Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....McGlothlan, Martin October 8, 1894
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Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., Wednesday,   October 17, 1894   
Page 5,  Death Of An Honored Citizen In, The Death of Mr. Martin McGlothlan

     Breckinridge County loses one of her oldest and most honored citizens.  
His death occurred at his home in Irvington on Tuesday, October 8, 1894.
     It was not at all unexpected to his friends and family, for he had been 
for several weeks an intense sufferer from nervous prostration, and we have 
known that the end must come soon.
     His remains were interred in the cemetery of the Walnut Grove Baptist 
Church, where he first joined the church 35 years ago.  He afterwards moved 
his membership to Sandy Hill, and at the time of his death, was a faithful 
member of the Baptist Church at Irvington.  His funeral was preached from a 
text selected by himself a long time ago.  (Rom. 8, 18).  He was also a member 
of the Ancient Order of Masons by which order he was highly honored and 
respected, as was shown by the way they gathered around his grave and paid 
their last tribute to his memory.
     Brother McGlothlan was born in Madison County, Ky., December 26, 1816.  
He moved to Breckinridge County when he was 11 years of age, where he has 
lived a long, straight forward, conscientious, useful life.  He was neither 
lawyer nor statesman, but was simply one of those who go to make up the bone 
and sinew of a nation.  As a farmer, he was prosperous and progressive; as a 
merchant, he was enterprising and successful; as a neighbor, kind-hearted and 
generous; as a Christian gentleman, faithful to the end.
     He was the last one from a large family of 11 children.  Like a lonely 
oak of the forest, when all its comrades have fallen and gone, he has stood 
alone for a number of years.  And yet he was not alone.  For as our own 
Washington Irving has so beautifully expressed it, "As the vine, which has 
long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into 
sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round 
it with its caressing tendrils, and bring up its shattered bows: so is it 
beautifully ordered by providence, that woman, who is the more dependent and 
ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when 
smitten with sudden calamity; winding herself into the rugged recess of his 
nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken 
heart".  Thus the woman, (Letitia Adkisson), who 53 years ago trained her 
young self against the strength of his manhood, had so entwined herself about 
his life as to become his strongest support when the storm of conflict and 
suffering came upon him.
     They had 10 children born to them, 5 of whom have preceded him to the 
promise land, and 5 are still living.  All the surviving ones were with him 
during his last illness, and did all for him that earthly hands and hearts 
could do.
     Of course we miss him.  We miss him from the church circle.  But with a 
feeling that his sufferings have been exchanged for a far more exceeding and 
eternal weight of glory, and that therefore our loss is his eternal gain, we 
bow in humble submission to the will of Him who does all things well, and 
makes no mistakes.
Written by W. R. Cullom































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