Obituaries from Orange County
Maurice Wurts Tuthill
from The Evening Gazette
Thursday, May 27, 1869
Death of a Printer.
Maurice Wurts Tuthill died in this village, at the house of his brother-in-law, Mr. J. A. Leach, Tuesday, May 24, inst., aged twenty-five years six months and nineteen days.
The deceased was by trade a printer. He commenced learning the art with the writer of these lines, in the office of the Tri-States Union, this village, in the spring of 1857. He worked for several years in Scranton, and more recently for a year or so, up to his last sickness, in the Mercury office at Middletown.
He was of slender physical frame, and his health was never rugged. He was, nevertheless, a hard worker and ambitious to excel in his profession; and this energy and desire to excel led him to overtax his physical powers, and lay himself open to the attacks of that insidious disease, consumption, which carries off so many overworked members of our craft. He had been in failing health for four or five years, working, however, with unflagging spirit and energy as his strength permitted, until February last, when the disease took a fatal hold upon him, and he laid down his stick and rule forever.
He was a good printer; faithful to his employers; esteemed by his fellow workmen; beloved by his friends. To-day we his brothers of the craft, will sorrowfully and tenderly assist in the last sad rites to our dead; and in all our aftertime we shall keep him in pleasant remembrance, humbly believing that his spirit has gained a blissful home and rest in the mansions of his Heavenly Father.
The funeral services will be held this afternoon, at four o'clock, in the Methodist church. His remains will be interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery.