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* . V . » . •••: • • • i v - • - - ‘ • * vness, which was agencVhl debility/ was of seven months duration. Ho bore the in-i r ^ *. ’ ■ . ■ ■. • 1 * •diction with the utmost .patience anti resignation, and from the strongman gradually and slowly wasted away until physically he was reduced to a mere skeleton and became as helpless as an infant. He retained his menial faculties, however, to to the last, his mind growing brighter as his bodily frame weakened, and he looked upon his frail condition rather as a disciplinary chastening, which, conscious ol’liis own weaknesses and knowing vcrv well the only source to seek for relief, turned his attention to the important things of time in connection with those of eternity.’ “It is all right/’ lie emphatically said, in response to an expression of sympathy; and the many friends who came from far and near to sec him, remembering his cheerful manner, may they not attribute it to that preparation for the death ho was anticipating rather than to a delusive hopeof recovery. “ I am not afraid to die.” as*he expressed it when nearly Iiis end, confirms this impression, and nearly his last words to his faithful wife were, that he was satisfied everything was done for hip that could be as well as that he’anticipated a happy future.Mr. Thomas leaves a wife, daughter of the late Capt. Henry Butler, a son, Willie, Thomas of 'Wyoming, a daughter, Mrs. McKenzie of Galesburg; a son and daughter having died before him, alongside of whose remains lie was buried.Mrs. Thomas requests us to express her thanks to the Masons for llieii* kind attentions, as well as to her friends and neighbors for those acts of kindness shown bvthem during the whole of her husband'ssickness.x./
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Wyoming Post
Wyoming, Illinois, US
Sat, May 29, 1875
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