The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-15
In Memorian.

Far away from home and children,
ana almost among strangers in the dis
tant "Land of Flowers" death came
suddenly and swiftly to Mr.. K. Is.
Dean on the 18th of February last l..
lie had gone there some weeks pre-
| ylously on q pleasure trip, and on the
day III question had gone out on lax 9
! on nshlnR trip IN company with
young Roy Emerson, son Of "a former
| citizen OF this county, and in some
manner that will never be known both
| were drowned.
Death in all its forms is grim
gloomy and terrible, but in this tragic
death Id an added element of sadness
| and pathOs in that he should meet
death alone and away from home and
loved ones. and while it Is distressing
aillictiOn to all the family, it is particu,
larly . to the youngest daughter, Mrs.
Annie Allen, the wife Of Prof. John e..
Allen, tile superintendent of the York
Vile Graded schools. While away at
college at Nashville. Tenn, she was
summoned to the bedside of her dying
mother, but reached here only to fol-
low her iifeiess form to the grave.
lew years later her youngest brother
accldently shot himself, and for thir-
teen months she was his devoted nurse
until death claimed him. Nearly two
years ago another brother was operated
on Iii Charleston for appendicitis and
she reached the city only to return
with his lfeless body, and now again
tor the fourth time death claims one of
her loved ones, and that one her
1ather, and she is not able even to
?ollow his body to it's last resting
place at Cross Roads Church. This
will always be q sacred place to this
afflicted family, for here lie their
sainted dead of three generations.
Robert Baylus Dean was son of
Moses Dean, whose father emigrated
to this section from Virginia ut the
early settlement Of this country. Mo-
ses Dean married Miss Lewis, of the
family OF Lewises that emigrated from
Virginia at tho same time, and their
famlly connections are very extensive
They were of good Old Revolutionary
stock, and branch of the family still
resides on the famous Rappahannoek
river in Virginia.
Mr.. Dean was born at his fathers
farm near Starr, April 3rd, 1887, and
would have been 69 years old at his
next birthday. When he was quite o
young man he was married to Miss
Amanda Burriss, % daughter of the
Creek section. and to this union was
born nine children, of whom si3 are
living. They are: Messrs. William
and Luther Dean of this county, j.
M. Dean of Tyler, Texas, q former
member of the Texas legislature. Mrs.
j. Il. McCOwn and Mrs. Hugh Russell
of this county and Mrs. }. G.. Allen
uf iOrkville. Mrs. Dean died about
nine years ago
full soldiers of the Confederacy. He
volunteered in the old Fourth kegi-
nfenS in Capt. Thomas Deans com
pany, at the outbreak of the war, in
which command he served through the
First Battle OF Manassas. At the re-
organization he enlisted in Orr's regi-
ment and served faithfully in that
historic command until the close Of
the war.
Coming home after the surrender at
AppOmattoX he went to work to re-
trieve his broken fortunes, and how
we'll he succeeded ia we'll known In
this county. He had accumulated q
competency by hard work and good
mana cement, and fair end honeet deal
ings with all his fellows. He had no
aspirations for public Office. but led
the life of quiet. usefnl, lnw-ahiding
citizen, whose example was always for
the PROMOTION OF good morals and good
order. He had been memuer OF the
Baptist Church for the greater part of
his life, first at Cross Roads and then
Mountain Creek.
The body reached this city on the
21st ana on the Iaxt day was carried to
Gross Roads Church, and after impress
sive funeral services by the pastor,
Rev. M. McGee, his former comrade-
in .arme, was tenderly laid away by
the side Of bis wife to await the resur-
reotion morn. The immense congre-
gatIon present was testimony of the
high esteem in which he was held
and a tribute to the worth and char
acter Of the man.
The is O mysterious dispensation of
Providence, but "God moves in mys-
tertous way His wonders to perform, y
but the gloom Of the grave is dispelled
by che light that shines from Calvary's
brow. He who shed HIS blood &C tie.
hill for sinful world has said "what
do thou knowest not now but thou
shalt know hereafter" and in that
blessed reunion that Ia coming to them
10 the presence chamber Of the Great
King they ehall see in q clearer light of
eternity and in the glory that radiates
from His throne that "the Judge Of ali
the earth will do right" Till then
may He give them "beauty for ashes,
the oil OF joy for mourning and the
garment Of Dr0iea for tho apirik of