OBITUARY OF SUSAN & GREEN H. CHAIRES, Tallahassee, Leon County, FL

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MRS. SUSAN CHAIRES and GREEN H. CHAIRES
 
OBITUARY

Died in Leon County, Florida on Saturday, November 3d, 1860, Mrs. Susan Chaires, wife of Green 
H. Chaires, and died on November 8th, 1860, Green H. Chaires, the husband.
 
In recording the death of both husband and wife, occurring so near to each other, the mind 
is most deeply impressed with the uncertainty of human life.  A double lesson is thus taught 
which increases the solemnity that death must always excite.  To follow to the grave the 
mortal remains of the wife, inspires us with sadness, but to deposite(sp) in a few days afterwards 
the husband in almost the same grave, moves the deepest emotions of the heart.  But a few 
days before the illness of Mrs. Chaires, both she and her husband had just returned from 
upper Georgia, where they had been spending most of the summer.-Scarcely had they arrived at 
home when death marked the wife for his victim, and whilst he was languishing under the stroke, 
the arrow was sped to strike the husband down.

"Insatiate archer, would not one suffice?"

Mr. Chaires, born in Georgia, had been a resident of Leon County, Florida, for many years.  
He had reached nearly the age of seventy, and was respected by all who knew him as an upright 
man, a good citizen and a kind and benevolent neighbor and friend.  As a father he always 
exhibited the tenderest regard for the interest and welfare of his children, and as a husband 
he was exemplary, affectionate and kind, whilst his partner who preceded him but a few days 
to the tomb, was to him all that a wife could be.  They both died in the Communion of the 
methodist church.  Both lived as became professors of the Religion of Christ, displaying the 
graces belonging to the christian character and exemplifying the power of Religion upon the 
actions and the lives of men.  Mrs. Chaires, by reason of unconsciousness, could not testify 
in her last moments to the truth illustrated in her life, but Mr. Chaires died as the christian 
hero dies, triumphing over death, with a faith in his Saviour that robbed the monster of its 
sting and the grave of its victory.  Who would not wish to die such a death? "Let me die the 
death of the righteous, and let my last end by like his."
 
The Church of which he was a member may well mourn his loss as of the loss of a father to 
Israel.  He was its main stay and support, and at his hospitable board the minister ever found, 
from both husband and wife, a cordial welcome.  His children to whom he was so much endeared 
may subdue their sorrows in reflecting that their loss is his gain and that he has exchanged 
the toils and cares and disappointments of life, for the joys and the rest of heaven.  - The 
virtues of both remain as an example for us and their death impresses us with the truth that
"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform."