Re: Willilam West Tanner 1825--1896
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Re: Willilam West Tanner 1825--1896
PEGGY BARTON 4/05/13
Here you go.
TANNER, WM.
W.
Lamar Democrat, January 7, 1897
Died at his home in this city, Thursday, evening, December 31, 1896, Wm. M.
Tanner, aged 74 years, and 1 month. Mr. Tanner was born in Dryden, New York,
December 1, 1825. In 1848 he was married to Miss Hannah Marvin, who, with
one son survives him. In 1870 he removed to Lamar, where he has since resided.
He was a mechanic and worked at this trade incessantly until his health compelled
him to abandon his vocation. He had suffered from heart disease, but his
indominable(sic) will kept him up to the last, and he was doing his evening chores
when the messenger of death claimed him as a victim and a short time afterward
his wife found his lifeless corpse, where he had fallen at his post. The funeral
services were conducted from the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sunday afternoon,
Rev. Hunt officiating, and the body was laid to rest in Lake Cemetery, by
sympathizing friends. He was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and led a consistent Christian life. Blessed with a happy, genial disposition
he was constantly strewing flowers along life’s rough and thorny pathway. The
death angel waited not for the loving glance or the warm and tender hand clasp of
loved ones, but in a moment the vital cord was rent asunder and the soul winged
its flight to the clime unknown. There’s a vacant place in our hearts, an empty
chair in one more home, and in our sorrow we turn to thee, oh Lord, for we mourn
not as those who have no hope, but believe in the blessedness of the resurrection morn when we will be reunited with loved ones who have only gone before.
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