The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-10-05
IN 7MEMOREAM..l Il

COL; JOHN 9. RaAMR has passed ftou.
earth. He expired on The 9th septsnabsr. is70 =,
bic residence gear Lynehkurg. B. o.
The hosts OF sixty winters, and the suasriuxi
dark and glsssy hair; days Of fsioknsss-dnys v"e y
untold paiH and sngaish-had left their desr
impress on his manly form and features. Tbff
skil and. services Of eminent, soientiao, medioai
men, were invoked and rendered to 90 purpose
Each ray Of q hope % that game faded away: Death
touch stllled the thfebbings Of the .lok mxn;,
hesrt--breathsd upon bis lips aud closed them In
eternal silence. 80 peaceful was his exit, tha.
tho King Of Tefrors could not efaee the holy and
inehabls serenity which liugored around bis
brow, and wreathed itself about big lips, In =
smile Of triumph Ere bis spirit winged its
aight, no gave unmistakabIe evidences that his
homo hshoeforth would be In "the land Of ihe
pure and the holy"
The subj.o. Of this memoir was many time,
selected to all positions Of honor aud trust by hs
fellow. citizens, by the Legislature and Tho Exc
cutivs Of tho State, the duties of which he ever
discharged with ability and fidelity. :"
Col. RRAME had long since retired from
public life, and was seldom seen farther from bis
homo than the village of Lynohburg whore he
regularly attended church. no wa. for tb. ps.t
twelve years q consistent member VI the Metho.
dist Church, at Lynohburg, and for q length Of
time, and until his health would no longer psr.
NIT suoh duties, was Superintendent ofthe Sab.
S@sh ocuooi VI tu0 sdmo CHURCH.. lie was trU0
patriot and devoted to tho cause of tho South
during the war, and though lame from the frao-
ture Of limb, which occurred 10 1867, he acoent-
ed the command of n company Of Infantry raised
for homo service, while the war was in propr !.
which command hs held until the war was and.
cd. On being apprised Of Potter's advance to-
wards Sumter, Col. RHAME hastened, with suoh
of his command as he could hastily collect, to the
scene Of conflict at Dinge's Mill. and participat.
cd In the action until all hope OF success was gone
and the day was lost, when he retired from the
field among tho last to yiold, barely escaping the
clutches OF tho foo.
His political integrity anduuyislding devotion
to the principle Of Estates Rights" were 80 we'll
known to bis friends that any al!usion to his
politics here would be superiaous.
Col. RHAME was honest and bixh toned.
generous and brave, affectionate, kind and char
liable, q good citizen, loving father and deyot.
cd husband. Hc possessed q rich and cultivated
mind, and heart susceptible of tho deepest emo
tions. He was an admirer of the sublime and .
lover OF the beautiful In nuture.
lie asked to be buried near the hauuts of mon
where the worm sun light might fall on his
grave, where the m"rry v0ices of children and
tho songs Of summer birds might All the air with
sounds hs ever loved to hear. There he reposes I:
be has been laid to rest in the village grave ward
at Lynchburg; there, whore in the bright Sab
bath mornings tho sweet sound ofthe church bell
may hoat over tho grave of him whose "spirit was
so warm and true." Sept. ED, 1870.