Bibb County GaArchives Obituaries.....DeLoach, Jackson 1872
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The Christian Index, July 11, 1872
JACKSON DeLOACH. -- At Associations, Conventions, and all denominational 
gatherings in Macon, Ga., Jackson DeLoach will be greatly missed by visitors.  
To how many of the leading ministers and brethren of the Baptist denomination 
has his generous hospitality been a comfort and a delight?
Bro. DeLoach came to Macon from South Carolina, about the year 1840, a poor 
young man, having only an "Odd Fellows' Card," and seventy-five cents in 
money.  By his own energies, directed by one of the clearest and quickest minds 
I ever knew, he had acquired, before the war, a hundred thousand dollars.  He 
was very fortunate in having married to Miss Eliza Wright, whose fine 
intelligence and magnanimity of soul enabled her to do much for the advancement 
of her husband.  He secured the confidence of his fellow citizens, was elected 
alderman of the city, one of the Board of Trustees of the State Academy for the 
Blind," and to other positions of honor and trust.  He and his wife were 
baptized by Rev. J. R. Kendrick, who, at that time was the young pastor of the 
Macon church.  His greatest activity in the church began about the time the 
present church edifice was erected. He devoted to the building much of time and 
money, and at its dedication he was ordained a deacon.  Under his 
administration as superintendent, the Sunday school reached a high degree of 
prosperity.  For thirty years he was the subject of constitutional disease, 
which caused him, during the last ten years, unspeakable anguish, and led to 
the use of many remedies, some of which, no doubt, were seriously damaging.  
His heart would almost break in speaking of this trial and awful suffering.  In 
one week, brother and sister DeLoach, were bereaved of three unusually 
promising boys, and left childless.  This was the great blow from which neither 
of them ever fully recovered.  They sought to assuage their grief in loving and 
helping others, especially the children of ministers and missionaries; but 
without complete success.  The future recognition of, and reunion with their 
children, have formed their sweetest solace, He has gone  to them, and the 
widowed mother waits for the boatman to come to take her ot the other side 
where her dear ones dwell.  He believed, to the last, that God had "commenced a 
good work" in him that the blood of Jesus cleanseth him "from all sin;" that he 
was on the Rock, and that when his sufferings were past, he would rest in 
Jesus.  Gone!  but memory retains the facts of his eventful life, and the heart 
cherishes his good deeds and unchanging friendship.
S. Landrum.


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