{Leroy} W. EDINGTON, son of Thomas and Ursula {E. MOORE,} EDINGTON, was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, January 20, 1851, and departed this life March 8, 1920, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Will WAKEFIELD, at Linton.
He was married to Mary A. HALE near Effingham, Illinois, in October 1876. To this union were born nine children, seven of whom survive him. The wife and mother and two children preceded him to that spirit world.
The surviving children are: Mrs. Ora WAKEFIELD, Mrs. Eva HUFFMAN, Mrs. Verna MEURER, Mrs. Bonnie HOLLY, Thomas and Rufus EDINGTON, of Linton, and Mrs. Nellie LEWIS, of Bloomfield.
There are also sixteen grandchildren, and not one feels the loss more than Cecil, who was reared in the home of his grandfather after the death of his mother until twelve years of age.
Mr. EDINGTON united with the Christian church at Koleen under the teachings of Isaiah FIELDS when a young man and continued in that faith until the end.
To more fully explain his useful and devoted life, following is a letter from an absent brother:
“The time has come when some of us has said our last good bye. Little did I think on October 26, 1919, when I grasped his hand in loving goodbye that it would be the last time on this side of the Great Beyond. I loved him as a brother and father, for such he had been to me in deed and in truth. Since he has gone to join the immortals, let us who are here to mourn the loss of one so dear to us, extend the broad mantle of charity over all his weaknesses, whatever they many have been, and not withhold from his dear memory, the praises his virtues may have claimed. Perfection on earth has never been attained.
While I was not permitted to be with you in your dark hours of distress, no one mourns his demise more than I, yet we grieve not as those who have not hope, for I have abiding faith in his noble and honorable life gaining for him a seat in the house not made with hands to gladly clasp hands with our own dear father and mother. He has gone from his labors. May he rest in peace.”
He was married to Mary A. HALE near Effingham, Illinois, in October 1876. To this union were born nine children, seven of whom survive him. The wife and mother and two children preceded him to that spirit world.
The surviving children are: Mrs. Ora WAKEFIELD, Mrs. Eva HUFFMAN, Mrs. Verna MEURER, Mrs. Bonnie HOLLY, Thomas and Rufus EDINGTON, of Linton, and Mrs. Nellie LEWIS, of Bloomfield.
There are also sixteen grandchildren, and not one feels the loss more than Cecil, who was reared in the home of his grandfather after the death of his mother until twelve years of age.
Mr. EDINGTON united with the Christian church at Koleen under the teachings of Isaiah FIELDS when a young man and continued in that faith until the end.
To more fully explain his useful and devoted life, following is a letter from an absent brother:
“The time has come when some of us has said our last good bye. Little did I think on October 26, 1919, when I grasped his hand in loving goodbye that it would be the last time on this side of the Great Beyond. I loved him as a brother and father, for such he had been to me in deed and in truth. Since he has gone to join the immortals, let us who are here to mourn the loss of one so dear to us, extend the broad mantle of charity over all his weaknesses, whatever they many have been, and not withhold from his dear memory, the praises his virtues may have claimed. Perfection on earth has never been attained.
While I was not permitted to be with you in your dark hours of distress, no one mourns his demise more than I, yet we grieve not as those who have not hope, for I have abiding faith in his noble and honorable life gaining for him a seat in the house not made with hands to gladly clasp hands with our own dear father and mother. He has gone from his labors. May he rest in peace.”
{Leroy} W. EDINGTON, son of Thomas and Ursula {E. MOORE,} EDINGTON, was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, January 20, 1851, and departed this life March 8, 1920, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Will WAKEFIELD, at Linton.
He was married to Mary A. HALE near Effingham, Illinois, in October 1876. To this union were born nine children, seven of whom survive him. The wife and mother and two children preceded him to that spirit world.
The surviving children are: Mrs. Ora WAKEFIELD, Mrs. Eva HUFFMAN, Mrs. Verna MEURER, Mrs. Bonnie HOLLY, Thomas and Rufus EDINGTON, of Linton, and Mrs. Nellie LEWIS, of Bloomfield.
There are also sixteen grandchildren, and not one feels the loss more than Cecil, who was reared in the home of his grandfather after the death of his mother until twelve years of age.
Mr. EDINGTON united with the Christian church at Koleen under the teachings of Isaiah FIELDS when a young man and continued in that faith until the end.
To more fully explain his useful and devoted life, following is a letter from an absent brother:
“The time has come when some of us has said our last good bye. Little did I think on October 26, 1919, when I grasped his hand in loving goodbye that it would be the last time on this side of the Great Beyond. I loved him as a brother and father, for such he had been to me in deed and in truth. Since he has gone to join the immortals, let us who are here to mourn the loss of one so dear to us, extend the broad mantle of charity over all his weaknesses, whatever they many have been, and not withhold from his dear memory, the praises his virtues may have claimed. Perfection on earth has never been attained.
While I was not permitted to be with you in your dark hours of distress, no one mourns his demise more than I, yet we grieve not as those who have not hope, for I have abiding faith in his noble and honorable life gaining for him a seat in the house not made with hands to gladly clasp hands with our own dear father and mother. He has gone from his labors. May he rest in peace.”
He was married to Mary A. HALE near Effingham, Illinois, in October 1876. To this union were born nine children, seven of whom survive him. The wife and mother and two children preceded him to that spirit world.
The surviving children are: Mrs. Ora WAKEFIELD, Mrs. Eva HUFFMAN, Mrs. Verna MEURER, Mrs. Bonnie HOLLY, Thomas and Rufus EDINGTON, of Linton, and Mrs. Nellie LEWIS, of Bloomfield.
There are also sixteen grandchildren, and not one feels the loss more than Cecil, who was reared in the home of his grandfather after the death of his mother until twelve years of age.
Mr. EDINGTON united with the Christian church at Koleen under the teachings of Isaiah FIELDS when a young man and continued in that faith until the end.
To more fully explain his useful and devoted life, following is a letter from an absent brother:
“The time has come when some of us has said our last good bye. Little did I think on October 26, 1919, when I grasped his hand in loving goodbye that it would be the last time on this side of the Great Beyond. I loved him as a brother and father, for such he had been to me in deed and in truth. Since he has gone to join the immortals, let us who are here to mourn the loss of one so dear to us, extend the broad mantle of charity over all his weaknesses, whatever they many have been, and not withhold from his dear memory, the praises his virtues may have claimed. Perfection on earth has never been attained.
While I was not permitted to be with you in your dark hours of distress, no one mourns his demise more than I, yet we grieve not as those who have not hope, for I have abiding faith in his noble and honorable life gaining for him a seat in the house not made with hands to gladly clasp hands with our own dear father and mother. He has gone from his labors. May he rest in peace.”
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