80 State Horticuliural Society. 



Last April, Captain Thomas W. Guant, at his home in Alaryville, 

 died of acute neuralgia of the heart, suddenly developed, no doubt, 

 from sunstroke, la grippe and progressive paralysis from which he had 

 suffered for some fourteen 5'ears. 



He was born in Kingston, Staffordshire, England, April 4, 1830, 

 -and was therefore onl}^ 71 years of age at the time of his death. But 

 he was a busy man, a public spirited and enterprising citizen. He 

 was a son of a florist and had received in his youth a good business 

 ■education, and a practical knowledge of the nursery business. In 

 1856, in the 26th year of his age, he laid the foundation of a successful 

 nursery at Maryville, thus becoming a pioneer fruit-grower in our 

 great Northwest Missouri. 



Of course he lost no time in becoming a member of the Missouri 

 Horticultural Society, and in this relation he was loved and honored 

 by all who met him here and injoyed his wise councils and felt the 

 magnetism of his enthusiasm. 



From his youth he was a consistant christian, and in his manhood 

 days a staunch advocate of temperance reform. Into his church work he 

 carried the same earnestness, determination and enthusiasm, tempered 

 by the love of his great altruistic heart, that characterized him in all 

 liis business relations. He therefore not only helped his fellow man 

 to produce the fruits of the orchard and the vine, but also the fruits 

 of righteousness and of devotion to the good, the pure and the true. 



We do well to mourn the loss of such a man, and to resolve, that 

 in his departure this Society has been deprived of a most useful mem- 

 ber and our State of a most valuable citizen ; that this Society deeply 

 sympathizes Avith his bereaved family, and particularly with his two 

 ■daughters, Misses Carrie and Gertie, now orphans indeed, who lov- 

 ingly cared for the father in his declining years, and smoothed his ach- 

 ing brow when he died ; and that we request our Secretary to furnish 

 them a copy of this notice, and spread the same upon the records of 



this Association. 



C. H. BUTCHER, 



H. C. IRISH, 



J. W. GREENE. 



