Adams County MsArchives Obituaries.....Postlethwaite, Samuel October 18, 1825
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The Ariel, Monday, Nov. 7, 1825
In recording the many direful calamities which have befallen us during the 
prevalance [sic] of the fatal disease of the season, we are seldom called upon 
to notice a more afflicting dispensation to a whole community, than is now felt 
in the loss of the brightest ornament of our society, by the death of Samuel 
Postlethwaite, Esq, who departed this life on the 18th Oct. 1825, at Clifton, 
his usual residence.

Mr. Postlethwaite was a native of Pennsylvania, but had for more than 25 years 
been a resident of this city and county. With and untarnished reputation, he 
commenced his career of usefulness at an early age, by the course of life so 
upright and honorable as to give a strong earnest of his subsequent character; a 
character almost too perfect, and too well known to require or admit of eulogy 
in a short imperfect obituary notice. Like a true patriarch, Mr. P. had for many 
years held such a degree of influence in society, as to give support and 
character to almost every useful institution in his neighborhood. He held the 
office of president of "The bank of the State of Miss." during the last ten 
years of his life, and executed the duties incumbent on him in that capacity 
with great accuracy and propriety, As a member and and elder of the Presbyterian 
church, in which he devoted much of his time and attention, and upon which he 
bestowed some valuable donations, he prived [sic] himself a true and faithful 
servant of his Lord and Master. Always consistent in his religious belief and 
principles, he had religious belief and principles, he acted the part of a 
righteous man without reproach, of supression of insicerity [sic], and during 
the long time that he lived a professed disicple [sic] of the Redeemer, he was 
such an one as every man, woman and child in society, looked up to with the most 
sincere veneration for his worth; such as was ever presentable to command 
respect and deference of all men, however profane, or however sceptical [sic] - 
such to the interest of religion and his church, as none other amongst us its 
head and cornerstones; and such, in a word, as did honor to the religion of 
Jesus Christ.

In his intercourse with society his deportment was always characterized by a 
peculiar urbanity and suavity of manner, which, while it forbade not the 
approach of the meanest individual never failed to command the respect and 
esteem of every one. This benevolence was not the least among his numberless 
virtues. Many, very many of the poor amongst us have felt its kindly influence 
in times of greatest trouble. The writer of this small tribute of affectionate 
regard to his memory has often witnessed the beneficial effects of this noble 
trait in his character. The sufferings of the orphan, the distress of the widow, 
and the necessities of the poor and destitute of every description never failed 
of finding relief, either in the distribution of his bounty or in the 
dispensations of his friendly and consolatory admonitions. It will be needless 
to say much here of the loss sustained by his family and immediate connections 
in the death of such a man. If hundreds mourn and lament his death, who had no 
other connection with him than the common ties that bind society together; how 
much more poignant must be the sorrow of those; who enjoy the privilege of 
claiming a closer and more dear alliance, But for both then and us, there is 
left much consolation under this distressing bereavement; that is in the 
reflection, that he died as he lived - a Christian, He met his fate with the 
calmness and composure of a saint, fully confident in the fulfilement [sic] of 
the promise of the gospel, and under the perfect conviction, that death to him 
was only the commencement of another existence in a happy immortality.

Additional Comments:
copy of a transcription done for the WPA 1936-8.

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