Saintclair County AlArchives Obituaries.....Simpson, John November 27, 1893
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Southern Alliance, issue Nov 30 1893
From Southern Alliance Newspaper, issue Nov 30, 1893:

Southern Alliance 1893
November 30, 1893: Branchville November 27th. Our little village was sad to 
learn of the death of our good citizen this morning. John Simpson. His death 
was not a surprise, he had been gradually sinking for several days. His 
disease was heart failure, he passed away without a struggle. It is a great 
consolation to his relatives and friends that he died in the triumph of a 
living faith in our Lord and Savior. He did not belong to any church, but 
lived the life of a Christian. He leaves an affectionate wife, a good woman. 
The writer has been personally acquainted with John Simpson for over fifty 
years and has always regarded him as an honorable upright gentleman. He was 
about 77 years old, and had been married about 52 years, has raised a nice 
family of children, who are doing well. He with his father Thomas Simpson, 
moved to this county from South Carolina 60 years ago and settled near 
Branchville as a farmer. John Simpson was noted as a good farmer and cotton 
raiser, has raised a great deal of cotton in his life but died quite a poor 
man, but he had good and efficient children who cared for him in his old age. 
It is true that he was not rich in gold dollars, but thank God, he was rich in 
a spiritual life, which is worth more than all the gold that this world can 
produce. His dying example is great encouragement to his relatives to press 
forward by doing right and exercising faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus 
Christ, that we may be led by the Holy Spirit, then we will learn to know the 
worth of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man. Learn to govern 
ourselves on a principle of right, do as we wuld be done by, then we will be 
blessed with true happiness, which is worth more than all the gold the 
Rothchilds can command. "A home in heaven what a joyful thought, as the poor 
man toils in his weary lot." (signed) J.H. Vandegrift


Additional Comments:
John Simpson, son of Thomas Simpson, was born 1818 in York District, South 
Carolina.  John Simpson married Mary "Polly" Rowan on Mar 3, 1842 in St. Clair 
County.

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