IN preparing a biographical sketch of the prominent dead of Darke county the writer has been compelled to refer to such records, books and newspaper reports as are within his reach; also the personal knowledge and statements of the friends of the deceased, and to depend upon his own recollections.  These facts then have been gleaned from the most authentic sources which are associated with the early rise and progress of the county, and are continued down to the present time.
     But few who were contemporary with the settlement of the town or county in their earliest stages of history now live.  From them might have been obtained, from personal recollections, the trials and hardships, the personal suffering and endurance of the early pioneers and more recent settlers, but they have all passed to the other shore.  To the writing and compilation of these events much labor has been given, and the critical reader will perhaps find many imperfections, but tedious and perplexing as the task has been in many of its details, on the whole it has proved a source of gratification to collect into one casket what were like "orient pearls at random strong:" and we would fain present this sketch to its readers as a variegated bouquet, culled from the many gardens that adorn and diversify the unwritten pages of the history of this county, and its many absent citizens.
     The lives of many of our distinguished dead are intimately associated with the early history of the northwest, and particularly with the defeat of St. Clair and its mournful results, which occurrence may be stated as follows, which occurrence may be stated as follows:  On the evening of Nov. 3, 1791, his army encamped on the banks of the Wabash, which location was once a part of Darke county.  Indian scouts in large numbers were seen skulking through the woods during the entire march to this place.  St. Clair intended to fortify his camp the next day, but before four o'clock of November 4th, the Indians attacked the American camp with a general discharge of firearms and the most horrid of yells.  Favored by the darkness, they broke into the camp and continued their work of death.  The troops were surprised and recoiled form the sudden shock.  The artillerists were so rapidly shot down that the guns were useless.  Gallant charges were made by Colonel Darke, after whom this county was named, but not having sufficient riflemen to support him, his troops only exposed themselves to more

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certain destruction.  General Butler was killed in the early part of the engagement, and as the only hope of saving the remnant of the army, St. Clair "resolved upon the desperate experiment" of charging upon the flank of the Indians and gaining the road of which the Indians had possession.  The charge was led by the General in person and was successful.  The road was gained, but not until more than six hundred of his brave men lay dead upon the field.  The soldiers now abandoned artillery, threw away their arms and equipments, and never paused in their headlong flight until they reached Fort Jefferson, twenty-nine miles distant from the location of the battle.  Many were killed in this bloody retreat, and forty years afterward the farmers in the northwestern part of the county would frequently find the remains of soldiers who gallantly lost their lives in this unfortunate encounter.
     History informs us that Adjutant General Sergeant wrote in his diary that the army had been defeated and at least half had been killed and wounded, making a loss of over nine hundred men.  Following the army were about one hundred women, wives of officers and men, only a few of whom escaped.  General Wilkinson, who succeeded St. Clair in the command of the army, sent a detachment from Fort Washington to the battle ground in the following February for the purpose of burying the dead.  The bodies were horribly mutilated, and those who had not been killed outright during the battle had been put to death with tortures too terrible and revolting for description.  There being a deep snow upon the ground at this time they failed to find many of the bodies.
     In September, 1794, nearly three years after the battle, General Wayne sent a detachment to build a fort upon the scene of the disaster, which was done, and the structure was very significantly called Fort Recovery.  It is said that in order to find all the remains there unburied rewards for finding skulls were offered.  The ground in places was literally covered with bones; the detachment found more than six hundred skulls.  On some the marks of the scalping knife were plainly visible.  Some were hacked or marked by the tomahawk, while others again were split open by a blow of that weapon.  The remains were buried and these facts prove the correctness of General Sargeant's statement, that more than nine hundred men lost their lives in this bloody affair.  Two desperate attempts were made by the Indians to obtain possession of Fort Recovery, but in each attempt they were repulsed with severe loss.  these transactions render Fort Recovery one of the most memorable in the history of our country.  On the 7th of July, 1851, many of the remains of these soldies were found partly exposed, and on that an d the two following days they were taken up by the citizens of Fort Recovery, and on the 10th of the following September were reinterred at a mass meeting of citizens from Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia and Ohio, the meeting being called expressly for that purpose.  Thirteen coffins were prepared, and it was intended to fill each one partly full, bu the remains entirely filled these coffins, and also a large box prepared for this purpose.  They were interred in the old cemetery at Fort Recovery, by the side of Samuel McDowell, one of their comrades who died and was buried there in 1842, where they now rest - a low circular mound of earth and stone marking the spot.

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     These soldiers lost their lives in the defense of their country and while in the employment of the United States government.  A committee appointed by congress investigated the facts and details of this campaign and exonerated General St. Clair from all blame.  It was the result of the fortunes of war, and we can only honor our noble dead by respecting their memory in the proper way.  No other place in American history is more deserving of a suitable monument to commemorate our nation's loss and to mark the spot of her fallen heroes than is Fort Recovery.  Five or six acres of ground within the limits of the fort should be procured suitable for a park.
     Let this be done and a moment worthy to commemorate these sad events be erected there; the remains of these soldiers should be transferred to this monument as a suitable location for their last resting place.  This is a matter that concerns the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana, as well as Ohio.  But these soldiers did not sacrifice their lives for the protection of the citizens of these states merely.  It was to protect and defend a territory belonging to the general government from the encroachments of a savage foe instigated by the emissaries of a government glad to seek an opportunity to continue a strife, that by treaty had been settled in the independence of our country years before.  it is earnestly hoped that congress will soon take such action, and that a suitable monument commemorating the events herein named will be erected at Fort Recovery.
     In June, 1794, General Wayne commenced his campaign against the Indians of the northwest, marching from Greenville with a force of about three thousand men.  When near the northeastern line of Darke county, the Indians held a council for the purpose of settling the question as to the expediency of attacking Wayne's army at once.  Some of General Wayne's scouts, disguised as Indians, with their faces painted with all the hideousness of the savage on the warpath, attended this savage council, listened to all the arguments there advanced, and reported the same to the General.  Major GEORGE ADAMS, who had so far recovered from wounds received five years before as to be in the service of Wayne's army, was present at this council, disguised in full Indian rig and paint.  He reported that Little Turtle strongly urged that an onslaught be made before morning.  This advice was withstood by the Crane, head chief of the Wyandots, and by the Shawnee and Pottawatomie chiefs, and the head men of other tribes who were in the Indian force.  The reasons given by those who opposed the Turtle's council were that they desired Wayne to be farther away from his home, as they designated Fort Greenville, and that they could better engaged him when they were near their friends, as they designated a British fort and garrison on the Maumee, which had been kept up in defiance of the stipulation of the treaty of 1783; but the true reason of their opposition to the Turtle's advice was their distrust of him excited the previous autumn at Fort Recovery.  Major Adams had previously been a soldier in General Harmar's army, again in the service as a captain of scouts under Wayne, as above intimated, and nearly twenty years later commandant of the garrison at Greenville, during the negotiations preceding the execution of the treaty of 1814, and later in life was judge of the court of common pleas of Darke county, Ohio.  He was five times shot and severely wounded in one of the

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three several defeats of Harmar.  He survived, and was carried on a litter between two horses to Cincinnati, although on the way a grave was dug for him three evenings in succession.  With his ashes in the Martin cemetery, three miles east of Greenville, are two of the bullets of the five which he carried in his body from 1789 until his decease in 1832.
     On the 20th of August, 1794, the battle of Fallen Timbers was fought, which for a number of years subdued the Indians and caused them to sue for peace, which lasted until 1812, when Tecumseh stirred up the Indians to such an extent as to bring on the war resulting in the battle of the Thames.  This celebrated Shawnee chief was born at what was known as the ancient town of Piqua, located on the north side of Mad river, and about five miles west of Springfield.  In 1805 he and his brother, Lau-le-was'-i-ka, the prophet, took a large part of his tribe to Greenville, and built an Indian town on what is known as the Wiliam F. Bishop farm on Mud creek.  One writer says that Tecumseh and the prophet resided from 1805 to 1808 on the tongue of land between Mud creek and Greenville creek, which place is still known as Tecumseh's Point.  This point was held sacred by the red men, and to such an extent did this feeling prevail among the Indians that when orders were issued in 1832 to remove them from the settlements at Wapakoneta to their reservation beyond the Mississippi river, the officer in charge designed taking them through Miami county to Cincinnati, but they insisted on being taken through Greenville that they might once more visit the home of their chief and prophet, and their request being granted, they remained several days.  The two locations are about three miles apart, and there seems to be but little doubt of the brothers having resided at both places.  Here they lived, and as the early settlers testify, they carried on their thieving propensities the same as they had done at "Old Piqua," from which place they had been driven because of these depredations.  Nothing that the settlers owned was safe, and they lived in constant dread that they would not only lose their property, but they felt that their lives were not safe while surrounded by these savages.  Shortly after coming to Greenville the prophet announced an eclipse of the sun, and that, happening at the time he predicted, increased the belief in his sacred character.  Hostile movements resulted in the expedition led by General Harrison, who, on the 7th day of November, 1811, encountered the Indians at Tippecanoe, Indiana, and gained a decisive victory over them.  Tecumseh was not present at the battle, but the Indians were commanded by the prophet, who had promised them an easy victory.  Not accomplishing what he as a prophet foretold, he lost the confidence of the Indians and was never able to restore his influence over them.  In 1812 Tecumseh was early in the field.  He fought at Brownstown, was wounded at Magreaga and made a brigadier-general by the British.  He took a part in the siege of Fort Meigs, and fell, bravely fighting, in the battle of the Thames in the forty-fourth year of his age.  His death shot is ascribed to a pistol in the hands of Colonel Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky.  We thus make brief mention of these renowned leaders of the aboriginal races to whose lands we have become heirs, and in whose biography Darke county has the honor of being so prominently connected.

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MURDER OF THE WILSON CHILDREN.

     The early settlers of Greenville suffered many hardships, and were exposed to many dangers from 1808 to 1816.  Indians were numerous, and while they were generally considered friendly, the settles lived in constant alarm, and a ceaseless dread of treachery and violence hung like a threatening cloud over them.  There were many Indian tribes at that time friendly to the whites, and while scouts were constantly on the move and vigilant in their efforts to give the first alarm of danger, these friendly Indians were supplied with white flags, properly marked, which permitted them to pass the outposts of the whites in safety.  This feeling of dread was not produced by the acts of the Indians alone, but the whites did much to increase the anxiety and danger.  At one time a party of whites discharged a volley into a body of Indians carrying one of these flags, and approaching with the utmost confidence.  Two Indians were instantly killed, a third was wounded, and the rest were taken prisoners and robbed.  One of the sellers, Andrew Rush, was killed by the Indians, and it was reported that a trader at Fort Recovery had been killed by his partner, but the Indians were accused of the crime.  Greenville was then a stockade, and in the summer of 1812 many of the men were away rendering military service to the government, and but few men remained at the fort.  It is said about this time a number of white men came upon a party of Indians with their women and children.  The whites treated the Indian children with cruelty, taking them by the feet and swinging them around their heads, and when the Indians remonstrated and asked them to desist, one man dashed out the brains of one of the children.  An attempt would have been made to punish the murderer immediately, but the whites were too strong, and the Indians awaited a future time in which to obtain their revenge.  This time soon came.  In July, 1812, Patsy and Anna Wilson, daughters of "Old Billy Wilson," and aged respectively fourteen and eight years, accompanied by their brother older than they, left the stockade in the afternoon to gather berries.  The brother took a gun with him for safety, as it is said that some time previous he had been chased by the Indians, and being hard pressed he took shelter behind a tree, then placed his hat on the muzzle of his gun, exposed the same to the fire of the Indians, and while they stopped to load their guns he made his escape.  The three crossed Greenville creek near N. Kuntz's saw-mill, and were picking berries under the trees when they were attacked by three Indians.  The brother had left his gun near by, and the three were some distance apart at the time of the surprise.  Not being able to secure his gun, the brother escaped by swimming the stream.  His cries and the screams of the girls attracted the attention of Abraham Scribner, and William Devor, who immediately ran to the spot, but the Indians had fled, after killing the girls by blows on the head with a poll or back of their tomahawks and scalping one of them, they not having time to scalp the other one.  When the help came the girl that had been scalped was already dead, the other gasped a few times after they reached her.  The dead bodies were carried into the fort and the alarm given, but the Indians escaped.  Two innocent lives were thus sacrificed in retaliation for the death of the Indian child.  The sisters were buried under the tree near where

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they were murdered, and this was the last tragedy of those perilous times.  It was not safe for Indians to show themselves in this vicinity after that atrocious butchery, and the war being carried to the northwest, followed by the treaty of 1814, left the inhabitants of Greenville in comparative safety.  About the 1st of July, 1871, the remains of these two sisters were taken up, and on the fourth of the same month, the "Nation's Birthday," they were deposited in the Greenville cemetery with appropriate ceremonies, a large assembly of the people being in attendance to show their respect for the dead.  On the same day a large granite boulder, weighing perhaps four tons, swung under a wagon drawn by six horses, was driven into the cemetery and placed over their grave.  Here let them rest in peace, and may their monument be a constant reminder to us of the trials and dangers through which the early settlers of our peaceful city passed, and may it admonish us of the importance of properly appreciating the privileges and blessings we enjoy.

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MILITARY

     We think it appropriate to introduce in this connection a few thoughts relative to Darke county's soldiers of the war of the Rebellion.  On Apr. 24, 1861, three volunteer companies, enlisted for three months, had left the county for the seat of war.  Two of these were from Greenville, led by Captains J. W. Frizell and J. M. Newkirk, and one from Union City, led by Captain Jonathan Cranor.  These were followed in quick succession by many others, and all in any way familiar with Darke county know that she did her duty nobly.  The enlistments in the fall of 1861 were for three years.  On Oct. 28, 1861, the ladies of Greenville met at the court house and organized as "The Ladies' Association of Greenville for the Relief of the Darke County Volunteers."  Public meetings were held at various points, and on November 6, it was reported that the county had turned out two hundred volunteers within twenty days.  Letters came from men in the field, some containing the sad tidings of the death of a soldier, who fell nobly fighting for his country.  Among these noble men we may mention Colonel J. W.

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Frizell, who led one of the first companies into the field as its captain.  He was soon made lieutenant-colonel of the Eleventh Ohio, and when the colonel of this regiment, having incautiously exposed himself, was captured, the command devolved upon Lieutenant-Colonel Fizell.  Resigning this position, he was afterward appointed colonel of the Ninety-fourth Ohio, and while gallantly leading his regiment in the battle of Stone river he was severely wounded and compelled to resign his position on account of his injuries.  He died at his home in Greenville, Ohio, a few years ago.

     Jonathan Cranor, who entered the service as captain of a company in the three-months service, afterward became colonel of the Fortieth Ohio, served in that capacity with distinction and died a few years ago.  We note that R. A. Knox was captain of a company of the Eleventh Ohio and Charles Calkins, first lieutenant in the same company, afterward captain in the Eighty-seventh Ohio, both of whom are now deceased.  James B. Creviston served with honorable distinction as adjutant of the Fortieth Ohio.  He followed the profession of teaching after the war and died a few years ago.  William H. Matchett served as assistant surgeon of the Fortieth Ohio, and died at his home in Greenville, Ohio, in August, 1898.  C. G. Matchett entered the service as sergeant in the three-months service; was afterward captain of Company G, Fortieth Ohio, for awhile commanded the regiment, was honorably mustered out of service, followed the profession of law, and died a few years ago.  A. R. Calderwood entered the service as captain of Company I, Fortieth Ohio; resigned on account of injuries received; practiced law in Greenville; was a noted criminal lawyer and died at his home a few years ago.

     James Allen was promoted to captain while in the service, and is no longer among the living here.  Clement Snodgrass served as captain in the Fortieth, was killed in battle Sept. 20, 1864.  Cyrenius Van Mater, first lieutenant of Company G, Fortieth Regiment, was killed at Chickamauga.  J. W. Smith, captain of Company I, Fortieth Ohio, served with honor through the campaigns of this regiment; was honorably mustered out of service at the close of the war; carried on a livery business in Greenville after his discharge, and died at his home a few years ago.  Of the officers of the Sixty-ninth Ohio, we mentioned Eli Hickox, who went into the service with the regiment as captain.  For bravery on the field of battle and meritorious conduct he was promoted to major of the regiment; was mustered out at the close of the war, and died a few years ago, universally respected.  Color-Sergeant John A. Compton, Lieutenants Jacob S. Pierson and MARTIN V. BAILEY, CORPORAL DANIEL T. ALBRIGHT, and privates Stropher and four others fell in the battle of Stone River.  Color-Sergeant ALLEN L. JOBES, after whom Jobes Post, G. A. R., Greenville, Ohio, is named, and five men were killed at the battle of Jonesboro.  Of the Ninety-fourth Regiment Captain T. H. Workman and H. A. Tomlinson, second lieutenant of Company F, have died since the war, and Sergeant Leonard Ullery, of the Eighth Ohio Battery, was killed in the service.  In addition to those already mentioned, we wish to refer to Jacob W. Shiveley, second lieutenant of Company D, Sixty-ninth Regiment,

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who served his company gallantly as a soldier, was honorably discharged and died at his home in this county not log ago.  JONATHAN BOWMAN, sergeant of Company D, same regiment, was honorably discharged and died in Greenville, Ohio, some years ago.  ISAAC N. ARNOLD, sergeant of Company E, same regiment, was honorably discharged, was candidate for probate jusge on the Republican ticket, and died at his father's home near Jaysville, Ohio.  Alexander McAlpin captain of Company G, Eighth Ohio Cavalry, served in the army with distinction, was honorably discharged and died shortly after returning home.  Of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, we note an addition to thos mentioned elsewhere: Edwin B. Putnam, adjutant, practiced law after his discharge from the army and died many years ago.  ELIAS HARTER, captain, and C. B. Northrop, first lieutenant of Company B, were honorably discharged and are now deceased.  a. H. Hyde, first lieutenant, and HARROD MILLS, second lieutenant of Company H, were honorably discharged and are now dead.  WALTER STEVENSON, second lieutenant.  Alfred Townsend, first sergeant, and William Pearson, sergeant of Company L, were all honorably discharged and are now dead.  Many others of our noble dead deserve honorable mention here, but our knowledge of their personal history is too limited and uncertain to enable us to do justice to their memory.
     We will close this chapter by inserting a paper read at the late banquet of the Greenville bar on the subject of Our Deceased Members.
     "It has been said that every person departing this life leaves behind a record that exerts an influence upon the lives of the living to a greater or less extent, and as the subject presented to us in this 'toast' is Our Deceased Members outside of the influence of personal recollections, which you all may have, their records, if any, will be found in the epitaph or biography they have left, and to which we can refer and profit by the lessons they teach.
     "A visit to our cemetery and the last resting place of many of our members disclosed a dearth of information on this subject that is remarkable.  Examining twenty-six graves of our deceased members, while we found quite a number who had entered the military service of their country and had given the best days of their lives to its protection, and perpetuation, the company and regiment to which a few of these only belonged are the only records engraved upon their tombstones.  But is not that simple inscription as grand and enduring as any that was ever made?  It tells that the members lying beneath that monument saw the tide of victory roll backward and forward, at times seeming to engulf all hopes for the preservation of the Union, yet finally sweeping onward in one grand, irresistible swell to victory and peace.  They saw the Union preserved, the contending armies quietly returning to their homes and a new reign of peace and good will inaugurated.  They were personal actors in that drama which was the most sublime and thrilling that human pen can relate, and which points to but one moral, that the institutions which they knew were worth fighting for so nobly are worth preserving, that the Union which has cost us so much blood and treasure, which has brought us freedom and prosperity must be cherished as the most precious possession we can transmit to future generations.
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Frizell, A. R. Calderwood, David and Theodore Beers, C. G. Matchett, Charles Calkins and J. W. SLATER.  Inscribed on the monument of Hiram Bell is the following: 'Died December 21, 1855.'  He was a lawyer by profession, represented this district in the legislature of Ohio and in the congress of the United States and his record is on high.  On the monument of D. H. R. Jobes is inscribed, 'Died Jan. 13, 1877.  To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.'  On that of Joseph McDonald, 'Died Aug. 17, 1885.  Farewell, my companions.'  Twelve graves are not marked by monument, and on twenty-three no epitaph.  So sleep our deceased brethren.  Their work on earth is done.  With the labors and success of many of them in the legal profession many of you are familiar, and I could add but little to that knowledge were I to make the effort.  Suffice it to say that we do not think any of them were of that peculiar class of lawyers of whom the great Master said. 'Woe also unto you lawyers for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burden with one of your fingers.' From the epitaphs we pass to biography and history and note extracts only concerning those members who have left them on record, and first that concerning DAVID P. BOWMAN, who died May 30, 1878.  He was entirely devoted to his chosen profession.  His knowledge of the law was both accurate and profound.  His preparation was thorough.  'He blieved in the Bible and in the efficacy of the biography of WILLIAM ALLEN we note: 'Mr. Allen, although he had risen from poverty to affluence by his own unaided exertions, is one of the most charitable of our citizens, and his integrity has never been questioned; his positive character, while it wins friends true as steel, also makes bitter enemies, but even his enemies conceded to him great ability and unflinching honesty of purpose.  He represented this district in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses of the United States, being elected in the fall of 1858 and again in 1860.
     "Of the Hon. D. L. Meeker it is said: 'He is one of the most highly respected citizens of Darke county and his repeated calls to the highest office in the gift of the people of this county is an index of the universal esteem in which Judge Meeker is held in this section of Ohio.'
     "Of J. W. Sater it is written: 'While on the bench he had the well deserved reputation of being one of the most able judges who ever held court in this district.'
     "Of A. R. Calderwood it is said: 'He is endowed with superior natural abilities, which have been developed by industrious personal application; he stands in the front ranks of his profession and is one of the best criminal and jury lawyers in the state.'
     "Of Charles Calkins we write:  It was accorded to him unanimously by the Greenville bar that he was the most able, conceptive, decisive and successful lawyer in this section of Ohio.
     "Of J. E. Breaden, Jr." He attended law school at Cincinnati and having read law was admitted in January, 1879.
     "L. B. Lot represented Darke county one term in the legislature. 
     "C. G. Matchett: 'He entered the service immediately after the firing on Sumter and remained till the close of the war.  In 1865 he resumed the practice of law in Greenville and stands prominent in the profession.'

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     "J. T. Meeker, admitted to the bar in 1873, was probate judge seven years; retiring, he entered upon the practice of law.
     "Of Swan Judy it is said: 'With the natural ability, high legal education, force of character, honest and pure determination that he possesses (health permitting) he is surely destined to reach the summit of his profession within the near future.'
     "In the action taken by this bar relative to the death of J. R. Knox occurs the following:  'He despised a court or jury that was not unsullied.  He left the world better for having lived therein and his upright life and noble virtues will survive him for the emulation of all who knew him.'
     "We note on our list twenty-six deceased members, many of whom have left us no written biography or epitaph, and our knowledge of their qualifications and success in the profession is too limited to even venture a statement.  Their lives are before us and we are susceptible in a greater or less degree to their influence, and we believe the influence never dies.  No thought, no word, no act of man ever dies.  They are as immortal as his own soul.  Somewhere in this world he will meet their fruits.  Somewhere in the future life he will meet their gathered harvest, it may be and it may not be a pleasant one to look upon.  Take care of your influence consecrate it to virtue, to humanity, and our lives will be like a star glittering in its own mild lustre, undimmed by the radiance of another.  Earth is not man's only abiding place.  This life is not a bubble cast upon the ocean of eternity to float another moment upon its surface and then sink into nothingness and darkness forever.  No, the rainbow and clouds come over us with beauty that is not of earth, and then pass and leave us to muse on their faded loveliness.  The stars which hold their festival around the midnight throne, and are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, are forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory, and our departed brethren, we trust, are now enjoying those high and glorious aspirations that are born in the human heart, but are not satisfied in this life.
     "Brethren, we are born for a higher destiny than that of earth.  There is a realm where he rainbow never fades, where the stars will spread out before us like the islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beautiful impressions that here pass before us like visions will stay in our presence forever.  This is that far-away home of the soul, where hill and dale are enriched by divine liberality, the inhabitants clothed in all the beauties of moral perfection, every society cemented by the bond of friendship and brotherhood, and displaying all the virtues of angelic natures.  May we not trust that our departed members are now inhabitants of that home, where the storms of this life never beat."

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