Lowndes County AlArchives Obituaries.....BOWIE, James S. June 11, 1856
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The Brunswick, Missouri Gazette
DIED, at the Harry House in this city ( in Brunswick, Missouri)  on Sunday the 
11th inst., at half past two o'clock a.m.,  Mr. James Sheridan BOWIE, late of 
Lowndes county, Alabama, in the 25th year of his age.  The deceased was 
attacked with pneumonia while ascending the Missouri River on board of one of 
our puckets, emigrating to Kansas in the company with a band of chivalrous 
Southerners, who passed up the river late in April.  Mr. Bowie's friends 
brought him ashore at this place where he was hospitably and comfortably cared 
for at the Harry House during his protracted illness, and attended personally 
by his friend and fellow countryman, Mr. McCORD, who has just assisted in 
paying the last sad offices to his mortal remains.

The funeral services of Mr. Bowie took place on Monday at 10 a.m. at the 
Methodist church and were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Oake of the Baptist church, 
assisted by the Rev. Mr. Allward.  Mr. Oake's sermon was touchingly appropriate 
from the text,  "Thus saith the Lord God, set thy house in order, for thoust 
shall surely die and not live."

After the sermon the funeral procession proceeded to the city burial ground 
where all that was mortal of the deceased was solemnly and sadly deposited in 
its kindred clay.

We were gratified to find so large an audience in attendance in the church on 
the occasion of a stranger's funeral.  A kindly and hearty sympathy was evinced 
for the deceased, whom Providence had struck down with fatal sickness in our 
midst, away from the soothing attentions of kindred and endearments of home, 
which we feel called upon to record with pride and pleasure.

We are glad to have it to say to those of the near friends of the deceased, to 
whom the sad intelliegence of their loss must soon be told, that although in 
the bloom of youth he was cut down in the midst of strangers, he nevertheless 
found at their hands a kind and Christian sympathy in his illness; that his 
burial was not a tearless one; that he died among Southerners and Christians.  
The Brunswick, Missouri Gazette
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