D.E.A. has in the last issue of the Stanly News-Herald the following tribute to the late Wade Ivey, who was buried in New London last week:
All that was mortal of Henry Wade Ivey was placed securely in a grave Monday afternoon and covered with a profusion of the most beautiful flowers that could bloom beneath the canopy of Heaven, and witnessed by scores of friends from different points of North Carolina and Virginia. All that devoted family and fond friends could do for wake was of no avail, and as the church bells rang Sunday morning calling us to the house of worship, the bells of Heaven rang to summon his brave spirit to the eternal resting place. There is no doubt but that he is with God. His last hours were peaceful and he told his sisters in the last minutes of his life that he was not afraid to die, and breathed his last without a tremor.
For the last few months he realized that he could not live long, and wanted every business transaction satisfactorily adjusted, and be even with everything in a material way. His mother had been with him constantly for a long time, and had untiringly done everything that a mother’s love prompted, the brothers and sisters were untiring in their devotion to him, he was devoted to home and loved ones, and is the first for the family to be taken. The chain is broken, the courageous golden link is gone.
He did not die in war, but died from the effects, and has fought bravely all this time to overcome the cause. A prayer of condolence to bereaved ones, an undying reverence and love to the memory of Henry Wade Ivey, who as a boy was pleasant and kind, as a young man, honorable and clean in character and respected by young and old; as a soldier, loyal and valiant, even unto death; as a son to mother, devotion and obedience and love; as a brother, the best one ever.
From page 3 of The Beaufort News, Carteret County, Thursday, June 11, 1925
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