Shoop, John d 1864

DIED--At Mahoning Bend, July 23d, with diptheria, JOHN, youngest son of Michael and Julia A. Shoop, of Springdale, Pa., aged 15 years, 8 months, and 21 days.

This is the second time, within one year, that death has visited this family. Our Johnnie was taken sick on the way to Oil City. Medical aid was procured at Emlenton, and all that a kind brother and father could do was done. They turned homeward, but were yet forty miles distant, when his spirit took its flight. He was of a kind, generous, and forgiving disposition, and a child of the covenant. Let us not sorrow as those who have no hope.

"That once loved form, now cold and dead.
Each mournful thought employs;
We weep our earthly comforts fled,
And withered all our joys." ---C. S.

Presbyterian Banner, Pittsburgh, PA 10 Aug 1864