Adams County OhArchives Obituaries.....McCann, Omar Marshall January 1, 1906
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the West Union, Ohio, Adams County, “People’s Defender” newspaper,  11 January 1906.

OBITUARY
     Omar Marshall McCann, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. McCann was born at 
Martin, Ky., May 27th, 1892, died January 1st, 1906.  While in infancy, was 
baptised by Rev. T. B. Stratton.  The family moved to Ohio in 1899.  While 
quite young Omar became interested in his soul’s salvation and at the age of 
eight years united with the M. E. church at Pleasant Bottom under the charge 
of Rev. Chas. Kelch.  All through life he manifested a deep interest in the 
work of the Sunday school.  His life was one of perfect trust in Christ.  When 
the end was near, he bade his parents good-bye and said:  “I am not afraid to 
die.  I am trusting in Jesus.”  Omar had superior talents for one so young, 
particularly his oratorical powers, many times leading some of his seniors in 
exhortations of faith and patience.  As a scholar, he was above average, 
bright and intelligent, a favorite among his schoolmates.  His relations and 
friends in whose memory Omar will never die, join in tears of sympathy for the 
bereaved family thus bereft of so rich a treasure and their own loss of a kind 
and loving friend.  The funeral occurred on Wednesday, January 3rd, at 10 a.m. 
at the home of the parents which was filled to overflowing with friends of the 
family.  Rev. J. M. Bennet pastor of the M.E. church, conducted the services.  
His life and death will help the cause of Christ and Omar, though dead, yet 
speaketh.
            “The midnight stars are beaming
                  Upon his silent grave,
             Where he is sleeping without dreaming,
                   The one we could not save.

              We know that he has found a home,
                    Above that never dies,
               And soon his voice will bid us come,
                    And meet him in the skies.”
                                               Margaret Ellis
                                               His Sunday School Teacher


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Extract source:  From the West Union, Ohio, Adams County, “People’s Defender” 
newspaper,  11 January 1906, Page 8, Col. 6 ( on microfilm roll # 19347 at the 
Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio.


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