The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-12-14
Obituary.


Joel Calvert was born near Saman-
tina, Ohio, Aug. IL, 1880 and died Oct.
q, 1911, aged 81 years, month and
20 days.
He was the eighth of family of
eleven children, nine sons ard two
daughters, born to Robert and Sally
Calvert. OF this family of eleven,
namely, John, Mills, Ira Frank, Will
liam and Joseph (twins) Moses, Joel,
Jesse, Susannah and Elizabeth, Moses
is the only surviving member. AL
though Moses not being the oldest,
yet he has already attained to the
greatest age of any Of the family.
His parents came from Virginia In
1917 His grandfather, Frank Calvert,
and grandmother, whose maiden name
was Dewitt, were also Of Virginian
ancestry.
Joel Calvert was married to Ann
Guthrie Hixson, March %, 1866. To
them were born four children, three
sons and one daughter. The mother
and two sons, Thomas Mills and James
Quinter, and one step-daughter, wife
of Rev. Joseph G. Calvert, Of Jingle.
wood, Cal, have preceded him to the
better world. One son, L. Dewitt,
and the daughter, Miss Anna NJ, and
one step daughter, Miss Tinnie Hix-
son, survive him.
In young manhood he united with
the German Baptist church. He was
much interested. In the welfare of his
church in which his father, Robert
Calvert, and four of his brothers, Ira,
Mills, William and Jesse, labored so
hard to build up, spending their lives
In the ministry. His father was one
Of the pioneers who did much to
establish his church in this part of the
country in its early history. He, too,
devoted his long and useful life to its
needs and benefits. He served his
church as deacon for many years. AS
to his qualifications In discharging
the duties that deyolved upon him In
church work, there are few that could
fill his place. He was staunch and un.
wavering in his faith though not rigid
In church government lest he should
destroy its best interest, yet firm con-
corning strange doctrines that should
come into the church other than the
one text book.
1t seems the religious influence now
felt in so many homes and hearts is
due to, and had its beginning back in
his fathers family. He will be missed
most In the home. Being an invalid
for the last six or seven years, almost
the last five years being spent in solid
confinement and his association the
last few years we're with those only
who came to him. He was a man of
great activity and vigor In health, but
in this long lesson of patience he had
become reconclled to his condition.
He was ever cheerful and genial and
had the spirit or resignation.
His helpless condition was due to
rheumatism but his death was caused
by Bright's disease. His last illness
was of short duration, his condition
not being alarming until two days
before his death. He gave evidence as
he was passing Of the dawning of a
brighter world by calling the names of
loved ones that have passed many
years before.
o World So few the years we live
Would that the life that thou dost give
Were life indeed
Alas Thy sorrows fall so fast,
Our happiest hour is when at last
The soul is freed.
Our days are covered DER with grief
And sorrows neither few nor brief
Veil all in gloom.
Left desolate of real good
Within this cherries solitude
No pleasures bloom.
rhy pilgrimage begins In tears
And ends In bitter doubts and fears
Or dark despair.
Midway so many tolls appear
That he who fingers longest here
Knows most of care. "