Cherokee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dowda, Judge James O. August 13, 1880
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The Cherokee Advance 19 Aug 1880 p 3
In Memoriam (sic)
We are pained to chronicle the death of one of our most respected and 
honored citizens after a lingering but not painful sickness of some months. 
Judge Jas. O. Dowda, who died at his home in Canton on the night of the 13 
inst.  His remains were intered (sic) in the citizen's cemetery at this 
place Sunday morning.  Prayer was offered up by Dr. Parker. 
Judge Dowda was born in Iredell county, N.C. in the year 1825, and in 1848 
moved to this county, where he has ever since lived, loved and honored by 
all who knew him; he having filled many positions of honor and trust in this 
county, and always satisfactorily to the people.  "I never heard anyone say 
naught against Judge Dowda," is proverbial here where he has for so many 
years lived.  No one was ever freer of envy, malice, hatred and 
uncharitableness (sic) than was Judge Dowda, but instead it was his duty, as 
he supposed, to quell all the envy, malice and hatred that might arise in 
others.  None was more charitable, generous or public spirited than he.  
Judge Dowda was one of the best posted men in the Bible. His illustrations 
were drawn from the remembered, bright and sacred poetry of Job and David, 
the wisdom of Solomon, and the prophetic inspirations of Ezekiel and Isaiah-
-in word a (sic) from the Bible-which made him unsually (sic) interesting in 
conversation. 
But the indulgent and fond father, the devoted husband, the kind neighbor 
and the public spirited citizen is gone from among us.  The voice of censure 
or praise is the same to him who lies in yonder church yard in his narrow 
home-the cold and silent grave. We feel assured that he has recovered his 
wasted strength and refreshed his fatigned (sic) faculties in the balmy 
breeze of Heaven's happy home. We tender our sincere condolence to the 
widow, the fatherless, relatives and friends, trusting that when they and we 
too come to die, we can be as fully assured of meeting our God as was the 
man whom all loved, Judge Dowda.  May he rest, sweetly rest, who could but 
exclaim--
"By Thee, thro' life supported,
I pass the dang'rous road;
With heavenly hosts escorted
Up to that bright abode." 

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