Clifford L. Kerns

KERNS, SCOTT, LACOCK

Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 5/23/2017 at 20:34:21

The Marion Register Friday October 19, 1900
Clifford L. Kerns.
The funeral of Clifford L. Kerns was held in the Presbyterian church on Thursday afternoon October 18th, 1900, at half past two o'clock. It was conducted by the pastor Walter H. Reynolds.
Brief services were held at the home of the family, about three miles northeast of town. Then the funeral procession which contained more than sixty carriages wended slowly to the church where the solemn services which proceed Christian burial were performed. The bearers of the pall were all young men, friends of the deceased. They were, Thomas Berry, Clifford Emmons, Carl Fernow, Wesley Fernow, Robert Harrison and Clarence Oxley. A quartette from the church choir, namely, Messrs. John Thompson, and Max Voris, and Misses Myrtle Bowman and Lizzie Lutz, with Mrs. Fred Fernow at the organ, rendered the music. The hymns sung were, "Come ye disconsolate," "Someday we'll understand," and "Nearer my God to Thee." The forty-sixth Psalm was read and words of consolation and instruction spoken from the text found in the thirtieth Psalm, fifth verse, "Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning." At the conclusion of the church services at which a very large company of sympathizing friends was present, the burial was completed in the cemetery toward the evening of as perfect an autumn day as we have ever seen.
The following short record of the life departed was read at the church.
Clifford L. Kerns only son of Joseph and Mercy Kerns, was born in Linn county, Iowa February 8th, 1881, and died at the home of his parents after a short but very severe illness on Tuesday October, 16th, 1900, age ninteen[sic] years, eight months and eight days. Besides his parents one sister remains to mourn his early departure.
He attended the district school near the parental residence, and after completing the course of study there pursued, he attended for two years the High School in Marion. His life was too short for him to have had the opportunity to have done more than the duties which lie near home but he did those and that too is such a way that those who know him best say "He did his work well." In this brief expression we have a commendation of character of a high order. He was faithful and intelligent and interested in his work on the farm, and genial and kindly in his associations with others.
When a baby he was baptised[sic] by the late Rev. Dr. Marshall and at about the age of ten years he, as a child of the covenant, made a confession of his personal faith in Jesus Christ as his Saviour from sin and death.
His last words showed that he realized that he was about to enter the other world and and in a sweet way as a little child he said "Papa make my bed, I'm going home." Thus he composed himself for the slumber that with the faith of a believer he knew he would have its awaking in his Father's House on High.

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