Natchitoches County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Weaver, James Harvey April 6, 1878
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The People's Vindicator/May 4, 1878
DIED.

JAMES HARV[E]Y WEAVER, son of H. W. Weaver, was born in Natchitoches parish 
La., July 15th, 1853, and died near the old homestead, of Typhoid Fever with 
Congestion of the Lungs, on the 6th of April, 1878.

The writer of this Obituary knew him well, knew him when a boy, and after he 
had reached the years of manhood; was with him during his sickness and saw him 
breathe his last.

In the long list of human diseases, there is none which presents a more 
painful scene of anguish and distress; or which excites more poignant feelings 
of sympathy, than the one now under consideration.  We have witnessed the 
approach of death under a multitude of appalling forms; but in all the death 
bed scenes it has been our sad misfortune to witness, we have never had our 
feelings so deeply afflicted, as when looking on poor Harvey Weaver, 
struggling under the ruthless grasp of this terrible disease.

The verdict of a whole community has awarded to him the praise that belongs to 
the dutiful son, the tender husband, the kind father, the upright citizen, the 
perfect gentleman.  In every relation of life domestic and social, private and 
public, what candor, what sincereity, what lotty integrity, what 
uncompromising morality, what an elevated standard of conduct, what purity of 
motive, characterized his action and intercourse, who never held a truce with 
wrong, or bartered duty for expediency.

For the pure example of a blameless life; the splendid power of a spotless 
reputation, the incalculably beneficial influence he exerted in the true 
direction, we deplore his loss with a sincereity not the less unselfish, 
because we mourn as those who do not  hope in this transient world ever to 
look upon his like again; and while in the depth of their unavailing woe, 
those who so dearly cherished him, can find true solace only in the 
consolation of religion, yet they cannot and should not be insensible to the 
reflection that however prematurely in years he passed away from among us, 
hehas nobly fulfilled a lifetime of usefulness and duty, and won for himself a 
pure and imperishable renown.
E.T.E.

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