San Juan Prospector dated Nov. 15, 1890
Richard Pruden, age 21 years, died of paralysis of the brain at the Pruden Ranch six miles North of Del Norte Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1890. The funeral was held at the Presbyterian Church Wed. Nov. 12.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
Note that the name is spelled "Pruden" in the newspaper, but is "Purden" on the tombstone.
Unfortunately, the stone is engraved incorrectly. The family name was Pruden.
Thanks!
Bill
Contributor: Bill Hazard (47105380)
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Saguache Crescent, Volume 9, Number 47, November 20, 1890
PRUDEN. Died, of paralysis of the brain, after a brief illness, at the family residence in Saguache County, Colo., at 11 a. m., Nov. 1, 1890. Richard B. Pruden. in the 23d year of his age. The deceased was born at Harmony, Athens County, Ohio. Sept. 2d, 1807. His parents were Samuel C. and Elizabeth Pruden. Of five children four sons and one daughter he was the next to the youngest. In early childhood he was deprived of his father by death. In February 1880. he removed with his widowed mother and brothers and sister to this state and valley to the spot where, ever since, the hearthstone has been bright and attractive, the glowing center of domestic affection and sympathy, the trysting place of reciprocal maternal and filial love. In that home, where the loved ones were gathered together, and where the heroic and self sacrificing mother was the chief object of filial devotion, a subject of disinterested service, the life of a loved young man whose loss crushes the spirit of every member of the household was tenderly nursed, during the last two weeks of his last sickness and suffering, until the death dews settled on his brow: and his eyes were darkened: and his heart was stilled: until the silver cord was loosed. and “the golden bowl was broken and the pitcher stood empty at the well.” Such was the earthward side of the closing scene: the scene this side the veil of flesh and sense, the scene in this world of the shadow. There was another scene, the heavenward, we believe, within the large and clear vision of God and the holy angels: the scene illumined with the golden tide of the Sun of Righteousness. arising with healing on his beams: the scene pulsing with the joy and gladness of the unveiled personal presence of the Son of Glory, whose smile, is ineffable bliss: the scene in which the loving savior of men manifests in its fullness the excellence of his love divine and human, whose gracious lips speak at the portal of death, as at the gate of Nain. the word of sympathy and light: the word of potency and life: the word of comfort for the living and quickening for the dead: “Weep not. Young man, I say unto thee, arise” To pass immediately from the world of the things seen and temporal to the world of the things unseen and eternal: from the earthly home which is the shadow, to the heavenly home, which is the substance. is the happy experience of the soul to whom belongs by faith the assurance of the immediate resurrection of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the body, in him who sympathetically affirms: “This day shalt thou be with me in paradise.” “ I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." “ Dick,” as he was familiarly and affectionately and respectfully called by those who were embraced in the inner circle of his kindred, and also among those who were comprised in the outer and ever enlarging circle of his friends, was a young man of rare manliness of character. A distinguishing mark of his manhood was 'personal independence: self-ownership. Under God. he owned his own conscience: no fellow human or humans shared in the ownership. He was free from the vices which cut the fiber of youthful life in this western world. He was firm in the virtues which make the early manhood strong and beautiful. He was faithful in the stewardship of time and honest in the stewardship of property. He was loyal and trustworthy as a friend, and kind and friendly to all. “The kingdom of God, which is not meat . and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" was evidently early implanted, in germ and outline, in his life: for it had its outcropping in works more expressive than words. He was a son of a godly mother, and hence included the household covenant thus defined to her and hers, in the Word of God, as a sealed promise: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thine house." He was peculiarly and devotedly attached : to his widowed mother, and out of the * spontaneous upwelling of honor for her sacred name fulfilled the royal law of filial love prescribed in the fifth commandment, and the annexed promise of , long life, as the reward, is, without the shadow of a doubt, correspondingly fulfilled, not in the land of the dying, but in the land of the living, by the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the word of comfort says: “Weep not:" who by the word of quickening said: “young man I say unto thee, arise." The funeral was largely attended by sympathizing and sorrowing friends at the First Presbyterian church of Del Norte on Wednesday of last week at 1 p. m. The funeral services were conducted by the one who has gratefully penned this communication to the Crescent, who was assisted, efficiently, in the exercises, by Revs. Goodell and Wilson. The text for the sermon on the occasion was Luke. vii. 13-14: “ Weep not Young man. I say unto thee, arise." ~John McLean
Richard Pruden, age 21 years, died of paralysis of the brain at the Pruden Ranch six miles North of Del Norte Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1890. The funeral was held at the Presbyterian Church Wed. Nov. 12.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
Note that the name is spelled "Pruden" in the newspaper, but is "Purden" on the tombstone.
Unfortunately, the stone is engraved incorrectly. The family name was Pruden.
Thanks!
Bill
Contributor: Bill Hazard (47105380)
===================================
Saguache Crescent, Volume 9, Number 47, November 20, 1890
PRUDEN. Died, of paralysis of the brain, after a brief illness, at the family residence in Saguache County, Colo., at 11 a. m., Nov. 1, 1890. Richard B. Pruden. in the 23d year of his age. The deceased was born at Harmony, Athens County, Ohio. Sept. 2d, 1807. His parents were Samuel C. and Elizabeth Pruden. Of five children four sons and one daughter he was the next to the youngest. In early childhood he was deprived of his father by death. In February 1880. he removed with his widowed mother and brothers and sister to this state and valley to the spot where, ever since, the hearthstone has been bright and attractive, the glowing center of domestic affection and sympathy, the trysting place of reciprocal maternal and filial love. In that home, where the loved ones were gathered together, and where the heroic and self sacrificing mother was the chief object of filial devotion, a subject of disinterested service, the life of a loved young man whose loss crushes the spirit of every member of the household was tenderly nursed, during the last two weeks of his last sickness and suffering, until the death dews settled on his brow: and his eyes were darkened: and his heart was stilled: until the silver cord was loosed. and “the golden bowl was broken and the pitcher stood empty at the well.” Such was the earthward side of the closing scene: the scene this side the veil of flesh and sense, the scene in this world of the shadow. There was another scene, the heavenward, we believe, within the large and clear vision of God and the holy angels: the scene illumined with the golden tide of the Sun of Righteousness. arising with healing on his beams: the scene pulsing with the joy and gladness of the unveiled personal presence of the Son of Glory, whose smile, is ineffable bliss: the scene in which the loving savior of men manifests in its fullness the excellence of his love divine and human, whose gracious lips speak at the portal of death, as at the gate of Nain. the word of sympathy and light: the word of potency and life: the word of comfort for the living and quickening for the dead: “Weep not. Young man, I say unto thee, arise” To pass immediately from the world of the things seen and temporal to the world of the things unseen and eternal: from the earthly home which is the shadow, to the heavenly home, which is the substance. is the happy experience of the soul to whom belongs by faith the assurance of the immediate resurrection of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the body, in him who sympathetically affirms: “This day shalt thou be with me in paradise.” “ I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." “ Dick,” as he was familiarly and affectionately and respectfully called by those who were embraced in the inner circle of his kindred, and also among those who were comprised in the outer and ever enlarging circle of his friends, was a young man of rare manliness of character. A distinguishing mark of his manhood was 'personal independence: self-ownership. Under God. he owned his own conscience: no fellow human or humans shared in the ownership. He was free from the vices which cut the fiber of youthful life in this western world. He was firm in the virtues which make the early manhood strong and beautiful. He was faithful in the stewardship of time and honest in the stewardship of property. He was loyal and trustworthy as a friend, and kind and friendly to all. “The kingdom of God, which is not meat . and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" was evidently early implanted, in germ and outline, in his life: for it had its outcropping in works more expressive than words. He was a son of a godly mother, and hence included the household covenant thus defined to her and hers, in the Word of God, as a sealed promise: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thine house." He was peculiarly and devotedly attached : to his widowed mother, and out of the * spontaneous upwelling of honor for her sacred name fulfilled the royal law of filial love prescribed in the fifth commandment, and the annexed promise of , long life, as the reward, is, without the shadow of a doubt, correspondingly fulfilled, not in the land of the dying, but in the land of the living, by the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the word of comfort says: “Weep not:" who by the word of quickening said: “young man I say unto thee, arise." The funeral was largely attended by sympathizing and sorrowing friends at the First Presbyterian church of Del Norte on Wednesday of last week at 1 p. m. The funeral services were conducted by the one who has gratefully penned this communication to the Crescent, who was assisted, efficiently, in the exercises, by Revs. Goodell and Wilson. The text for the sermon on the occasion was Luke. vii. 13-14: “ Weep not Young man. I say unto thee, arise." ~John McLean
San Juan Prospector dated Nov. 15, 1890
Richard Pruden, age 21 years, died of paralysis of the brain at the Pruden Ranch six miles North of Del Norte Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1890. The funeral was held at the Presbyterian Church Wed. Nov. 12.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
Note that the name is spelled "Pruden" in the newspaper, but is "Purden" on the tombstone.
Unfortunately, the stone is engraved incorrectly. The family name was Pruden.
Thanks!
Bill
Contributor: Bill Hazard (47105380)
===================================
Saguache Crescent, Volume 9, Number 47, November 20, 1890
PRUDEN. Died, of paralysis of the brain, after a brief illness, at the family residence in Saguache County, Colo., at 11 a. m., Nov. 1, 1890. Richard B. Pruden. in the 23d year of his age. The deceased was born at Harmony, Athens County, Ohio. Sept. 2d, 1807. His parents were Samuel C. and Elizabeth Pruden. Of five children four sons and one daughter he was the next to the youngest. In early childhood he was deprived of his father by death. In February 1880. he removed with his widowed mother and brothers and sister to this state and valley to the spot where, ever since, the hearthstone has been bright and attractive, the glowing center of domestic affection and sympathy, the trysting place of reciprocal maternal and filial love. In that home, where the loved ones were gathered together, and where the heroic and self sacrificing mother was the chief object of filial devotion, a subject of disinterested service, the life of a loved young man whose loss crushes the spirit of every member of the household was tenderly nursed, during the last two weeks of his last sickness and suffering, until the death dews settled on his brow: and his eyes were darkened: and his heart was stilled: until the silver cord was loosed. and “the golden bowl was broken and the pitcher stood empty at the well.” Such was the earthward side of the closing scene: the scene this side the veil of flesh and sense, the scene in this world of the shadow. There was another scene, the heavenward, we believe, within the large and clear vision of God and the holy angels: the scene illumined with the golden tide of the Sun of Righteousness. arising with healing on his beams: the scene pulsing with the joy and gladness of the unveiled personal presence of the Son of Glory, whose smile, is ineffable bliss: the scene in which the loving savior of men manifests in its fullness the excellence of his love divine and human, whose gracious lips speak at the portal of death, as at the gate of Nain. the word of sympathy and light: the word of potency and life: the word of comfort for the living and quickening for the dead: “Weep not. Young man, I say unto thee, arise” To pass immediately from the world of the things seen and temporal to the world of the things unseen and eternal: from the earthly home which is the shadow, to the heavenly home, which is the substance. is the happy experience of the soul to whom belongs by faith the assurance of the immediate resurrection of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the body, in him who sympathetically affirms: “This day shalt thou be with me in paradise.” “ I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." “ Dick,” as he was familiarly and affectionately and respectfully called by those who were embraced in the inner circle of his kindred, and also among those who were comprised in the outer and ever enlarging circle of his friends, was a young man of rare manliness of character. A distinguishing mark of his manhood was 'personal independence: self-ownership. Under God. he owned his own conscience: no fellow human or humans shared in the ownership. He was free from the vices which cut the fiber of youthful life in this western world. He was firm in the virtues which make the early manhood strong and beautiful. He was faithful in the stewardship of time and honest in the stewardship of property. He was loyal and trustworthy as a friend, and kind and friendly to all. “The kingdom of God, which is not meat . and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" was evidently early implanted, in germ and outline, in his life: for it had its outcropping in works more expressive than words. He was a son of a godly mother, and hence included the household covenant thus defined to her and hers, in the Word of God, as a sealed promise: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thine house." He was peculiarly and devotedly attached : to his widowed mother, and out of the * spontaneous upwelling of honor for her sacred name fulfilled the royal law of filial love prescribed in the fifth commandment, and the annexed promise of , long life, as the reward, is, without the shadow of a doubt, correspondingly fulfilled, not in the land of the dying, but in the land of the living, by the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the word of comfort says: “Weep not:" who by the word of quickening said: “young man I say unto thee, arise." The funeral was largely attended by sympathizing and sorrowing friends at the First Presbyterian church of Del Norte on Wednesday of last week at 1 p. m. The funeral services were conducted by the one who has gratefully penned this communication to the Crescent, who was assisted, efficiently, in the exercises, by Revs. Goodell and Wilson. The text for the sermon on the occasion was Luke. vii. 13-14: “ Weep not Young man. I say unto thee, arise." ~John McLean
Richard Pruden, age 21 years, died of paralysis of the brain at the Pruden Ranch six miles North of Del Norte Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1890. The funeral was held at the Presbyterian Church Wed. Nov. 12.
~Courtesy of Rosalind Weaver
Note that the name is spelled "Pruden" in the newspaper, but is "Purden" on the tombstone.
Unfortunately, the stone is engraved incorrectly. The family name was Pruden.
Thanks!
Bill
Contributor: Bill Hazard (47105380)
===================================
Saguache Crescent, Volume 9, Number 47, November 20, 1890
PRUDEN. Died, of paralysis of the brain, after a brief illness, at the family residence in Saguache County, Colo., at 11 a. m., Nov. 1, 1890. Richard B. Pruden. in the 23d year of his age. The deceased was born at Harmony, Athens County, Ohio. Sept. 2d, 1807. His parents were Samuel C. and Elizabeth Pruden. Of five children four sons and one daughter he was the next to the youngest. In early childhood he was deprived of his father by death. In February 1880. he removed with his widowed mother and brothers and sister to this state and valley to the spot where, ever since, the hearthstone has been bright and attractive, the glowing center of domestic affection and sympathy, the trysting place of reciprocal maternal and filial love. In that home, where the loved ones were gathered together, and where the heroic and self sacrificing mother was the chief object of filial devotion, a subject of disinterested service, the life of a loved young man whose loss crushes the spirit of every member of the household was tenderly nursed, during the last two weeks of his last sickness and suffering, until the death dews settled on his brow: and his eyes were darkened: and his heart was stilled: until the silver cord was loosed. and “the golden bowl was broken and the pitcher stood empty at the well.” Such was the earthward side of the closing scene: the scene this side the veil of flesh and sense, the scene in this world of the shadow. There was another scene, the heavenward, we believe, within the large and clear vision of God and the holy angels: the scene illumined with the golden tide of the Sun of Righteousness. arising with healing on his beams: the scene pulsing with the joy and gladness of the unveiled personal presence of the Son of Glory, whose smile, is ineffable bliss: the scene in which the loving savior of men manifests in its fullness the excellence of his love divine and human, whose gracious lips speak at the portal of death, as at the gate of Nain. the word of sympathy and light: the word of potency and life: the word of comfort for the living and quickening for the dead: “Weep not. Young man, I say unto thee, arise” To pass immediately from the world of the things seen and temporal to the world of the things unseen and eternal: from the earthly home which is the shadow, to the heavenly home, which is the substance. is the happy experience of the soul to whom belongs by faith the assurance of the immediate resurrection of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the body, in him who sympathetically affirms: “This day shalt thou be with me in paradise.” “ I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." “ Dick,” as he was familiarly and affectionately and respectfully called by those who were embraced in the inner circle of his kindred, and also among those who were comprised in the outer and ever enlarging circle of his friends, was a young man of rare manliness of character. A distinguishing mark of his manhood was 'personal independence: self-ownership. Under God. he owned his own conscience: no fellow human or humans shared in the ownership. He was free from the vices which cut the fiber of youthful life in this western world. He was firm in the virtues which make the early manhood strong and beautiful. He was faithful in the stewardship of time and honest in the stewardship of property. He was loyal and trustworthy as a friend, and kind and friendly to all. “The kingdom of God, which is not meat . and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit" was evidently early implanted, in germ and outline, in his life: for it had its outcropping in works more expressive than words. He was a son of a godly mother, and hence included the household covenant thus defined to her and hers, in the Word of God, as a sealed promise: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thine house." He was peculiarly and devotedly attached : to his widowed mother, and out of the * spontaneous upwelling of honor for her sacred name fulfilled the royal law of filial love prescribed in the fifth commandment, and the annexed promise of , long life, as the reward, is, without the shadow of a doubt, correspondingly fulfilled, not in the land of the dying, but in the land of the living, by the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the word of comfort says: “Weep not:" who by the word of quickening said: “young man I say unto thee, arise." The funeral was largely attended by sympathizing and sorrowing friends at the First Presbyterian church of Del Norte on Wednesday of last week at 1 p. m. The funeral services were conducted by the one who has gratefully penned this communication to the Crescent, who was assisted, efficiently, in the exercises, by Revs. Goodell and Wilson. The text for the sermon on the occasion was Luke. vii. 13-14: “ Weep not Young man. I say unto thee, arise." ~John McLean
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