Baltimore County MD Archives Obituaries.....Maryland Journal, 06 Sep 1890 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Green Kerr mmkerr@wideopenwest.com ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ Maryland Journal September 6, 1890 PHIPPS, CHARLES N. – On August 18th, 1890, at Harriman, Tennessee, CHARLES N. PHIPPS, aged 29 years, beloved husband of Cora Burd Phipps, (nee Ruby,) and eldest son of James Phipps, of Towson, Md. [Shippensburg and Chambersburg papers please copy.] SAFELY HOME. I am Home in Heaven, dear ones; Oh, so happy, and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty In this everlasting light. All the pain and grief are over; Every restless tossing passed; I am now at peace forever, Safely Home in Heaven at last! Did you wonder I so calmly Trod the valley of the shade? Ah! But Jesus’ love illum’d Every dark and fearful glade. And He came Himself to meet me In that way so hard to tread; And with Jesus’ arm to lean on, Could I have one doubt or dread? Then you must not grieve so sorely, For I love you dearly still; Try to look beyond earth’t shadows, Pray to trust our Father’s will. There is work still waiting for you, So you must not idly stand; Do it now, while life remaineth,- You shall rest in Jesus’ land. When that work is all completed He will gently call you home: Oh, the rapture of that meeting! Oh, the joy to see you come! C – TO B- KRASTEL, JOSEPH - At St. Joseph’s. Baltimore county, on August 28th, 1890, JOSEPH KRASTEL, in the 76th year of his age. On Thursday, 28th ult., MR. JOSEPH KRASTEL, in the 76th year of his age, died at his home at St. Joseph’s on the Bel Air Road. The deceased was a good citizen, a kind father, and had a large circle of friends. His funeral took place on Monday, 1st inst. He was a native of Germany, but for the last 53 years had resided in Baltimore county. The services were held at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, of which he was the founder. His funeral was conducted by Rev. Mr. Frederick, and was largely attended. He leaves seven children, several grandchildren and one great-grandchild. O’MALLY, BRIDGET - Suddenly, at Elk Ridge Landing, on Sunday, August 31, 1890, BRIDGET, beloved wife of Patrick O’Mally. JOHNSON, MARY ELIZABETH – Another Centenarian Gone. – MRS. MARY ELIZABETH JOHNSON, aged 101 years, died of old age and general decay of the system at her home, 2040 South Charles street, Baltimore, on the 2d inst. BILLINGSLEY, MARY J. – Mrs. MARY J. BILLINGSLEY, who lived near here for many years, died in Baltimore on the 27th ult. At her son’s residence, Dr. Martin Billingsley, aged 69 years. She was buried on Monday following at Bethel, Rev. Mr. Stull officiating. The pall-bearers were Josiah Carlin, J. G. Luckey, R. N. Rampley, James F. Beaty, Wm. Hope and Eli Turner. Edward Kurtz was the undertaker. McCULLOUGH, BABY – Mr. Wm. McCullough buried his baby on the 29th ult. RICHIE, ROBERT – Stewartstown has lost one of their best men in the death of Mr. Robert Richie. His funeral took place last week. DILWORTH, RANDOLPH – On Saturday last, 30th ult., RANDOLPH DILWORTH, a young man, a resident of Kingsville, 11th District, died from the effects of injuries received on Monday, 25th ult., by being thrown from a horse while practicing for Debaugh’s tournament, which took place Wednesday, 27th ult., on the Harford Road. He was not apparently badly hurt at the time, although he complained of pains in his back, and took part, though with difficulty, in the tournament. On Thursday he became ill, and Dr. Jas. F. H. Gorsuch was summoned. The physician found the spine injured and the young man’s condition very serious. Blood poison had set in and death resulted. LEE, MRS. THOMAS J. - Mrs. Thomas J. Lee, wife of Col. Thomas J. Lee, of the United States Army, died at the old family Nisbit homestead, 12 miles on the York Turnpike, Baltimore county, on the night of the 3d inst. She was a lady of great personal beauty and attractiveness and retained both until the day of her death. Her mind was well stored and she charmed all who enjoyed her acquaintance. She was a daughter of the late Judge Alexander Nisbit, a Judge of the Courts of Baltimore city many years since. Her funeral will take place to-day (Saturday, 6th,) at 11.30 from the homestead. Interment at Greenmount. Mrs. Lee leaves a husband and one son, Mr. Frank Lee, and one daughter, Miss Susie Lee, and several grandchildren. BETTELHEIM, REV. DR. AARON S. - In the death of the Rev. Dr. Aaron S. Bettelheim, Rabbi of the First Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, not only have his family, and his immediate friends, sustained an irreparable loss, but our who community will suffer a loss which is simply incalculable. For while the Doctor was the honored and beloved center of a large home-circle, his sympathies were not confined there, but his tender heart and kindly hand went out in all directions, to all humanity; and he exerted a wide influence in every philanthropic movement that came within the reach of his untiring energies. A man of sound learning and deep piety, he was yet very simple in his tastes; and he was withal so pleasant in his manners, and so bright and cheery in his ways that he won the hearts of little children as well as those of all other persons with whom he came in contact. Dr. Bettelheim came to this country soon after our civil war, and immediately accepted the spirit, and identified himself with the institutions, of the land of freedom, whose praises he never ceased to sound in either his public or private teachings. Upon his first landing in New York he purchased a copy of the Tribune, and he thereafter set himself to the study of our language through our newspapers, and the every-day literature of our people. He even discarded the use of their native German in his own household, so that his family might become Americanized as speedily as possible. Indeed, next to his religion the Doctor valued his American citizenship; so that it seems very fitting for him to have been lowered to rest in the depths of the ocean with the folds of our flag wrapped about him. The Doctor died on the steamer that was bringing him back from a visit to his native land, with no relative beside him in his last hours but a nephew, a boy, whom, with his characteristic kindness of heart, he was bringing home with him to educate. But it is also characteristic of the man that the two Catholic priests who were on board with him were acquaintances that he had made on the ship going out, and that the acquaintance had proved so pleasant to all of them that the three had agreed up returning together. It is an evidence, too, of the Doctor’s broad-minded and liberal religious spirit that when the priests were at his bedside on the last day that he retained consciousness, the Doctor turned to them and said: “Brothers, won’t you pray for me?” And then and there they knelt beside him, and offered up their Christian prayers for as devout a soul as ever called upon the God of Abraham, his great and pious ancestor. Dr. Bettelheim was a warm friend of Cardinal Gibbons, whom he had learned to know and love when both of them lived in Richmond. But the Doctor’s sympathies were not one-sided; for he would preach, when requested, in a Methodist chapel; and he would assist in the exercises of a Johns Hopkins Commencement; or conduct religious services in the Penitentiary; or take part in the work of Orphan Asylums and Hospitals. In fact, there was no humane cause to which he did not willing accord the impetus of his strong character; and Baltimore can very ill afford to lose a citizen so usefully energetic. The grandfather of Dr. Bettelheim was a nobleman, who had been decorated for his talents, at a time when European sovereigns seldom accorded such recognition to members of the Hebrew race, however great their merit. The Doctor seldom let this circumstance be known, however, and it was only through the evidence of his naturalization papers, when he came to be registered here, that it happened to be discovered. The Doctor was too modest and too Democratic to boast of the merits of his ancestors. And besides, he had talents enough of his own to render reflected honors unnecessary. The Doctor has done a great deal of literary work, and he had for years been engaged upon a learned Biblical production, which he had nearly completed; and which his son-in- law, the eminent Dr. Kohut, of New York, will publish as soon as practicable, so that the world may have the benefit of it. In the four years of his service in Baltimore D. Bettelheim had built up his congregation and his schools in a marvelous manner; and the work has been begun upon a magnificent new Temple in which he was to have officiated. It will now prove, however, the most appropriate monument which could be erected to him by his bereaved people. I.McC. W. Baltimore, September 3d, 1890 This file is located at http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/baltimore/obits/mj18900906.txt