Itawamba-Lee County MsArchives Obituaries.....Anderson, Larkin November 29, 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/msfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jean Anderson andenola@swbell.net January 11, 2009, 5:37 pm Christian Advocate January 12, 1884 LARKIN ANDERSON was born in Franklin county, Tennessee, March 10, 1807; was married to Eleanor Emmerson, Oct. 18, 1832 and moved to then Itawamba (now Lee) county, Miss, in December, 1851; was taken sick Nov. 14, 1883, and, after fifteen days severe suffering, he died Nov. 29. At what time he embraced religion is not known, but he was a regular attendant at Church, and paid good attention to preaching, and if there was any feeling among the professors he was always more or less affected. He was a close Bible reader, and pondered well its glowing truths. He never connected himself with any denomination, nor was he ever known to express any preference, so far as I know. When any minister staid all night with him he always had services morning and evening. He used no tobacco, no bad language; was never known to be the least under the influence of whiskey, if he ever used it at all. He was strictly a peaceable man in his family and in neighborhood. He was heard to say before death that he had not been angry in six years and that he was an enemy to nobody and that if he had an enemy he did not know it. He was prompt and punctual in all the affairs of life. He was by profession a farmer, made plenty, and lived within his means. He was seldom ever sick until his last illness. The writer has been intimately acquainted with him nearly thirty-two years and has never known him to be in a difficulty in all that time. He was able to until the night he was taken sick. Thus he had borne the labors, bereavements, and trials of life, without apparent decay, for over 76 years. He was laid to away in chapel graveyard. He leaves an aged companion and a single daughter to feel and mourn their loss, besides other children and grandchildren. A vacant seat will be found at all the churches where he used to visit. Truly one of the pillars of society has fallen. Peace be to him. ------ ETHELBERT RANKIN. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/itawamba/obits/anderson568gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb