Anson-Mecklenburg-Union County NcArchives Obituaries.....Barrett, J.T. 1894
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Daily Charlotte Observer
26 Apr 1894

In Memoriam

About 8:45 p.m. April 20th, 1894 at his home in Matthews, NC, in the 49th year 
of his age, Mr. J.T. Barrett fell asleep in Jesus.

Mr. Barrett was a native of Anson County. On January 11th, 1865, he was united 
in marriage with Miss Sarah M. McLaughlin of Union County, which union God 
blessed with one son and two daughters, all of whom survive him.

He had been unwell for some time but no one felt alarmed about him until about 
two weeks before his death, when it became evident that he was suffering from 
a disease which would likely baffle loving care and tender nursing, together 
with the skill of leading physicians.

The Master had need of him, therefore called him, and in obedience to that 
Divine call he laid down his weapons of Christian warfare and betook himself 
to the shining courts of heaven.

He was a devoted, genial husband companion; a tender, sympathazing, loving 
father; a modest, retiring, humble, loyal Christian; a faithful, considerate 
employer; a true and tried friend to the poor; a business man in whose honesty 
and integrity every one had unbounded confidence. Truly a great man has 
fallen; a happy home circle broken, bereaved; a community caused to mourn and 
the Church militant to lament their loss, while the Church triumphant, in the 
name of her King, opened wide her arms to receive him.

The funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church which he loved so 
dearly and whose services he so faithfully attended. The house was filled to 
overflowing by one of the largest concourses of people ever witnessed in our 
town.

The colored people, realizing that they also had lost a friend, came in goodly 
numbers to pay their tribute of respect and veneration.

But few will miss him more than his pastor, whose heart he so often cheered 
and comforted, especially by his faithful attendance upon and appreciative 
attention to the usual services. He was one of the faithful few who attended 
and enjoyed the weekly prayer meeting; a faithful and earnest Sabbath school 
scholar. His place in the choir is left vacant; his voice is hushed on earth 
but to be attuned to the melodies of heaven.

When asked if he was conscious of his condition and told that he must soon 
leave his beloved family, kindred and friends, he was not alarmed, but bore up 
with Christian fortitude. And when one of the stricken family, whose hearts 
were being srung by the consciousness that he whom they so dealy loved would 
soon leave them, would come to minister to his wants with eyes red from 
weeping and tears still flowing, he would admonish them not to weep for him; 
that he was ready. "Be ready; be ready," was a favorite expression with him.

A few hours before the summons came he wearliy exclaimed: "Let me go where I 
can rest!" Who can doubt that he -

"Heard the voice of Jesus say,
Come unto me and rest.
Lay down thou weary one, lay down
Thy head upon my breast?"

Pastor

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