Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-15
DIED.

At her sonin-law's in April last, in the county o
Rockbridgc, Mis-. ELIZABETH HARRIS, consort o
Mace Harris dec in the 64th year of her age af
ter short but illness, which she bore with
fortitude and christian resignation. She for
many years a very pous and devoted member OF
the Baptist church. The numerous relations and
friends whose tender affections were entwined n.
round the heart of their aged kins-woman have in
the dissolution of their earthly ties undergone be-
rcavcment which they must long feel But let them
remember that those who die in Christ not lost
and that she has gone to her reward in that heaven
prepared for all the faithful.
at the residence of her mother, in this
place. on Tuesday the Goth day of April 1851, Miss
AGNEss Nj. GORDON.
at his residence in this place. on Satur-
day morning the 10th inst, DIR. JAMES T. STE
VEINS, aged IS years.
The deceased had been for a number Of wears Il
member of the Ancient Institution of Masonry, and
was buried on the Sabbath evening after his death
by Marshall Lodge No. 80. The solemn and i'm
pressivc discourse by the Minister the long process
sion of those who esteemed him in obedience to the
principles which their Fraternity nculcates the
deep solemnity with which they paid their last tri-
butte brother of the mystic fully attested the
worth in which he was held by those who knew
him.
Departed this life, the morning Of the 9th Of
May, 1851, WILLIAM G. MEM, of the town of
Lynchburg where he born, on the 23rd DIV of
February, 1927, and had resided to the period of
his death.
For many weary months, he had suffered and
sunk beneath the wasting hand of disease. Day af-
ter day, by eyes that wept they watched him,
he seen approaching the goal of his earthly cx-
istence, and there no human power that could
arrest his footsteps. Learning and skill with
him, vany striving to preserve the life they could
only prolong-love him, with bleeding
heart and vearning spirit, the soother of his
shortening hours. but it alas, was all too feeble to
shield him from the icy wand of the Destroyer
Piety was there, pleading with upfted eye, to Him
in whose hend. are the issues of life and death;
but to its prayer, there the that it
sought; for the irrevocable decree had gone forth
which consigned him to the dust, and now he lies
Graded and sleeping in the bosom Of his mother
earth.
While he among US, he resolute, intelli-
gent, Just sincere mild and benevolent; all the no.
bier and manlier qualities adorned his active life,
and all gentler virtues shed their mild radiance
round his dying couch. PIE was ever otedient
his parents aiiectonatc to his family faithful 10
his friends and would have been forgviDg to his
emes, if enemies he could have had. He possess
ed the of luxurious living, without ostenta-
ton or extravaganza. He suffered much from dis
ease inconcevably from the prostration and failure
of all the bright promises of his c and vet he bore
it with the patient resignation of christian and
the accomplishing dignity Of a philosopher These
the annals of his life; simple and uneventful j,
is true, and yet record such few may claim, Of
courage, generosity, purity aud truth. He has gone
down to the grave, in the freshness Of life, early
morning, leaving the soft memory of his virtues
life without reproach, and an example without
fault
L.. L., u, eliza 81 orb