Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-10-21
-oRIT RY.

DIED. in this District at the residence Of his
stcp-father, Mr.. 4. NJ. FULLER, OIL the 10th Sept.
last, Mr.. JOHN E. F.RYAN, after severe and
protracted illness, in the 3Oth year of his age.
A kind and ssis; fond brother and
warm hearted friend, his loss is kcenly felt, and
will be long mou'ncd by the bcrcayed circle he
once checred and adorned hy his amiable DISPOSE
tion and engaging na!ihers: IN the bloom and
vigor of manhood, when our ties to earth and the
things of this world strongest, the unTelentinS
Destroyer has stricken him down, and leaves US
only the sad privilege Of breathing deep sigh
from our ilmost heart, whilst the tear-drop mois-
tens the grave of SO young, SO true and SO firm
| friend.
In the deceased werc blended many qualities Of
worth and excellence. He was possessed of a
liberal education, was an upright and honorable
man, a good citizcn and courteous and confding
in every relation of life-stl. with all these en-
nobling traits of character, he had his faultS-and
who has them NOT ?-yet they were of the head !:
not of the heart: Therefore, let us draw the veil
of obscurity over his youthful errors, and remem-
ber only his virtues.
Farewell, dear friend of my school-boy days,
and God rest thy soul
~ know thou art gone to the home of thy rest
Then why should my soul be so sad?
know thou art gone where the weary are best,
And the mourner looks up and is glad;-
Where love has put of, in the land of its birth,
The stain it had gather'd in this,
And hope, the sweet singer that gladden'd the
earth,
Lies asleep on the bosom Of bliss" r.
DEPARTED this life, in or near Greenrille, Geor-
gia, on the LIST day of October, 1857, GEORGE
McDUFFIE REARDEN, who had just entered
into his 22d year of his age and had just made
himself ready to assume the responsibility of lfe
| Actuated by patriotic impulses, the deceased
had left his homo, early in the contest in Kansas,
and had made the destiny Of the gallant pro-sla-
very. party there his own. The writer has been
informed, that his conduct and bearing there were
equal TO the very best which were enacted by
Southerners in that region so distant from home
and early associations. But boy as he was, the
time had come; when the pressure of his own af-
fairs required his presence his business con-
nections; and perhaps, he had also seen reason to
despair of the pro-slayery movement in that Ter
| ritory. And he returned home to die Of Typhoid
| fever, before he could ever behold the sorrowing
! face of Mother who dotted on him, as the child
of her old age, and before he could embrace the
brothers and sisters, who in their hearts, had ever
cherished, the most devoted attachment for him,
! from infancy. A.
DIED, in this District on the 18th September, at
the residence of BENJAMIN EDWARDS, Esq, MIR.
JAMES EDWARDS. in the 42d year of his age.
Having arrived at something beyond middle age,
the deceased had established for himself charac-
ter for honesty, frmness and uprightness in all his
dealings with his fellow men; and, if he shared
somewhat in the fangs and frailties common to
the human family, none can say that he ever dis
serbed, or desired to show off under false colours.
On the contrary, whatever principle he possessed,
or sentiment he entertained, or whatever he was al
together, he wished not to conceal from the view
of the world around him. Thus has passed from
our midst an honest man, the noblest work of
God"
From this event let others be warned, that while
they are calculating for themselves many days yet
to come, their sun may set at noon, and they too
may soon pass from-the memory of man.
A FRIEND