Post by Pat (Friend) Thompson on Sept 16, 2012 14:02:27 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 arterial 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, (PHB) 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)
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, (PHB) 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)