CLODFELTER, John P - 1898
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 25 November 1898
John P. Clodfelter was born in Jackson Township, Fountain County, Oct. 30, 1871, and died in Hudspeth, Ark., Nov. 15, 1898, of swamp fever, aged 27 years and 15 days.
He was the son of Felix and Ellen Livengood Clodfelter. He made the noble confession of his faith in Christ under the ministration of Rev. Jackman and has since lived a noble Christian life.
In 1895 he went to Arkansas, where he was bookkeeper for a lumber firm at Hudspeth. It was his intention to visit his home Christmas and at the first of the year enter school at Lafayette and aspire to something higher. He was an apt scholar and acquired attainments beyond the ordinary, having graduated from the common school of Jackson Township with honors. His sickness was of but short duration, he having been taken with chills on Sunday and died Tuesday afternoon. His graduating class acted as pall bearers. They were: John W. Shular, Albert McElwee, Charley Wert, Lee Philpot, Lon Krout, Lige Hallett, George Bowman and Sim Fine.
One by one the sickle of time clips the flowers of life, some in bud, some in full bloom, and some withered by age. This was a blooming flower that was taken. Death has again taken from a happy family a jewel of the highest price, an idolized son, a precious brother, and a loving friend.
His sweet life faded away as quietly and with the grandeur of a glorious sunset, grand because of its assurance of rising again, for those that die in the Lord shall live again. Dear mother, grieve not. Let God’s love seal and soothe your wounded heart and the consolation of a grand reunion wipe away your tears. The span is short between now and eternity, when the broken links will be joined with golden bands of happiness. Till then, dear cousin, farewell.
The funeral services were conducted at the Lutheran Church on Saturday, Nov. 19, by Rev. Jackman followed by a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends, after which the remains were laid to rest in the Lutheran Cemetery to await the resurrection morn.
He leaves a father, mother, three sisters, one brother and an aged grandfather besides a host of relative and friends to mourn his loss. Young Clodfelter was a nephew of Thomas R. Livengood of this city.