LOTRIDGE, Charles 1824 - 1911

LOTRIDGE, HOWARD

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:27

"Jefferson County Republican"
Friday, March 24, 1911
Page 8, Column 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

BETHESDA.

… Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCormick went up to Fairfield Sunday morn to see Chas. LOTRIDGE who is in very poor health. A trained nurse from Mt. Pleasant is helping take care of him. The Mesdames Pearl Green and Jennie Prince also went to see him in the p.m. We hope soon to be able to report him better. …

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"The Fairfield Journal"
Wednesday, May 10, 1911
Page 1, Column 4

Cha.s LAUTDRIDGE Died on Saturday (sic)
Well Known Jefferson County Man Passes Away at His Home in Fairfield After Long Illness.

Charles LOTRIDGE, one of the best known residents of Jefferson county died at his home in this city Saturday evening at night o'clock. He had been in failing health for about six months. The funeral was held at Parsonsville Monday af-

Mr. LOTRIDGE was for many ternoon at 2:30 p.m. and interment was at Union cemetery. The service was conducted by Rev. H. M. Burns.

years a prominent citizen of Beckwith, having but recently moved into Fairfield.

Charles LOTRIDGE was born July 25, 1824, in Montgomery county, N. HOWARD and they trod life's journey his native state, Sept. 13, 1848, he was united in marriage to Thalia HOWARD and they trod life's journey together until May 25, 1910, when death called his dear companion and he was heard to remark that whichever was called first the other would follow soon. It lacks onIly a few days of being a year till the husband and father laid down the burdens of life and joined his loved ones.

The happy couple after their marriage resided in New York state until the year of 1869, when they went to Virginia to oversee a large plantation. They returned to New York in 1875 and in 1877 they moved to Trenton, Iowa. Not being contented he decided to go further west and boarded the train at Mt. Pleasant. A gentleman on the train told him the Overholser farm was for sale and he alighted and soon purchased the farm and in the coming spring of '77 the family took up their residence there and remained continuously until 1910.

Advancing age coming upon them they sold the farm and moved to Fairfield, but in speaking of "home" he always referred to Beckwith. He was the oldest of a family of six children four sisters have preceded him. One sister remains, who still lives in New York. Four children were born, two dying in infancy while still in New York. Charley died Jan. 25, 1888. One daughter, Lydia, is the sole survivor, who has been devotedly attached to both of her parents.

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Mr. LAUDTRIDGE was a constant reader of newspapers and was well posted in the affairs of the country. He was a man that had strong positive convictions and was honest in all his dealings with his fellow man, of a sympathetic nature easily aroused and reached and once a friend always a friend. It can be truly said that he was a good neighbor and citizen, a kind and affectionate husband and father. He was strictly a home man. Friends always mourn loved ones, and good and great men are missed by the public whether the summons come in innocent childhood or at hoary age when the years are full of honors. "As it is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment," so the silent summons came at 8 o'clock May 6, 1911, and Charles LAUTDRIDGE had gone to his reward. While he had passed beyond the allotted three score years and ten his remarkable activity, his buoyancy of spirit, good health and sunny disposition led his friends to believe that he had several years yet of this life.

He had been in ill health for about six months yet in all that time he was patient, self sacrificing and it was but a pleasure to wait upon him. And his devotion to his loved daughter was in the extreme.

The many friends extend sympathy to the bereaved daughter.

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