Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Mizell, Hope Hull December 9, 1885
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The Southern Star, December 16, 1885
The Southern Star
Ozark, Dale County, Ala.
Wednesday, December 16, 1885
Page Three

Hope Hull Mizell, son of H.H Mizell, Esq. of Haw Ridge, departed this life on
Wednesday, Dec. 19, 1885.  A more extended notice of him will be found in
another place.  We cannot refrain from saying that he was a very promising young
man, cut down as he was verging upon young manhood.

The Southern Star
Ozark, Dale County, Ala.
Wednesday, December 16, 1885
Page Two

Hope Hull Mizell, son of H.H. Mizell and his sainted wife, was born near
Pleasant Hill, Dale County, Ala., August 4th, 1863.  During infancy he was
dedicated to the Lord by baptism.  Reared under the influence of a live church
and trained by the example and instruction of truly pious parents, his character
was formed and moulded into symmetrical beauty from childhood.  Moral principles
of purity and integrity were the foundations of his young and promising life.

While yet a boy he realized the saving power of the grace of God, and joined the
Methodist E. Church South, at Haw Ridge, Ala.  From that time forth he carefully
and conscientiously observed and kept the rules and laws of the church.  Besides
he intelligently obeyed “the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus,” which
made him “free from the law of sin and death.”  His life was a beautiful comment
upon this glorious expression of the way of life everlasting.  Thus, he was an
epistle known and read of all men.  He possessed the mind that was in Christ
Jesus.  He was a partaker of the divine nature.  He was a child of God – an heir
of God, and joint heir with Christ.

As he grew in years, he developed find mental powers.  His mind was fashioned
and beautified by careful, painstaking, mental culture.  His mental powers were
capable of almost indefinite expansion and force.  He was well trained in exact
thinking and reasoning.

Such was the apparent case of his mental processes, that they seemed as
intuitions.  Thus endowed by nature and culture he was in public demand.  He had
reached ascending positions as a reliable business young man.   When disease
began to show its symptoms in the body of this promising young man, he was
occupying a paying position in a good and growing house in the city of Troy,
Alabama.  Slowly, disease gained a deeper and stronger hold upon his manly form.
 Forced by physical disability he gave up his position and came to his father’s
house, in Haw Ridge, to suffer, linger and die.  With patience divine, he
endured to the end.  No one ever heard a murmur of complaint escape his lips and
yet no human power can express the depths and severe intensity of his suffering.
 Ready for the hour of departing, he looked beyond to the bright world of glory
and loved ones.  Among his last utterances, he bid his precious, loved ones on
earth to meet him in heaven.  So he ascended to glory and home at 6 a.m.
Wednesday, December 9th 1885 – 22 years 4 months and 5 days.  Thursday at 3 p.m.
his body was laid to rest by the side of his glorified mother, at Haw Ridge. 
His burial was attended by a large company of loving and weeping relatives and
friends.  The service was conducted by the writer, “Hope then in God.”

Angus Dowling



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