11 February 1911
DIES WITH SONG ON LIPS
Returning to his home, near Dumfries, Wednesday afternoon, from Manassas, where he had been to witness the marriage of his niece, Miss Eva B. Able, to his brother-in-aw, Mr. Richard Randall, at the Lutheran parsonage, Mr. Walter Able, familiarly known in the neighborhood of Dumfries as "Tad," was stricken with apoplexy and died in the arms of Clement Johnson, who was driving the wedding party.
The jolly wedding party were nearing Independent Hill, when the death summons came to the victim, who was singing one of his favorite songs, which the writer often heard him sing when the war clouds hung over Dumfries. It was then that Mr. Able's father threw open his home to shelter the writer and other members of the family when his childhood home was being plundered and farm products destroyed by the invading foe. -- [Manassas Journal.
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