Noble, H. D. – Died 1874

NOBLE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/14/2013 at 14:30:02

Iowa Plain Dealer March 6 1874, P3 C2

IN MEMORIUM.

H. D. NOBLE, is no more! The stern messenger has summoned him across the mystic river. A few days since with high hopes and a bright future he was summoned to Des Moines as a witness in the Agricultural College investigation. Shortly after his arrival he was taken with pneumonia, terminating fataly{sp} at the end of a few days. His earnestness and zeal in the interests of the Agricultural College, working for its success in season and out, has had much to do in breaking the silver chord. In whatever work he engaged, was given his most zealous labor. A man of strong attachments and deep convictions he summoned about him warm friends with strong ties. His aims were pure, his acts honorable. Full of public spirit he was the active support of measures for the public welfare. His friends were of the true, the good, the pure; his enemies are numbered with the vile. His fondness and affection for wife and children renders their home more desolate for this bereavement. Few men can fill his place in society, none can restore that broken family circle. Its ties are severed only to be restored in the beautiful hereafter. With the bereaved we mingle the fervent tear of sorrow, more poignant because ineffectual to restore the husband, the father, the friend.

Another clipping as follows:

RESOLUTION OF CRESCO GRANGE ON THE DEATH OF MR. NOBLE.

FEBRUARY 28TH 1874.

At a meeting of the Cresco Grange No. 44, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted:

Whereas, It pleased Almighty God, the supreme Master and Ruler of the Universe, to call from our midst our worthy brother, H. D. Noble, to refreshment and rest, in that bright and glorious Lodge above, in that house not made with hands eternal in the heavens; be it therefore.

RESOLVED, That, in the death of our beloved brother, this Grange and the Patrons of Husbandry have sustained great and irreparable loss, and we shall miss him from our meetings and intercourse; brother who was endowed with the highest sense of honor, courteous and kind to all; a man of benevolence and philanthropy; possessed of brilliant talents; a devoted and affectionate husband and father.

RESOLVED, That while we mortals view with dimmed eye and sorrowing heart, this evidence of our mortality, and the sudden severance of earthly ties and associations, we rejoice that the same Almighty being will awaken our brother from his death sleep and give unto him that blessed and complete life that has no second death.

RESOLVED, That we do sincerely sympathize with the bereaved family from which he has been severed, and offer them, and particularly our dear sister, the worthy companion of his life, our heartiest condolence, with the benediction of—the Lord bless thee and keep thee, the Lord cause his face to shine upon thee, the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace.

RESOLVED, That in token of our brotherly love and respect, the charter of our Grange shall be draped in mourning for thirty days.

RESOLVED, That in memory of our departed brother, these preambles and resolutions be spread upon the records of our Grange.

RESOLVED, That Cresco Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, No. 44, of which our deceased brother was a member, be draped in mourning for thirty days, and that we, in token of our grief at our loss, will wear the usual badge of mourning for same length of time, and that the Secretary will furnish a copy of these resolutions to the family of our deceased brother, and to the several papers published in this county, for publication.

M. M. MOON,
T. P. DAVIES,
D. A. BLOOD.