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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: H. Lightner
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:07:46 -0400

Undated article; original source unknown. Extracted from the newspaper
article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison,
Missouri.



DR. HARRY L. LIGHTNER.



Passes Away Sunday Morning, Dec 31, 1899, at 7:30.



"There was little surprise, but great sorrow manifested among the people
of Madison, last Sunday morning, when the sad news was announced of the
death of Harry L. Lightner, who had been a sufferer for a long time past
with that terrible and incurable disease consumption.



Dr. Lightner was born on a farm a short distance west of town, Sept. 21,
1875, and died Dec. 31, 1899, aged 24 years, 3 months and 10 days.



Up to about five years ago, Dr. Lightner spent his life on the farm
where he was born, and was a robust, strong and healthy young man, but
the fire of ambition took him away from peaceful farm life, and he
embraced dentistry as his chosen profession.



After graduation at the Western Dental College at Kansas City, Dr.
Lightner opened an office here and met with splendid success among the
people who had known him from his infancy. Later he took in as a
partner, Dr. E.J. Dunaway, and left the Madison office in his care while
he went to Centralia for the practice of his profession. He stayed in
Centralia one year, and then returned to Madison, his health having
begun to fail him.



After a few months here, after his return from Centralia, he grew so ill
that it was determined best for him to change climate, and accordingly
he sold his business to his partner, Dr. Dunaway, and went to Durango,
Colorado, in the hope that the ravages of the disease, which had
fastened upon (him) would be checked and his (.rest of sentence
missing.) This change also (failed) to benefit him, nad just one month
before his death, he returned home, knowing that the end was not far
distant.



He had every attention possible and all was done for him that money
could procure or tenderest love suggest, but



There is a reaper whose name is Death,

And with his sickle keen,

He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,

And the flowers that grew between.



Aye, "the flowers that grow between!" This beloved son, affectionate
brother and high-minded companion, was stricken down in the midst of his
usefulness and fulfillment of his ambition.



Monday morning at 10:45 his remains were taken charge of by Madison
Lodge, No. 91, A.F. & A.M., of which he was a member and escorted to the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, where the funeral discourse was preached
by Rev. H.D. Maness, the Pastor, and the Masonic burial services held,
after which they were taken to the cemetery at Holliday and consigned to
the grave for long and peaceful rest.



Dr. Lightner was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and
Rev. Maness told of his Christian path through life, of his adherence to
Christian duties, of his genial worth and character and all felt that
while it was true that his life had been such as to secure a better life
hereafter, yet each heart could not but echo the "O, not yet!" that was
in the air. This feeling was intensified by the deep grief of his aged
and devoted mother, whose sorrow and affliction caused many an eye to
which tears are unknown, to moisten and heartfelt sympathy to go out to
the bereaved ones. Rest in peace."





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