Spirit of Democracy, Woodsfield, Ohio, dated, March 23, 1905
Adam Messner was born at Alcise, France, October 24, 1814. His parents Adam and Sophia Messner died in France leaving him an orphan at the age of six months. Compelled to make his own way unaided through life from the time he was eight years old, he early formed the habit of frugality and industry, which characterized his long life of 90 years, 4 months and 15 days.
He came to America in 1836 and in 1837 he married Elizabeth Smith and settled in Washington county, Pa. To this union there were born eleven children, five of whom are now living. In 1848 he emigrated by wagon westward in pursuit of a home he could call his own, and came to Monroe county of the same year and settled on the farm where he lived at the time of his death. Deceased and his widowed companion being left at the age of 87 years, lived together 67 years.
At the age of 13 he was taken into the Luthern church, to which faith he adhered until his death. As a citizen, neighbor and friend, he had traits of character worthy of emulation and which was admired by all who knew him. Truthful, honest, industrious, and always ready to aid the worthy poor, he will certainly be missed by the community in which he lived so long. Being blessed with good health, the deceased led a busy life until about six years previous to his death, when the hand of affliction was lain upon him, the closing four years of which he most generally confined himself to his bedroom suffering often indescribable pain through all of which he passed without murmuring or complaint patiently awaiting the end, for which he confidently looked forward as a transition from his suffering and pain to a happy home beyond the grave. Often during his affliction he longed to go home. He spoke often of his willingness and readiness to meet the solemn ordeal of death. His memory, intellect and general mental powers, were unusually unimpaired to the last, and considering his great affliction and long confinement it showed great mental soundness and force.
The end of his long life was a peaceful sleep, impressing all who witnessed the dissolution, that his prayers had been heard and tenderly answered and that he had been numbered with the blessed.
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the dread of fees.
He was interred in the Lebanon cemetery, after appropriate service held in the M.E. church by the writer, Friday, March 10, 1905. A.H.Roach
Adam Messner was born at Alcise, France, October 24, 1814. His parents Adam and Sophia Messner died in France leaving him an orphan at the age of six months. Compelled to make his own way unaided through life from the time he was eight years old, he early formed the habit of frugality and industry, which characterized his long life of 90 years, 4 months and 15 days.
He came to America in 1836 and in 1837 he married Elizabeth Smith and settled in Washington county, Pa. To this union there were born eleven children, five of whom are now living. In 1848 he emigrated by wagon westward in pursuit of a home he could call his own, and came to Monroe county of the same year and settled on the farm where he lived at the time of his death. Deceased and his widowed companion being left at the age of 87 years, lived together 67 years.
At the age of 13 he was taken into the Luthern church, to which faith he adhered until his death. As a citizen, neighbor and friend, he had traits of character worthy of emulation and which was admired by all who knew him. Truthful, honest, industrious, and always ready to aid the worthy poor, he will certainly be missed by the community in which he lived so long. Being blessed with good health, the deceased led a busy life until about six years previous to his death, when the hand of affliction was lain upon him, the closing four years of which he most generally confined himself to his bedroom suffering often indescribable pain through all of which he passed without murmuring or complaint patiently awaiting the end, for which he confidently looked forward as a transition from his suffering and pain to a happy home beyond the grave. Often during his affliction he longed to go home. He spoke often of his willingness and readiness to meet the solemn ordeal of death. His memory, intellect and general mental powers, were unusually unimpaired to the last, and considering his great affliction and long confinement it showed great mental soundness and force.
The end of his long life was a peaceful sleep, impressing all who witnessed the dissolution, that his prayers had been heard and tenderly answered and that he had been numbered with the blessed.
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the dread of fees.
He was interred in the Lebanon cemetery, after appropriate service held in the M.E. church by the writer, Friday, March 10, 1905. A.H.Roach
Spirit of Democracy, Woodsfield, Ohio, dated, March 23, 1905
Adam Messner was born at Alcise, France, October 24, 1814. His parents Adam and Sophia Messner died in France leaving him an orphan at the age of six months. Compelled to make his own way unaided through life from the time he was eight years old, he early formed the habit of frugality and industry, which characterized his long life of 90 years, 4 months and 15 days.
He came to America in 1836 and in 1837 he married Elizabeth Smith and settled in Washington county, Pa. To this union there were born eleven children, five of whom are now living. In 1848 he emigrated by wagon westward in pursuit of a home he could call his own, and came to Monroe county of the same year and settled on the farm where he lived at the time of his death. Deceased and his widowed companion being left at the age of 87 years, lived together 67 years.
At the age of 13 he was taken into the Luthern church, to which faith he adhered until his death. As a citizen, neighbor and friend, he had traits of character worthy of emulation and which was admired by all who knew him. Truthful, honest, industrious, and always ready to aid the worthy poor, he will certainly be missed by the community in which he lived so long. Being blessed with good health, the deceased led a busy life until about six years previous to his death, when the hand of affliction was lain upon him, the closing four years of which he most generally confined himself to his bedroom suffering often indescribable pain through all of which he passed without murmuring or complaint patiently awaiting the end, for which he confidently looked forward as a transition from his suffering and pain to a happy home beyond the grave. Often during his affliction he longed to go home. He spoke often of his willingness and readiness to meet the solemn ordeal of death. His memory, intellect and general mental powers, were unusually unimpaired to the last, and considering his great affliction and long confinement it showed great mental soundness and force.
The end of his long life was a peaceful sleep, impressing all who witnessed the dissolution, that his prayers had been heard and tenderly answered and that he had been numbered with the blessed.
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the dread of fees.
He was interred in the Lebanon cemetery, after appropriate service held in the M.E. church by the writer, Friday, March 10, 1905. A.H.Roach
Adam Messner was born at Alcise, France, October 24, 1814. His parents Adam and Sophia Messner died in France leaving him an orphan at the age of six months. Compelled to make his own way unaided through life from the time he was eight years old, he early formed the habit of frugality and industry, which characterized his long life of 90 years, 4 months and 15 days.
He came to America in 1836 and in 1837 he married Elizabeth Smith and settled in Washington county, Pa. To this union there were born eleven children, five of whom are now living. In 1848 he emigrated by wagon westward in pursuit of a home he could call his own, and came to Monroe county of the same year and settled on the farm where he lived at the time of his death. Deceased and his widowed companion being left at the age of 87 years, lived together 67 years.
At the age of 13 he was taken into the Luthern church, to which faith he adhered until his death. As a citizen, neighbor and friend, he had traits of character worthy of emulation and which was admired by all who knew him. Truthful, honest, industrious, and always ready to aid the worthy poor, he will certainly be missed by the community in which he lived so long. Being blessed with good health, the deceased led a busy life until about six years previous to his death, when the hand of affliction was lain upon him, the closing four years of which he most generally confined himself to his bedroom suffering often indescribable pain through all of which he passed without murmuring or complaint patiently awaiting the end, for which he confidently looked forward as a transition from his suffering and pain to a happy home beyond the grave. Often during his affliction he longed to go home. He spoke often of his willingness and readiness to meet the solemn ordeal of death. His memory, intellect and general mental powers, were unusually unimpaired to the last, and considering his great affliction and long confinement it showed great mental soundness and force.
The end of his long life was a peaceful sleep, impressing all who witnessed the dissolution, that his prayers had been heard and tenderly answered and that he had been numbered with the blessed.
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the dread of fees.
He was interred in the Lebanon cemetery, after appropriate service held in the M.E. church by the writer, Friday, March 10, 1905. A.H.Roach
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