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Submitted: 7/21/13 • Approved: 7/22/13 • Last Updated: 7/25/13 • R910769-G0-S3
December 31, 1892 - July 4, 1895
Son of WS & RE Largent
*Obituary
Bentonville Sun
Saturday, July 6, 1895
LARGENT, J.L. - This week Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Largent and family from Dakota, driving overland with wagons and tents, stopped over at Park Springs owing to the sickness of a child. Dr. J.T. McDonald was called to the tent to administer to the sick child's wants but physician's skill could not arrest the disease and death claimed its victim at 9 o'clock on the day of the 4th, and as the great crowd and procession from the city to the Park, headed by the band with patriotic music, followed by members of the I.O.O.F. lodge and the members of the A.O.U.W. lodge passed within 30 feet of that tent in the woods, little did any of that happy throng know that with aching hearts, sorrowing parents wept over the lifeless body of a loved child, and as the father peered out of his lonely tent he caught a glimpse of the A.O.U.W. banner and catching the eye of one of the members he gave the distress sign and soon from lip to lip among the members of that lodge passed the word that "a brother was in distress" and aid must be rendered, and as soon as the procession reached its destination, command was given the A.O.U.W. boys to march back to the tent which was done and there on a spring seat lay the body of the dead child. Arrangements were immediately made to take the corpse and the family to the cozy home of Brice Blackwell, one of the members of the lodge, who generously opened his house for the accommodation of the family. At 10 o'clock Friday, 5th, funeral services were held at Mr. Blackwell's, Revs. Boggs, Hamilton and Henderson officiating, the latter delivering a very appropriate sermon, after which the remains were taken to our beautiful cemetery to await the last trump. Death is always sad but in this instance it is doubly so, as the family is traveling on to Batesville, this state, to locate and to thus lose a dear child and be compelled to bury it in a strange land and among strangers is very sorrowful, but Bro. and Sister Largent can go on feeling assured that their child's grave will be remembered and kept green by members of Bentonville Lodge No. 38, A.O.U.W. This is a Workman's duty, to look after the dear ones of fellow members of the Order, and this is only one of thousands of similar instances where the Brotherhood of man as taught by the Bible is extended to aid a fellow man. That is true Fraternity's reward. Brother W. S. Largent is a member of Hermosa Lodge No. 132, A.O.U.W. of Hermosa, Dakota and although a stranger in a strange land he found warm, true A.O.U.W. brothers here.
*Obituary
Bentonville Sun
Saturday, July 6, 1895
Died, Wednesday morning July 4th at 9 o'clock in a tent at Park Springs, J.L. Largent, 2 1/2 years old, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Largent, formerly of Hermosa, Dakota. Funeral services were held at the residence of B.M. Blackwell on the 5th inst. at 10 o'clock, Rev. Geo. M. Henderson officiating after which the remains were laid to rest in our beautiful cemetery. The sorrowing parents have the sympathy of many here.
Contributed on 7/21/13 by judyfrog
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