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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 52
refreshing from his presence none was more active, none more ardently engaged at a throne of Grace, than she, who, we thrust, is now united with the worshiping assembly in heaven. During aTl her illness she retained full possession of her mental faculties. She was sensible sometime previous to her dissolution that death was near, and in answer to an enquiry of her husband, replied, I am perfectly willing to die, I can confidently commit the keeping of my soul into the hands of my Savior, continuing from time to time, to express her confidence in an Almighty Power, at 9 o'clock P.M. she fell asleep in the arms of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, write blessed are the dead that die in the Lord henceforth! Yea saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them." Amicus. The papers at Cahawba and Selma will please copy. September 4, 1839 Died at the residence of his father in Coosa County on the 21 inst., JAMES A. WALL aged 30 years. He had for the last nine years been severely afflicted with the rheumatism, but permitted at times to enjoy short intervals of ease; his last illness which was of three months duration, was unusually severe, yet not a murmur escaped his lips. Conscious of the near approach of death, he evinced no fear, but on the contrary hailed it as a welcome messenger, as a deliverance from this world of pain and woe to one far more glorious eternal in the skies; never did man die more perfectly resigned to the will of his maker. As a son he was all the parent wish never during his life, giving the least cause for regret; as a neighbor and friend, kind and benevolent to a fault, he was truly the friend of all, possessed of an active and enterprising disposition, with a mind well cultivated, he bid fair, had health been granted him of being an honor to his family and country; but he is gone and that too it is hoped and believed to the bright abode of the just made perfect; long will his loss be felt by his family and numerous friends. The Huntsville Democrat will please copy the above. A Friend. September 11, 1839 Died in this city on Monday night last at 8 o'clock of billious fever, ROBERT L. WHARTON, aged 23 years formerly of Fauquier County, Virginia. In this dispensation of Divine Providence a young wife has been thoroughly bereaved of a kind and affectionate husband, to whom she had been united but a few short months. Mr. WHARTON was a well known and highly esteemed citizen -- industrious, upright and honorable in all his intercourse with his fellow beings, he gave promise of extended usefulness and a long life, which have been cut short by the hand of death. The writer of this short notice has known the subject of it intimately for several years, and can truly say that in all the varied relations of life his character has been irreproachable without a stain. His death is as much regretted by his numerous friends and associates as his life has been upright and useful. But who shall scrutinize the dispensation of the author of our being? L. The Va. Times and the McMinnville, Tenn, will please copy the above. September 23, 1840 Died of congestive fever at the residence of his father near Wetumpka on Sunday Evening 13th instant, AYDELOTT SYNDENHAM, eldest and only son of DR. SAMUEL H. and MARY H. BILLING, aged six years and five months. He suffered a severe and unremitted illness of five or six days, without murmur or complaint, thus exhibiting the most remarkable patience for one of his age. He was in life amiable, intelligent and dutiful, his father's hope, his mother's joy. But the destroyer came, and claimed him for his own. His spirit has gone hence to swell the angelic choir of the redeemed, and his parents loss is his eternal gain. "Ere sin could blight, or sorrow gain Death came with friendly care The opening bud to Heaven conveyed And bade it blossom there." September 30, 1840 Died on Sunday evening 19 inst. of congestive fever, JAMES S. TUCKER in the 29th year of his age. 52. - (3352)