Edgefield County ScArchives Obituaries.....Durisoe, Daniel Roper December 14, 1903
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The Edgefield Advertiser, December 16, 1903
A Former Editor and Proprietor of the ADVERTIZER Passes Away

One by one the old land-marks of Edgefield are passing away.  The last to 
abandon the temple not made with hands and to be ushered into eternity was Mr. 
D. R. Durisoe, who died from the effects of paralysis on Monday morning, 
having been striken nearly a week before and from which attack he never 
rallied.  His looks were whitered by the snows of many winters and his form 
was bent under the weight of 72 years, having lived two years beyond the time 
allotted to man.
While in the meridian of life Mr. Durisoe was repeatedly honored by being 
elected to positions of public trust.  When Gen. B. E. Nicholson died, Mr. 
Durisoe was appointed to fill the unexpired term as Clerk of Court and for 
several consecutive administrations he was elected as mayor of Edgefield.  
Some of the pretty avenues of trees that adorn our streets were planted under 
his direction and are monuments to his thoughtfulness and consideration for 
the public weal.  He has always been a strenuous advocate of those things that 
would beautify and improve the highways of Edgefield.
For many years Mr. Durisoe was editor and proprietor of the ADVERTISER, having 
succeeded his father.  He was an able writer and having a thorough knowledge 
of how the mechanical department should be conducted he achieved more than 
ordinary success in making of the ADVERTISER the foremost weekly in the 
state.  He had a special fondness for newspaper work, at the time of his death 
being the Edgefield correspondent of the Johnston Monitor.  The weekly letters 
of "R. D. R." to that paper will be greatly missed.
The deceased is survived by a devoted wife, two sisters, three brothers and an 
only child, Mrs. P. B. Day, of Trenton.  He will be greatly missed by his 
friends who saw him almost hourly as he went about from place to place holding 
pleasant converse with those whom he found companionable.
The burial remains were placed in their last resting place in our village 
cemetary on yesterday morning with Masonic honors, of which order he was 
almost a life long member.  His pastor Rev. C. E. Burts conducted the funeral.

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