MEDINA COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: THAYER, Smauel Milton (1905) ******************************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ******************************************************************************* File contributed to the USGENWEB Archives by: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003643 August 27, 1999 ******************************************************************************** Medina Co. Oh Obituaries A new message, "Thayer, Samuel M. (full obit)," was posted by Teri Cleaveland on Wed, 25 Aug 1999 Surname: THAYER, CLARK --- NAME: Teri Cleaveland EMAIL: pastor751@greenapple.com DATE: Aug 25 1999 URL: http:// QRYTEXT: Medina County Gazette page 8 (Medina Ohio) Mar 3, 1905 Samuel Milton Thayer Samuel Milton Thayer was born Feb. 21, 1823 at Lebanon N. Y.; died Feb. 8, 1905, at his home near Medina. The deceased was in many respects a remarkable man. He and his good wife exercised a genial and generous hospitality, going together to visit the sick and care for the afflicted and needy ones in the community. They were lovers of good literature, taking the current magazines and papers of the day. Mr. Thayer often read aloud extracts from his favorite plays of Shakespeare during the long winter evenings on the farm. A great many young people, old now, owe their success in life to fostering care of this man, now resting after his long journey over life's weary ways. He was especially fond of the woods and fields, and several years ago amused himself by setting out a good many young trees, notably locusts, saying: "They will make posts for the boy when I am gone." His later years have been clouded by great mental and physical suffering, being a very great care most of the time. Occasionally the cloud hanging over him would lift a little, disclosing his real self. He held at different times, various offices of public trust, to which he was wont to allude with satisfaction, saying "I tried to do right." He was also a school master of the old type for a number of years. A few weeks before his death, he read aloud to us, without spectacles, while we held the ancient calf-bound Bible that was his mother's, the first chapter of the Gospel according to Saint Mark, beginning "now as He walked by the Sea of Galilee," reading on in his feeble old voice to the end of the chapter. At the last, his mind cleared up, and he spoke intelligently to those about him, saying, when urged to sleep "If I do, it will be my last sleep." He married Antoinette Clark of Medina, March 22, 1848, by the Rev. G. S. Davis. She, with his three children, Clark, William and a little girl. Cornelia, who passed away in early youth, have preceded him to that upper and better country where we trust they are now a happy and reunited family, never again to be separated. His grandson, James Russell Thayer, remains the sole representative of the family. . This is an automatically-generated notice. ************OH-FOOTSTEPS MAILING LIST**************************************