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William C. Talbott
Our community was shocked last Sunday morning when the news was received that W.C. Talbott had died the evening before at Battle Creek, Mich., where he had gone to be treated for anemia. 'Billy' as he was familiarly called was born Oct. 31, 1872, being the oldest child of F.M. and Mary A. Talbott of our community. In March 1900 he was married to Miss Nora Michael, who, with the father and mother and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Gilham and Miss Freda Talbott, are left to mourn the loss of a kind husband, dutiful child and an affectionate brother.
It has been truly said that 'Death is ever sad.' We think it much more so when it comes to those who are an honor to society, who are useful to a community, a blessing to their home and who have a bright prospect for the future before them. Such a one was Billy Talbott. We had the privilege of knowing him all his life, the honor of being one of his first school teachers. We found him in childhood an obedient and studious pupil, in youth polite, modest, courteous, and amiable, and in manhood an upright honest and noble character and it seems to us that the poet had in his mind's eye just such a character when he sung:
His life was gentle and the elements
So mixed in him that nature
Might stand up and say to all the world,
This is a man.
He was at the high tide of a useful career when he was called to go and his friends left to mourn. Why this untimely breaking of the bands of mortality; why this dispensation we can not decree, we cannot fathom but it is the Divine will that must be done and to its mandate we must bow, and that, we must accept. Have we the power to accept it with resignation? We trust so. We now see through a glass darkly; let us trust and abide in the hope of that bright vision yet to come, for the eye of faith and hope makes radiant the shore beyond. Our heart goes out to that grief stricken mother who idolized him as only a mother can who has an only son. No language can soften the grief of that heart. I would that language had not so great limitations, so that it were possible for me to say something that would fall with softening effect upon that mothers heart.
It is a pleasure to believe that death does not end all; that in the language of the poet -- 'There's a land that is fairer than day', that ourfiends have not gone from us forever but that -- 'In the sweet by-and-by we shall meet on that beautiful shore' -- where there is no more sorrow or death or parting, where all that is best in man survives and all that is unworthy is left forever behind; where the weaknesses and jealousies and animosities of this life fade into insignificance and are forgotten. Billy's life work is ended and he has gone to that 'Mysterious world untraveled by the sun Where Times far wandering tide has never run.' Yes, his work on earth is done and he is at rest. Peace to his memory and tears and sympathy for those loved ones he left behind. His body will arrive this afternoon, Monday. Funeral services will be held at his late home Wednesday 10 A.M., and as we understand, will be in charge of the K. of P's. of which order he was an honored member.
From the Barnesville Enterprise; Thursday February 20, 1908
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