The following from a recent number of the Liberty, Ind., Herald which was sent us without date will be of interest to the many friends this good old man while spending several winters here in by gone days:
The funeral of [Christopher Collins] Beeler took place from the residence in East Seminary street where at 8 o’clock Saturday morning there assembled a large number of the friends of the departed to pay a last tribute to one they had known and respected in his life. Rev. W. B. Farmer conducted a service of prayer and the Methodist choir sang two appropriate hymns. The funeral cortege was then formed and proceded to Elkhorn cemetery, where the funeral services were concluded. Mr. Farmer preaching a short but very appropriate discourse, and paid deserved tribute to the deceased. The memoir written by C. W. Stivers was ready by Mr. Farmer, and the same published elsewhere in this issue of the Herald. A concourse of old friends and neighbors were at the cemetery chapel to attend the funeral. The mortal remains of the departed were laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery where he had so often in life stood at the bier of loved ones and companions of his youth and early manhood.
His son, Clark Beeler, of Freemont, Mich., was here to attend his father’s funeral, but on account of severe illness, Allen Beeler, who has so devotedly looked after his father’s welfare, was not able to go to the cemetery.
[Contributed by Michael Strickland]