Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-08-04
DR.. W. A. B. HARRY
Death and Funeral of one of
the Counties Best
known Citizens.
A FUNERAL DISCOURSE

"S W Piesoure upon our columns
last week we were forced to omit an
account of the burial of the remains
OF the late DR.. Harry. The departure
of this good citizen from the commu-
nifty deserves more than passing no.
tlce. DIR. Harry was known in the
community in which he lived and died
and also in this town, as true man.
He was born in Rockingham county
IN lS45, and after the war through
which he served as soldier, he came
to Tazewell. His sister, who after
wards married in the county, came
mere first, believe. and taught school.
She became the mother of William
and Ed. Buchanan, we'll known citi-
zens of Grafton.
DIR. Harry, at the opening of the
war, was student in dentistry in
Harrissonburg. under the celebrated
DIR. Jas. II. Harris, who was after
wards professor in Baltimore College
of Dental Surgery for many years,
and if we are not mistaken, whose
father or grandfather was the founder
OF the college. The war coming on,
broke up the young mans studies. But
for this interruption he would have no
doubt made record as a dentist. He
practiced his profession but little in
this county.
In 1881 he was married to Miss
Mary c., daughter of David Yost,
Esq, of Grafton, and settled on the
farm upon which he lived until his
death. Dr.. Harry was IN intelligent,
we'll informed man, knl neighbor
and indulgent father. Any one could
see that he was wellborn, and came
from cultivated family of people.
He was related to some of the best
people of the State. He loved fruit
culture, and was never happier than
when cultivating or handling the
fruits and berries which grew on his
farm. Best of all, DR.. Harry was
firm and steady believer in the reiig-
ion of the Bible. For many years he
was constant attendant and active
worker in Church and Sunday School
at Mt. Olivet,a church which he help
ed to build, and in whose quiet shades
his body was last laid to rest. have
often heard him talk of his belief in
immortality. He could "feel" the
IMMORTAL within him. | was a mem
ber oShis household during one term
of school of which was teacher at
Grafton, and had good opportunity to
study him. He impressed me always,
day|and night. Sunday and week day,
as conscientious, humble Christian,
trying to live right, and l am sure
this opinion of him is shared by all
who knew him, and came into contact
with him.
THHE FUNERAL SERMON AND
BURIAL.
The funeral and burial took place at
Mt. Olivet Friday afternoon. There
were few vacant seats in the house.
Rev. Mr.. Hicks, the pastor, preached
the sermon, and do not hesitate to
say, one of the very best and most
appropriate funeral sermons | ever
heard. The subject was about Magni-
fly Christ in our lives and in our
death. The discourse was full of the
loftiest and finest Christian teaching.
Funeral sermons, too often, are exag-
gerated eulogies of the dead. His SER
mon, in many respects. entitled to
be classified as great" pointed out
clearly and forcefully how to magnify
Christ in our lives. There was ap-
propriate yet happy commentator of
the deceased, yet no fulsome praise
beyond what every one present fully
approved. The sermon was comforting
and inspiring. At its close the body
of DIR. Harry was borne from the
church and laid to rest nearby in the
cemetery where sleeps the bodies of
many of his friends and relatives who
had preceded him to the better lard,
and many of us felt that we had sus-
tanned personal loss.
The widow and children have the
deepest sympathy of the community.