From Florida -- A cloud of sorrow has come over our community, the memory of which will not soon pass away. On Thursday, Oct. 17th, 1878, we were startled with surprise and grief by the announcement of the sudden death of our esteemed friend, Martin Lowry. He was born in Holmes county, O., July 10, 1846; came to this county in the spring of 1848; was married to Hannah Stout, Feb. 25th, 1868; died Oct. 17th, 1878, aged 32 years, 3 months and 7 days, leaving a widow and four children, also three step-children to mourn the departed. Sister Lowry with her husband stood a mourner at the grave of a little daughter, that had passed away about April 7, of the present year, and she now mourns the departure of a husband; and, while we deeply sympathize with his bereaved family and relations, we feel that our loss is his infinite gain, and we trust that the community will recognize in the funeral text, delivered by Rev. W. O. Dennis, pastor of the U. B. Church, from Hebrew, 9th chapter, 27th verse, "And as it is appointed unto men to die, but after this the judgment." At the close of his address, Rev. Cammann made some appropriate remarks, after which the funerla procession took place to convey his remains to the cemetery on the Brey farm, and was laid beside his daughter.
He was a man who desired to do right as he saw it from a standpoint in life. He was a man who bore political defeat or success with a patient indifference, but worked for the right, standing by the Union in its hour of peril, giving himself to bear arms in defense of the stars and stripes and aiding in kind words and deeds. Religiously he was not a member of any church, but believing in an all wise and just creator. Believing that love would do more to save mankind than fear, he died as he lived, fearing naught in the future in his last illness, which was of but a few days, but of intense suffering and constant pain; he was attended by the best medical faculty and numberless friends and relatives who made his hour of suffering as pleasant as possible. He tried to have all cheerful around him, and after disease had taken such a hard hold of him he never spoke of it to his friends or attendants but died as he had lived without a murmur or complaint, leaving a family, as above stated, with many friends to feel a deep love, which time will alone efface. So rests all that remains of a kind parent, a faithful friend and a good citizen. Peace to his [smudged].