Averill, Loriston 1812 - 1880

AVERILL

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/18/2014 at 16:26:03

Iowa Plain Dealer February 13, 1880, P3 C3

Obituary.

It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of Loriston Averill, which event occurred at his home in New Oregon, on Wednesday morning the 11th instant, at the advanced age of about sixty-eight years. The acquaintance of the writer with the deceased began as far back as 1846 when the stormy days of barn burnerism and hunkerism in Chautauqua county used to call the delegates of the party to Mayville. It was then and there where devotion to principle and convictions were tested, that we first met Loriston Averill, he a man, the writer a boy in comparison. Coming to this county in 1857 we soon renewed the acquaintance of deceased, who had preceded us a few months in seeking and making a home here. Mr. Averill was a man of marked character and convictions, always endeavoring to live up to them regardless of questions of policy, in short he was an honest man who did not conceal his convictions upon this question or that, because the world was not ready to receive and adopt them. Such men are often called fools and fossils by men who never comprehend enough of any subject to have a conviction, farther than to seek the wave of popular applause. The world has too few men like the deceased; too few men of positive convictions; too many slaves to policy. His heart was void of deceit, his life was a continual acting of his convictions. We honor and esteem such a man and with his bereaved relatives and friends mingle the sympathetic tear. All honor to the honored dead.