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An Old Citizen Gone
After an illness of seven weeks S.
J. Baze died at his home in Metz township, near old Metz, and was
interred at the Summers graveyard.
Mr. Baze was born in Tennessee
sixty-six years ago and for more than thirty years has been a respected
and prominent citizen here. His wife and four children survive him, and
we feel that the entire community, as well as they, have in his death
sustained a loss.
His strong hand was ever ready at
the call for help, and his big heart full of sympathy for the
distressed. Truly his nature was such as to "rejoice with those who
rejoice, and weep with those who weep."
Early in life he became a member
of the Christian church and was for years an elder at Metz. He has not
lived in vain. This part of the world is better for him having lived in
it.
His worth as a neighbor and friend
was demonstrated by the largest funeral attendance ever seen in this
vicinity.
In honor to an old neighbor and
for his many years service as a public school officer, the Old Metz
school dismissed and the entire school headed by its teacher W. E. Snow,
was assigned a place in the funeral procession as it passed the school
house on its way to the grave.
A good man is gone.
Metz.
The Nevada Daily
Mail,
Nevada, Missouri.
November 23, 1893.
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