Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-04-01
Obituary.
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DR.. Arthur Samuel Prince was
born at Dayton, Ohio, January 16,
1850. He was the eighth of a fam
lily OF eleven children, of whom
five survive him-four brothers,
Dr.. L. F. Prince and R. X. of st.
Louis, j. w. and G. G.. Prince of
Chicago and one sister, Mrs. E. J..
West of St. Louis. His early
childhood was spent in the States
of Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, in
the latter state principally at
Belleville, where he attended the
High School, and where at the
age of eighteen he was converted
and united with the Methodist
church. Shortly after this he
moved to st. Louis County, where
he became q Baptist under the
preaching of DR.. S. Fl. Ford and
united with the Fee Fee Baptist
Church, the oldest Baptist church
west of the Mississippi River. He
prepared himself, almost wholly
by his own exertions for the pro-
fession of dentistry, which he fol-
lowed with success until his last
illness. He moved to Ironton in
1878 and in January 1879, married
Miss Lucy j.. Brown, of st. Louis
County, Mo-, and for thirty years
their home in Ironton has been
the center and representative of
all that Christian refinement and
neighborly helpfullness stand for
in home life. Two sons, Arthur
Warren and Chester j. and four
daughters, Charlotte, Lucille,
Mary and Allegro, survive to
MOURN the loss of their father and
to comfort and make less lonely
the life of their widowed mother.
The deceased had been for the
last few years subject to attacks
of constitutional weakness, but
his death, after only three days of
serious illness, on March Sd came
as a great shock to the community.
He had been SO closely identified
with the religious, educational
and public life of Ironton in SO
many ways for so many years, as
the oldest member of his profess
sion, as active in Sunday School
and Temperance work, as member
of the School Board and of the
City Council, that his loss was
felt as a public calamity as we'll as
personal bereavement. The clos
ings of the banks, business houses
and the schools as we'll as the
large attendance at the funeral
services at the Baptist Church,
March 9th, were expressive of this
feeling on the part of the COM
munity. Next to the immediate
family and friends, his loss will
be most acutely felt by his breth-
ern and associates in the Baptist
Church of Ironton. His phenom-
enally long service as the Super
intendent of the Sunday School
for twenty-four years, his almost
equally long service as Deacon and
Treasurer, and his untiring faith
fulness to duty in all these offices
have had much to do in bringing
about the present prosperity of
the Church. He was a leader in
every department of church work.
He was a prayer meeting Chris
tian-alas for the rarity of them
Upon men like him, who go to the
house of prayer at the hour of
prayer, must the coming of the
Kingdom, earth's greatest Pente-
cost, depend.
The funeral services were con-
Quoted by the pastor of the Bap-
fist Church, Rev. Fuller Swift, as
sisted by the former pastor, Rev.
Geo. Steel, who preached the
funeral discourse from Rev. 14:13,
speaking words of consolation to
the bereaved, and of admonition
to all. Truly the memory of the
just is blessed. S.