Charles Nathanel Sprague.

Charles N. Sprague, the only son and youngest child of Editor C. B. Sprague of The Blair Republican, died at the home of his parents in this city at 6 o’clock last Tuesday morning in the 21st year of his age, after an illness of several months from consumption.

No more promising young life has more untimely closed than this. In the very spring time of his youth, with none but tender, happy hopes for the future, he closed iris eyes and is gone. His life had been a pleasing poem to himself, his parents and his friends. The smile lighting ever his face was the reflex of the truth and goodness of his manly heart. From childhood he moved among friends of this city who loved him, while his sunny presence was the charm of every circle that he graced.

Less than a year of sickness pressed the gentle brow when the bitter chalice was placed to his lips and he was borne away. To those who had lived in the warmth of the absent one’s friendship the cruel tidings of his death came with bewildering force and beggar the mind that would, in loving tenderness, speak of his gentle life. To those who loved him he was an ever-present joy, and ?percading vision of peace and gladness. Tender, confiding and true his simple generous nature drew congenial spirits to him and those who care within the sanctuary of his attached friendship will tenderly mourn the young life now closed on earth forever.

Yesterday tender hands gently bore all that remained of this loved one to the home of the dead, and with thoughts of the soft air of springtime kissing the opening flowers, so typical of the bright young life that lasted but a day, they laid him down to the last dreamless sleep of all.

The funeral at the home was attended by a large number of friends and neighbors of the parents of the deceased. The flowers were unusually profuse and the designs elaborate and of rare beauty. From the home a long line of carriages containing sympathizing friends of the family followed the remains to the Blair Cemetery where they were consigned to their final resting place.

The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the grief-stricken family in this their hour of great sorrow over the loss of a son and brother whose example in life the generation growing up around would do well to emulate one whose beautiful traits of character are depicted by everyone who knew him.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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