The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-11-03
EULOGISTIC
To The Memory and Life Of George W.
HixSOn, Late Of Brush Greek
Valley.

DEAR EDIToR:-Many of the
boys have wandered from the
homes of their childhood, from
the green fields, the babbling
brooks, the pure air, and noun.
tam scenery of old Fulton. A
goodly number of those, who for
various reasons have found it
necessary to locate elsewhere,
are in Cambria County. The
"News" reaches US each week, a
welcome visitor. 1t announces
ACHIEVEMENTS and success, happi-
ness and progress, but with these
comes sometimes the mingled
tones Of sorrow, which takes us
back to our boyhood days and as.
soclates, and we are shocked to
learn that the chain which linked
our hearts to those of our asso.
GATES has been suddenly snapped
Such was the message borne in
last weeks issue that announced
the death of George W. Hlxson,
of Crystal Springs. We are well
aware that any thing we can say
will neither add to nor detract
from, the noble character exemp.
llfied in Mr.. Hixson; but 1t is meet
that we should mlngle our grlefs
with those of his family and
neighbors-that we should call
attention to the life of a typical
citizen, so that others may emu
late his amlable and virtuous con-
duct, his unfelgned plety to his
God, and his inhexlble fidelity to
his trust.
1t was the good fortune of the
writer to be associated with Mr..
Hixson socially, politically, and
IN business transactions. To be
entertained in his home was a
real pleasure. "Glfts from the
hand are silver and gold, but the
heart gives that which silver nor
gold can buy" He was repub
lican IN politics, clean, upright,
and fair. To say he was elected
to Office means but little; but to
know he held the unlimited con-
fidence of the voters which he
represented, means much. In
business transactions, his name
was a synonym for integrity and
honesty. His word was a bond.
He proved IN his dealings with
others his belief IN "Man's hu-
manltY to man."
1t was also the pleasure of the
writer, few years ago, to &C
company him on trip to one of
the hard coal districts of Penn
sylvanla. His keen BUSINESS fore
sight, his anxiety for knowledge
of affairs, attested his worth as a
progressive citizen. His trip to
the Hagerstown fair was IN
search of knowledge to improve
HIM IN his chosen profession.
He realized the i'm mortality of the
soul, the grandest dream the
human heart has ever cherished,
and his christian life was exem-
plified IN a constant devotion to
God.
Our weakness in words makes
US hesitate to cross the threshold
of his home life to depict the
manner IN which he discharged
his sacred obligation to his family
as a husband, a father, friend.
Every community will have It's
treasured names, Every noun
tain and hill will have some SOL
emn title: every valley will cher
ish Its honored register; but to
the citizens of Brush Creek, no
name will be held in higher es-
TEEN or kept brighter with re.
weren't honor than that of George
w. Hixson.
The poet could say Of him: "He
so lived that when the sum mons
came to join that innumerable
caravan, that moves to the pale
realms of shade, where each
shall take his chamber in the
silent halls of night, he went not
like the quarry slave but, sus-
tanned and soothed by an unfal
tering trust, he approached the
grave, like one who wraps the
drapery Of his couch around HIM
and lies down TO pleasant
! dreams"