The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-11-09
Obituary.

Catherine Campbell McNicol, was born
in Killearn Stillingshire, Scotland,
Feb %, 1897, and departed this life at
the home of his daughter, Mrs Bessie
Nevin, Oct %, 1911, in the 18th year
of his age.
He was united i'm marriage to Miss
Elizabeth Higgins, May II 1865.
There we're born of this union three
sons and one daughter. Two of the
sons died in infancy and Hugh, the
oldest child, lived to reach the twenty
second year of his manhood. Cultured,
bright and loving, but stricken by
typhoid fever, surrendered his young
manhood and all the bright hopes of
future work and usefulness to this fell
destroyer, diving the same year that
the sainted mother crossed the river
to make her home with God, 1887.
Mrs Bessie Nevin, the youngest
member of the family, alone remains to
weep for him, who for "a years was his
daughter, companion and friend. who
ministered to his wants and when the
twilight of his departure came closed
his tired eyes to earthly scenes, as he
gently, peacefully, calmly sank TO rest.
Robert McNicol and Helen McNicol,
the oldest and youngest members of
the original family, brother and sister
of the deceased, still linger to watch
the grass-grown graves Of their loved
ones. John McNicol was life long
member of the Presbyterian church,
honest, faithful, sincere. His faith in
God, in Jesus Christ, His only begotten
Son, in future life, was intelligent
and profound.
AS citizen the character of John
McNicol was above reproach Posi-
tive in his conviction Of right upon
questions of social, moral and political
reforms. he gave expression to them in
strong language, which inspired re.
pect in the minds of others and helped
to mould public sentiment into purer
better form.
In his young manhood he taught
school in this county, and he seemed
to delight in the fact that some of the
best men and women in the county
"had come to school to him many a
time"
81 have been half in love with easeless
Death,
And called him soft names in many mused
rhyme"
Oft we ask the question. as the twi-
light deepens, and the light of the
sinking sun casts deepening shadows
I'm the silent reem, where on the un-
sounded sea is our little river of time
bearing usY But he has seen
brighter, gladder vision on that farth-
er shore, has gone to meet her who Is
that vision, and save for a loving
sisters sob, and the grief ladened cry
of an only child, there is solitude and
silence about him.
We knew John McNicol for many
years, loved him as a friend to be
trusted and relied upon; in nature as
gentle as a little child; as husband
provident and kindly: as father, his
children loved and believed in him;
as Christian his piety was without
ostentation or display.
BLESSED are the dead that die in
the Lord, for they rest"
IL am the resurrection and the life,
though man be dead yet shall he
live, and he that is alive and believeth
in me shall never die.
"For | would not have you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning them
that are asleep, for If you believe that
Jesus died and rose again, even so
them that sleep in Jesus will God bring
with him."
Calmly, sweetly he passed away,
without struggle, without moan.
"Our very hopes belied our fears
Our fears our hopes belied-
We thought him dying when he slept
And sleeping when he died