Georgia:  Pike County:  John Harper Obituary, 1868

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Obituary of John Harper of Pike Co., GA which was in the Southern Christian 
Advocate. He married (1) Leah Maddox and (2) Elizabeth Jordan. 
Leah was the mother of all his children. 


OBITUARY

Bro. John Harper died in Pike Co., GA, on 20th June 1868, in the 85 year 
of his age.

He was one of the first settlers of this county. In early life he joined 
the Methodist Church and from that time to the time of his death he lived the 
life of a pious and orderly Christian. He was a kind neighbor, a worthy 
citizen, an affectionate husband and a doating and indulgent parent. He lived 
to see all his children grown and settled off in life and to witness the 
fruits of his efforts to train them while young in the way they should go. 
The mother of his children died many years since. He married a second wife 
with whom he lived until separated from her and his children and grand 
children and many relatives and friends by death, all of whom mourn the 
irreparable loss. He was unassuming in character, courteous and kind, 
steadfast in his adherence to truth and right, and by his upright course, he 
won the confidence of even the irreligious, which caused him to have a large 
circle of personal friends. Even from those to whom his Christian walk in 
life was a rebuke, he received, and he justly merited, the highest expression 
of esteem. The spiritual and temporal welfare of his family were ever on his 
mind and were attended to with the utmost calm and punctuality. His short 
illness and sudden death prevented his leaving any dying testimony behind in 
regard to his future welfare, but the exemplary Christian life he led so long 
lived surely is sufficient to satisfy the most credulous and cause all to 
exclaim that another father in Israel has gone home to heaven. From the 
infirmities of extreme old age, he was freqeuntly in the latter years of his 
life denied the privileges of the sanctuary; yet around the family alter he 
communed with his Savior and felt and enjoyed the sweet comfort of religion. 
The writer enjoyed the privilege of meeting with him occasionally and he ever 
expressed himself as living in the assurance of a lively hope.