William Orman (1880)

ORMAN, MILLER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 9/1/2007 at 13:36:01

Winterset Madisonian - June 17, 1880
Winterset, Iowa
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DEATH OF A FORMER CITIZEN

John Orman, of Union township, has received the sad tidings of the death of his son William, who lived at Pueblo, Colorado. We clip the following from a Pueblo paper:

Died at his residence March 20th, 1880. William A. Orman, aged 37 years and 20 days.

The deceased was born in Muscatine, Iowa, 29th day of February 1843. He came to Denver in 1862 and engaged in the livery and stock business, in which he was very successful. He bought a great many horses and mules for the general government, and gave full satisfaction.

For the last nine years he has been an extensive contractor on railroads, there having been but few built in this state in which he did not bear a prominent part. He came to Pueblo in 1873, in which year he was united in marriage with Miss Nannie Miller, late of Sedalia, Mo.

He has been active in business, and accumulated a competence and leaves his family well provided for.

Mr. Orman was a man of scrupulous integrity; as husband and father he was kind and indulgent as a citizen he was public spirited honored and esteemed, and he had but one enemy in the world, so far as we are advised, and that was himself. With that exception, he was a model man, and the general feeling of this community is one of deep sorrow at his death, cut down as he was in the prime of his manhood.

He leaves a devoted wife, two interesting little sons and a very large circle of friends to cherish a memory. To the bereaved widow, who has clung to him with an unfaltering devotion that challenged the admiration of all, we extend our earnest sympathy in her day of trial, and she is sure of the sympathy of all; the little boys who are too young to feel their loss, we can only hope that they may be reminded in the years that are to come of their father's love, the memory of which may prompt them to good words and works.

Yesterday (Sunday) the large funeral procession, one of the largest ever seen in this city, attested more fully than words could do, the respect his fellow citizens entertained for them.

The body was taken from his late residence to the Chatholic church, where the funeral services were conducted by Father Gubatosi, as prescribed by that church. After the services were completed at the church the cortege re-formed and repaired to the Masonic burying ground, where all that was mortal of Billy Orman was consigned to the silent grave, there to await the last call.

Friend, brother, neighbor! May thy rest be sweet and peaceful, and when life's fitful taper shall be extinguished to us all, may we meet thee and the Grand Master dispense justice largely tempered with His Infinited Mercy.