Hiram Fuller, Aged Eighty, And
Soldier of the Union,
Passes Beyond
At 9 o'clock Tuesday
night Hiram Fuller, 80 years old and a veteran of the Union forces in the
Civil War, died at his home in Ceredo. Death was due to an attack of pneumonia,
which his constitution attenuated by age could not withstand.
Mr. Fuller was born in Pike county,
Kentucky. In comparatively early life he came to Wayne county, and for
practically fifty years had been one of its most highly respected citizens.
He was a man of quiet manner, but of excellent judgement. Kindness and
consideration for others were the predominating elements of this nature.
He was a Christian gentleman in the truest sense of the term and in the
eighty years of his life never had a quarrel with a neighbor, and never
was party to a law suit. He retained both his physical vigor and mental
strength to a remarkable degree, and up to the day he was stricken was
in complete possession of his mental faculties.
Mr. Fuller was a member of the Ceredo
Baptist church and of Bailey Post, Grand Army of the Republic. The post
headquarters here was notified Monday of his death, and will be represented
at the funeral, though because of the thinned ranks and weakened condition
of the survivors, will preclude a large attendance. He was twice married
and the following children all from his first union survive: Oliver, Thomas
J. and John W. Fuller, all of whom reside in the tri-state community, and
two daughters, Mrs. Rebecca Newman of Cincinnati. His widow, who was formerly
Mrs. Lexie Cyrus, also survives.
The funeral will occur at 2 o'clock
this afternoon and will be held in Ceredo Baptist church. The service will
be conducted by Rev. Jesse Pope, pastor of the church, and Rev. B. S. Akers,
a lifelong friend of the family. The burial will be in Brown's Hill cemetery.
-The Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Thursday, November
3, 1921 |
