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Walter A. Kirk (1890)

KIRK

Posted By: Cay Merryman
Date: 8/2/2004 at 10:04:09

Newspaper Unknown
May 1890

It is with feelings of sadness I detail the death of one of our neighbor boys. On last Sunday, the 18th inst., the pale ferryman with his snowy sails spread, came about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and knocked at the door of the house of T. Kirk and family, and many tears said "Stay out," and loving hearts said, "Oh, do not come in," but all was of no avail, for he came in and in his icy arms bore away over the mystic river all that was mortal of Walter Kirk, the oldest son of Thomas Kirk and wife.

He was born in 1872 and was in the 19th year of his life. The writer has known him from a child. He was always a kind, affectionate and dutiful child, and when he came to more mature years he lost none of his respect for father and mother, brother and sisters. He was a model young man. He was sunshine and pleasure to his companions and associates in life, and it was hard to see him cut down just as he was entering upon a career of a prosperous, happy and useful life. But so it is. Death is an unfeeling monster, and has no respect for rank or station in life. And now that your dear boy is gone, let your tears cease to flow. Oh, could you see him now as he is clad in garments of purest white, you would not wish him back, but you would say, "Stay, dear son, in your peaceful and eternal dwelling and in God's good time we will all greet you again far beyond the sting of death and pain and sorrow." Let this hope then bear you up and may the thought give you great comfort; that sweeter will be the cup of immortal joy in that it was once dashed with the bitter drops of pain and sorrow and brighter by far will roll the everlasting ages for the dark shadows that cloud our earthly life. With this prospect before us, bright and full of hope, we bow in submission to our heavenly affliction and can say............. (poem follows, illegible) J. H. Creger (burial was made in the Peru cemetery)

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