Meriwether-Jasper-Putnam County GaArchives Obituaries.....Abner Durham April 14 1856
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Empire State – Spalding County – Week of April 29, 1856
Departed this life at his residence in Meriwether County, Ga. On the 14th day 
of March 1856, Abner Durham, Esq. In the 76 year of his age; the deceased was a 
native of Surry County, N. C. and in the 20 year of his age removed to jasper 
county in this State.  He also resided in Putnam and Monroe Counties.  In 1827, 
he removed to Meriwether(then Troup County) where he contained to reside up to 
the time of his death – being one of the early settlers in this county,  the 
deceased was generally and extensively known as a man of strict integrity with 
all his dealings with his fellow man.  For many years he discharged the duties 
of Justice of the Peace in his district and also the duties of the Justice of 
the Inferior court for the county with that independence and probity, which was 
so eminently characteristic of him, in all the varied relations of life, 
possessing a strong vigorous independent mind, no power on earth could bias or 
control his judgment when once deliberately formed.  Born during the stirring 
times of the Revolution, his mind was deeply imbued with Republican principles, 
as well as the principles of civil and religious liberty, of which his whole 
life was a practical illustration, he was in faith and practice a Jeffersonian 
democrat in true sense of that term.  Devotedly attached to the Constitution of 
his country, he combated Federalist and all the other isms of the day.  Know 
Nothingism included, up to the day of his death.  His patriotism and love of 
country, was not merely that of naked profession, he was a soldier in the war 
of 1812, and took an active part in maintaining the rights and liberties of his 
countrymen, in the tented field, in that glorious struggle for the principles, 
he so well loved and delighted to cherish throughout his long life.  He was for 
many years an exemplary member of the Primitive Baptist church, and when the 
grim messenger of death came to summon him from earth and those friends he 
loved so well, he was prepared for that solemn event.  Death had no terror for 
him; he died as he had lived, an honest man, the noblest work of God and a 
Christian full of years, respected and honored by all who knew him; but he has 
gone to his long home.  We shall never more receive the warming voice of the 
old, faithful patriot and Christian in behalf of the constitution of his 
country. Of his church, and the religion of his Saviour, in which he was a firm 
and consistent believer.  Let us not forget his warming counsels, and strive to 
imitate his patriotism and his Christian virtues, and be prepared to meet him 
in that world which knoweth no evil.  To his immediate family and relatives, 
his death is irreparable and especially to the aged partner of his bosom, for 
he was an affectionate husband, kind parent, and humane master; and though he 
can never return to them, yet by imitating his virtues, and obeying his 
precepts, they have the assurance that they may go to him in that world of 
bliss, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.

AN OLD FRIEND  - Greenville, Ga. April 1856




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