Macon County GaArchives Obituaries.....Howard, Rev John August 22, 1836
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Macon Telegraph
Obituary

Departed this life, on Monday, the 22d instant, at 12 o'clock, the Rev. John 
Howard, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the 45th year of his age.

His mortal disease was of a few days continuance; painful in its progress, but 
brief in its duration.

Though a mournful task, yet it is one not unmingled with pleasurable emotions, 
to recur to, and recount the circumstances connected with his death-bed.

With what unshaken confidence did he rely on the all sufficient merit of his 
Redeemer, and with that calmness and serenity undergo the bitter pangs of 
death, exclaiming, "though I pass through the valley and the shadow of death, 
yet will I fear no evil, for thou, O Lord, art with me to comfort me through!"

His dying testimony abundantly satisfied his surviving friends that he was 
going to that "sweet, sweet home" about which he loved in health to sing and 
talk, and to which it was the business of his life to allure his fellow men. 
He retained through all his sickness his reason unimpaired, and died in full 
possession of his mental faculties, so that his last evidences of the power of 
the religion he preached are peculiarly satisfactory and gratifying. To all 
with whom he conversed on the subject, he gave assurances that "no cloud 
intervened to darker his skies, or hide for a moment his Lord from his eyes. 
He is gone to the Land of Eternal rest, after which his soul parted so 
ardently and long, leaving an afflicted family, a mourning community, and a 
weeping Church, to lament the sad dispensation."

Mr. Howard was a tender husband, a devoted father, an ardent friend, and a 
faithful minister. Few men have lived more usefully, or died more regretted.

August 25, 1836
Macon [GA] Telegraph

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