SOURCE: Vinton County Newspaper The Vinton Recorder dated May 1, 1884 Obituary Mr. Archibald DePue who has been sick a long time, died Friday evening of the 15th. (April) If his early life had been passed in an old educated community, his energetic talents assisted by an education, it would have drawn to him a more extensive range of azquaintances in the way of public life, but born in the wilderness, a child of the frontier, he was brought up to the honorable toils of labor and how much more is such a life to be commended over one who lives on his wits and at the expense of the perspiration of other men's brows. His father Henry DePue, a native of New Jersey and was a revolutionary soldier at Princeton, Trenton and Valley Forge. After the war for independence, he crossed the mountains to the wilds of the Greenbriar Valley, where he married Miss Maze, of good family and with her crossed over to Little Kanawha and ultimately settled himself at the mouth of the West For, where he died many years ago. Archibald, his third son married, and after the marriage comfortably settled himself on the banks of the Little Kanawha near the mouth of the West Fork, and cleared and cultivated a farm, aided in rolling logs, building churches, school houses , making roads etc. Anything to advance the community, raised, educated and started life in a a large family. Many years ago Mr. De Pue became a professor of religion in the Baptist denomination, in which he remained faithful. One very remarkable feature in his belief was : He believed as he wished and did not contaminate others with his religious belief, but let them believe as they desired. Near the close of the Civil War, he sold his farm on the Little Kanawha and cast his gaze beyond the Ohio. to seek a future residing places and settled himself in Vinton County, Ohio where he remained until intement. "Dear father thou art gone Dead, dead, Oh can't be Yes, gone where death can never come, Oh! May we come to thee. The funeral will not be preached next Sunday as stated last week, but due notice will be given in the Record of the time and place." _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com