G. Freeman, has been on the out
most shores, on the very line of the
borderland. In the quiet watches of
the night, about two hours after the
stroke of the clock at the mld-nigh
hour, only a short time before the
breaking of the light of a new day,
the spirit of Richard Freeman, in the
28th year of his age, returned to God
who gave it.
This morning, as the news of his
death passed from lip to lip among
our people, there was many a moist
eye and many a tremulous voice, as
kind words were spoken about our
young friend, and in sympathy for
his parents, to whom he had always
been an obedient, faithful and loving
son.
In all the relations Of life Richard
Freeman was an exemplary young
man. When the Spanish war broke
out, he marched away with the
Goldsboro Rifles, of which he was
second Sergeant, and served through
that noted war. He was "a
good soldier and beloved by all Of
his comrades. He was also an active
member of Ruffn Lodge knights of
Pythias of this city, and of Goldsbore
Lodge No. 1879 Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, and his is the
first death that has occurred among !
the members of the latter lodge since
it was instituted here, nearly three
years ago.
But it was in his home life that
true worth shone brightest; and
it is there that the sunlight of his
Gus love and unselfsh devotion to
his parents will be missed with ach-
ing hearts, which henceforth will
beat with abiding grief that he has
gone away.
If human sympathy can Tighten
sorrow such as is theirs, then have
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community. IF the sweet-scented
flowers that shall cover his casket on
the morrow can in their tender fra
GRANGE and beauty temperthe storm, !,
then will the whispered message
come to them: "Look up and live."
If he could speak to them from that
home celestial and eternal, where he
their coming, his words
would be those of faith realized in
God, who ''doth all things WE'LL"
The funeral of the late Richard
Kenneth Freeman was held Thurs
day afternoon at 4 O'Clock from st.
Episcopal church, of which
deceased was a member from in
fancy, and was largely attended.
The services were conducted by the
rector, Rev. III. S. Horsfeld, and a
special choir rendered the chosen
hymns and the order of Elks, wear
ing the badge of mourning, attended !
in a body, eight of them acting as
pail bearers.
The floral tributes were very !
many and very beautiful, especially !
noticeable among them being a SUI
perb Tyre rising from a base bearing !
the letters in. purple B. P. o. E., an
anchor from the fire company, of
which he was a member, and a pill
low from the employees of the card
room of the Borden Mill over which |