"LIZZIE CHARLOTTE FICKLE
The largest funeral ever held at Farmer took place last Sunday afternoon when Mrs. Lizzie Charlotte Fickle, whose sad and sudden death shocked the whole community, was laid away in the beautiful and quiet cemetery about a mile from the town.
Mrs. Fickle was the daughter of Silas N. and Lilly I. Hulbert. She was born in Milford Twp., Defiance Co., March 16th, 1886, and passed from the scenes of earth July 7th, 1904. Up to the day before her death, she was in her usual good health. On Wednesday, without a moment's warning, she was seized with convulsions. Then followed blood poisoning with death the next day.
Mrs. Fickle was married Dec. 31st, 1903, to LeRoy Fickle and resided in Farmer Twp. until death called her to her reward. She leaves four brothers and three sisters, besides her father and mother. The community for miles around testified by their presence at the funeral to the esteem in which the deceased was held. The many flowers in the home and in the church bore silent witness to the true sympathy extended to both families by a sorrowing community.
The funeral services were held in the Union Chapel at Farmer, Rev. John Campbell of the Lost Creek Presbyterian Church preached the sermon, taking for his text, Rev. 7:17. "And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes." The music furnished by the choir was very appropriate and comforting."
John Everitt was born in Columbia county, Pa., Feb. 9, 1817; from there with his parents moved to Licking couny, Ohio when but six months old; from thence at an early age of two years, with his parents moved to Morrow county, Ohio, where he grew into manhood and where his parents resided until the time of their deaths.
During his boyhood and early manhood, he was employed with work incident to the times and the hewing out of the wilderness a home, never having had the advantages of an education in his early days. He had the privilege of only three months schooling during his boyhood, he however by close attention to books, and the literature of the times, became more than ordinarily familiar with the history and politics of the day.
On March 12, 1816, (*March 5, 1846) he was united in marriage with Martha McKinney by the Rev. Dodd, forming a contract sealed in love and with an affection that remained as warm and as pure to the end as when, buoyant with hope, life was a promise.
This union was blessed by seven children - G. D. Everitt who now resides at Toledo, Ohio, Melissa A. Cole who resides at Ithaca, Mich., John I. Everitt of Chicago, Ill. , Martha E. Faber of Mendota, Ill., Frank J. Everitt of Schuyler, Neb., M. B. Everitt of Payne, Ohio, and Clara B. Austed of Peoria, Ohio, these all being present at the burial except John I. who lay sick at his home in Chicago. Father Everitt having been the first to be called from the family circle, mother Everitt, his partner, sitting in the shadow of her great sorrow still languidly slowly travels toward the end of life's dark road.
Mr. Everitt left Pierceton and reached the farm upon which he resided at the time of his death, Augsut 16, 1856, and with the neighbors who lived near him, began the struggle that was to transform a wilderness into bloom and such a fine neighborhood; they deserve to be mentioned: the Clelands, the Hilberts, Forlows, Otises, Ridenours, Crarys, Reeders, Ensigns, Farmers, Coys and many other names synonymous with clean morality, lofty ideals, and pure motives. A lock or a key was useless and seldom used.
Father Everitt has gone to his reward on Tuesday morning, June 24th, upon arising in the morning, he complained of pain which suddenly developed alarming symptoms, and on June 26 (1902), after having suffered almost more than he could bear, he peacefully passed away. The road had been long and weary and he laid down to rest. On Sunday following - the day he had always loved best - all that was mortal of him was borne to the Lost Creek Presbyterian church where it had been his wont for more than forty years to worship, and where the Sunday previous, he had led the congregation there assembled in humble prayer for their preservation and their salvation - here the largest concourse of friends and neighbors had come to pay the last tribute, their respect to the deceased that had ever gathered together at this place on any similar occasion. After a few brief and touching remarks by his minister, the Rev. Dempster, he was borne by tender hands and laid in his last rest at the Farmer Cemetery."
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