Jackson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Borders, Samuel K. December 26, 1880
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"The Jacksonville Republican"
Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama 

NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 15, 1881

IN MEMORIAM OF SAMUEL K. BORDERS

Died in Oxford, Ala., Dec. 26, 1880, after a somewhat protracted illness, 
Samuel K. Borders, aged 58 years, eleven months and fourteen days. He was 
born in Jackson county, Georgia, January 12, 1822 and during his early youth 
attended school at Pennfield, from which he went to enter the University of 
Ga., at Athens where he graduated with honors Aug. 1, 1843 at the early age 
of 21. While attending college he professed conversion and joined the 
Baptist church, of which he continued a faithful and devoted member to the 
hour of his death.

After leaving college, his father having moved to Alabama, he read medicine 
in Jacksonville, Ala. with a view when he should have mastered the 
profession of moving to Mississippi to practice, but his father being 
opposed to his leaving him, gave him a farm adjoining his own and insisted 
upon his occupying it.

On March 19, 1851 he was united in marriage to Miss S.M. Williams of South 
Carolina, who, with seven children, six daughters and a son, survives him.

And thus we have been called upon to chronicle the departure for that long 
"bourne whence no traveler returns" of another of our purest and best 
citizens. No stain rested upon the bright and shining escutcheon of his 
career. Though quiet and unobtrusive, his life shone resplendant with the 
celestial virtues of profound piety, true filial devotion and broad 
philanthropy. The golden rule of inspiration was the unerring square by 
which he shaped all his actions.

He died as he lived with the blessed Shekinah of faith streaming upon him 
and illuminating with its electric effulgence the dark vale of shadows. When 
the hour of final dissolution was drawing near and the gray haired minister 
bent over him to catch a last expression as to his prospects for a happy 
immortality, with the calm fight of heavenly assurance lighting up his 
pallied countenence he whispered "all is well."

"He knew that soon his eyes must close,

In death's long, pulseless spell,

yet calm in faith's serene repose

He whispered "all is well."

Tho' filled with pain and sore distressed, no murmur from him fell,

He realized that God knows best, and felt that all was well.

O precious gift of heavenly power, its raptures can tell,

To know in death's dark lonely hour, that all with us is well.

On Sabbath morn, sweet day of rest,

His spirit soared to swell, that white washed throng redeemed and blest,

In Heaven, where all is well. "

How fitting he should take his leave at sweet Christmas tide, while the 
resurrection bells were ringing. Though sad, doubly sad to the weeping ones 
around the peaceful, happy hearthstone, where so long his precious presence 
had diffused a holy and benign influence; his absence lends one more harp to 
the grand orchestra of the skies, and another white robed minstrel when the 
loved ones left behind shall cross the swelling flood to sing the glad 
chorus of " welcome home." B.D.W., Oxford, Ala., Jan. 10, 1881

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