Wood County OhArchives Obituaries.....Wales, Edward P. March 31, 1864
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The Weekly Perrysburg Journal.  Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. Mar 16, 1864, p. 3.
DIED.

	In Oregon, Wood County, March 31, 1864, Edward P. Wales, of Congestion 
of the lungs, aged 27 years, 8 months, and 16 days, leaving his parents, four 
brothers, two sisters, a wife, and two small children, and a large circle of 
friends and neighbors, that deeply mourn his early exit from their midst.  
Brother Wales sought the Saviour and experienced the pardoning love of God, and 
united with the M.E. Church some seven years since, during which time he has 
been a most worthy and faithful member.  He has served the Church as Class 
Leader and steward, almost ever since his full connection in the Church, and 
for some four years as a local preacher.  As a Sabbath School Superintendent he 
was most efficient and successful in promoting the cause of his Divine Master.  
His good instruction and upright example, his amiable disposition and untiring 
efforts to do good, made him a welcome guest in the home circle, as well as in 
the great Congregation.  All the various duties and responsibilities which the 
Church imposed upon him were discharged with such a zeal and alacrity that it 
could not fail to convince those around him that it was the upspringings of a 
pure, warm heart, that was filled with love to God and mankind.  But the Lord 
has taken him away in the midst of a useful life.  Although the Church now 
mourns the loss of one of its most efficient and faithful members, the Sabbath 
School a beloved superintendent, the parents an affectionate, dutiful son, the 
wife a kind and indulgent husband, the little ones the loss of a fond and 
tender father, and the community around a kind and obliging friend - yet great 
as our loss may be, our loss is his infinite gain.  HE is safely lauded on the 
blissful plains of immortality.  As he said in his last hours, he wanted to go 
to heaven to join the saints in light.  In all his rational moments his 
confidence was strong in the Lord, and he often expressed a desire to depart 
and be with Christ - and without a struggle he closed his eyes on earth, to 
open them in heaven.  Let us follow the example of our brother as he followed 
the Saviour:

	"Dear is the spot where Christians sleep,

	And sweet the strains their spirits pout,

	Oh, why should we in anguish weep? -

	They are not lost, but gone before.



	"To Zion's peaceful courts above,

	In faith triumphant may we soar -

	Embracing, in the arms of love,

	The friends not lost, but gone before" E.m.G.

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