Tuscaloosa County AlArchives Obituaries.....Blount, James G. October 25, 1842
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The Georgia Journal, Milledgeville GA
At his residence in Tuskloosa county, October 25th 1842,Capt.JAMES G.BLOUNT, 
aged 50 years, 5 months and 25 days.
Captain Blount was a man of heroic traits of character, and no stranger to the 
vicissitudes of life. He was a native of Southampton county, Virginia.From 1806 
to 1812, he was employed, with George McDuffie, as a clerk in the house of 
Wilson & Calhoun, merchants, in Augusta, Georgia, during which latter year he 
entered the service as a private in the Agusta Rangers, then commanded by Capt. 
Willoughby Barton for the Creek War.After engaging in active service, he was 
elected third Lieutenant of the Company, and particularly distinguished himself 
in the Battle of Autosse, where his daring courage, intrepid and gallant conduct 
elicited the marked admiration of his superior Officers.- Soon after his return 
from the Creek Nation, he was elected Captain of a Volunteer Company which 
marched to Savannah, where he was stationed at the time peace was declared.He 
then retired into private life in Columbia County, where he intermarriage with 
Edna Roberts.
In the year 1819, Capt. Blount removed to this county, and settled within two 
miles of the place where he died, having pursued the cultivation of the soil. 
When the distress of Florida called for aid in 1836, he was elected, under 
flattering circumstances, to the command of a Volunteer company from this place. 
With what firmness, bravery, and enthusiasm he acquitted himself during the 
campaign; with what constancy he guarded the rights of his men; with what 
chivalrous attention he performed all the duties of the soldier, the officer and 
the gentleman, can be attested by more than a hundred witnesses in this 
vicinity, who shared with him the tented field, and will long remember but to 
honor his character. After his return from Florida, Capt. B. was elected August 
1836, sheriff of Tuskaloosa County, and in 1840 , a Representative in the 
Legislature, which was the last public trust he ever held or sought. Those who 
knew him most intimately loved him best. There was a stern inflexible 
uprightness, an abiding sense of honor and justice about him, which marked his 
conduct in both his public and private life, that never failed to impress others 
with the conviction of his trustworthiness. 
But the voice of eulogy cannot affect his silent repose, nor still the anguish 
of a bereaved family circle, ( a wife and six children.) In his last illness he 
gave evidence of hopes in a blissful immortality.He told a religious neighbor 
and friend that he had determined to United himself to the Church the first time 
he should be able to leave home; and at a latter moment he expressed himself 
happy, and resigned to die. On the 26th, with Masonic honors and by numerous 
friends and neighbors, his mortal remains were interred in the family burying 
ground of John S. Bealle, Esq., in the neighborhood. Peace be to ashes of a hero 
and honest citizen!

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