Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Stockdale, Jefferson Lark June 24, 1893
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Clay County Advance (Ashland, AL) Fri Jul 5, 1893

    In Memoriam
  Jefferson Lark Stockdale, son of Col. and
Mrs. A. S. Stockdale, was born February 6th,
1880, and died at the home of his parents in
Ashland, Monday evening, June 24th,  1895. 
He was born in the house in which he died,
and the few years of his life were all spent
in our midst. We knew him when and innocent
baby, and later when he grew to be a model
boy, devoted to his parents and obedient to
their will, thoughtful in his words and 
considerate in his actions leading a quiet
peacable and exemplary life, he was loved
by his associates and held in high esteem
by all who knew him. He was a regular and
interested attendant upon both our Sunday
Schools, and on all occasions of worship
he was careful to duly respect God's house,
and in other ways manifested his regard 
for the Christian religion. His parents are
communicants of the Episcopal church, and
there being no church organization of that
faith in our county, Jeff had never been
formally admitted into their church.
   Only a day or two before his death he
spoke gratefully and feelingly of the benign
influence of a Christian mother upon his life,
and gave happy expressions of his readiness 
to die. But had he left no words of assurance
of his future bliss, his life was sufficient
to inspire a lively and well grounded hope of
his entrance into abundant peace.
   His last illness was only of a few days
duration, having been overcome by a violent
attack of typhoid fever. Notwithstanding
skilled physicians, loving hands and sym-
pathizing hearts did all they could to keep
him here, God saw fit to take him to a better
place and in doing so, suffered him to walk
so few steps, for so few hours, through pain
and suffering. There was no long months of
sickness, but almost out of fullness of health
he dropped into the fullness of heaven.
   His remains were interred in the cemetery
at Talladega, beside loved ones who outstripped
im in life's race, and now united, stand on
the blissful shores of eternal deliverance
anxiously watching and waiting to welcome
loved ones left behind to that happy home.
   Let the bereaved parents remember that
God does not err, and that this severe
affliction, if sanctified, will be good. God
plucks from us our earthly idols and lays
them up as treasures in heaven that our 
affections may be lifted toward Him. We are
given many bitter draughts from life's cup
only to give us a keener relish for the sweets
of the life beyond. Truly has it been said
that, if sanctified, every trial is a treasure;
each would a scar of glory; each drop of grief
will glitter as a diamond in the Christian's
crown of bliss.               
                       M.
    Ashland, Ala., June 27th, 1895

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