Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1855-10-20
OBITUARY,

l Lieu, OH the lotn lust, at 3 O'CLOCK, "A. III, O1
Yellow Fever, J. NJ. GElGER, in the 9th year
of his age.
When a good man dies, Justice to his memory
demands that his character should receive more
than an idle notice. What can be more proper
than to review such a character, dwell upon its
most beautiful %lineaments, and place its virtues
before the world, as an example for the living.
Ofthe deceased it may be truly said that he
possessed all those enobling traits that combined
to make a man useful to the world, and an orna-
i0ent to society.
Possessing a vigorous and well cultivated intel
lect, and great energy of character, together with
a higa order Of genius, he was eminently fitted
iior almost any station to which he might have
been called in life.
His friends loved him for his warm and gener-
GUS nature-his kind and truthful heart-while
his upright, honorable department, his unbend-
ing flmness Of character, commanded the respect
OF all who knew him.
The DECEASED was a native OF Indiana. He had
greater portion of this period had been spent in
our parish, where he had been engaged in teach
ing, and at the same time in pursuing a course Of
studies preparatory to the practice Of flaw.
He had already passed a very satisfactory ex-
animation before the legal examining board in
New Orleans, and was happily anticipating the
next term Of the Supreme Court, when he would
have received his diploma and entered upon the
duties of his profession.
Having clear and i%ntuitive mind. which had
possessing high aIgumenta,ive and o~ratorical
powers, he was indeed well adapted to the profess
sion he had chosen; and had he lived, doubtless
he would have reached and eminence in the
world of (which many might have envied him.
But ere he had reached the goal to which his
youthful hopes had aspired, he was cut down
like wheat, before the harvest had. ripened."
But a few weeks previous to his death, he had re-
turned from a short %soiourn among his friends and
.~elatives in his native State. We had often heard
him speak ofthe pleasant associations connected
with that visit, ard had head him express his re-
get that his duties compelled him so soon to leave
the scenes that had been endeared to him by boy
hoods ties. and to bid adieu to those he loved
Little thoughthe then that it was his last anal
adieu.
Sad and truly painful will be the intelligence Of
ais death to his parents and surviving relatives.
May she who tempereth the winds to the shoIn
lamb sustain them in this their darkest hour OF
affection. Let it be to them a consoling refec- |
lion that although he died :'among strangers in a
land" yet his every want was ministered
to, and everything that medical skill could sug-
gest or friendly solicitnde execute, was done to
save his liie-that although it was not amother's
to cheer his last hours with her pres
bend over his dying form, and cool his
brow, yet he was followed to the tomb
by many ofher own sex, who thus evinced their
symathies for her in her berea vemeut, and their
to the memory Of him whose nohle quail
they had learned SO well hew to appreciate
IN his death our community has indeed sus-
a loss. bat we t.ust that our loss is his
gain. True he was not a professor Of Christiani
y, yetin a moral point Of view, he was a fit ex-
ample for many who are such; and if in the spir-
{ land beyond the tomb. there is one spot bright
i than another where the spirits of the good and
,ure are at rest, it is our firm and abiding belief
the soul Of JoHr MlLroN GEIoER has there
ound a home. A.