Joseph Courtland Hormell, II

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• Name: Courtland Hormell
• Obituary: 18 Dec 1913; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 18 December 1913, p3

Notes:

Named for his father, who died in January before he was born, this kindly dispositioned, bright young lad was special to his mother. He left school to work for a local butcher, feeling the need of earning. Like his older brothers, he helped farm at home and for others. He enjoyed many friends and his family. during a heavy rain at the time of the Miami Valley Flood of 1913, while driving cattle, he contracted a severe chest cold, developing into tuberculosis. After many months of illness, he died at age 20 years. During his extended illness he was always hopeful and tried to make it easier for those who cared for him. [Source: Laura E. Rosnagle, "The John and Jane Fleming Hayner Genealogy", Cincinnati, Ohio : John & Jane Fleming Hayner Reunion, 1983 (Utica, Ky. : McDowell Publications, pg. 141]

Obituary:

Joseph Courtland Hormell.
June 22, 1893*December 4, 1913, 20 years, 5 months, 12 days. The volume closes.
Joseph Courtland Hormell is no more:
He was the youngest born of Joseph Courtland and Evaline Hayner Hormell. Here in this home of his birth he has lived his entire life.
A life brier it has been and unpretentious but useful and beneficient. His was a kingly disposition. He sought friendship rather than enmity and often said in speaking of the frailties of human kind, "Judge not, that ye be not judged."
He believed that by their fruits ye shall know them: and accepted the Golden Rule as his guide through life.
Educated in the Springboro Public Schools, he developed a taste for reading that has been a pleasure through life and a great comfort during his last sickness. Strong in his convictions of right and wrong, he fondly looked forward to the time when he should cast his first ballot in behalf of temperance.
He admired the true and the beautiful in nature and was tenderly solicitous of the beautiful flowers with which loving hearts decked his sick room.
Devotedly attached to home and kindred he would fain have remained to labor toward the support of the home and the comfort of the mother who has been so much to him.
He goes to join father and baby brother and leaves behind mother, five sisters, four brothers and friends.
During his weary months of waiting he always welcomed his friends and greeted them with kingly good cheer.
He was patient and hopeful and deeply appreciative of the loving kindness and tender ministrations of mother, sisters, and brothers.