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TAPSConlimifil from Tliircithey could : one poor yo “1 have i myself, but so these yo give to the but they lit own livesThese yo which was And then t when we tl the beuutv'Tim sacri when we t of their e nigh to usvt the battle of Boyne died at Ken- countri. n siugton Paiacu, as they were prepur- wiiwisnnlog his body for tlie grave they found ........ouder his outer clothing a hand of black ribbon to which was tied a plain gold ring mid a lock of the hair t{ bis deceased wife. When Gen. -Grant was a young man and servuig )pun n\c. his country in the for West ids wife j the o d m cut some of her hair and sonic of the part in the Lirof his little child and braided, orne his j them together in a tittle cut cl and '*'3 lilt. \ jfcnt it to the General, and when | prolong it Brant's body was being prepared for . the value c {he tomb they found this rope of young men precious hah around bis neck, where [ they sacri vrs ivnrn ir tnr innKi Mian thirty ! tlCS OX fcUOJIV 4*»-V4 I.-.--* ■» - - 111.years. | days been;Gear friends, we bow our heads j what succ' today under the mysterious provi-1 tained, wL donee of God. We have come to have clone, mourn the loss of one who was a real have brouj soldier. Though lie was uot per- honor. \\ raided to see much of the battle, yet. turn ties Of he met that greatest of all omiuiics *100(1 1,1011 before whom most men tremble and day and bow down in fear. Through all bis these.voui confinement in the hopsital, according to the testimony of the nurso and the chaplain, lie was exceedingly brave, lie found no fault; lie uttered no complaint; his hope was that his approach, life would he spined until his father s lt;«cs amor might come. lie felt, as some of his that the c letters expressed, that be might he may he nc returned i.i a wooden box. lie has the pressi finished his course with joy and there is a crown laid up lor him which, as eue (if the young citizens of Portsmouth,-every one of us will cheerfully vivo. And now as wc speak these lust words over his body and over tiie body which awaits our coining intireenbwu cemetery and remember Vliut one of these same hoys has just been buried in the ocean, Micro to deep until the sea gives up its (lead, wc can only bow mir beads and say,Lord, They will he done!' '•The Glee club sang another appropriate hvinn and then Uev. Dr. I. S.Tappan, of the ifirst Presbyterian church, lifted his voice in praise of the bovs who had died for the starry bauner’of freedom. Dr. Tappan said:My friends, Elbert Patterson and Daniel Podge are dead. They are removed far beyond our power either to injure or to benefit them. They wcro united in life and I would not today separate them in death. Wn come today, not to praise them, they need no such service at our hands. More eloquently than human lips can utter have they spuken by their lives and their hemic, deaths. I would not tear open today the wounds that have been made in the hearts of loving friends, but would rather pour into those hearts ibe nil of consolation--speak some word that might bring eouifoii m their troubled souls. And ret, my friends, ir. is meet, before we ilido those bodies from mortal eyes that we ask ourselves the significance of the service that has brought us logcthcr today—that-we might trace slop by step the course of events that have brought us to this sad service.In many VlilTerent relations do we ‘land today m the dead, hut the thought- uppermost in onr minds is sompaniimsbip—that they no longer can look upon his face or engage withwas not t men that softened, foreign si strange I away. T tiro batth sacrifice shot andtiling in !gates the tor upon soruc con that he men did ilingo, tliothers, b try just •lt; out their tie. Angreater Ipi tal. I not, my honor a r rilice wli wcro tin: upon tin meuioric died. I consider tiicm to of thec tlie.ir 1vain-gUtheir cc ilag liar: try's hlt; try call we arc history there o great c what r ttrreatc came, ‘ the me into tsoldierhim in the sport or the solemn duties I into* « . k I /% t /•-1f lift. There arc others whose dearmvjs have beca called hence, who haveclosed.tiUnitiy
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Mon, Oct 31, 1898
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