SOURCE: McArthur Democratic Enquirer Newspaper Dated October 2, 1929 "Sunday, September 15, 1929 records the passing of Timothy Cassill whose life span of three score and fifteen years were spent in the Sheldon community which was earlier known as the Union and Shiloh church communities. He was born MArch 25, 1854 on the old Old Cassill Homestead five miles northwest of Hamden and was translated to fields of light above on Sunday evening September 15, 1929 aged 75 years, 6 months and 2 days. He was one of a family of eight children, six of whom were born to Anthony Cassill and Mary Ratcliff Cassill, and two by a later marriage to Anthony Cassill and Mary Martindill Cassill, only of one which, Nettie A Cassill, survives him, Abraham an older brother having recently died in Chicago and more recently the tragic death of a younger sister Eliza Cassill Traphagan who lost her life in a railroad crossing accident at Cardington Ohio along with her daughter Minnire ahd her husband H. M. Traphagan, His passing removes from the neigborhood the last son of the rugged pioneers who settled in Richland Township many years before Vinton County was made the 87th county of our state government. Through the three quarters of a century which he lived in this community his life and character have been so clean and unsullied that his Christian influence and splendid citizenship will stand as a monument in the minds and hearts of those who knew him best and especially his children and the young folks of the community who loved, admired, and emulated his many noble and manly traits of character and his devotion to the home, the school and the church of his choice. On August 1st 1878, he united with the Disciples of Christ worshiping at Union under the ministry of Alfred Ellmore and so long as his health permitted he was not only a faithful member of the congregation but accepted the responsibility as one of the Elders of the church and was looked upon as one of the pillars of this rural congregation. One of his greatest joys of his untiring Christian service was the love for music which coupled with his native ability and the desire to promote the musical talent of the community made him the logical leader of good music in the church and Sunday school which accomplishment extended his acquaitaincees throughout the county and won for him many deserved compliments from all lovers of music. The song service of today is composed of three musical gems which appealed to his mortal ears but greater will be his joy in Heaven when the chorus of angel voices will welcome himto the throne of his Master where hosannas will be sung in honor of him who gave his life that we might live. In the biography of such a man his home life should not be overlooked. On January 13, 1876 he was married to Hannah Catherine Saedler who assumed the honor of his helpmeet for life and though weary and worn by the continuous toll and the added care of her noble husband she has borne her burden with a love and devotion that she deserves the highest commendation for her loyalty to him to whom she pledged herself to honor and obey over fifty years ago. To this sacred union were born four childrn all of whom survive their father; Thurman S. Cassill and Ewing F. Cassill all of Columbus, Mrs Anna Mae Heinlein of New Plymouth and Bryan Cassill fo Wellston, Ohio. He also leaves a sister Miss Nettie A Cassill at home on the old Cassill homestead in Richland township. In addition to these closest relatives he leaves a host of other relatives and a multitude of friends who join the family in sincere and hearfelt sympathy. His place in the community can never be filled; with an unwavering faith in his religion his place in the church must remain vacant; with his love of home and family his chair at the fireside will never be filled; with his love for music in his home, the church and Sunday School his leadership is forever gone; the latch string of his home was always out to the minister and evangelist; his life was ideal,, in that his life was devoted to his home and the service of others; his rugged faith and his devotion to duty prompted him to the performance of good deeds and to endure many hardships for the cause of his Master and the language of the apostle Paul to Timothy Cassill who could well have said the same things; " I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." Brother Cassill was also a poetry love as well as music and tucked away in his Bible , which was his daily companion was found this beautiful poem by Edgar A. Guest: Behind the Plan I reckon when the world we leave And cease to smile and cease to grieve, When each of us shall quit the strife, And drop the working tools of life, Somewhere, somehow, we'll come to find, Just what our Maker had in mind. Perhaps through clearer eyes than these, We'll read life's hidden mysteries, And learn the reason for our tears, _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com