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Hislop, Thomas Royal 1869 - 1900

HISLOP

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/2/2020 at 12:12:52

Source: Decorah Republican May 24, 1900 P 4 C 4

THE SILENT REAPER.
Died at the home wherein he was born in West Decorah on Friday, May 18th,THOMAS ROYAL HISLOP, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hislop. aged 30 years, 5 months and 4 days. The illness which preceded this sorrowful event was brief; from the beginning death had evidently marked Roy for a victim. He was ailing for a week or more before acknowledging he was sick. The last work done in this office by him was on Wednesday, the 9th inst. The following day he consulted a physician, who advised him to rest-up for a few days and enjoy all the sunshine he could get. In spite of medicine and rest he grew worse until Tuesday, when he was directed to go home and take to his bed. Wednesday night the delirium of brain fever set in, from which he suffered most intensely. This continued until Friday morning, at one o’clock, when a comatose condition ensued from which he did not rally, but sank away in the sleep of death at 2 o’clock that afternoon. Sudden and swift was the departure from apparently perfect health to dissolution. Only three days elapsed between his last visit to the scene of his labor for so many years and his cessation from all physical labor.
For nearly ten years Roy had been an employee of the REPUBLICAN, serving with a loyalty and integrity worthy only of the highest praise. Everything he was called to do from the most humble labor to the better phases of the printer’s art he did with equal alacrity and cheerfulness. Not an unhesitating word or look—not a word even spoken hastily—ever, marred his career as an employee. As we look back over the years spent together, it seems most remarkable that there is not a day, an hour, or a minute in which he was disloyal, uncongenial or other than the perfect helper. What he was as an assistant he was as a son to his parents, and to his associates.
The funeral services were held In the Baptist church, on. Sunday afternoon. The swift taking away of one so in the very pride of health, appealed to all, and the attendance was one that has rarely been equaled. The church was crowded to its utmost capacity, and there were other hundreds outside who could not even approach the entrance. The services were conducted by Pastor Allen, the music was by the Congregational choir; the bearers were printers representing the REPUBLICAN, Journal, Public Opinion and Posten offices, and the city fire department (of which deceased had been a member for nine years,) acted as escort to the funeral cortege which was one of the largest ever seen in the city.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Phelps Cemetery and was born Dec. 16, 1869. His gravestone shows the name Royal.

Phelps Cemetery
 

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