The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-06-01
Edmund Albright.


GAINESVILLE, W. Va. Dec 16, 1919. the
son of Michael and Margaret Albright.
| He left his fathers farm at eighteen
years Of age, when he entered the
Civil War in Co. K Sd Maryland.
Here he spent sixteen months of hard
service, but so full of pleasant mem-
cries thar he never grew tired of talk
ing OF those experiences.
As soon as the war closed he return
ed home and fitted himself to teach
ID the public schools. After teaching
in the winter and working for his
father in the summer for five years he
was married to Nancy Jane Albright,
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Al
bright, and settled on the Sammie
/ Crane farm in sight of GAINESVILLE.
( With determined and tireless efforts
/ he made his work go. During seed
ing and harvest time the neighbors
would ask him when he took his rest:
You are in the field as long as we
can see at night and right there in
! the morning when we first look out.n
After four years he purchased the
McNear farm and there spent the
most of his married life
| His children are Mrs. VIM. Bishop
of Terra Alta. Margaret Letitia,
now Mrs. F. w. Bishop. of An
thony, Fla; Georgia Anne, now
Mrs. E. B. Hanger, of Terra Alta
Victor Emanuel and Fanny Grace.
The family has grown up together
linked by the closest ties and the
father is the first one to leave the
hearthstone.
Seven years ago feeling that the
labors of the farm were too great for
his declining years, he sold the old
| homestead to his son.in-law Mr.. E. b.
Hanger. He built a little summer
home on one end OF the farm which
he had excepted with the intention
OF spending the winters in Terra Alta
and the summers here in the country.
The bonds that bound him to his
happiest DAYS, those on farm, prov
ed to be too strong for him to ever
break. Soon he found himself build
iug,Nclearing out, buying more land,
and building up old fields, so that at
his death he had we'll cultivated.
beautiful little farm. 1t is a strange
coincidence, that by improving one
field each year he should have reach
ed. the last one at the back of the
farm last year, and this spring he was
called away, leaving a waving mead.
ow, side by side with others. Was
his work on the farm not done?
For years he had been broken in
health, but worked steadily on. find
his greatest pleasure in hard work.
One evening early in last December
while feeding his cattle, he suddenly
became dizzy and short of breath.
He retired that night as usual but
found that he could not get his breath
in that position and was compelled to
sit UP all night. The next night he
was taken with violent cough and
from that time until his death he
suffered continually. He was scarce
ly able to lie down at all during that
time, but sat in his chair weak in
body and racked with pain for FIVE
long winter months.
Early iu his sickness it was thought
that he could not live but few days
and his children We're sent for and
a few business matters arranged He
soon made change for the better,
and from. that time on he had sinking
spells and again days when it seemed
that he might recover.
Two years ago in protracted meet
ing at Cranesvile he was greatly
moved but not fully converted. Since
that time he had never failed to kueel
by his bed at night and commune
with his God. Still he felt that he
was not saved. On the night of Jan
., 1905, with Rev. Weigle and his fam
lily around him he was born anew
unto the kingdom of heaven. He
bore his suffering without a word of
complaint, always praying Thy will
be DONE and frequently saying 1T
is the Lord will; it is for my good
and the good of my family"
Sunday afternoon he had a hard
chill and inflammation began TO set IN
III his left lung. When news came that
the doctors would be there as soon as
possible, his youngest daughter went
TO him and sale, Papa, the doctors
Will soon be here locking up with
that pale face distorted with pain, he
said, II wish Jesus would come first
and take me.
Morphine was administered, bur be
fore the opiate acted he talked with
q clear MIND babe his family good
bye and then leaned back in his chair
TO go to sleep His heart-broken wife
crying by his side seemed to waken
him shortly after he had gone to sleep
he ODpual his eyes and looking a+ her