The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-01-25
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State: january 24::::'' ''~:' 49,,
< The Rev: E: s: /. Iybrand, veteran
Lutheran minister, for. about quarter
Of century pastor Of Mt. Tabor Lu
Yheran chufi;eah, tii;ap T. Brookland died at his
home me yesterday after an illness Of all.
n :miost olt* two i years: :S funeral = services
%ila wfi} be held at his church tomorrow,
VI AFTERNOON a;s at2 O'clock, and. theeintes7
riieht x: VIII be IN III the Cemetery, four;
mites 'i:tsa vest of the town. - :.,>r :: 49,
Thsee; Rev. Eli Lott Lybrand was
f1;' Born near Lexington, Jipe 22;; 1882;
and vas Il s, IN IFS 7oth year His parents
were Godfrey and Bsirbare Kelley Ly-
brand, HIS father died as: a patient
in a hospital in Columbia: where he
:: was "a sent from military duties during
the Confederate war. AS q boy his
life began to be one of hard ta asks. He
worked for wages on farms, drove
teams for grading purposes in build
ing the railroad from Columbia to
Augusta, fired boilers at saw mills and
did whatever he could do for an hon.
est :livhfg:: :>:;,>.' :'-"
o. Parallel Lives. -
|; His preliminary education was nat
,u,raaliy very limited. but at an early
::asge, along with the late Rev: ia.
cromnter, he entered North: Carolina
college at ut. Pleasant, n. c:;<to pre-
pare re- for the ministry: From: that day
" Lybrands and Mr.. cromerFs lives
were parallel. They were (co-pastors
IN the beginning of their ministry, or
dained together, lived as ,neighbors,
co-woskers and the closest ;of friends
for SO years and singularay; enough
their lives ended on this earth within
three weeks Of each other Pastor
Lybrand began his work III 'old Zion
church and other congregations in
Lexington county, and at the same
time was reading. theology under: the
late Rev. Daniel Efird. After service
OF this kind for seevral years, he.:was
ordained in St. Matthews church,
Shenandoah county, Virginia, IN
1878. Among the churches served b.
him we're Cedar Grove, st. Paul's and
Summit near Leesville,. Black Greek.
Pelion, ST. Andrews, Biythewood, and
Mt. Tabor, Brookland. Afterrserving
Cedar Grove and St. .Paul's: pastorate
for about IS years, in the early days
Of the founding of the town of Brook
land, he moved there and cast his lot
with the. people and set to work with
AEsr failing energy: 'to; build up Mt.
'akb6r congregation, which he had Or
agnizesd a few years before. He con-
tinuea 70 serve tHts congrega ton as
;,r.estdent pastor from 1895 ito 1915
and nd saw It grow ta bea congregation
Of seNs 200 members: he became
pastor emeritus of the church
.as :, In Drug ii; Business ,. .......::
3 - Naturally : *Mr..: I, Ii,ybrand dldsuot re-
atWe large financial remdnerations
He Vas for number Of years in the
drug dtds business with Dr. sandel. 1T is
not gensrally known that he also read
ineaicine an dwas graduated as a
medical doctor. He ninistered unto
the people Of the community as a
physician, going night and day with
= practically no remuneration for it:
During the smallpox epidemic in 1897
lie was particularly ;diligent and coiir-
sageous in attention to The suffering
when many physicians regarded the
disease particularly dangerous.
The Rev. Mr.. Lybrand also taught
school, in and about BrooKland for a
number of years. He, perhaps did as
much as any 9th Ter one man. to pro-
mote the educational work of the
community. was a factor in the build
sing Of the. oldsBrooklana academy and
also. the modern high school. He was
a; member Of: the: constitutional con
yention in 1885, he also served one
term in the legislature, In tile latter
years. Of his Life he .deyeted his: time
ALMOST exclusively ussiyly to. the ministry, un-
tn his health,n became completely
shattered. from an attack of influenza
in 1913; g., He then: had: to: relinqutsGh
MS Woarkt.s:s Sat:s kt.ss aa>i :.2:'t'.j:: :'.'*'''.'
It has. been said that a better, neigh
yser and <eftizen aHever lived in. Brook
laid than Pastor .I,ybrand. And those
Of hisr.church know that he ranked
high asa minister in the Lutheran
thI-ch. =: -+,.'t: :" '-
He is survived by his widow, two
sons, J. Carroll and MaXcy, H. Ly-
brand, and eight grandchildren. One
;ol