OBIT FOR THOMAS O. BRIM
Thomas O. Brim
Thomas O. Brim was born February 13, 1833, in Williamson County, Tennessee. Came to Polk County in 1853. He was converted at the age of 19 and afterwards joined the church at Mitchell's Camp Ground, where his membership remained until God saw fit to take him home May 28, 1914, from the family home in Walnut Grove, Green County, Missouri.
He was married to Miss Fannie Greathouse August 16, 1873. To this union were given six children---three boys and three girls. One boy died in infancy, the other five, with their mother, are left to mourn their loss.
Uncle Tom had been failing for several years and he and his good wife sold the old homestead near Aldrich, where they raised their family, and moved to Walnut Grove to spend last days, where in quiet and rest he peacefully passed away surrounded by the most of the family. Like one preparing for a journey to a far country he made such arrangements about his business as seemed to him rightand asked his loved ones not to grieve for him, for he would be at rest when he left them. Thus ended a long life of 81 years, 3 months and 16 days, of which he spent twenty years in Tennessee, eighteen years in California and forty three years in Missouri.
It can be said of him that he has acted his part in the great drama of life well. He had been a member of the church of his choice for many years,also a faithful and consistent member of that large and honored fraternity of Masons for over forty years.
He has left to his children, companion and in fact to all that associated with him a rich heritage of a life spent among as worthy of our imitation and has gone to his reward beyond the skies.
At 3 p.m., May 29th, funeral services were held at Mitchell's Camp Ground, conducted by J.L. Kinder, in connection with the Masonic Lodge of Walnut Grove, assisted by the Bolivar Lodge. With the very impressive and appropriate ceremonies of that order the mortal remains of our aged and loved brother were quietly and peacefully laid to rest among those of family that had gone on before, there to await the resurrection.
J.L. KINDER.