The following is a transcript of a clipping found by Cuyler Kidney in a bible givven to Elizabeth O'Farrell by her husband Richard Henry O'Fasrrell.      It is likely to have appeared in a Minnesota paper somewhere around Chatfield, as that is where the O'Farrells lived.

A GOOD MAN GONE


     We find in the Hagerstown (Md.) Mail, the following obituary notice of the venerable FREDERICK Humrichouse of that city, uncle of our fellow citizen, I. F. O FARRAL Esq., who, during his late trip east wade the deceased a visit, and left him in his usual good health and spirits. He died on the 5th of Oct. '76, at the ripe old age of 85 years, two months and 29 days. The Mail says:
     It can scarcely be said that the life of this venerable, good man was terminated by any specific disease; it rather wore away with age and without a pang of physicsl suffering — the mind remaining bright and strong as in youth, whilst the body dwindled away, day by day, leaving but little of what was mortal to return to the dust from which it sprang.— About his death and the arrangements after death, he spoke as one speaks of a long expected journey for which every preparation had been made, and at the same time, as his memory of past events seemed rather to be strengthened than impaired by its approach, it appeared to give him a peculiar pleasure to dwell upon them and discuss them, even more fully than his physical strength would permit.
     Some months since we gave from conversations and memoranda furnished by the deceased a series of interesting facts connected with the early history of Hagerstown, which were replete with interest and filled with valuable information thus preserved, which will be recollected by most of our readers. From those notes it appears that Mr. Humrichouse removed to this town in the year 1798 from Philadelphia, in the 9th year of his age, and has occupied the identical lot upon which his last breath was drawn, from that time to this. His father and mother lived there for many years and reared a family which has expanded through several generations and is now widely diffused over the United States.
     The father of Mr. Fred k Humrichouse en. listed as a private in the revolutionary army, two mouths before the Declaration of Independence was signed, and on the 1st of July. 1776 was commissioned as an ensign. He participated in the great battles of the war and was at Valley Forge, and did not lay down his sword until the struggle was ended. He then lived in Philadelphia until driven out by yellow fever, when he removed to Hagerstown, as above stated. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Fred k Humrichouse was the Rev. Christian Fred k Post of the Episcopal Church of England, who came to this continent first to Labrador, as a Missionary, where he remained 22 years. His second mission was to the then wilderness of which Pittsburgh now the centre, and his third mission to the same locality to quiet the hostile Indians, was upon a commission issued by William Denny, the Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and bears date Oct. 23, 1758.
     Mr. Fred k Humrichouse, now deceased, has represented his county in the General Assembly of Maryland has filled the office of Postmaster at Hagerstown, has been a Director in most of our Banking and other companies, and was, up to within a few months of his death, one of the most active, attentive and experienced working Directors of the Hagerstown Bank and the Washington County Mutual Insurance Company. He emphatically "died in harness," with a mind as clear and strong as at any previous period of his life—a useful man and a true Christian.