Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-02-13
OBITUARY.

DIED OH the 3lst January. at his residence in
tll. 59tl, year of his age, BENJAMIN STEVENS,
Esq, after lingering illness Of several years OF
Consumption.
Mr. STEVENS has left an affcctionate, though
helpless and much afflicted widow, seven chill
drcn and many friends to mourn their loss; vet
they have consolation left them, that will bear
them up under the most trying afflictions that
he departed this life in peace, and that his spirit
hath winged its way 10 the bright mansions of
eternal glory.
Esquire STEVENS WAS man faithful TO his
promises, kind and obliging to his ncighbors, an
atllctionatc and kind husband and father, and q
good and kind master. lie belonged 10 no Pro-
irssionaI Denomination, though he profcsscd on
| his last bed of aflliction, that he had a strong
| hope that God, for Christs sake, had parloncd
his sins. and that he was perfectly resigned to
| leave this world Of sorrow and affliction-lis
hope was strong and unwavcring that he would
meet his God in peace, and his earnest prayer
was, that God would take his soul home to glory.
His dying request to his children was that they
would pray TO their God every day while they
lived. lie requested his friends, who stood
around his bed side few days before his death,
to pray for him. which they willingly agreed TO
'lo. lie requested them to pray that the Lord
might take him to himself rs soon as consisant
with his divine will and also that he might die an
casy death. And il did appear that the prayers
Of Gods people were answered, for 4 few min
utcs before his departure, he felt that his time
had comc-hc bid his family and friends present
final farewell, and died in about one minute af-
tcrwards
May his hody rest in peace, until that great
day when God shall cali the dead from their
graves TO stand before his tribunal bar, and may
his soul find resting place at Gods right hand
forever and ever May his afflicted family pre-
pare in life for death. that they will be able to
meet him in glory, where partings will be no more
~ FRIEND.
DIED OH the sd instant. SARAH CAROLINE, the
daughter Of DIR. JOHN and Mrs. Sophia Lake, in
the fifth year Of her age.
Skc was an intelligent, engaging, and sweet
little olild. The hearts of her parents were often
made glad, by her atiectionatc and confiling
temper, and by her study, young as she was, to be
alutiful and obliging to those who had the care of
her person. We are apt TO think the child we
have lost the dearest Of the flock, and in the cx
cess Of Our grief, to forget the imper(ccons, and
magnify the virtues of the deceased, but we can
speak as friend, without the partiality, that sus
picon ascribcs 10 tic statements of the father
the mother: and We arc justified in expressing
the belief, that no person Of her age, of our ac-
quaintance, ever gave higher evidence of vgo-
rous and sprghtly intellect than Gid our lost little
Care" Before she was four years of age, she
relieved the tcdium of many of the moments Of
the writer of this unaffected tribute hy singing,
and often repeating to him several Of the sweetest
songs of the day.
But, while yet without sin, she has been kind
" removed from the troubles of this wrctcled
state and though torn from her fond parents
here, she has been received into the bosom Of her
Father in Heaven. S. \.