Cabarrus County, NC - Obituary of James Means, 1826

James Means

May 30 1826, Catawba Journal 

It becomes the melancholy task of a friend to record the decease of 
Col. James A. Means of Cabarrus County. A few days painful struggle 
with an obstinate bilious colic, in despite of all that the skill of 
physicians and the affectionate and unremitted attention of his friends 
and relations could affect, terminated in his death on Monday morning, 
the 15th May, in the 27th year of his life. It is the lot of all men 
to die, but it has been seldom indeed, that one has been swept from 
the stage of existence so much the subject of sorrow and regret as our 
departed fellow-citizen. Death, the destroyer, pays no respect to 
persons. 

The rich and the poor, the old and the young, the virtuous and the 
vicious, among human beings, are all alike his victims. If all that 
could render man respected and beloved, could have saved our friend, 
he would have been spared to us for many years to come. In every 
capacity of life, his conduct wore our love and esteem, and left us 
nothing to regret. He was truly without an enemy. In the death of one, 
who as an officer was honest, active and intelligent, as a citizen 
useful, as a neighbour kind and obliging, as a son dutiful, as a 
brother affectionate, and as a husband and father tender and attentive. 
What have we not lost? A link in the chain which bound our little 
society together is broken, and it is not in human power to fill it 
again. But it becomes not us, as Christians, however much we may 
lament, to murmer [sic]. The All-mighty [sic], whose fiat created man, 
hath said, “the measure of my servant’s cup is full—I will take him 
unto myself:”and it is our duty to submit with humility to the 
mysterious dispensations of Providence. 

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