Re: Omer and Lucinda Tousey of DearbornCo IN
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Re: Omer and Lucinda Tousey of DearbornCo IN
8/12/00
Omer TOUSEY (Dearborn Co OBIT)
Democratic Register Lawrenceburg - 2 Apr 1868
Common Sorrow Over the Death of Omer Tousey. Mo such gloom of wide-spread grief has ever been experienced in this county as last Saturday, by the loss of one of her citizens Omer Tousey departed this life March 28th, 1868, at his residence in this city, in his 68th year. The funeral took place on last Tuesday. He was buried at the family burying ground in Kentucky, opposite this city. Never have we had occasion for such common an profound sorrow. It is seldom in history that the loss of one man is so great a calamity in the immediate surroundings of the home of his childhood and future life. When Dr. Ezra Ferris, Stephen Ludlow, George Pl Buell, George H. Dunn, George B. Sheldon, Dr. Brower, William V. Cheek and other estimable citizens died, deep sorrow seemed to drape the faces of all who knew them, for they were a long time among us, and their names and acts will live to their memories ages after the writer of this article, and those who have known them and their histories, have passed away.
One week previous to his death, the news was wide-spread that Omer Tousey was stricken down and near unto death. The next day (Sabbath) this intelligence was strengthened by a vacant seat in the Methodist Episcopal Church%2 they are engraved within the tablet of the hearts of all the needy and worthy of our city or county, who have laid their wants open to his inspection. True, unselfish acts of kindness, bestowed by him and his good lady during many long, dreary winter to suffering humanity, can never be forgotten. It is too soon now for those to appreciate his worth. Envy, in its hateful forms, is always blind, and thus greatness in such men as the deceased is not seen, and if seen, sneered at, or if spoken of, diverted into selfishness. There are such men among us. No community but have such beings to contend with. They are easily detected, for Cain's brand is upon them.
Omer Tousey, like every other great man, was not faultless in the eyes of the world; but if faults he had, they were so entirely hidden by christian virtues that they rested in obscurity. His parentage was of the best families of our country, and the lineage of his companion, to whom in early life he was united, was equal; and he left no family but her to weep over his demise. His only brother, Mr. George Tousey, and younger than the deceased, resides at Indianapolis, was present at the time of his death. Mr. Tousey's native talent was never abused. From his infancy he was a close calculator and devoted to his studies. His opportunities for education, like all others of the pioneer families, were limited. His parents were the first settlers ond benevolent nature, seemed opportune; hand in hand they have gone all along their marriage life until death, the destroyer of all earthly peace, has separated them. -----Omer Tousey was in his sixty eighth year when he died. A few of our notables, Judge Isaac Dunn in his 86th year, Jesse Hunt in his 84th year, John Callahan in his 70th year, we remember him distinctly for the last half century, and probably there are not left within the limits of our city fifty others who have know him fifty years. It is solemn to think there are so few of us left to do honor to him who was once so bright and worthy an ornament among us. Fifty years once seemed a long and weary pilgrim age for us.-----