Obituary for Joseph Heard Fielder, 1849, Newton, Geortia

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The Christian Index
October 11, 1849
Page 327

Brother Joseph Heard Fielder, the subject of this notice was born on the 26th day of 
August, 1818, in the county of Morgan and removed with his Father Obadiah M.B. 
Fielder, Esq., while in his minority, to the county of Newton, from thence after he 
became nearly grown to this county.  In the year 1838, he obtained a hope in Christ, and 
on the 9th day of September of the same year, was baptized a member of the Church, by 
our venerable Pastor Rev. James Carter.  From his uniform and orderly deportment and 
aptitude to teach, he was on the 13th day of September 1844, licenced to preach.  On the 
10th day of November, in the year 1848, the Church ordered a convocation of a 
Presbyterry for the purpose of ordaining Brother William G. McMichael and Fielder to 
the Pastoral office, but from the extreme diffidence and retiring disposition of Brother 
Fielder, his ordination was by his request deferred, until he could become better satisfied 
as to his call to that most important and responsible office.  Brother Fielder was 
appointed Church Clerk on the 8th day of  March, 1845, which office he held to the time 
of his death which took place on the 28th day of September, 1849.  Brother Fielder was a 
kind and tender husband, and affectionate father, and a humane and indulgent master.  In 
his general intercourse he was remarkable for his urbanity and hospitality.  As a Christian 
and preacher he was exemplary and useful.  Brother Fielder was married on the 17th day 
of  December, 1844, to Miss Ann Eliza McMichael, youngest daughter of John 
McMichael, Esq., of Butts Co., by whom he had one child, Joseph Mallary Fielder, to 
mourn his loss.  The Church most cordially unites with his numerous friends and 
relations in unfeigned sentiments of condolences for their bereavement.  "Blessed are the 
dead who die in the Lord from henceforth, yea, with the Spirit, that they may rest from 
their labors and their works do follow them."

He has gone to his rest, his sorrows are o'er
The Saviour has called him away,
His glorified spirit has reached that blest shore
Where clouds never dim the bright day.

His mother was there, to welcome him home,
And many he fondly loved here,
While a rapturous song swelled Heaven's high dome, 
As joyful they welcomed him there.

Then why should we weep, to lay him to rest,
Since Jesus the grave had disarmed?
No terror is there, but peaceful and blest
Is the sleeper that falls in His arms.

But Zion must weep, when her watchmen depart,
The church mourns a faithful one gone,
The void he has left afflicts our sad hearts
For we know that his life work is done.

We grieve to behold his fond partner so young,
Bereft of her earthly delight;
All life seems a desert, through which she must roam,
And Earth appears shrouded in night.

Ah! Sister; I know that the light of thine eyes
Is hid in the pitiless grave,
But the one that has smitten, though now to disguise,
Can reach forth thy spirit to save.

O! do not distrust Him, His heart is all love,
Though dark is his providence now,
Thy bosom's fond idol He's taken above,
Go, bow at his feet, humbly bow.

The prayers of they husband can bless thee no more;
Then, raise thine own voice to the skies,
For those, who a blessing from Heaven implore,
Our gracious God never denies.

That sweet bud of promise, they beautiful boy,
May be the support of thy days,
But, train Him, O! train him for Heavenly joy,
And teach him the virtuous ways.

Of his honored father.  And may he be spared
To fill up the wound Death has given,
When summoned at last, may you all be prepared
For a glorious meeting in Heaven.

Jackson, September 29, 1849  	A.L.C.

The following is an excerpt taken from the Fielder Family Record, written by Herbert 
Fielder, a brother of Joseph Heard Fielder:

"Joseph married Miss McMichael of Butts County, Ga., where she now lives a widow, 
with a promising boy about 11 years old, named Joseph Mallory.  Joseph was a Baptist 
minister of great piety, uniform morality, and vigorous mind.  He is supposed to have 
destroyed his once vigorous health by application to books".

Note:  Joseph Heard Fielder was the son of Obadiah M.B. Fielder and Elizabeth Heard 
Fielder.