DILLION Family Genealogy-History

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HAUNTZ, Robert
       
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Unknown Newspaper
February 6, 1898

Robert Hauntz was born in Paint Township, this county, August 12, 1897, and died of a complication of diseases in London, Ohio, February 5, 1898, aged 30 years, 5 months and 23 days. His parents were Simon and Mary Hauntz, the former deceased twenty years since, while the latter survives to mourn the loss of her beloved son. To these parents were born nine children who lived to maturity, the survivors being: Rebecca, wife of Charles Ryder; Etta, wife of Wm. Butler; Emma, wife of Henry Dillion; Minnie, wife of Charles Dillion; Samuel and John; Ollie, wife of Isaac Dillion, and Miss Josie.

On February 9, 1896, it was my privilege to unite him in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Douglass, of Newport, a most worthy lady, whose devotion and tenderness to the husband of her choice have been constant and unwearied. Life was bright, and the future seemed full of promise for this happy couple, as two years ago they left the parsonage for the work of life. But how delusive were their hopes! About one year since dread disease fastened its unrelenting grip upon the happy husband. Bravely and hopefully he struggled for the mastery. Medical skill brought all its aid to his assistance and his devoted companion never relaxed her watchful care and ministering love. But all the struggle was in vain. The awful ravages of his disease became more and more apparent. Last November he left the farm, to which he moved after marriage, and came to his home, to linger, to waste away, to go down into the valley of the shadow of death.

He was a young man of superior merit and acknowledged worth. Honest, upright, truthful, moral - his life was beyond reproach, and his death removes from his circle one whose place will be hard to fill. Said a prominent citizen of the county, in whose employ he had spent some three years: "Robert was one of the best young men I ever knew. You could always trust him, and you knew your confidence would never be misplaced."

During his illness he expressed his desire to profess his faith in Christ and become a Christian. He was received into the Presbyterian Church and passed to his reward trusting in the atoning merit of the dear Redeemer. The day before his departure in the faintest whisper, he assured his pastor of the Lord's goodness and his abiding faith in Christ. To loved ones, the morning of his decease, he said: "I am ready", and then fell asleep.

"Not for the dead in Christ we weep,
Their sorrows now are o'er;
The sea is calm, the tempest past,
On that eternal shore.

Their peace is sealed, their rest is sure
Within that better home;
A while we weep and linger here,
Then follow to the tomb."

John A. Ewalt, Pastor


 



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