Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-02-06
DEATHS.

Died, al Burvilie, MS residence in the county OF
Richmond, on the 18th JAM, TOBIAS PuRssELL Esq,
in the s1th year Of hiss age Mr. Purssel's ambition
was to live in peace with all mankind and to c1er-
else the kindly and charitable virtues His family,
his treside, and neightors were the chief sources
of his pleasures, and long did he live TO enjoy
them He has left children and grand children 10
lament their bereavement. No man ever prac-
tiSed more the command, "do unto others as you
would they should do unto you," than did The sub
jet of this notice; and he has gone 10 his God
full Of years and full OF virtues to enjoy the re-
wards of a well spent life.
"With an impartial hand the Lord
Deals out to mortals their reward;
The kind and faithful souls shall find
A God as faithful and as kind"
At Belvidera, in Spousylvania, on the 10th De-
cember, HENRY Taylor, in the 49tb year Of his
age. After funeral service, his remains were
removed to the family sepnlchre, a, Hazewood,
the former residence Of his father, Col. John
Taylor Of Caroline, attended BY very many who,
recently, were his neighbors, and by yet more OF
those who, al an earlier period, had mingled with
him in social liie-whose sorrow, and sympathy,
and associate memories Of past happiness linked
his age with his manhood and youth-by his nu-
merous dependents whose strong attachment,
growing out Of the relations in which he stood
TO Them evinced the conviction, that their masters
ambition reached beyond them, only to his blood
relations and dearest friends--and whose bitter
lamentations showed that they were conscious
that they had never been regarded as waits upon
lifes ocean, as the mere means Of selfish and per-
sonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, but as confding and con-
tented, though humble friends, 10 becomforted and
cared tor-and by his children, brothers, nephews
and nieces, whose strong deep-rooted affection and
anguish great irrepressibie, yelling up from the
deep fountains of the heart, must be overpower-
ing for tme-but who should learn 10 cast the
souls gloom from them BY the recollection that
all his energies, moral and intellectual, had been
constantly and successfully eYerted 10 promote
the happiness of his children, dependents, and
all others within the verge OF his influence, and 10
acquire position, in itself respectable, yet in
filling which he should be not merely an attribute
Of the staton-by the conviction that lite Of be-
ne6ts rendered, (selfelevating, purifying, exating
on earth,) could hardly fail to ensure happiness
| in Heaven. 1t is indeed consolation to believe.
that in his anticpatons Of the future, he must
have promised TO himself the just NEED Of good
Deeds recorded in the book of life infinitely more
desirable than the toy of long life on earh-which
/ is valuable only as preparation for better in
Heayen-thoush often exalted BY the tissue ofap-
pearances above its intrinsic worth.
To talk Of the dead, whose measure OF exist
ence has been filled by acts Of kindness and love,
expands the heart, elevates The mind, and raises
the soul to God, the great distributor of our re-
spec,ive parts on the theatre Of life. feel tire,
lieve., too though it does not fill IAN aching void
in the BOSOM" but must admit no selfish feeling
in speaking OF him; and will, therefore, only add,
that merciful, kind, and generous, his course
through life, was marked BY strength, purity, and
dignity of mind; BY simple habits and calm
eouanimity; BY refined sentiments, yet inexpen-
sive habits; BY strong feelings, curbed BY firm
principles, native and cultivated talents, without
The spur Of ambition, and devoid of the slimu-
lating influence of ordinary selhshness-and that
equitable, vet infexible in his judgmen,s-m
ye, determined in his purposes, be was conspicu-
Dusty and proverbially successful in all his un-
deraknss without exciting aught OF envy or un-
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