The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-03-23

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|, Prominent Citizen Passes AVA.
! After Long Illness.
N. B. Mcfarland, aged '64 year,
and 9 months, departed this life
Monday, March 20, 1916, after q
fourteen months illness Of Bright 1
J disease. Mr.. Mcfarland was tax
en- seriously i'll early in February,
1915, and since that time every
art known to medical science and
every effort on the part of his
loving wife and family has been
put forth to relieve his sufferings
and prolong life which was in
deed dear to those who were SO
fortunate as to know Nep. McFar-
land.
| Napolean B. Mcfarland, the
son Of Alexander B. and Sarah
Mcfarland was born at Duroc,
Benton county, Missouri, May 81,
1851, and there grew to young
manhood. In 1861 the family re-
moved to Texas remaining in that
state until 1867 when they re-
turned to Missouri. In 1869, N.
B. Mcfarland, accompanied by
his brother, Clinton B. Mcfarland
came to Bates county, locating at
Butler, the family following in
1870. In 1874 the firm of McFar-
land Bros. Harness and Saddlery
house, one of the oldest businesses
now remaining in this city, was es-
tablished by the two brothers,
and since that time the business
has remained in the family, Mr..
Mcfarland being in active con-
troll at the time of his death. He
was united in marriage to Mar
garet Mills on December Is, 1885,
and this union was blessed with
the birth Of a daughter who died
in infancy. ~%
Mr.. Mcfarland is survived by
his widow, brother, C. B. Nc
Farland, and two sisters, Mrs.
IS. C. Lewis of Amsterdam and
Mrs. Carrie Huyser of Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
To attempt to portray in cold,
printed words the golden charac-
ter of N. B. Mcfarland were but
futile. The nobler passions which
actuate the heart of man are as
impossible of description as is the
very soul which has been called
forth to that great unknown
where awaits the award for a life
we'll lived. He was a man among
men, strong iii his morals, noble
in his character. A gentleman I'M
afraid, he faced the world with
smiling face, sharing his joys and
concealing in his heart of hearts
the sorrows from which as from
the white heat of crucible came
forth his soul in all it's nobility
and grandeur. Able and courag-
eous he increased his talents yet
found time along life's highway
to extend the helping hand to a
less resolute and forceful fellow
man. Many were his charities,
yet the world knew them not. His
greater pleasures were those of
service and devotion and none
appealing to him for aid
were ever turned empty handed
away. Tender hearted and sym
pathetic, he wept with his friends
in their misfortune and rejoiced
with them in their gladness. He
owed little children and was ever
with a group of the
wee ones who loved him as faith
r. and whose childish "Uncle
Ncppic' were to his ears celestial
music. If he had fault, that
'ault was his generosity, and the
elf sacrifice which marked his
whole career. To his invalid wife
It whose feet he poured forth all
he love and devotion of his
.reat heart. he was a minister
ng angel, tender and true and to
whom there remains to her that
weetest of all things, the memory
# "A great unselfish love. His
.reatest monument, which will
ndure until the end of time is
he memory of his golden char
cter enthroncd in the heart of
II who knew him. He was our
ricnd.
Funeral services, conducted by
he Rev. f. X. Wolfe. were held
t the residence on south High
treet Wednesday, March %,
GIG, at 2 clock p. NJ, and inter-
tent was made in Oak Hill cem-
terry.