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LATE JOSEPH REAVELY
LETTER OF CONDOLENCES FROM COUNTY ORANGE LODGE
[Welland Tribune, 19 March 1897]
After the interment of our deceased brother, Joseph Reavely, the brethren assembled in the lodge room at Port Robinson. The meeting was called to order, and after an impressive address by Worshipful Bro. O. Fitzalwyn Wilkins, county master, it was moved and carried that the following resolution should be forwarded to the bereaved family, and also to the Welland Telegraph and TRIBUNE, and to the Orange Sentinel:
Resolved, that in the death of Joseph Reavely, Esq., the Orange order in this county has sustained a loss which weighs indeed heavily upon us. He was one of its most earnest and liberal supporters, and a true and valiant knight. His loyalty to the Queen and the crown, his love of his country and his devotion to his religion made Orangeism to him a reality. His spirit was in perfect accord with the true principles and lofty sentiment expressed in the constitution of our order, and in his honorable and upright life he evinced those manly virtues and Christian graces which are most valued and esteemed in character.
Resolved, that the gloom which now rests so darkly over our county lodge fills us with sympathy for those upon whom this loss weighs most heavily, and that in this dark time of their distress we would unite with the bereaved widow and her children in asking for the grace of holy resignation.
O. FITZALWYN WILKINS, Co. Master
GEORGE A. TURNER, CO. Sec’y
G. JOHNSTONE, Co. Chaplain.
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