Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....HAZLEHURST, John McNish (2) July 1, 1884
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Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 12 July 1884; pg. 3 col. 5

IN MEMORIAM

J. McNish Hazlehurst is asleep.  We carried him to his last resting place in 
the old family cemetery at Waynesville, where but so short time before his 
honored father had preceded him.  The rain fell gently as the train carried us 
and him from Dr. Burroughs’ home, which had been his in his last illness, 
nature joining in the general mourning that one so young, so strong, so manly, 
so loveable, must leave us, and after we left the cars and while the services 
were being concluded in the little church near his open grave, the clouds 
poured forth another shower of tears, but as we placed him with gentle, loving 
hands in that open grave, and the solemn service of the church was pronounced, 
the sunlight struggled through the clouds, and seemed an emblem of the hope, 
yea, belief, we have that he has gone to a better and brighter life beyond the 
grave; for in his sphere he lived a manly and true life, and the world is 
better that he lived.

But 37 years of age, it was hard for him to realize that he must die, and he 
endured much of suffering under the surgeon’s knife in the hope that he might 
reverse the verdict, which, sooner or later, is pronounced upon all of us; but 
when he realized that death was inevitable he met it like a man, and quietly 
left his simple direction as to the personal effects which had been his 
companions in life, and will be treasured now as mementoes of his life, sad 
reminders of this sad ending of a life brightly begun.  Loving sisters were 
with him through his weary weeks of suffering, and all that could be done to 
mitigate his pain was done.  Hundreds of schoolmates, comrades, friends who 
knew Mac Hazlehurst and loved him, join with his immediate family in mourning, 
but all join in the intuitive feeling that he has met the reward of a brighter 
and better life.  C.


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