Wood County OhArchives Obituaries.....Harper, Rev, Fielding L. January 22, 1866
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The Weekly Perrysburg Journal.  Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. FEb 2, 1866, p. 3.
Died.

	In Bowling Green, Ohio, Jan., 22, 1866, Rev. Fielding L. Harper, Pastor 
of Bowling Green Circuit, Central Ohio Conference, of the M.E. Church.

	[Communicated]

	The deceased has been in feeble health for several years past.  For a 
year previous to his appointment to Bowling Green he was unable to do regular 
work, but was engaged in business in Wauscon, Ohio.  In October last he removed 
to his charge, but the labor and care was too great for his state of health and 
he broke down under it, and was able to preach only a few times on his charge.  
It was generally supposed that he had consumption but his last physician 
pronounced it disease of the throat.  He suffered much the last few days of his 
life, was exceedingly anxious to recover - not that he was afraid to die, but 
that he might resume his labor among the kind people to whom he was sent to 
preach and win souls to Christ.  He died as Christian ministers die, with 
strong faith in God and a bright hope of the future. A few hours before his 
death the writer of this asked him what message he had to send to his 
ministerial brethren.  "Tell them," said the dying man of God, "that all is 
well."

	Though he died among strangers, with no relative near, he was treated 
with much kindness, both by the Church and by the fraternity of F. and A. 
Masons, of which he was a member.  He was buried in Bowling Green, among the 
last people to whom he preached.  The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. C.W. 
Ketcham, of Toledo, after which the Church Burial Service was read, and Masonic 
rites performed.

	Mr. Harper was about 35 years of age, a young man of amiable 
disposition, and more than an ordinary degree of talent.  He died in the prime 
of life, or e'er his sun had reached its zenith.  He leaves a wife and two 
children to mourn their irreperable loss.  They mourn not, however, as those 
who have no hope; for, though his sun went down at noon, it set in cloudless 
light.  He has only exchanged earth for Heaven - labor for reward.

	

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