Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-05
CROSSING THE DARK RIVER.

Judge Aston Gordon DAYTON, fed
eral Judge for the northern district oI
West Virginia for the past fifteer
years, died last Friday at Battle Greek
Michigan, where he was under treat.
,ment. He had been in failing health
most OF the past year. and for a couple
OF months had been seriously i'll from
heart trouble. Two weeks before his
death he was taken to the Sanitarium
at Battle Greek, where il was hoped
that treatment by specialists might
give him relief. He grew worse. how
ever, and passed away Friday evening.
Judge Dayton, who was in his 63d
year, was born and reared in Philippi.
He attended the West VIRGINIA Uni
verSity, graduating in law. In 1894,
when comparatively obscure, he re-
ceived the Republican nomination for
Congress from this district. and unex-
pectedly defeated the brilliant Vim. l..
wilson. He was reelected for four
succeeding terms, serving ten years in
the House of Representatives. In
Ilsoo he was appointed Judge of the
United States Court for this district,
and had since served on the bench
with great ability. He was noted for
his outspoken opposition TO the liquor
trahic and was a terror to saloon-kccp-
erS and hoot-leggers and moonshiners
He was a ruling elder in the Prcsby-
terian Church. a Mason, an Odd Fellow
and q Knight of PythiaS. He is sur
vived by his wife, who was with him
IN his last hours, and a son, Arthur
DAYTON, a rising young lawyer. Judge
DAYTON was a man whose probity of
character and ability as a Judge had
gained him a wide circle OF friends,
ami his death will be generally de-
plorcd
News has been received of the death
of James Cloud Crane, after lingcr-
ing illness at his home at Exeter, Mis-
souri,, July Sth. Mr.. Crane was the
eldest son of the late Col. Joseph and
Margaret Z. Crane, near Charles Town.
and was in the 18th year of his age.
AT the commencement of the Civil
War Mr.. Crane was a cadet at the
Virginia Military Institute, whence he
left to join Company b, 18th Virginia
Cavalry, recruited by Capt. Robt. w.
Baylor, and commanded by him and
afterward by his son, Capt. George
Baylor, in Rosser's Brigade. of the
Confederate army. He served with
at the battle of the Wilderness in NAV,
1864. After that he passed several
months in a hospital in Staunton, Va,
where he was tenderly cared for by the
volunteer nurses Of that city, among
whom were Mrs. Matilda Trout, Mrs.
Anna Forrest and others. His battle
wound was the cause of more or less
suffering the remainder of his life. He
ft1a tnI - Ill
Leith, of Loudoun county, Va. Ten
children were born to them. Four of
their children are living. Surviving
also are three sisters, Mrs. Kate Lucas,
of Baltimore; Mrs. II. M. Bel and
Miss Jennie Crane, formerly of Staun-
ton. He had resided in Missouri for
nearly forty years.
1t was enormously published in the
neighborhood papers last wick that
Mrs. S. P. Hopkins had died in Har-
risburg, Pa. A misunderstanding in a
telephone message caused the error.
1t was her husband, Samuel Preston
Hopkins, formerly of Charles Town.
who had passed away, his death having
been caused By heart disease after n
brief illness. Mr.. Hopkins, who was
As years Of age, was sales manager Of
the Norwalk Motor Car Company in
h2rt'nshurg until that concern failed
a few years ago, when he went to Har-
risburg, continuing in the automobile
business. He is survived by his wife,
two boys and two girls; his mother,
Mrs. Sarah Hopkins, and a sister. Mrs
Minnie Hopkins, near Charles Town
and three brothers, VIM. J., Of Amber,
Pa, Harry M, OF Baltimore, and John,
Of Concord. N. n. The body was taken
10 Charles Town for burial
Mrs. Mary E. Johnson, widow of
George w. Johnson, died last Sunday
at the Fahrney Memorial Home, at
San-Mar, near Hagerstown, where she
had Been living for some months. She
was 20 years old. She is survived by
two daughters, Mrs. Edward
Weis, of Martinsburg. and Mrs. Ford,
of Florida. The body was brought to
Shepherdstown for burial on Monday
and was inferred in Elmwood Gene
terry.
Mrs. Ella Huff. wife of Noah Huff
died last Wednesday night at her home
at Leetown, after an illness Of seven
weeks from paralysis, aged 10 years.
She is survived by her husband, two
sons and three daughters: Cleveland
Huff, Of Warren, Ohio; William Huff,
near Hagerstown; Mrs. David W.
Clipp, Mrs. Charles Price and Mrs
George Wilmington, Of the Leetown
neighborhood
Scott Brady, a former resident OF
Martinsburg and for years conductor
on the b. & O. Railroad, died recently
in Pueblo, Colorado, aged 60 years.
Eugene Liniamood, AGED 20 years,
died at his home in Martinsburg last
Thursday, after a long illness from
tuberculosis.
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