The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-03-22

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distinction. and ssat Is What ce<ae
Illus Andrews accom- alished when i,
died at mis- home in yermtilion las
week Fifty years IN this countr,
something to the average cit
axsns who has resided here a iittls
over rs years. Mr.. Andrews WAS wei
known around Mitchell. Years anc
years before Mitchell was thought OF
Mr.. Andrews fought the Indians all
over this section of the country. and
there are a number OF his dsecend-
ant living in this section at the pies
ent time. Below We publish an lu-
%teresting obituary of the deceased
man, as a mark of respect for a man
who spent nearly a half century in
this country:
Cornelius vickery Andrews peace
fully departed from this earth at
Vermillion, South Dakota, Thursday
morning, at s o'clock, March Z, 1907.
He was of Scotch-Yankee parentage,
though BORN in western New York
to Samuel and RoxeIa Andrews, at
tCenterville, Allegheny county, June
ii, 1882. He passed the first twen-
fty-four years of his life in western
New York, where he formed those
habits of sturdy industry, integrity,
and thrifty economy which so char
.actsrized all his after life.
Cornelius Andrews made a ven
turesome trip into Dakota in 1858,
and located in Clay county in the
summer of 1859. He served faith
fully for three years in Captain Mi
ner's Dakota Volunteer Cavalry,
A, one of the first Two COM
.panies raised in Dakota Territory.
A comrade during those three years
named Nelson w. Cusick, and him
self formed a business partnership
which transacted an unusually large
.freighting, stock, elevator, farming
and loan business for those times.
which partnership lasted for more
than a quarter of a century. Corne-
illus Andrews, Nelson w. Cusick and
Jonas S. Meckling plated the village
of Burbank, (named after an early
Dakota g%overnor), on the Dakota
Southern Railroad, which is the first
railroad ever built and continuously
operated in Dakota.
He was happily married to Martha
Taylor, March IL, 1876. To this for
tunate union four children were
born. Lafayette Andrews, the sec
ord born, a child of a remarkably
lovab1egdisposition, died of diphthe-
ria at the age of five in 1888. Elva
Cornelius, Roxeinna Clarissa, Eliza
beth and the bereaved widow survive
their beloved father and husband.
He was an unusually kind and low
ing father and husband. His life
was seriously married and shortened
by a sad injury to his head, shoulders
and system which occurred
in a runaway on the streets of YER
million about twenty years ago.
Cornelius Andrews was a member
of the Miner post of the G.. A. R., a
charter member of the knights of
Pythias. and a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. He was a
public spirited patriot, as is so m
ply proven by the fact that he offered
mis- life as a United States volunteer
soldier in three years of strenuous
war. He also donated half of the
sixteen lots the school house and
uchurch stand on in Burbank. He
also served several terms as a school
director and also signed the Clay
scounty treasurer's bond several
times. He believed in higher educa-
Aion and his son and daughter re-
.ceiyed degrees from South Dakota's
splendid state university on June II,
1903, which was his seventy-frst
birthday. He also sent his o to
study law at Ann Arbor, Michigan,
and to attend Cornell college, Iowa,
from which institution the son grad
mated in 1899. He appreciated in
tensely his youngest daughters skill
in the high art of portrait photo
sgraphy.
His good deeds and his faith in
Jesus as a personal Savior carried
him peacefully to his home on high
after passing nearly seventy-fve
years in the world. During the last
twelve years of his life he read his
Bible entirely through seven or eight
times. His life was a hard fought
battle, crowned by a fairly earned
victory over severe pioneer condi-
tions. In the words of James Russell
lowell, The hardest parts befit
those best, who best can cope with
A1L0s ~ q oASA a 9CukA IAS0
GERS, such manly men, that Theodore
Roosevelt praises in his sterling
work. entitled 1.-THE Winning of the
West" The lives of such men are
and always will remain Gods bless
ing on Dakota and the West.
Always Keeps Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in His House.
W. would not be without Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. 1t is kept
on hand continually in our home"
says w. w. Kearney. editor of the
Independent. Lowry City, Mo. That
Is just what every family should do.
When.kapt at hand ready for instant
use, a .csaa may be checked at the
outset and cured In much less time
than altar 1t has become settled In
tho cvStAsn Th}s rouaHv 10 aIo0