Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Vann, Joseph October 11 1882
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The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga, October 22, 1882
---Mr. Joseph Vann was born in Chambers county, Ala., February 21st, 1839, and 
died in Cedartown, Polk county, Ga., October 11, 1882.  He had but recently 
returned to this place, his former home, and had entered in to business in the 
strength of his manhood.  He came in the buoyancy of hope.  Kind friends 
welcomed him to the scenes of friendship of other years.  His heart responded 
to the cheerful greetings.  His wife and children remained in Alabama until he 
could secure for them a home.  Letters--cheering letters--came.  All was 
hopeful.  But the wires bring a shade over the hopes of the letters.  The wife 
hurries to the bed side of the sick husband and is met with the crushing 
intelligence, “He’s dead!”  How transient are the best schemes of man.  While 
the fruits of our hopes are ripening, “the flower fadeth.” for the breath of 
death bloweth upon it.  Alas! This is the state of manliness, as readily as the 
shadows of night settles on the landscapes of earth.  Thus it was with our 
friend.  In him were found all the instincts of a noble nature--kind, 
sympathetic, ready to accommodate, liberal hearted.  He responded to the call 
of friendship at any sacrifice.  Cheerfulness abounded; his presence was 
sunshine.  It is sad to see the flowers wither and die, but sadder still to see 
the brilliancy of the eye, the serene and intelligent countenance fade away 
under the touch of death.  The endearing relations that tied him on to life 
were severed, and husband, father and friend paid the debt of humanity--dust 
thou are and unto dust must return.     The deceased having been instructed 
from his youth by the example of a Christian mother, and in maturer man by the 
godly life of a Christian wife, his mind and heart were saved from the baneful 
influences of skepticism.  The impression of his youth fastened the conviction 
of truth upon his conscience that followed him in all his wanderings.  He gave 
a ready affirmation to all the demands of his conscience and when awakened to 
his condition, without any doubts to satisfy, or worldly philosophy to answer, 
he turned to the cross a repentant believing sinner, and God, the Father, for 
the sake of the world’s redeemer, saved his trembling spirit.  Taken violently 
ill, death marched steadily on the citadel of life, but the spirit was more 
powerful to save than sin was to destroy.  He declared his faith in the 
readiness of Christ to save, and save him now; and while the preacher was 
leading in prayer--he following in the prayer of the minister--he said.  “He 
does save me now,” and clapped his glad hands in testimony of the truth of the 
power of Christ to save, sent gladness to the heart of his blind mother, to his 
brothers and sisters, and left to the broken-hearted wife the cheering 
consolation of his salvation.  His death flooded the grave with the light of 
hope, and gave to the sad heart a blessed assurance of resting together beyond 
the grave.  May the peace of God be the light of the pathway of the troubled 
hearts.  T. 

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