Person:David Moyer (3)

Tribute

Whatever of pleasure there is in rendering tribute to the dead, we feel it a great privilege to be permitted, as a kin, to place on record a few memorials, as they impress me, reflecting the character of David Moyer, whom it was my privilege to know for a short time only. He was not regarded as a great scholar, nor was he an orator. He did not possess great wealth. He was not a statesman nor a politician. But he had something that was worth more than all these. He was a good man. Nothing better can be said of any man. Athough a humble shoemaker by trade, he applied himself as assiduously to that profession as any person of a loftier profession could do. His word and honor was his principal stock in trade. He was true to his friends and firm in his convictions. Nothing could tempt him to do a thing which his conscience condemned. Nowhere was his sense of high honor and lofty ideals better exemplified than in his devotion to and concern for his own family. His unpretentious manner and straight-forwardness won for him the highest admiration of those who knew liim best. He was an affectionate father, true friend, kind neighbor, a progressiva and patriotic citizen, and a patient sufferer in his protracted illness.

-Sketch by Major H. P. Moyer, of Lebanon, a grandson.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} David Moyer, in Genealogy of the Moyer family by Rev. A. J. Fretz
   Page 14, 1909.

   "II. David Moyer, b in Ciimru Tvvp., Berks Co., Pa., Jan. 4, 1793, m Catherine, daughter of John and Margaret (Nole) Kergner. She was bora in 1795. He died in the city of Reading, Pa., Sept. 11, 1872, aged 79 years. C., Adam, Matilda, Levi, Rebecca, David, Catharine, Eliza, Lydia, Simpson, John."