SEMI-WEEKLY INTERIOR JOURNAL, STANFORD, KENTUCKY
Friday, July 24, 1896
Page 5
Death's Doings
The news of the death of Mr. S. S. Myers, which occurred at the hospital of the College of Medicine, at Louisville, Wednesday night, though expected, caused many a pang in the hearts that loved him here, for he was a noble and generous man, whom everybody liked. For months he had been suffering with what appeared to be jaundice and his complexion took on an unearthly yellow hue. He tried many medications and several mineral waters without effect and it was at last decided that he had a tumor in his stomach, and that an operation alone could relieve him. He was told of its danger, but concluded to have it performed and accordingly went with his wife to Louisville last week for that purpose. The day before it was performed, which was last Saturday, he wrote to his sister, Mrs. S. C. Trueheart, here that he feared the worse, adding: "I am ready. Pray for me as I am for myself." The doctors found the tumor, but it had made such inroads that the operation was not successful and they so telegraphed Mrs. Trueheart, who was since been in constant telegraphic communications with his bedside.
Mr. Myers was born at Middleway, W. Va., 49 years ago and long before he was old enough entered Mosby's command and served till the end of the war for the cause he never ceased to love. In 1874 he joined his sisters here, Mrs. Trueheart and Miss Mary Myers, and since then, with short intermissions, he has made Stanford his home, helping his sisters at the college for years and engaging in business for himself later. In 1878 he married Mrs. Stallcup, of Louisville, and she with two daughters, Annie Cleve and Emily, are left to mourn his loss. When he was seven years old he united with the Methodist church, in which he was raised, and if ever a man tried to live a Christian life it was he. He loved his church and he loved its people and there was no place on earth so dear to him as his seat in the modest little church here, where in the services and in the singing, he took a prominent part. Recently, after having been gone a year, he returned here and enthusiastically said to the writer: "I am so glad to be at home once more. There is no place like dear old Stanford to me. I have longed for it ever since I have been away. It is the best place on earth to live and her people are the best this side of heaven, I really believe."
Mr. Myers was a Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight of Honor, but he said before leaving for Louisville to Capt. Thomas Richards: "I want to make a request of you. I am a member of several orders but I would rather have the old Confederate soldiers meet at my grave and throw evergreen into it than any of them. I have grave apprehensions that I will not survive the operation. Will you promise to see that my request is complied with?" The captain promised and his old comrades will assist the Masons in paying the last tribute of respect.
The remains were brought here yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Myers and her son, E. H. Stallcup, and were taken to the residence on Danville Avenue, where they will lie till 3 P. M. today, when they will be taken to the church he loved so well, where Rev. W. S. Grinstead will hold a short service. Then the Masons will take the body in charge and with the honors of the order "consign his body to the earth, while cherishing his memory here and commending his spirit to the God who gave it." In order that there may be a full attendance of the lodge Worshipful Master, Rev. A. V. Sizemore, directs that the members meet at their hall at 1:30 this afternoon.
A gentle, truer heart never beat in manly bosom. May his rest be sweet till He bids him arise, to meet Him in glory ascending the skies.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
Friday, July 24, 1896
Page 5
Death's Doings
The news of the death of Mr. S. S. Myers, which occurred at the hospital of the College of Medicine, at Louisville, Wednesday night, though expected, caused many a pang in the hearts that loved him here, for he was a noble and generous man, whom everybody liked. For months he had been suffering with what appeared to be jaundice and his complexion took on an unearthly yellow hue. He tried many medications and several mineral waters without effect and it was at last decided that he had a tumor in his stomach, and that an operation alone could relieve him. He was told of its danger, but concluded to have it performed and accordingly went with his wife to Louisville last week for that purpose. The day before it was performed, which was last Saturday, he wrote to his sister, Mrs. S. C. Trueheart, here that he feared the worse, adding: "I am ready. Pray for me as I am for myself." The doctors found the tumor, but it had made such inroads that the operation was not successful and they so telegraphed Mrs. Trueheart, who was since been in constant telegraphic communications with his bedside.
Mr. Myers was born at Middleway, W. Va., 49 years ago and long before he was old enough entered Mosby's command and served till the end of the war for the cause he never ceased to love. In 1874 he joined his sisters here, Mrs. Trueheart and Miss Mary Myers, and since then, with short intermissions, he has made Stanford his home, helping his sisters at the college for years and engaging in business for himself later. In 1878 he married Mrs. Stallcup, of Louisville, and she with two daughters, Annie Cleve and Emily, are left to mourn his loss. When he was seven years old he united with the Methodist church, in which he was raised, and if ever a man tried to live a Christian life it was he. He loved his church and he loved its people and there was no place on earth so dear to him as his seat in the modest little church here, where in the services and in the singing, he took a prominent part. Recently, after having been gone a year, he returned here and enthusiastically said to the writer: "I am so glad to be at home once more. There is no place like dear old Stanford to me. I have longed for it ever since I have been away. It is the best place on earth to live and her people are the best this side of heaven, I really believe."
Mr. Myers was a Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight of Honor, but he said before leaving for Louisville to Capt. Thomas Richards: "I want to make a request of you. I am a member of several orders but I would rather have the old Confederate soldiers meet at my grave and throw evergreen into it than any of them. I have grave apprehensions that I will not survive the operation. Will you promise to see that my request is complied with?" The captain promised and his old comrades will assist the Masons in paying the last tribute of respect.
The remains were brought here yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Myers and her son, E. H. Stallcup, and were taken to the residence on Danville Avenue, where they will lie till 3 P. M. today, when they will be taken to the church he loved so well, where Rev. W. S. Grinstead will hold a short service. Then the Masons will take the body in charge and with the honors of the order "consign his body to the earth, while cherishing his memory here and commending his spirit to the God who gave it." In order that there may be a full attendance of the lodge Worshipful Master, Rev. A. V. Sizemore, directs that the members meet at their hall at 1:30 this afternoon.
A gentle, truer heart never beat in manly bosom. May his rest be sweet till He bids him arise, to meet Him in glory ascending the skies.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
SEMI-WEEKLY INTERIOR JOURNAL, STANFORD, KENTUCKY
Friday, July 24, 1896
Page 5
Death's Doings
The news of the death of Mr. S. S. Myers, which occurred at the hospital of the College of Medicine, at Louisville, Wednesday night, though expected, caused many a pang in the hearts that loved him here, for he was a noble and generous man, whom everybody liked. For months he had been suffering with what appeared to be jaundice and his complexion took on an unearthly yellow hue. He tried many medications and several mineral waters without effect and it was at last decided that he had a tumor in his stomach, and that an operation alone could relieve him. He was told of its danger, but concluded to have it performed and accordingly went with his wife to Louisville last week for that purpose. The day before it was performed, which was last Saturday, he wrote to his sister, Mrs. S. C. Trueheart, here that he feared the worse, adding: "I am ready. Pray for me as I am for myself." The doctors found the tumor, but it had made such inroads that the operation was not successful and they so telegraphed Mrs. Trueheart, who was since been in constant telegraphic communications with his bedside.
Mr. Myers was born at Middleway, W. Va., 49 years ago and long before he was old enough entered Mosby's command and served till the end of the war for the cause he never ceased to love. In 1874 he joined his sisters here, Mrs. Trueheart and Miss Mary Myers, and since then, with short intermissions, he has made Stanford his home, helping his sisters at the college for years and engaging in business for himself later. In 1878 he married Mrs. Stallcup, of Louisville, and she with two daughters, Annie Cleve and Emily, are left to mourn his loss. When he was seven years old he united with the Methodist church, in which he was raised, and if ever a man tried to live a Christian life it was he. He loved his church and he loved its people and there was no place on earth so dear to him as his seat in the modest little church here, where in the services and in the singing, he took a prominent part. Recently, after having been gone a year, he returned here and enthusiastically said to the writer: "I am so glad to be at home once more. There is no place like dear old Stanford to me. I have longed for it ever since I have been away. It is the best place on earth to live and her people are the best this side of heaven, I really believe."
Mr. Myers was a Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight of Honor, but he said before leaving for Louisville to Capt. Thomas Richards: "I want to make a request of you. I am a member of several orders but I would rather have the old Confederate soldiers meet at my grave and throw evergreen into it than any of them. I have grave apprehensions that I will not survive the operation. Will you promise to see that my request is complied with?" The captain promised and his old comrades will assist the Masons in paying the last tribute of respect.
The remains were brought here yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Myers and her son, E. H. Stallcup, and were taken to the residence on Danville Avenue, where they will lie till 3 P. M. today, when they will be taken to the church he loved so well, where Rev. W. S. Grinstead will hold a short service. Then the Masons will take the body in charge and with the honors of the order "consign his body to the earth, while cherishing his memory here and commending his spirit to the God who gave it." In order that there may be a full attendance of the lodge Worshipful Master, Rev. A. V. Sizemore, directs that the members meet at their hall at 1:30 this afternoon.
A gentle, truer heart never beat in manly bosom. May his rest be sweet till He bids him arise, to meet Him in glory ascending the skies.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
Friday, July 24, 1896
Page 5
Death's Doings
The news of the death of Mr. S. S. Myers, which occurred at the hospital of the College of Medicine, at Louisville, Wednesday night, though expected, caused many a pang in the hearts that loved him here, for he was a noble and generous man, whom everybody liked. For months he had been suffering with what appeared to be jaundice and his complexion took on an unearthly yellow hue. He tried many medications and several mineral waters without effect and it was at last decided that he had a tumor in his stomach, and that an operation alone could relieve him. He was told of its danger, but concluded to have it performed and accordingly went with his wife to Louisville last week for that purpose. The day before it was performed, which was last Saturday, he wrote to his sister, Mrs. S. C. Trueheart, here that he feared the worse, adding: "I am ready. Pray for me as I am for myself." The doctors found the tumor, but it had made such inroads that the operation was not successful and they so telegraphed Mrs. Trueheart, who was since been in constant telegraphic communications with his bedside.
Mr. Myers was born at Middleway, W. Va., 49 years ago and long before he was old enough entered Mosby's command and served till the end of the war for the cause he never ceased to love. In 1874 he joined his sisters here, Mrs. Trueheart and Miss Mary Myers, and since then, with short intermissions, he has made Stanford his home, helping his sisters at the college for years and engaging in business for himself later. In 1878 he married Mrs. Stallcup, of Louisville, and she with two daughters, Annie Cleve and Emily, are left to mourn his loss. When he was seven years old he united with the Methodist church, in which he was raised, and if ever a man tried to live a Christian life it was he. He loved his church and he loved its people and there was no place on earth so dear to him as his seat in the modest little church here, where in the services and in the singing, he took a prominent part. Recently, after having been gone a year, he returned here and enthusiastically said to the writer: "I am so glad to be at home once more. There is no place like dear old Stanford to me. I have longed for it ever since I have been away. It is the best place on earth to live and her people are the best this side of heaven, I really believe."
Mr. Myers was a Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight of Honor, but he said before leaving for Louisville to Capt. Thomas Richards: "I want to make a request of you. I am a member of several orders but I would rather have the old Confederate soldiers meet at my grave and throw evergreen into it than any of them. I have grave apprehensions that I will not survive the operation. Will you promise to see that my request is complied with?" The captain promised and his old comrades will assist the Masons in paying the last tribute of respect.
The remains were brought here yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Myers and her son, E. H. Stallcup, and were taken to the residence on Danville Avenue, where they will lie till 3 P. M. today, when they will be taken to the church he loved so well, where Rev. W. S. Grinstead will hold a short service. Then the Masons will take the body in charge and with the honors of the order "consign his body to the earth, while cherishing his memory here and commending his spirit to the God who gave it." In order that there may be a full attendance of the lodge Worshipful Master, Rev. A. V. Sizemore, directs that the members meet at their hall at 1:30 this afternoon.
A gentle, truer heart never beat in manly bosom. May his rest be sweet till He bids him arise, to meet Him in glory ascending the skies.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
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