The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1912-04-04

OF the order was used and the funeral
services were held in Masonic Hall.
J. 7. Ward, Noble Grand, conducted
the ceremonies with y. E. Dickens as
chaplain.
T. G. Burroughs delivered eulogy OF
the deceased. Mr.. Burroughs spoke in
part as follows:
My Friends We are here today to
/ pay the last tributes of respect and love
to brother who has gone before to that
unknown and silent shore whence no
traveller returns.
Brother Berg, whose mortal remains
lay IN yonder casket, was a man among
men, an Oddfellow whose life exempli-
ned the holiest and best in the teachings
oil the great order he so dearly loved.
For thirty one years he has been a
faithful member of Silver City lodge and
among those present today are members
who have associated with bim in Odd
fellowship for that whole period and
who know that | say truth when assert
that his existence was one grand exem-
plltcation of the great motto of the order
Friendship, Love and Truth.
These three great links of our order
were no meaningless symbol to him.
lie lived the life Of true Oddfellow and
dying left behind him life history of
obedience to its teachings.
AS member of the Rebekah degree1
ne took an Immense interest in the work |
and grieved when it was found necessary
to allow that branch Of the order in |
Silver City to lapse In Faith, in Hope. |
in Charity and in Purity, the four cardi- |
nal virtues Of the Rebekah Degree, Mr.. |
Berg was true and upright exemplar.
Born near Arvika in Sweden III 1916, /
Mr.. Berg was about 26 years ofage when
he came TO Silver City From December
n, 1872, to April 2, 1912, he lived among
rs and during those forty long years
no man can say that Abe Berg was other
than Friendly, Loving and Truthful
There IS always something peculiarly
affecting IN the passing Of pioneer. A
man VINO can live Tor forty years in one
community, who has seen its rise and
Its decay, and who loved the place az
Abel Berg did for what it is and for what
it has been, and then leaves it for his
final home with the respect and affection
oil every man with whom he has come
in contact, is one of whom in the nature
Of things it is but faint praise to say
Here is a man."
Lord Lytton wrote: There is moth
ing certain in mans life but this: That
he must lose it," But knowing this.
my friends, does not lessen the loss we
teel at the passing Of such friend and
such a brother
L believe that no panegyric that could I
be bestowed on the life and character of
our departed brother could be untruth
ful or lacking in solid foundation.
He was successful in his business
dealings and possessed the where-withall
TO SATISFY almost any desires for pleasure
or display, but he went his way notwith-
standing, quiet and unassuming. He
lived simple life among us, mo6estlv
and without ostentation. and dying left
a heritage of simple, manly integrity
tnat the best of Us may emulate but
never excel. Resisting to the last the
that the possession of meansl
entail he was the same Abe Berg on the
day OF his death as at the time he enter
ed Silver City forty years before and
shouldered his pick and shovel 10 the
mountains he so dearly loved.
My friends, in closing | feel that | can
do no better than quote Lonefellow's
beautiful lines on Resignation"
There is no death. What seems SO is
transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but suburb Of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call death.
At the conclusion of the services at I
the hall the body-was conveyed to The
cemetery where the last farewels were ]
said and the body consigned to its last
resting place. t