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'MIES UEKALD. MIDDLETOWN. N !. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21,1931.rFather of Boy in Gun Fatality Draws Tears From Bereaved ParentConjoined /row Page Cmnot har* 1ft ray boy have the tun. It wm a pure accident and might have happened to my boy tbf **me tu to your*. but we har* always been good friend*. and I feel a* bad a* it It utra my own boy who »o dead.I know money cannot take the iiljce ot your boy but I am willing to meets* lt;e my homo for tf.000 and give It tojrou. If It will help.Court Qffkbuj and wltnf vrs, deep-1* affected by the outburst, lurned toward tha father of the dead lad. Kappa port appeared dared and unable to reply for tho moment. Then hesaldi*•! can forgive mart everything but I cannot forget you are hr blame forallowing your boy to h*v* a sun at htaagc.-nien he turned away.But Vasgur pershted. pleading the ton* friendship of the two families ana untint that ht be permitted to make what amend* that lay In his power and to Join In the aorrow of (he lUppaport# for the loss of their*%* father of the dead lad was finally touched by the apparent agony of hi* old friend and the two engnifed In a discussion to which Slake Washli.*ton, Rappapcrt's attorney, took part. When it had ended It was understood that the friendship of the families may be continued and the breach caused by the shoot In* healed.Rescue Berea Graveyard From a Tangle of WeedsContinued from Page Onewas Ann Badlker, a ho appear* on the atone. She died February rtoth. l#te, aged slaty-ehiht.Across the road from the cemetery, heavily overgrown with tree* and bushes, a th£ foundation of the old Reformed Do^h Berea. The graveyard was the bur-\a\ ground for Difnib^ri of tfu*^Old^iecords reveal the church was OTganlred In lMlur.dertWtute of the state. » was given the nameof Berta on the luggesMon of Elder Thomas McKIssock. Th* Rev. James Ten Ero* was sent for. to preach four Sabbaths in November,18Tlie congregation wa* Phased with the youthful minister and he tm erdatned, on their petition, as missionary to them for one yesr. In April, 1S33, Peter Lowe and Robert CrtsweU were appointed commissioners to present to the Ctossls of Ulster certain proposals hsn»f in vie* a connection with the Dutch Reformed Church.Pastor 50 lears * Berea church was then token In by the Ulster Classics and Ten_EKk was installed « pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Bere^The first, consistory eommbed MrKtssoek. John B.ake. Caleb Dill. Peter Lowe and Christian Ct*sL The first trustee* were Andrew rcwa. John MlllSken Robert Crowell Nathaniel Ackcrty and Thomas Cltnfman. Many ofjIhelr jtravesjarc to be found to the old burying*rffidc*mr2 Itsell was built In UQJ and im. the parsonage in 1«3, When erected the church steed in the midst of a forest. The ttabcr for the building was cut frovn, the site Itself, the congregation unitinginMh Tenk£yck served the concrc-callon. more than fifty years. When he died In 1873 he was burled to the Berea graveyard and the congregation racd a toll shaft to his mcm-try. An inscription on the stone states that to November. 1871, he celebrated Ms fiftieth anniversary at Berta, his first and only charge, Centenarian Kestt Thrre A short lilstoncc from the grave of Mr. 7 m Eyck a humble headstone marks fhe burial plot of one Pompey Graham, who died In IRSt fit thf. us* of 119.Historians recall that Pompcy Graham was a former slave to the South. !!e came to Montgomery filler the Civil War and became a welt known character throughout the County. He is said to have lived to an older than any other resident n( Orange. -Beyond Grahams grave small, weather beaten stone contains the folowing Inscription:-In memory' of Francis If, son of William and Maty Wharton, who lost Ms life by falling from the wire bridge fit Walden,June 3t, IS3.Age four years.Warning Epitaph , Tlie headstone of David Tay.or,who died to 1838 contains a vw*e which urges:Go borne my friends, dt7 up your lean;I must lie here till Christ appears;Repent tn time, white time you have.There’* no rtpenUnce to the grave.Wntie the forest crowd* In on the old church rite and burying ground, the workmen are freeing this small parcel of land and restoring it to tts original appearance. While school children play in the church and hunter* prowl In the surroundto*; woodlands, mourner* will come to the graves of tbelr ancestors ar.dfind the burying ground a gem of somber beauty—even ft* it wm it century ago.£ OMMAN IS AGAIN SCOUT CAMPAIGN HEADContinsai from Poet On*thur Decker, Ooshea; Harold Benton, OUsvlUe; K. T. Manning. Unlonmie and Wwtlown: Frederick D. Fowler, Port Jerri*; Harry Miller, Moctleello; Isldor Smiih, Matin-talndate; Bteward Kinne, Wood* bourne; Ben TerwlHiger, Woodridge. Arthur 0. Woltr. WurUborO, ana Henry C, Rejnlct, South F*Us-burg.And George Anderson, North White lake; George O. Birmingham, Liberty; Philip Keating, Hur-leyvllle: J, H. atoddard, Swan Lake: Stunner Krum, OrahamsvUle; Charles H. • Ctom, Nmrstok; J,tMrit Nedject Tfour KidfjTreat Disordered Kidney Function Promptly.A nagging backache, with biadder Irritations and * tired,
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Middletown Times Herald
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