The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1906-05-25
IN MEMORY !.
Of JOHN SUTTON

when we are called upon by a sense
of reverence and respect for our
friends who have labored through
life's bright day ana then rested, to
honor their memory by at least a
feeble chronicle of their virtues.
their deeds, their fortunes and mis-
fortunes, through the public press,
or iinscribe it upon the records of
OUT societies and fraternities to
which the deceased may have been
an honored member.
This is a beautiful custom. We
realize that in time the monuments.
erected over the tonibs of depsrto.i
friends shall erimble to dust even
as the giant pyramids of Egypt have
fallen and returned to earth, but
time cannot cfface, nor centuries
dim the ulster OLA character that
has stood through life Mt the end of
which the brightness of its glory
shone as radiantly as at it's begin
ming We know that all material
things shall pass away and be for
gotten in the onrushing of distant
years as they shall be crowded into
the wears and centuries of the past,
but in a life well spent there re-
mains memory that shall live on
and on even to the end of time, and
shall shine in the eyer-wending of
its way down through the lives Of
the generations yet to come as
brightly as the evening stars, and
shall run its course and live through
out eternity. Thus page ascrib-
ed TO the memory of such dead shall
not be written in yair.
This father. husband, friend and
sweet counsellor was born before the
birth of his native state. IN Har-
rison County, Va, December goth,
/ 1913. near the site Of the old fam
ily home on Elk Creek in the south
ern part of the county, and departed
this life at Bridgeport. w. Va.
Nav l1th. 1906. On March 3rd.
1869. he was married 10 Lucinda
Hawkins. n daughtcr Of one Of The
pioneer families of the county
After exactly nine months OF happy
union with this young bride she
was called from him, and the reaper
death terminated what promised to
be a successful and happy career.
Five years later. October 22nd-
1871. he was married 10 Sabra Mon
roe. daughter of John Monroe. who
survives him, to which union three
children were born all of whom
participated in the last sad rites Of
their fathers death and burial. They
are Walker T. Sutton. of Elkins.
w. va: Chas. a. Sutton and Mrs
Maud Sutton Batten, of Bridge
port. W. Va. For twenty or more
years Mr. Sutton had been a con
sistent and faithful member Of the
Methodist Episcopal church; he
lived TO see his family grow up to
become useful and respected citi,
zens and who to his last hour re-
NAMED true to the teachings i'm.
parted 10 them by a kind father, q
painstaking and consented mother
War. The thing that tries men !
souls had no terrors for this man.
for at the call of his country he en-
listed at his first opportunity II
Company +. 18th Regiment, West
Virginia Vol. Infantry, and served
through its trying scenes, being
honorably discharged July 18th,
1865. after which he returned to his
old home 10 again take up the pur-
suits Of a common, honest citizen.
What greater sacrifice could any
man render. to his country? III
lived. as was his hope, his prayer,
to see a union made glorious. made
powerful, one under whose flag he
always loved 10 bow with recogni-
ton and respect, and under whose
immunity and franchise he found
ii pleasant to live and victorious to
die!
The old soldiers who fought TO
perpetuate our country, our lives
and our fortunes are fast passing
away. A dozen years yet and
scarcely any shall abide with US up
on whose heads we may place our
garlands OF love and devotion, and
upon whose brow we may shed a
tear Of gratitude. for the sacrifice
they paid for the perpetuity of this
nation whose clarion signal echoes
and re-echoes round the world pro-
claiming peace, liberty, union and
the pursuits Of happiness made pos
sible by the blood of its heroic mar
tyrs. Blot out their names from
history and you take from the world
her shining glories and rob man of
his most iliust1ious examples. They
we're men with lofty genius and are
the pillars on whose mighty sum
NIT rests the fabric of this republlcl