Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-05-30
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Died, near Bloomingburg on the 10Th Of
May, 1867, Mr.. VIM. F. HAMS, aged 40
years, 8 months and 8 deys.
Mr.. Hams was born in Augusta county,
Va, and at the age Of ten years came with
his father TO Greene county in the fall Of
1927. By the death Of his parents the care
of the family, consisting of nine children
younger than himself. deyolved upon him,
when he was but sixteen years of age.
Possessed of remarkable energy of charac.
ter, and with lively sense of duty, he
was enabled to meet his responsibilities
with degree of success far beyond what
could have been expected Of one so young.
In lS42 he was married to Miss Jane
Babb, who died in ls47, leaving him two
sons. In 1913 he was married to Miss
Jane Peterson, and in 1855 settled about
two miles north of Bloomingburgh, where
he has since resided and secured the re-
spect and love of the entire community,
He was an industrious, energetic and sue
cessful farmer, whose affluence was never
withheld from any enterprise for advanc.
ing the welfare Of his neighborhood and
country.
He made a profession of his faith in
Christ and united with the Presbyterian
Church at Bloomngburgh in the year 1860.
He was constant and regular in his attend
ance upon the services of the sanctuary,
exemplary and Jealous as witness for
his adorable Saviour, and an earnest and
self-denying Christian. In his last illness
he was sustained by an unfaltering trust
in God; and during the intervals of delir-
ium caused by his disease, he loved to
coverse about his prospects for heaven;
and among the last coherent sentences that
fell in faint whispers from his lips, were
the precious promises Of the gospel, and
the name of Jesus.
He leaves a wife and ten children to
mourn his less; but to be comforted with
the evidences, so abundant in life and so
clear in death, that "he is absent from the
body to be present with the Lord" O.
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Died, on Monday, the Goth inst, MARY
McDLL, wife of Mr.. William M. Pnkerton,
aged 80 years, . months and days.
Seldom do we record a Providence so
mysterious as in the death of this chris
tian wife and mother. She made brief
call for coincidence with her neighbor,
Mrs. Hains, whose husband was taken
away the evening before. On Ler way
homeward she felt an oppressive dizziness
and sickness, and requested her husband
to drive faster. AS she reached her home,
on being lifted from the carriage she said,
"Can this be death, come for me? 1t must
be So" She was carried into the house,
and in q few minutes her spirit took its
fight. Anoplexy had done its work so
quickly but gently, that her form seemed
like one in sweet repose.
At the age of twelve years, she united
with the Presby terian Church at South
Salem, and for IA years has been mem
Der of the Church at Bloomingburg.
She leaves husband and two children,
and other k ndred to mourn her sudden
departure, Her example is cherished
legacy in her household and among a large
circle of friends. Ever cheerful yet digni-
fed, modest yet active in good works, her
loss will be felt in the church, the whole
community, and most of all in the family
where her gifts and graces sent forth a
stream of influence to cheer and encour-
each one to n life of faith and holiness.
So admirably was she qualified for ust-
fulness, and so suddenly was she taken
from those who loved and yielded to her
christian influence, that as the news of
her death passed through the community,
a sense of awe and bereavement filled ev-
cry cOuntenance.
A large concourse of sorrowing people
attended her funeral, and feel deep sym
pathy for the stli ken ones. Surely the
lesson is one of great solemnity. "Be We
also ready, for at such an hour as ye think
not, the Son of Man cometh." " G.