The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1866-07-25
OBITUARY.


| DEPARTED lhis lite on the night Of Thurs
! day, the Eth July, 1866. at his residence
in this District Dr.. THOMAS FULLER
! FURMAN.
! For thirty years Dir. FunMAN has been
known to the citizens of Fairfield as gen
llcman OF superior intellectual powers and
OF rare Intelligence, professional and gene
raj, OF lndomitab'c energy and thc highest
integrity.
Having completed his course of studies
! in The 5. &. College. the houors of which
were not awarded only because Of an un
happy disturbance which hal scattered the
class, he devoted himself with characters
tic assidui'y to M unusually thorough pre-
pnlaion for the responsible profession
which he hal selected ns the sphere OF his
future activity. In the spring of 1898 he
| commenced Il practice which from the, Srst
was large. lucrative and cmincnlly success
! tu!. Great constitutional vigor and an iroa
Will here him through an amount of labor
whi*a few could have sustnine |. Having
acquired y handsome estate ard proving ns
ucccsosnl in htlsbandry rs he had been in
/ The treatment OF disease. he sought to re.
{ .l"te himself ot the pressure or professional
labor, hni not with complete success, for il
VAS impossible TO rcsis; the importunitv
which sprung from past experience of the
value Q! his services, aad here and in other
| Districts he was found exercising his keen
discrimination and turning TO account his
ample experience. These lahurs which fos
The last ten years were bestowed without
Charge hccanc durimg the years OF the wa,
heavy and costly to himself. But no call
was ever unanswered. The humblest and
the poorest gained ihc prompt a,tcntion
which their eases called for. The persona,
discomfort OF the practitioner was never
! q nj Il h,,
! perhaps TOO lII!le regarded by him, more
especially Of late, when he had almost com.
| pictrh his th"ce score years
Dr.. ErkMAN was sincere Christian.
Long before he made an open profession OF
ms ta'lh IN Christ, every one who knew
hln intimately was impressed with the full.
ness amt The accuracy OF his Biblical know.
lc3gc, and with Ills profound conviction OF
the truth and reality Of religion. Some
years ago he became a member of the Little
Kver baptist Church, but he might well
nave taken this step ca~ly in life. Such
was the careful Judgment Of his venerable
la'her, the Kate Rev. DR.. Furman Of Charles
! ton.
The disease oc which he died .fTyphoid
| Fever) disqualified him for exercising in his
own case his accustomed accuracy ia the
diagnosis o: disease He expected TO re-
cover AZ the same time he declared his
entire readiness 10 die, were it the will of
God to take lim. lie engaged in convcrsa
ton will, the same pleasing ana carnestncss
f"r whic', hc wns always remarkable, but il
was intern'inel.d with devont calculations
notwithstanding his professional Judgment
| rcspec ting his recovery, his spirit, as It un F.
consciously was plrnning itself for its up.
ward flight. In the lust day of his illness
he expressed his perfect resignation to The
will o! God and his assured trust in his Re.
dccmrr
One common sentiment pcrvades the COM
munty in his more immediate vicinity
Our best friend is gone" was heard again
and again from the various classes who wit.
messed his death and stood around his grave
The hghrsr and the lowest, the rich and poor,
White and black, all concnrred in feeling that
they could have spared any one elso better
than DR.. FuRMAN. The freedmen who had be.
longed to him and who would not quit his
service whenever free, monrned with undis
sembled grief. It was remarkable how ono
who had always held check upon tho ex.
preston of his own emotions, had by the
mere force of hismcral worth, touched the
springs of emotion in so many hearts!
"The memory of the just is blessed"