Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-09
OBITUARY.

DIED-In Marshal county, Mississippi, on the
2sth ultimo, Mr.. JOHN E. BURRIS, formerly OF
York county, s. c., aged % years IL months and
days.
On the 7th ultimo, JULIA E. A., daughter of
Robert j. and Nancy 8. Love, aged years and 3
"From adverse blasts and lowering storms,
Her favored soul He bore;
And with yon bright angelic forms,
She lives, to die no more" --..-
Near Rich Hill, in Chester county, at the resi-
dence of J. A. Deal, on Thursday morning 18th
of August, SAMUEL BROWN, son of w. R. and
E. A. Davis, aged three years and ten months.
It has pleased God in His wisdom to remove
him from us and he is now united with his dear
brother and sister in the presence of the Lamb.
He will have an eternal existence OF bliss unin-
terrupted and now is free from sin and sorrow.
"God forbids his longer stay,
God recalls the precious loan;
| God hath taken him away,
From our bosom to his own.
Surely what He wills is best,
Happy in His will we rest. s.
Mrs. DINAH THOMAS was born in Mon.
| mouthshire, South Wales, in 1881; was married
to Edward Thomas, in lS49; died in Yorkville, s..
c., August "a, 1875.
In presenting this tribute to her memory, it be-
comes US but briefly to review her virtues. Her
worth is fittngly demonstrated by the devotion
of her husband and children during life and the
manifestation of heart-rending sorrow, testlfylng
to the irreparable loss they had sustained by her
DEATH
That mother cannot have lived in vain who has
become the central object of love, obedience and
esteem in the family circle. Living to meet its
wants, to aid the husband and train the children
for time and eternity, she so fulfilled her trust as
to bind them with cords of affection strong that
death itself could not break them. Called away
before her wish was gratitied in seeing them at
tain to manhood and womanhood, with Christian
resignation, she yielded all to God, bequeathing
her teachings and example, humby praying tnat
A. ,;rx6f S,,fS
evil May they prove faithful to mothers rich
est legacy.
During the ministry of Rev. A. H: Lester at
Yorkville, in 1885, she connected herself with the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, remaining in
it's communion until her death. Devotion to the
church and her pastor, constituted her character
stics in the Divine life Before the fatal hour was
come, she expressed her readiness for the change
awaiting her. The large concourse attending the
funeral, bore testimony to the esteem IN which
she was held by the community as we'll as SYM
pathy to the sorely bereaved. May Gods blessing
'''' 0p'A ''''' ''' T j. WALTER DICKSON.
Mrs. NJ. IDA JONES, daughter of D. T. and
Amanda Byers, was born November 23d, 1852, and
died August 18th, 1875, aged % years months and
IL days. 1t is painful to chronicle the departure
of one who had just reached the goal of lite.
Four years ago, she assumed the sacred obllga-
tons of church membership, shortly after the ev-
idence of divine acceptance was received. Less
than year ago she stood at Hymen's altar
blooming bride, ana gave her neart ana hanu W
one who was to be her companion for life. Thus
surrounded, it would seem hard to sever the ties
that bound her to EARTH But to her the arrival of
the dread messenger produced no alarm. The
gloom which his presence created was only fet Dy
those she left behind. Her philosophy not only
equipped her for life, but prepared her for death.
At o'clock on the morning Of the 18th instant,
weeping friends stood around her dying bed; the
pail of darkness shrouded theland; the moon had
gone down in the West; the stars shone dimly
from their stations on high; the lamps shed on
the tables sickly glare no sign of Aurora ap--
peared in the East. Oh! it was more than night
to all but her, who exclaimed: "Mother, Aunt
Belle, the day is breaking"' TO her the day
opening from on high had come. "There shall he
no night in Heaven" "At eventide it shall oe
light" said the prophet. May her kindred and
friends initiate her virtues and meet her in
Heaven.
''The Christian dies as sits the morning star,
Which goes not down at noon,
Nor hides behind the western hills,
But melts away into the light of Heaven"