TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - Obits   Grant, David Wright

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Obituaries from The Gospel Messenger

Butler, Ga. September 1888 Vol. 10
No 9

David Wright Grant son of Elder Isaiah
and Mary Grant, was bom June 28, 1869,
and died May 5, 1888, by the discharge of
one barrel of a gun, whilst he was in the act
of loading the other. The whole contents
entered the left side of his mouth, the
principal part remaining in his head. He,
with a large number of others, had met on
Echaconna creek to fish and hunt, and there
was, therefore, a large number to witness
the truly awful sight. He was strictly moral,
kind to everybody, and truly obedient to his
parents, ever showing a profound reverence
for his father's position as a minister. He
had never made any profession of religion,
but we have reason to hope that he (almost
without pain or a struggle) passed in a
twinkling, from a world of sin and sorrow,
to one of eternal bliss. September, 1887,
he and I went together to the Association
at Sardis, Bibb county, Ga., and when on
the way from there, I asked him if he had
ever felt to praise the Lord, and he
answered. No; I then asked if he had ever
felt himself to be a sinner. He then burst
into a flood of tears, and said that he had
felt himself to be an awful sinner; and also
said, that the more he strove to live right,
the more he saw his utter inability to do so;

and so on, making a good many other
remarks to the same point. And, dear
reader, this is my reason to hope that he
was embraced in that everlasting covenant,
which is ordered in all things, and sure. We
are taught in the scriptures, that where the
Lord has commenced a good work. He win
perfect it; and here was an evidence that He
had commenced a good work in the heart
of this youth, for nothing short of Divine
life can cause one to feel himself, as he truly
is, a lost and helpless sinner. His funeral
was attended by a very large concourse of
people. Brothers Joel Matthews and James
N. Hams spoke on the occasion, much to
the comfort of the bereaved relatives and
friends. I have witnessed many sad
funerals, but have never seen one to be
compared with that memorable day; youth
and old age joined in one chorus of
weeping. It has cast a cloud over the entire
community, and God grant that it may let
down to the Spiritual good of the same, for
we all feel the weight of this stroke, to say
nothing of our heartfeh sympathy for the
dear family, who have been bereft of then-
brightest star. May the Merciful Giver of
all Grace be with them and us all, and give
us hearts of resignation to all His dealings
with us, is the humble desire of one who
feels to be, if a saint, the least of all.

Kmxville, Ga.      FANNIE M. LONG