Name: Weede, Dr. Nathaniel Reuben
Burial Date: 1924, 04/06
Age at Death: 87
Plot Location: 422 E
Notes: husband of Diantha (Caldwell)
Co. F, 17th IL Reg. Died in Dayton, OH
War: Civil War
Full obituary STERLING BULLETIN 4/10/1924
DR. N. R. WEEDE DIED THURSDAY
CIVIL WAR VETERAN HAS GONE TO HIS REWARD – WAS BURIED HERE SABBATH
Dr. N. R. Weede, has for twenty-nine years made his home in Sterling and who was well-known and very highly respected here, died at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. S. R. Jamieson in Dayton, Ohio last Thursday and was brought to Sterling for burial. The following obituary was read at the funeral services Sabbath afternoon, by Dr. A. C. Douglass.
Dr. Nathaniel R. Weede has been called home. It is no strange thing that has happened. The three score and ten years had been added until four score and seven had been attained. But it was weakness. The one time caretaker of his children needed and rejoiced in the care his children gave to him. The physician who used to minister to others became the patient is need of a physician’s ministry.
The strong men of Ecclesiastes 12th chapter, the legs, bowed themselves. The “keepers of the house,” the arms trembled. The infirmities of age came on, as they always come on, until the “silver cord was loosed, the golden bowl broken.” “It is appointed unto man once to die.” He served his own generation by the will of God. He now has fallen asleep.
Dr. N. R. Weede was the son of Nathaniel C. and Jane Campbell Weede. He was one of a family of eleven children. He was born December 4, 1836, Indiana county, Penn. where his father was pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church. In 1849 the family removed to central Illinois. He was a student in Monmouth college at the outbreak of the Civil war, and like many others, responded to his country’s call, enlisting in Co. F., 17th Reg. of the Illinois volunteers. He served four years, or until the close of the war. After the war he studied medicine in Cincinnati and Chicago, and the greater part of his life was spent in the practice of his chosen profession.
On May 9, 1865 at LaPrairie, Ill., he was united in marriage of Miss Diantha Caldwell. His home was Christian home of the truest type. One daughter and two sons grew up in that home. All received a Christian home training and a Christian college education. The daughter, Mrs. S. R. Jamieson, with whom he made his home the last year of his life lives at Dayton, Ohio. Fred Lewis Weede, the older of the two sons resides at Miami, Florida. The younger son, Dr. Garfield Weede, with whom he made his home for many years, lives in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Early in life Dr. Weede professed his faith in the Savior of men and was all his life an earnest, interested member of the United Presbyterian church. His consistent life, his “godly walk and conversation” even adorned the profession he made in his early life.
After thirty-six years of happy home life. Mrs. Weede died twenty-three years ago, and Dr. Weede’s body will be laid to rest in the family lot here in sterling, Kansas. One generation goeth and another cometh. Dr. Weede belonged to the generation that is passing. He died, a shock of corn fully ripe. There is always a sense of loss in loneliness but deeper than our sorrow is the comfort in knowing that God has something far better for his loved and loving children than this earth can give them. For Dr. Weede, as Paul, to “live was Christ, to die was gain.”
Funeral services were held here in the United Presbyterian church, of which deceased was a member for many years. Sabbath afternoon, at 3 o’clock. The G. A. R. was W. R. C. organizations attended the services in a body as a mark of respect to a departed comrade and friend.
Dr. A. C. Douglas read the above obituary and Dr. F. M. Spencer provided the funeral sermon. Friends of the family, C. K. Cooke, C. L. Carter, M. Cuthbertson, Dr. Ross, Dr. Currie and S. M. Hanlon, acted as pall bearers and conveyed the remains of Mr. Weede to the family lot in Cottonwood cemetery, where he was laid to rest beside his wife who died twenty-three years ago.
