The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-04

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loved all nature, and his large and
beautiful home yard and the years
he spent with the nursery, attest this
fact. The yard in which he loved to
work, especially on holidays, with
the adjoining park with the arti-
fetal pond, beautiful with lilies and
alive with fish, the entire place, all
speak of his untiring love for these
things. And he had the great joy
of a helpful helpmeet through all the
forty-three years of married life, and
she entered into all the beautiful
plans with him and his home life
was a great help and inspiration to
any who ever entered therein.
His Church Work.
This man was with all his work in
outside enterprises, and extremely
busy life, a faitful and loyal member
of Trinity Methodist church. He was
never so busy as to neglect his Mas
ters cause, and his was an illustra-
ton of a Christian carrying his re-
ligion into his weekday life and US
ing it for the glory of God. He was
a steward of this church for many
years, being chairman of board as
we'll as chairman of the board OF
trustees of the church. He was
chairman of the building committee
which erected the handsome house of
worship now in use. He was a lib
eral supporter of every form of
church work and no one ever called
on him in a worthy cause who went
away empty. He was without. a
doubt the most liberal man who has
ever lived in Bamberg. Charity was
love with him and it took express
sion in many varied ways whether the
tramp from the road, the child in dis
tress, or aiding in building church,
a school, railroad, or what not, as
far as his means permitted, he gave
freely and gladly. His religion was
great comfort to him. Only short
while before his death, he remarked
to a friend that he knew his time
was not much longer and said that
he was entirely ready to go.
It was always a pleasure to him
to have the visiting ministers in the
town stop at his house. He enjoyed
the social intercourse of these men
of God, and he was ever ready to
make them feel that his house was
their home.
His Work for the County.
Mr.. Brabham was one of the
prime movers in the formation OF
Ramberg county and in having the
county seat located here. He was
chairman of the committee for the
creation of the county and also OF
the building committee for the court
house and Jail. This was in 1895.
In 1902 he was the county commits
sioner for this county for the Char
lesion and West Indian Exposition.
He was the originator of the move
ment to erect the handsome Confed-
crate monument in Bamberg. He Ia
bored faithfully in this cause and
later the matter was taken up by
the United Daughters of Confederacy
and carried to completion.
He took active interest in the
movement for a new railroad from
Bamberg to the lower edge of the
county and was always interested tc
the time of his death in the prog
ress being made in that work. In
fact he was always ready to encour-
age what he believed meant the de-
velopment of the town, county and
State. He worked before hand when
a meeting was to be held, so that the
preliminaries would be settled, and
so that the project would go for
ward. He was not castle builder
or dreamer of day dreams. He
looked at things from business
point of view when they came before
him.
The Funeral.
And now the last sad rites have
been said, and he is dead. He sleeps
in the cemetery in which he worked
many days, helping to make the
place beautiful. Trees and ever
green here abound, and his was the
hand which planted most of them and
SC often cared for them. He was
one of the prime movers in locating
this burying ground, and it was his
wish that the place might be beau.
tiful park and cemetery where loved
ones might come and think of their
loved ones who have passed on. And
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