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- The following obituary appeared in the Saguache "Advance," Thursday, August 21, 1884, p. 8, col. 3
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"DIED.
At Ojo Caliente Springs, New Mexico, on the 12th inst., of Asthma, Mr. Jessee [sic] Noland, of Saguache. Aged 57 years and 10 months.
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Our community [was] startled last week, on the afternoon of the above date, by the sudden announcement that a telegram had been received by Mrs. N. A. Noland, from the above mentioned springs, conveying to her the sad intelligence of the sudden death of her husband, Mr. [Jesse] Noland, for several years, one of the influential and prominent business men of Saguache. Mr. Noland had been in failing health for some time past, and concluded to make a trip, in company with his friend, Mr. Thomas F. Hickey, of this place, for the purpose of visiting the warm sulphur springs of New Mexico, in hopes of benefiting his health. The result has proved different however, and his wife and family are now called to mourn the loss of a kind and loving husband, and indulgent parent.
Possessing a quiet and unobtrusive disposition, the deceased by his affable manners, in all the social walks of life, attached to him many warm personal friends, which combined with his strict honesty and integrity, and sterling business qualities, enabled him to command the highest respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens. The deceased leaves a widow and one son, who are residents of this county, one son living near Durango in this state, and a daughter residing in the city of Denver, to mourn his loss, together with an aged mother, three brothers, and two sisters, who reside in the state of Missouri.
Mr. Noland previous to his coming to Saguache, was a resident of Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, where for a number of years, he carried on an extensive mercantile business. For the past seven years he has been a resident of this town, being all the while identified with its business interests, the larger portion of the time, as a dealer in dry goods and general merchandise. Mr. Noland retired from the mercantile business about one year ago, and engaged in the stock-raising business in this county, and by his prudent careful dealing had at the time of his death become possessor of considerable real and personal property.
During the progress of the war between this government and Mexico, about thirty-seven years ago, Mr. Noland, who was then a young man, joined the command of Col. Doniphan, which marched from the Missouri river through this valley years ago, into that country, and in common with thousands of other brave citizen soldiers, who risked their lives in the service of their country, assisted in acquiring for this government from that republic, the magnificent public domain ceded to the United States, which was the immediate result of the successful termination of that war, a portion of which is included within the boundaries of this commonwealth.
It is the intention of Mrs. Noland, as soon as the cool weather will permit, to remove the remains of her late husband from the place where they now rest, and bring them home to this place for burial.
The monuments that are reared by human hands to perpetuate the memory of our departed kindred; the tears of sorrow shed by the side of their last resting place; and the flowers strewn by the hands of affection above the graves of the friends we have loved and lost, may in time pass away and be forgotten, but the hallowed remembrance of wedded and parental love, exalted by the noblest virtues, will survive after death, and will last as long as life itself endures.
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