Calhoun-Cherokee County AlArchives Obituaries.....Graham, John R. May 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Susan Law Fann Susdenfann@aol.com June 26, 2005, 11:43 pm PIedmont Inquirer, May 20, 1893 A Father in Israel Departs. The long and useful life of John R. Graham closed on Tuesday night last. Surrounded by his family and dearest friends, he died as gently and calmly as a babe falls into sleep. His appointed race was run, and he was ready for his reward. For three score and ten and four years he had walked uprightly among men and before the Lord. For weeks he had been face to face with eternity, and he traversed the valley of the shadow of death as the weary and footsore traveler follows the flower-embroidered paths that lead up to home and rest. He lived the life of the righteous, and his end was peace. Mr. Graham was born in South Carolina in March 1819, and came with his parents to Alabama in this immediate vicinity more than sixty years ago. Here his home has since been; and this is the scene of the labors that marked his active and public-spirited career in business. It was here more than fifty years ago he wedded Elizabeth Calloway; here his children were born and reared to maturity; and here his remains are to await the summons of the last trumpet. It was here that more than forty years ago he joined the Baptist church, and here that for all this time he worshipped the Lord God of his fathers. Here the associates of his childhood are buried, and here remain a few of the friends of his early manhood. For many years he had resided at the Graham homestead at Ladiga, two miles away, and at that place centered his large business interests. It was there he bore with Christian patience his last illness, and there he died. Thence he was borne on Thursday morning to the beautiful burial ground at Pleasant Gap, where he was revently [sic] laid at rest until the resurrection morn. Additional Comments: I am not related and have no further information on this man. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/obits/g/graham422ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb