Clay County MO Archives Obituaries.....Fritzlen, James A. October 21, 1849
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Liberty Tribune, Nov 2, 1849
Obituary
Mr. Editor: - It is frequently our painful duty as we tread along the path of 
life to record the melancholy fact of the demise of one another of fellow 
creatures who have passed to that bourn from whence no traveller hath, yet 
returned.  but this duty becomes more or less afflicting in view of the age, 
relation, and circumstances of those whose history, we record.
The tear imperceptibly starts when the cold hand of death is aid on smiling 
infancy or ruddy youth, but these have formed but few if any ties for earth.  
We weep frequently when we see the aged and care worn sire go to the resting 
place appointed for all the living, but then when we reflect, that his three 
score years and ten or more past that the buoyancy of youth and the vigor of 
manhood are gone, and he stands trembling upon his staff under the wait of 
years (if those years had been spent well) we feel it is gain to him that he 
has been gathered to his Fathers.  But it is far different when we see fate in 
sullen night, setting on manhoods middle day; and such is the fact in the death 
of our estimable townsman, James A. Fritzlen, who died Oct. 21, in the 31st 
year of his age a man of active business habits, with flattering prospects 
before him, surrounded with friends and relatives, blessed with an affectionate 
and doting wife, with two interesting boys as pledges of their mutual 
affection.  Under such circumstances, we are led to exclaim how inscrutable are 
the ways of providence.  But inspiration hath impressed us with the sentiment 
of God is too wise to err and to good to be unkind.  The disease of which he 
died was that slow tho’ always fatal one Consumption.  During his sickness 
thoughtful before on the subject of religion, it was his constant aim to 
prepare for that change which awaited him, and through faith in the merits of 
Christ found pardon and a meekness for heaven.  May his family and friends meet 
him there.                   N.


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