The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-08-25
Obituary.

How painfully true is the sentiment in
the midst Of life We are in death - D.ily
eAprrien, proves its truth, yet it is seldom
We are called upon 10 feel IL Will. the samy
poiSnaDcy that the death Of Mrs. MARY 4.
MCMH.LAs capsed To Us. Ultimately ne
Jquainted a. We have been for several years
and seeing her IN health and spirits only "A
short Time before ber death, vii h every
prospect, seemingly, tor u long and happy
l..e, ne bare an'tvnncsmcnt that she was no
mort Mas a. nden n, It xps startling.
Mrs. McAIiIlan was daughter Of the late
David Palmer, and was born in Marion Dis
trict, on the 25th March, 1887. was married
to Maj. 5. +. Mcmillan, June 25th 1857,
and died, Of Puerpcral Fever, July Sd. 1853,
leaving an infant son only q days old
Thus has passed from our midst one OF
whom the world sees only too few Beau
tiful in form and feature, and modest rs she
was beautiful, she was calculated 10 attract
Quiet and unobtrusve in her manners, she
was only known TO those who sought her
out, but those who knew her best apprecia.
ted and loved her most. Her gentle win
ming ways won all hearts, and she died with
the painful regrets Of all who had ass ocia~
ted with her.
Mrs. Mcmillan had several times expressed a
presentiment of death ut her anticipated
confinement, but without dread. For al
thongh but n member OF the church since
1856, her life had always exemplifed tho
Christian character fully. A regular atten-
dant upon the Methodist Church from her
childhood, she joined 1t from no sudden in-
pulse, but as her natural inheritance and wo
believe endeayOred to live up TO tie require
menis Of its precepts and teachings, as full
~ as she understood them. She was amia-
Bile, kind, gentle, aHectionate, and with aIl
those endearing traits which would have
made to her husband, had she been spared,
home of happiness. But sae has been
called away just as the volume of life open.
ed To them its sweetest page, and that
which was 10 him so bright Eas grown
dark, while bewildering haze OF bereave-
meDt and desolation has suddenly sur.
rounded his pathway May lie who tenn
pers tho wind 10 the sRorB lamb remem-
ber in mercy and look in kindly compass
sion upon those whom he has so strong
ly bcreayed.
A FnIEsD.
DIED on the 22d inst. In Dougberty
county, THOMAS CASWELL TWlTTY,
son of the late Hiram Twitty Of Lancaster
District South Carolina, after a short but
painful Illness. from Typhoid Dysentery.
The subject Of this notice was born in
Lanea' ter District, Il. C., in 1897, and ro.
moved to this county in 1856 tits no ex-
iravagant eulogy to sayof The deceased
that "None knew him but t0 loye---none
named him but to praise" Amiabie ia de-
portmcnt, kind in his feelings, social in man
ner, moral in hebits---it Is not strange that
he should have been so much thought ofin
life, and so much mourned over IN death
In the dawn Of early manhood, with pros
poets of usefulness before him, he has been
called away from earth IL Is bard to sep
arate the ties Of friendship, and give our
friends to the cold and silea; grave IL tears
the tender chords that bind as one 10 an ;.
other, and 6lis the heart with grief and sad
meas. But IL must be so--death Is insatia-
BILE. The deceased was intimately and close.
y associated with many OF us---as a broth. 8
or IN Christ he was dear; in the everyday
circle o. life hewas loved and esteemed. -
His noble and generous qualities will be
long remembered by those who knew him
best. During the recent revival in Albany,
the deceased made profession Of religion,
and was received in full fellowship with the
Baptist church Of this place. To his friends
and brethren, there Is consolation III Euo,R-
ing that he had chosen the wise pagt In iife
he gave his heart 70 God, and on his DING
bed his religion was his only depend dance,-- -
as he expressed himself 10 the writer cf