The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-10-21
In Memorlam.

There are times and occasions when we
are made to realize with peculiar force
how very mortal we are. Who of us i'm.
agined month ago, as we looked upon
Louis Ligon in the strength and yigor OF
young manhood, that Death had marked
him for its own, and that its relentless
hand was already stretched forth to take
him from our midst.
This most estimable young man, Louis
L, Ligop, son of Prof w. j. and Mrs.
L. G. Ligon, died at the home Of his pa
rents, Just without the limits of our city,
on Monday night, the 18th of October, at
about 8 o'clock, after brief illness of on
ly two weeks, aged 20 years and IL days.
He had been unwell for several days.. but
the busy season had opened, and with
characteristic devotion to his work he
would not give up until advised by his
physician that he must. His sickness de-
veloped at once into typhoid fever of
violent type. His friends, however, trust
ing much to his strong constitution, which
had been impaired by no .intemperate
habit or indulgence, looked hopefully to
his recovery; but Louis, almost from the
first, with one of those strange PRESENT.
ments that are sometimes felt, thought be
would not get we'll, and early in his sick
ness arranged all his business affairs, ap-.
prising his parents of just how each and
every little matter stood, thus evineing
methodical care and exactness that was
characteristic of him, and that so lifted
him for the important business position
he held.
AS to his spiritual interests, these he
had long ago-having united with the
Methodist Church OF this place when
when about II years old-committed to
Him of whom the Apostle Paul SAID :
"I know whom have believed, and that
He is able to keep that l have committed
unto Him. against that day." to which
fact the daily walk and conversation OF
the boy, and later on OF the young man,
testified abandantly.. Nor were there
wanting assurances from his own lips to
those near and dear to him, before and
during his sickness, and at the time when
all hope had fled, and he knew that he
must die, that he was fully trusting in the
sure promises of God.
Some four years ago the deceased, while
a youth at school, was proffered, all unso-
licited by him or his friends, a position in
the Bank at this place, which he accepted
and continued to fill with the utmost ii.
deity and efficiency up to the time OF his
last illness, winning the esteem and ap-
proyal of the management of the Bank,
and reputation in the community for
business capacity and faithfulness to duty
that any young man might be proud OF;
It was the privilege of the writer to be
closely associated with Louis for several
years,.nnd to watch, with growing and
affectionate interest and admiration, the
nnfoiding Ola life and character that had
in it so much that was lovely and noble,
and that gave such rich promise of sue
cess and usefulness. He was, ip every
respect, q most exemplary and promising
young man., IF he ever soiled his lips
with q coarse or impure expression, or
uttered an OATH we cannot recall it. II
he had single bad habit, or was addict.
ed to any of the vices common to youth,
we did not know it, In disposition kind
and unusually obliging-in manners un-
assuming aud courteous-in character in
telligent, upright, manly and firm-he
won for himself the respect aud conf
dence of all, and drew to him many warm
and admiring friends.
His genial, social disposition led him to
participate.in the legitimate pleasures and
amusements of life with hearty zest and
enjoyment, and he was among his young
companions and friends great favorite;
but he had, withal, his decided convictions
as to what was right and what wrong, and
duty was his watchword, and no amount
of persuasion or influence could induce
him to engage in that which his conscience
condemned, or what confiicted in the least
with duty. He was singularly gentle in
his disp osition, and to great extent was
to his devoted mother-in family where
the children were all boys-like daugh--
ter; yet he was most manly youth, and
his father was growing each day to de.
pend more and more upon the judgment
and sympathetic interest and help of the
son whose devotion to his home and his
parents was in every way so beautifully
exhibited.
It seems a mysterious providence that
should remove this young man-so prom
ising; but 1--WE see through glass darkly
here's 'Tis enough for US to know that
God took him, and that He doeth all
things we'll. A FRIEND.