Pike-Conecuh County AlArchives Obituaries.....Park, Joseph Harrison May 1, 1887
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The Gospel Messenger 1887
THE GOSPEL MESSENGER 1887

JOSEPH HARRISON PARK – Pike Co. / Conecuh Co. – Ala.
 – This good man [Joseph Harrison Park], this faithful disciple of Jesus, has
been severed from the church on earth to swell the ranks of the church
triumphant.  The space allowed for such notices as this is not sufficient to
portray the excellent character of our deceased brother.  It is but due to his
memory that we should say that he combined the physical and mental powers and
the moral virtues that constitute a noble manhood.  Possessed with extraordinary
intelligence and refinement, he stood in the front rank of a genuine
citizenship; but never sought to bring himself into public notoriety.  He spoke
and acted as duty required and thus merited the universal confidence, friendship
and esteem of his entire acquaintance, which he enjoyed during his long and
useful lifetime.
	Deceased was born in Greene County Ga., March 3, 1815, and died at his
residence in Pike Co., Ala., May 1, 1887.  His father, John Park, was born in
Price Edward Co., Va., Dec. 26, 1786.  His mother, whose maiden name was Sarah
O. Musgrove, was born in Oglethorpe Co., Ga., Jan. 29, 1788.  They left Georgia
and moved to Alabama in 1839 or ’40, when deceased was about 25 years of age. 
He was married to Miss Apsey Kolb in Pike County on Dec. 19, 1844, of whom were
born to him five sons and four daughters, six of whom are still living, the
other three are dead.  His wife, the mother of those nine children, was born in
Conecuh Co., Ala., Oct. 20, 1824, and died in Pike County on Oct. 24, 1879,
after which sad event he remained a widower till death.  He professed faith and
hope in the Lord Jesus Christ and was received into the Primitive Baptist Church
at Hopewell [near Henderson], Pike Co., Ala., and was baptized by Elder Hiram
King, as nearly as we have been able to ascertain about 1871 or ’72, where he
remained an exemplary member until removed by death, “the voice that Jesus sends
to call them to His arms.”
	He bore his painful and mortal illness with the utmost fortitude and
resignation, evincing by many expressions that “For him to die was gain,” while
the world, the church and his children have sustained an irreparable loss.  His
mortal remains were buried with suitable ceremonies in Hopewell Cemetery to
repose and wait the voice of the Son of God, to “Rend the tomb, with sweet
salvation in the sound.”

[See Additional Comments for possible alternative death date]





Additional Comments:
NOTE:  Handwritten beside the clipping of this obituary – in a scrapbook of
Marie Jackson Folmar, deceased, formerly of Goshen, Ala., Pike Co. – was this
notation:  “Died April 24th 1887.”  Notice that the death date specified in the
obituary is in conflict with this notation of his death date.

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