The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-02-11
| lev. H. E. FRIEND, SOLDIER
AND PREACHER, PASSES
After An Illness of Four Years
at His Home in Mountain
Lake Park.

Rev. Henry E. Friend died at his
home in Mountain Lake Park, Md,
Friday, February 9Th, 1926, at 1000
O'Clock a. NJ, after an illness of four
years, the greater portion of which
time he was belfast. The cause of his
death was arteris sclerosis. He was
a patient sufferer through it all.
Mr. Friend was born at Sang Run,
+ Garrett county, DECEMBER 31st, 1885,
and was the son of Israel and Dorcas
Wilson Friend, pioneers of Garrett
county. On December 9th, 1860, he
was married to Sarah E. Blackburn at
Altamont, Nd, by the Rev. Benjamin
,ickley. To this union fourteen chill
en- were born, ten of whom survive:
!. =. E., of Morgantown, w. Va; G. B.
M. and w. S., of near Oakland; Regis
ter of Wills E. E. Friend, of Mountain
Lake Park; Ray c., Redwood, W. Va;
Charles w., of New York City; Cliff
ford H., of Moscow, Idaho; James w.,
of Friendsville, Md; Miss Sudie,
daughter, who resided at home with
her father, and Mrs. J. Arthur De-
Witt, of Hoyes.
For more than seventy-fve years
Mr.. Friend was allied with the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, having become
a member of the church in early boy
hood. When quite young man he
left his home at Sang Run and went
to Altamont, Garrett county, where he
took up the trade of shoemaking. He
enlisted in the Union Army on August
18th, 1862, and served until the close
of hostilities between the States. He
was attached to the Army of the Po-
tomac, Co. D, Third Maryland Regi-
ment. After being discharged from
the service of his country he returned
to Altamont and again took up his
trade where he remained few years,
going to a point near Hoyes in or
alb out the year 1870, where he started
|, farming.
( On February 7th, 1871, he re-
ceived his license as an eXhorter in
the M. E. church from the Rev. E. c.
Woodruff, and in August of the same
year was licensed as local preacher
at Blooming Rose, Nd, by Rev. J. w.
Webb, then presiding elder of this
section. He was ordained deacon by
Bishop E. R. Ames at Grafton, w.
Va, March 25th, 1877, and was or
dained as an elder by Bishop Willard
F. Mallalieu at Morgantown, W. Va,
September Goth, 1886. He served a
number of charges in the West Vir-
ginia Conference as regular minis
ter and was retired in 1904 but served
as supply after that time.
Mr.. Friend was a member of the
first Board of County Commissioners
in Garrett county, having been elected
in 1878, at the time the county was
created, along with Elisha Umbel and
George w. Blocher, the latter now
nearing the age of one hundred years,
and being the sole survivor.
Mrs. Friend died on February IA,
1914, and the same year Mr.. Friend,
with his daughter, Miss Sudie Friend,
moved to Mountain Lake Park where
he resided until his death.
The funeral services were held at
the home on Sunday, February 7th,
by his pastor, Rev. R. Aspinall, assist
ed by Rev. DR.. Archibald Moore and
Rev. VIM. M. Shultz. Interment was
made in the cemetery at Hoyes.
During his illness of four years Mr..
Friend was devotedly cared for and
nursed by his daughter. Her devotion
to his wellbeing and anticipation of
his desires and willingness on her
part to comply with his every wish
was beautiful to see and some time,
somewhere, she will surely receive her
reward.
Mr. Friend lived long and useful
life and will be greatly missed, but he
left a goodly heritage; his passing is
regretted; his influence during his
lifetime will live on and bear much
fruit.