McBRIDE, J. Rufus
Date of death: 28 Nov 1891 – Straut, Pike County, Illinois
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 25, 1891,
Volume XXXII Number 27, page 4 column 2
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OBITUARY.
To pay a tribute of respect to the memory of our loved and lost is always a painful pleasure, yet as God in his infinite wisdom has called one of our own, we would speak a few words sacred to the memory of Rufus McBride, who departed this life Nov. 29, 1891, at the home of an uncle near Stroud [sic Straut], Ill., after an illness of five weeks of typhoid fever. He was buried Nov. 30th, at Green Pond church by the Masonic Lodge to which order he belonged. He was born in North Carolina in 1861, and moved to Johnson county, Ind., with relatives in 1868, where he lived until the spring of 1885, when he went to Illinois. He was loved and respected by all who knew him, and always kind and obedient and ever ready to lend a helping hand. All medical aid was rendered that was in the power of man but of no avail for God had called him. Rufus, you have gone and left us, left a vacancy that can never be filled. Aching hearts cry out for your presence but, alas! “For the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still.”
We speak of the loved and lost,
Who have gone to the land above,
And the mists of the river of death are crossed
By the rainbow of their love.
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Link to J. Rufus McBride’s grave
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry