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March 10, igog. T
ful, consistent Christian. She hore her
illness with submissive patience, and
knew not when she crossed the Chasm,
for God had put His hand over her eyes.
Her funeral services were held in the
"Old Stone" Presbyterian church, of
Lewisburg, and it was very generally remarked
that the unusually large attendance
bore testimony to the impression
which her life had made upon the community.
"God bless all good women!"
E. D.
JOHN BOWMAN HUDSON.
The subject of this sketch was the
youngest son of the late Judge Isaac
Hudson, and Annie. Bowman Hudson, of
Dublin, Virginia. He was born on September
18 ,1880, and grew to young manhood
-in his native home. At the age of
twelve years he professed his faith in
Christ and united with the Dublin Presbyterian
church, from which place he
never removed his membership. After
the usual primary work, he spent several
years in the excellent school of Miss
Anna Belle Martin, at New Dublin, and
was then, for the session 1898-99, at King
College. He was a good student and
showed splendid proficiency in his work,
but was especially drawn to mathema
tics and history.
In 1899, his father having died three
years before, he deemed it his duty to
enter business. Accordingly, he went to
Newport News, Virginia, then a young
and growing town, and took a position
on the city engineer corps. Applying
himself assiduously to his chosen work,
his promotion was rapid, and within a
year he held the position of first assistant
city engineer, and was hghly esteemed
by all for his faithful and efficient
work.
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was forced, within four years, by declining
healtn, to seek strength in a change
of climate. In the fall of 1904, therefore,
he removed to Logan, West Virginia, and
took up the work of a mining engineer.
Here the same fidelity; perseverance and
accuracy that characterized his earlier
years, were displayed with even more intensity,
and he had soon built up a large
and lucrative business. Such was the
character of his work, that in the. closing
month of 1907 he was, without solicitation
or application on his Dart, elected
superintendent of the new and large E.
R. Johnson Coal Mining Company. This
position he held with honor to himself
and profit to the company, and beloved
by all the men who worked for him, until
just a week before his death, when,
realizing the absolute necessity for rest
and recuperation, he resigned his position
with the coal company, In order that
he might seek health in the Great West.
On September 4, 1907, he was happily
married*to Miss Martina Dwen Ragland,
of Latonia, Ky. This was Indeed a union
of hearts, and for a little more than
a year they lived happily together. Al4
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muugn me latter months were filled with
intense physical suffering for himself, yet
the tender ministrations of a devoted
wife did all that could be done to soothe,
alleviate and comfort. All efforts, however,
proved vain, and just two day3 before
the date fixed for the trip to the
HE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU
West he was stricken with an attack of .
the heart, which, in just one week, ended
his career on earth.
It had been the privilege of the writer
to know for sometime that his faith in
the Lord Jesus was strong and clear, but
it was an even greater privilege to be
with him in those las't days, filled with
pain though they were, and witness the
patient suffering without a murmur, the
uncomplaining acquiescence to the will
of the Father, and the utter absence of
fear at the approach of death. And thus
he fell on sleep December 6, 190S, just
as the shades of evening were gathering
at the close of day. R. B. H.
MISSIONARY'S HOME LOST.
Rev. J. P. Gibbons has been a worthy
and faithful missionary to the Indians
for about twenty years. He is "an
Israelite indeed in whom there is no
guile." Some years ago he acquired a
small trace of land from an Indian,
paying for the same not in money, but
in service rendered according to contract.
Upon this land he erected a
comfortable but humble home. On account
of the uncertainty attaching to
titles to Indian lands, the former owner
was advised to make the deed in the
form of a "will," as it had always been
held that this was the surest way that
a full-blood Indian could sell his property.
After the death of the party, the
courts decided that a full-blood Indian
who did not have his restrictions" removed
could not even "will" his land.
As a consequence, relatives of this InAU
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uaau v-ttiue i" ana Dy legal process deprived
the missionary of his land, house,
barn, stable, orchard, and all the improvements
of years. He was compelled
to move suddenly, and yet, like his
Master, "had not where to lay his head."
His family is temporarily sheltered in
two rooms of our Goodland dormitohy.
Some of us are taking steps to assist
him in getting a home. Rev. Silas Bacon,
Indian preacher, gives as his contribution,
twenty acres of land to which
deeds can be legally made. Tf any other
friends wish to aid him in his extremeity,
such contributions will be cheerfully
received by our offlce, credited to
Home Missions, and promptly forwarded
to one of the worthiest men in the
service Of the fihiireh
S. L. Morris.
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