The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-21
THE DEATH RECORD.
MR.. DANIEL MOSSER.

Daniel Mosser departed this life IN the
Home Sanatorium, Oakland, MARYLAND,
December 10th, 1911. He was born
about fiftY-eight years ago at Accident,
then part of Allegany county, was
son of the late Christian Mosser, and is
survived by two sons, three daughters,
three brothers and three sisters.
Before obtaining the age of majority
he moved with his parents from Acct
dent to Swanton where the residue of
his life was spent as law-observing
citizen and useful member of the COM
munity growing up about him. His
first wife, Miss Ann Farmhouse, the
mother of his six children, died more
than twenty years ago; his second wife
was a daughter Of Mr.. Matthias Barker
was victim Of declining health and
died within a few years after their
marriage From early manhood until
late in life, Mr.. Mosser was associated,
in a variety of forms, with the lumber
business and interest, but in more re-
cent years confined his energies to the
clearing and culture of his farm near
| Swanton.
Mr.. Mosser was man of generous
heart and warm impulses, ready friend
to all of his fellows, responding cheer
fully to calls of either duty or fidelity.
By an inscrutable disposition of prov1-
dence cloud was destined to gather
over this mans life too deep for human
penetration but for the lights falling
through the riffs over the believers
way. Sunday afternoon, October oath,
1890, a sweet, cloudless autumnal even
ing, his Youngest child, Grover Cleve-
land Mosser, less than five years old,
aimlessIv wandered from It's parents
home out into the mounnain wilds be-
yond the reach of affections call or the
effort of man to trace. The agony of
grief and pending fate of the lost child
form picture too cruelty terrible for
either reiteration or revival. The heart
of every home was reached and every
inmate was had for the search. Hun
dreds from Garrett and beyond the
borders of Garrett focked to the scene
and joined in the anxious, heart strain
ing search day and night, exploring
every path and tangle possible to the
! little Wanderer without finding a track
or sign of the course he had taken. On
the Oath day of April, 1891, six months
to day from the evening of departure,
to group Of men passing by, a simple
incident disclosed the body, thoroughly
preserved lying in a glade, likely less
than two hundred yards below the resi-
dence of Mr.. Richard Custer. The har-
rowing oppression of this relentless
STRAIN wasted the frame and broke the
heart of the mother. No one can say,
no one can know; but the child may
have been lost that the mother might
be Found, for she died in the rejoicing
declaration my child is, calling me to
heaven" In the beat Of all this dread
full TEMPEST, Mr. Mosser stood as a
strong oak bending without breaking in
the sweep of the gale.
Tuesday, December the 18th, 1911,
after impressive services conducted in
the church by the Rev. Mr.. johnson of
the United Brethren church, assisted
by the Rev. Mr.. Bernard Of the Methc-
dist church, large concourse of friends
and relatives followed the remains of
this man whose life had been so strange
" checkered to its final resting place on
his farm, and the spot seems to be well
chosen in a cemetery Of but three that
child, that mother and that father.
RELLIM.