The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1908 Page: 7 of 8
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Published by Special Request.
At the special request of J. A.
Kidd, who is a nephew of Robert
Kidd, deceased, we reproduce
the following:
Died.
At Sealy, Austin county, Tex-
as, Wednesday, November 12,
1890, at 2 o'clock a. m., Robert
Kidd, aged 116 years, 3 months
and two days. Born August 10,
1774.
The remains arrived-at Beau-
mont by the 9 o'clock train
Thursday morning, and was
taken to the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. A. E. Casvvell,
from whence they were carried
to the M. E. Church at 1:30 p. m.
Rev. G. V. Ridley read the
beautiful and impressive service
of the church, and delivered a
most eloquent oration over the
remains of the deceased patriarch
a few extracts from which we
give. He said:
Again we have assembled to dis-
charge the last sad rites for the
honored dead; another is sum-
moned hence who though for
many weary months has been ex-
pecting, hoping and praying for
the transition, never realized the
hope nor received an answer to
his oft-repeated prayer until
yesterday; but the inexorable yet
welcomed decree came forth at
last, and the weary, the tired and
traveled-stained sojourner ex-
changed the toil-worn habiliments
of mortality for the emblems of
an immortal reign.
Many indeed are the lessons
the life of this father, friend and
neighbor teaches to those who
yet remain.
It is taught by the word of in-
spiration that when the necessity
exists the child of God shall be
blessed with long life, and if
longevity is an evidence of pre-
eminent favor with a benignant
God. the dear one whose lifeless
clay is before us, clad in the sem-
blance of death, stands out in
boldest outline with but fe\V
parallels.
One hundred an^l sixteen years
rested as lightly upon his aged,
weary, though manly shoulders,
as three score and ten rests upon
almost all others without ex-
ception.
During the advanced stages of
his life, having enjoyed a young
manhood, more protracted than
any of his contemporaries, he en-
vironed his customs with a will
power which like an angel of
mercy reinforced his energies.
Our friend and father was
born amid the beautiful scenes
of Amherst county, Virginia,
where he lived long enorgh to be-
come imbued with such exalted
principles as to mark him as a
man of strong individuality.
From there he went tb Surrey
county, N. C., and from there he
came to Texas in 1S49, settling
on Sabine Lake; thence to Grigs-
by's Bluff, thence to Beaumdnt,
where he reared to manhood and
womanhood an excellent family
of sons and daughters, two of
whom Mr. Geo. Kidd and Mrs.
A. E. Caswell—still remain a-
mong us; while Mrs. Cook, the
daughter at whose house he had
lived for the last nineteen years,
and where he died, with Mr.
Marion Kidd, an older son, reside
in Sealy, Austin county, Texas.
He was never married until he
reached the age of 60 years, and
for many of the happiest seasons
of his life his faithful wife stood
as a devoted helpmeet by his side,
supporting him with a sublime
courage amid his toils, rejoicing
in his successes and sympathizing
with him in the adversities in-
cident to all human experience,
till 1884, when the helpful wife
weighedanchors
passed to her rest
As a friend h<
leal and true, never dé
tive, but as constant and j
as the needle to the
father he was affectu
and forbearing.
He ¿lid not live in the pá£
customary with the
sought entertainment in tl
events weich were trat
the various departments of a L.
religous and political life.
was in full sympathy witl
temporaneous history as* h<
served it in his daily interc
with his fellow man. Not
last December did he
lose interest in anything i
involved the weal and woe |
country.
He was a member of no!
order or church, but
earliest refiollection of his c
ren he always knelt in pi
God before retiring at1
when too aged to kneel be
rest his hands upon his bed,
bow his head, wnile Silently c
mitting himself to the care 0
loving God.
He took pleasure in
to anxious inquirers that his p
with God was assüréd;
consciousness bore faithful
mony to his preparation to,
his God in peace, and{
and constantly he entreated
the pleasure of the glorious!
sition; and it has come at last;
released the life that chafed
only, a year, not under:
with patience to realize
that, had stimulated the
soul so long.
To us how wonderful a life <
one hundred and sixteen y«
three months and two days, cov-
ering the most thrilling events <
our country's histOry. . ^
Peace, won'by the most
wars that ever drenched the
with blood, this-life links the i
of the Revolution with the
ent, and yet the beneficiary never :
saw death approach through
avenues of disease or sickness. 7
gress through these portateseemj
to have been barred and prott
ed by a special Providei
though stayed and held in at
ance by a factor so potent, yet
the insatiate victor stealt
creeps upon the beloved ot
of its greed through senility, un-
til the aged veteran courts
presence and invokes the last on-:;-",
slaught of a foe, whose hands of
enmity were to be turned into||,
implements of friendship by lift—. V
ing the window through" which
the spirit should escape and be
forever free, and so without
anguish he left us.
May our departure be as pa
less and peaceful. To you our
dear friends, children and grand- ^
children of a precious father, we I
offer all the comfort that Chris-
tian sympathy can lay on the al-
tar of your grieL Rather should ■
we rejoice, not at our l'oss, for our
selfishness would still continue a
life that had grown to be a bur-
den, but we should rejoice to
know that the tired feet have at
last found rest, the weary should
ders have laid down their burden,.
and the weather-beaten mariner
has at last gained the port he
sought so long, casting his anchor
amid the glories of a cloudless
sunset to rise in the beauties of .
an endless day. §1
After the oration, the remains
of this venérable patriarch were
taken to its last resting place at
Magnolia Cemetery, followed by
a large concourse of cittzens,
there to await the sound of the j
last trumpet.
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Thomas, S. W. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1908, newspaper, March 5, 1908; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168354/m1/7/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.