WILLIAM DANIEL LINK

WILLIAM DANIEL LINK, SON OF JAMES AND MARTHA ELLEN LINK, WAS BORN NEAR NATURAL BRIDGE, VA., SEPTEMBER 27, 1854 AND PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1944, AGED 89 YEAFS, THREE MONTHS AND 14 DAYS.  HE HAD NOT BEEN WELL, BUT NO ONE THOUGHT THE END WAS SO NEAR.  HIS EARLY LIFE WAS ONE OF HARDSHIP.  HIS FATHER, LIKE MOST VIRGINIA MEN, BECAME ONE OF GENERAL LEE’S SOLDIERS AND THE MOTHER AND YOUNG CHILDREN SUFFERED ALL THE PRIVATIONS OF A WAR SCARRED  COUNTRY. THEIR PROVISIONS AND THEIR LIVESTOCK WERE STOLEN BY MARAUDING GUERELLAS. IN 1875 HE CAME TO RINGGOLD COUNTY WHERE RELATIVES WERE AND WORKED AS A FARM HAND. ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1878 HE WAS MARRIED TO NANCY CATHERINE MILLER. TO THIS UNION SEVEN CHILDREN WERE BORN. THE WIFE AND INFANT SON PASSED TO THE GREAT BEYOND. HE WAS LEFT TO FATHER AND MOTHER THE SIX CHILDREN FOR TWO AND ONE-HALF YEARS.

ON JANUARY 26, 1897, HE WAS MARRIED TO ELIZABETH CURLEY. THEY TOGETHER HAVE SHARED JOYS AND SORROWS ALIKE FOR 47 YEARS.

DEATH HAS BROUGHT THIS EARTHLY LIFE TO A CLOSE TO JOIN HIS FAMILY PRECEDING HIM, JAMES FLOYD, LOUELLA MAUDE, FANNY MYRTLE AND EARCELLE.  THOSE LEFT TO MOURN WITH THE BELOVED WIFE ARE HIS CHILDREN, JOSEPH M. LINK OF BENTON, MRS. LENA STEPHENS OF MOUNT AYR, WILLIAM LINK, JR., OF FOXHOME, MN., THREE STEP-CHILDREN, MRS. CLARA BELLAS OF BLOCKTON, MRS. MAMIE TRIMBLE OF WESTBY, MT., AND HENRY MALTBY OF AKRON, OH., AND ONE BROTHER, GEORGE LINK OF OSCEOLA, MO., THE GRANDCHILDREN, NIECES, NEPHEWS AND A HOST OF FRIENDS. HIS HOME, CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN AND HIS CHRISTIAN WORK WERE HIS LIFE IN HIS DECLINING YEARS OF WHICH HE GAVE MUCH.  HE WILL BE SADLY MISSED BY HIS NEIGHBORS AND IN SUNDAY SCHOOL AND CHURCH OF WHICH ONLY SICKNESS PREVENTED HIS ATTENDANCE.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED THURSDAY FROM THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN BLOCKTON BY THE REV. G.B.WATTERSON OF CLEARFIELD. THE PALLBEARERS WERE HIS SIX NEPHEWS AND BURIAL WAS IN ROSE HILL CEMETERY AT BLOCKTON.