Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-01-22
IN Memoriam.
DR.. j. HARRIS SroNEsrRErr.

| DR.. j. HARRIS SToNESrREET.
We know chat where there is life there is
death. But we are told that where there
is death there is an abundance of life.
The history of the world is the history of
life and death of man and woman. Over
the rosy cheek of health spreads the palor
of death, and behind every man, woman
and child stands the headsman. Life is a
sublime poetic, but mournful tragedy, be-
| ginning we know not where, we know not
when; ending we know not when, we
know not where beginning without our
knowledge or consent, ending whether we
will it or not This sublime and poetic trag-
edy we call life is but the mingling, the
blending of our sorrows and our joys our
tears and our smiles, our thornS and our
crowns our failures and our triumphs, our
hate and our love.
Viewed from such standpoint as this,
we can understand in a measure this sub
lime, poetic, but mournful tragedy, we can
feel in measure the effect produced upon
the minds and hearts of those whose lives
have flowed smoothly along with the life
of the one who has gone out into the
great-beyond. At moment like this the
silent rhetoric" of a tear is more eloquent
than speech, and sigh that comes direct
from the heart grander than any words
of regret was Swallowed over the entire
community on the evening of January IS,
1909, when it was sorrowfully announced
to the public the departure into the spirit
world of one of our most widely known
and best citizens, DIR. j. Harris Stonestreet.
DIR. Stonestreet loved principles of right
and honor, and hated malice and envy.
AS man and physician he was very
favorably and well-known, highly respect
ed, unpretentious, upright conscientious
and true, hence the high esteem evolv-
ing, especially from his medical associates
who had the pleasure to consult with him
at the bedside. Kind-hearted and admired
especially for his genial disposition and his
open-handed charity extended to his worthy |
INDECENT patients, DIR. Stonestreet enjoyed
the universal confidence and esteem of his |
friends and neighbors and the community |
at large. He was a gentleman of whom |
any community could have been justly |
proud, and the medical fraternity could look |
upon him as a safe and thorough practi- |
toner, well qualified to practice his art |
Possessed of most excellent judgment and |
liberality of thought, which were supple |
mented by untiring zeal, he was an excel |
lent and true counsellor with his medical |
brothers. Members of his profession could |
justly and conscientiously appreciate him |
for his many good and rare traits of char
acter The loss of our medical brother is |
keen loss to the community in which he |
labored and battled against disease and |
DEATH Never hesitating to relieve suffer-
ing humanity, he was ever punctual and
ready to alleviate their suffering can
truly and earnestly say that any man pos
sessed of such unpretentious and sacrif-
cial qualities as was DIR. StOnestreet, would
be greatly missed in any community, And
to-day we drop tear of sympathy for a
beloved brother and citizen who has gone
hence to receive the reward of his labors
performed during his earthly career.
He led life of honest endeavor among
his friends and neighbors he loved, and he
leaves behind him an untarnished charac
ter. If prayer. the winged messenger of
wish, of hope and love. did aught avail,
if good and noble life will ever be crown
ed by Divine hands, then our friend shall
indeed be crowned and enter within the
gates of the Eternal City. While that
CHEEKY voice is forever stilled in death, may
God grant reunion of his beloved family
in Heaven where the pangs of death and
separation never come.
Peace unto him The fevered dream,
Filling with dread our courts of woe,
He shares no more. The shores are bright,
Where endless lfe's rivers flow
The checkered scenes Of earthly plight
Have sunk beneath the waves OF light.
write this. the tribute of my esteem
have done what affection dictated and
duty demanded.
l. NEWTON SHIPPERS, M. D.,
Germantown, Md.