Post by Pat (Friend) Thompson on Apr 11, 2009 15:52:24 GMT -5
Rev. H. E. Friend, Soldier and Preacher, Passes
After an Illness of Four Years at His Home In Mountain Lake Park.
Rev. Henry E. Friend, died at his home in Mountain Lake Park,
Friday, February 5th, 1926, at 10:00 o'clock a.m. after an
illness of four years, the greater portion of which time he was
bedfast. The cause of his death was arteries sclerosis. He was a
patient suffer through it all.
Mr. Friend was born at Sang Run, Garrett County, December 31st,
1835 and was the son of Israel and Dorcas Willison Friend,
pioneers of Garrett county. On December 27th, 1860, he was
married to Sarah E. Blackburn at Altamont, Md., by the Rev.
Benjamin Stickley. To this union fourteen children were born,
ten of whom survive: L. E., of Morgantown, W. Va.; G. B. M., and
W. S., of near Oakland; Register of Wills E. E. Friend, of
Mountain Lake Park; Ray C., Richwood, W. Va.; Charles W., of New
York City; Clifford H., of Moscow, Idaho; James W., of
Friendsville, Md.; Miss Sudie, a daughter, who resided at home
with her father, and Mrs. J. Arthur DeWitt, of Hoyes.
For more than seventy-five years Mr. Friend was allied with the
Methodist Episcopal church, having become a member of the church
in early boyhood. When quite a young man he left his home at
Sang Run and went to Altamont, Garrett county, where he took up
the trade of shoemaking. He enlisted in the Union Army on August
12th, 1862, and served until the close of hostilities between the
States. He was attached tot he Army of the Potomac, Co. D, Third
Maryland Regiment. After being discharged from the service of
his country he returned to Altamont and again took up his trade.
where he remained a few years, going to a point near Hoyes, in or
about the year 1870, where he started ?preaching.......(can't
read, page torn and taped)
On Feb. 7, 1871, he received his license as an
exhorter in the M. E. Church from the Rev. E. C. Woodruff, and in
August of the same year was licensed as a local preacher at
Blooming Rose, Md., by Rev. J. W. Webb, then presiding elder of
this section. He was ordained deacon by Bishop E. R. Ames at
Grafton, W. Va., March 25th, 1877, and was ordained as an elder
by Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu at Morgantown, W. Va., September
26th, 1886. He served a number of charges in the West Virginia
Conference as a regular minister and was retired in 1904 but
served...........(text missing.)
Mr. Friend was a member of the first Board of County
Commissioners in Garrett County, having been elected in 1873, at
the time the county was created, along with Elisha Umbel and
George W. Blocher, the latter now nearing the age of one hundred
years, and being the sole survivor.
Mrs. Friend died on February 14, 1914, and the same year Mr.
Friend, with his daughter, Miss Sudie Friend, moved to Mountain
Lake Park where he resided until his death.
During his illness of four years Mr. Friend was devotedly cared
for and nursed by his daughter. Her devotion to his well-being
and anticipation of his desires and willingness on her part to
comply with his every wish was beautiful to see and some time,
somewhere, she will surely receive her reward.
Mr. Friend lived a long and useful life and will be greatly
missed, but he left a goodly heritage; his passing is regretted;
his influence during his lifetime will live on and bear much
fruit.
(dated Feb. 11, 1926)
After an Illness of Four Years at His Home In Mountain Lake Park.
Rev. Henry E. Friend, died at his home in Mountain Lake Park,
Friday, February 5th, 1926, at 10:00 o'clock a.m. after an
illness of four years, the greater portion of which time he was
bedfast. The cause of his death was arteries sclerosis. He was a
patient suffer through it all.
Mr. Friend was born at Sang Run, Garrett County, December 31st,
1835 and was the son of Israel and Dorcas Willison Friend,
pioneers of Garrett county. On December 27th, 1860, he was
married to Sarah E. Blackburn at Altamont, Md., by the Rev.
Benjamin Stickley. To this union fourteen children were born,
ten of whom survive: L. E., of Morgantown, W. Va.; G. B. M., and
W. S., of near Oakland; Register of Wills E. E. Friend, of
Mountain Lake Park; Ray C., Richwood, W. Va.; Charles W., of New
York City; Clifford H., of Moscow, Idaho; James W., of
Friendsville, Md.; Miss Sudie, a daughter, who resided at home
with her father, and Mrs. J. Arthur DeWitt, of Hoyes.
For more than seventy-five years Mr. Friend was allied with the
Methodist Episcopal church, having become a member of the church
in early boyhood. When quite a young man he left his home at
Sang Run and went to Altamont, Garrett county, where he took up
the trade of shoemaking. He enlisted in the Union Army on August
12th, 1862, and served until the close of hostilities between the
States. He was attached tot he Army of the Potomac, Co. D, Third
Maryland Regiment. After being discharged from the service of
his country he returned to Altamont and again took up his trade.
where he remained a few years, going to a point near Hoyes, in or
about the year 1870, where he started ?preaching.......(can't
read, page torn and taped)
On Feb. 7, 1871, he received his license as an
exhorter in the M. E. Church from the Rev. E. C. Woodruff, and in
August of the same year was licensed as a local preacher at
Blooming Rose, Md., by Rev. J. W. Webb, then presiding elder of
this section. He was ordained deacon by Bishop E. R. Ames at
Grafton, W. Va., March 25th, 1877, and was ordained as an elder
by Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu at Morgantown, W. Va., September
26th, 1886. He served a number of charges in the West Virginia
Conference as a regular minister and was retired in 1904 but
served...........(text missing.)
Mr. Friend was a member of the first Board of County
Commissioners in Garrett County, having been elected in 1873, at
the time the county was created, along with Elisha Umbel and
George W. Blocher, the latter now nearing the age of one hundred
years, and being the sole survivor.
Mrs. Friend died on February 14, 1914, and the same year Mr.
Friend, with his daughter, Miss Sudie Friend, moved to Mountain
Lake Park where he resided until his death.
During his illness of four years Mr. Friend was devotedly cared
for and nursed by his daughter. Her devotion to his well-being
and anticipation of his desires and willingness on her part to
comply with his every wish was beautiful to see and some time,
somewhere, she will surely receive her reward.
Mr. Friend lived a long and useful life and will be greatly
missed, but he left a goodly heritage; his passing is regretted;
his influence during his lifetime will live on and bear much
fruit.
(dated Feb. 11, 1926)