REGISTER OF
OLD SETTLERS
BOOK ONE
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MUSCATINE COUNTY IOWA REGISTER OF | |
Source: REGISTER OF OLD SETTLERS , BOOK One, page 145
submitted by Neal Carter, Sept. 28, 2007
WILLIAM B. LANGRIDGE & MRS. RHODA SMALLEY At a meeting of the Old Settlers’ Society of Muscatine and vicinity, held in the City Hall, Tuesday, Aug. 7th, 1883, at 9 a. m., the following report by the committee was adopted:
WILLIAM B. LANGRIDGE “His life was gentle; and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world, This is a man.
What more can we say? Our mind centers upon this one thought and our tongue fails to give further utterance. Yet we would not withhold our tenderest sympathy from that stricken home, and as we cross the threshold and see the sorrow there we grieve more for the living than the dead.
This day we lay away in the silent grave all that remains of our long-time friend and daily companion. Mr. Langridge was conspicuous for his strict integrity, his manly truthfulness and unswerving honesty, wholly reliable at all times as a friend, ever considerate and indulgent as a neighbor, his heart ever ready to prompt, his feet swift to the suffering and his hands eager to relieve. That home so deeply shrouded in sorrow we fear that with even words of sympathy we might intrude and open afresh the bleeding heart that we would bind up with gentle hands. But however sad the duty we beg the privilege of extending to that stricken household the heartfelt emotion of our kindest regards in this, their great affliction and sore bereavement.
- J. BRIDGMAN,
- H. M. BURNETT, } Com.
- J. P. WALTON.
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MRS. RHODA SMALLEY In the death of Mrs. Rhoda Smalley, the Old Settlers of Muscatine and county have lost one of the earliest and oldest of their members. One whose family for nearly half a century have been identified with the history, growth and prosperity of our city. Her home was always a pleasant resort for relatives, friends and neighbors, a home where love and joy, peace and plenty, prosperity and happiness reigned supreme – a home from which no weary, way-worn traveler was ever turned away, in the early days of the settlement of the country.
Mrs. Smalley’s life was truly and literally a domestic one, living for her children, grandchildren and more immediate neighbors and friends, and to them her loss will be more keenly felt, now that the family ties are sundered by the hand of death and only the sweet memory of a mother’s love remains, than to the world at large. In the death of this aged mother the earnest sympathies of our hearts go out to the large number of her descendents, with whom we have been intimately connected in our daily intercourse in the busy marts of life.
- J. BRIDGMAN,
- H. M. BURNETT, } Com.
- J. P. WALTON.
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