Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Speakman, Caleb C. September 4, 1917
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At his in Chatham, yesterday Caleb Sepakman died at the age of 85 years. For a 
long time he had been occupied in feather renovating and mattress work and he 
enjoyed a wide reputation through the locality. He belonged to the Methodist 
Episcopal Church and was of excellent character.
     a daughter Lydia who is a nurse, has been for a long time with the family 
of the late Rev. Dwight L. Moody, of Mount Hermon Mass.

Speakman- In Chatham, on September 4,1917, Caleb C. Speakman in his 85th year. 
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services 
without further notice from the M. E. Church on Sarurday September 8th at 1 
o'clock Intermetn at Cochranville. Automobiles will meet 10:53 a.m. and 10:30 
train at Chatham.

Caleb. C. Speakman

a correspondent writes: On Saturday Septemer 8th one of the largest funerals 
ever to be held in Chatham or the surronding neighborhood was that of Caleb C. 
Speakman, who died at his home in that village on Tuesday, september 4, after 
an illness of only two days from heart troubles, in the 85th year of his age. 
Several years ago he suffered a like attack from which he apparently recovered 
and was able to resume his usual vocation, therefor his death was a great 
shock to the community, many friends not knowing of his illness until being 
informed of his death.
     Mr. Speakman was born at the old Speakman homestead, about one mile north 
of Chatham, on December 23d,1832 and practically all his long and useful life 
was spent in that neighborhood, and altough he lived far beyond the three 
score and ten he never seemed togrow old, and as many expressed it, he was 
eighty five years young. He was ever of  a bright and cheerful disposition, 
always ready to lend a hand or perform a kindly deed, being very active, the 
charm of youth seemed to cling to his personality to the last. He was strictly 
of temperate habits and an ardent supporter of the Prohibition movement , and 
for over a period of seventy years was a consistent member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and during that time he held various offices in the church 
and Sunday School. As Sunday School Superintendent for many years he greatly 
endeared himself to all and particularly to the chlidren, he being very fond 
of them and they in turned loved him dearly.
     It was the writer`s good fortune to have known him long and well, and we 
only knew him to esteem him more highly as the years passed by. He was a 
devoted husband and a kind and indulgent father, and to his friends the soul 
of friendship. But the greatest of all, he was a man. He belived  that the man 
who scatters flowers in the pathway of his fellow men, who lets into the dark 
places of life the sunshine of human sympathy and human happiness, is 
following in the footsteps of his Master, and so while we mourn the loss of 
our dead we rejoice that there is no cloud so dark that there is no light 
behind it: no sorrow so poginant that there is not a balm for the wound  it 
inflicts. "Well done, good and faithful servant: enter thou into the joy of 
thy Lord."
     He is survived by his with Letitia A. Speakman, and one daughter Miss 
Lydia R.,  nurse at Mt Hermon Mass. his pastor Rev. Thomas R. Crooks, assisted 
by two former pastors Rev. Henry G. Main, of Strasburg, Rev. Thomas S. Minker, 
of New London conducted very impressive services in the Chatham Methodist 
Church, which was  crowded to the doors with relatives and friends that had 
gathered, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, to pay their last respects 
to the memory of the venerable mand. Interment was made in the cemetery at 
Cochranville.

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