Unknown Newspaper, August 1912
Fernando Hampton, son of P.T. and S.E. Demott, was born near Mount Pleasant, Mo., Nov. 8, 1878 and died in Trinidad, Colo., July 30th 1912. His boyhood days were spent in school at Mt. Pleasant on his father's farm near that town.
Early in life he became a cripple, walking for several years to school with one hand on his knee, unable to take a step otherwise. But he struggled on and later became a teacher. Teaching one year at the Buchanan School Etterville District. His affliction overcame him and he was baffled in his ambition to be a teacher, but he did not give up.
Although unable to attend college as others, he secured a business course of study and in the garret room beside the tiny window of his home away from the noise, hour after hour he studied by correspondence and suffered. Not only did he suffer disappointment and the thought that he must always be a cripple but too often with bodily pain. After a time he finished his course of study and accepted a position as bookkeeper at Olean Bank and other places.
Three and a half years ago he went to Trinidad, Colo., where he was bookkeeper for the Central Meat Market up to a short time before his death.
He was married to Miss Minnie Weitz of Mt. Pleasant, Mo. April 23, 1911.
Ferd, as all knew him, became a Christian in his early manhood and was ever faithful and loyal to his church. Patient in his suffering and affliction, a man of few words quietly fighting his own battles, cheerful and kind and generous to all. No matter where Ferd was, parents and home was never forgotten. Many the tokens he sent the loved ones.
His short married life was a continued honeymoon. In better health than for many years the past was fading, where at the close of day he retired and fell asleep in Jesus. Just two short hours of struggle.
His remains were brought to Eldon Saturday, Aug. 3rd, funeral preached at Mt. Pleasant Church at 2 p.m., by Rev. Dutcher of Eldon, Sunday. Interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
Fernando Hampton, son of P.T. and S.E. Demott, was born near Mount Pleasant, Mo., Nov. 8, 1878 and died in Trinidad, Colo., July 30th 1912. His boyhood days were spent in school at Mt. Pleasant on his father's farm near that town.
Early in life he became a cripple, walking for several years to school with one hand on his knee, unable to take a step otherwise. But he struggled on and later became a teacher. Teaching one year at the Buchanan School Etterville District. His affliction overcame him and he was baffled in his ambition to be a teacher, but he did not give up.
Although unable to attend college as others, he secured a business course of study and in the garret room beside the tiny window of his home away from the noise, hour after hour he studied by correspondence and suffered. Not only did he suffer disappointment and the thought that he must always be a cripple but too often with bodily pain. After a time he finished his course of study and accepted a position as bookkeeper at Olean Bank and other places.
Three and a half years ago he went to Trinidad, Colo., where he was bookkeeper for the Central Meat Market up to a short time before his death.
He was married to Miss Minnie Weitz of Mt. Pleasant, Mo. April 23, 1911.
Ferd, as all knew him, became a Christian in his early manhood and was ever faithful and loyal to his church. Patient in his suffering and affliction, a man of few words quietly fighting his own battles, cheerful and kind and generous to all. No matter where Ferd was, parents and home was never forgotten. Many the tokens he sent the loved ones.
His short married life was a continued honeymoon. In better health than for many years the past was fading, where at the close of day he retired and fell asleep in Jesus. Just two short hours of struggle.
His remains were brought to Eldon Saturday, Aug. 3rd, funeral preached at Mt. Pleasant Church at 2 p.m., by Rev. Dutcher of Eldon, Sunday. Interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
Unknown Newspaper, August 1912
Fernando Hampton, son of P.T. and S.E. Demott, was born near Mount Pleasant, Mo., Nov. 8, 1878 and died in Trinidad, Colo., July 30th 1912. His boyhood days were spent in school at Mt. Pleasant on his father's farm near that town.
Early in life he became a cripple, walking for several years to school with one hand on his knee, unable to take a step otherwise. But he struggled on and later became a teacher. Teaching one year at the Buchanan School Etterville District. His affliction overcame him and he was baffled in his ambition to be a teacher, but he did not give up.
Although unable to attend college as others, he secured a business course of study and in the garret room beside the tiny window of his home away from the noise, hour after hour he studied by correspondence and suffered. Not only did he suffer disappointment and the thought that he must always be a cripple but too often with bodily pain. After a time he finished his course of study and accepted a position as bookkeeper at Olean Bank and other places.
Three and a half years ago he went to Trinidad, Colo., where he was bookkeeper for the Central Meat Market up to a short time before his death.
He was married to Miss Minnie Weitz of Mt. Pleasant, Mo. April 23, 1911.
Ferd, as all knew him, became a Christian in his early manhood and was ever faithful and loyal to his church. Patient in his suffering and affliction, a man of few words quietly fighting his own battles, cheerful and kind and generous to all. No matter where Ferd was, parents and home was never forgotten. Many the tokens he sent the loved ones.
His short married life was a continued honeymoon. In better health than for many years the past was fading, where at the close of day he retired and fell asleep in Jesus. Just two short hours of struggle.
His remains were brought to Eldon Saturday, Aug. 3rd, funeral preached at Mt. Pleasant Church at 2 p.m., by Rev. Dutcher of Eldon, Sunday. Interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
Fernando Hampton, son of P.T. and S.E. Demott, was born near Mount Pleasant, Mo., Nov. 8, 1878 and died in Trinidad, Colo., July 30th 1912. His boyhood days were spent in school at Mt. Pleasant on his father's farm near that town.
Early in life he became a cripple, walking for several years to school with one hand on his knee, unable to take a step otherwise. But he struggled on and later became a teacher. Teaching one year at the Buchanan School Etterville District. His affliction overcame him and he was baffled in his ambition to be a teacher, but he did not give up.
Although unable to attend college as others, he secured a business course of study and in the garret room beside the tiny window of his home away from the noise, hour after hour he studied by correspondence and suffered. Not only did he suffer disappointment and the thought that he must always be a cripple but too often with bodily pain. After a time he finished his course of study and accepted a position as bookkeeper at Olean Bank and other places.
Three and a half years ago he went to Trinidad, Colo., where he was bookkeeper for the Central Meat Market up to a short time before his death.
He was married to Miss Minnie Weitz of Mt. Pleasant, Mo. April 23, 1911.
Ferd, as all knew him, became a Christian in his early manhood and was ever faithful and loyal to his church. Patient in his suffering and affliction, a man of few words quietly fighting his own battles, cheerful and kind and generous to all. No matter where Ferd was, parents and home was never forgotten. Many the tokens he sent the loved ones.
His short married life was a continued honeymoon. In better health than for many years the past was fading, where at the close of day he retired and fell asleep in Jesus. Just two short hours of struggle.
His remains were brought to Eldon Saturday, Aug. 3rd, funeral preached at Mt. Pleasant Church at 2 p.m., by Rev. Dutcher of Eldon, Sunday. Interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
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