CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - OBITS - Aaron Evans

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"THE HOME" - Pittsboro weekly 
Vol II, Tuesday, April 16, 1885 


Aaron Evans died of pneumonia at his home in Gulf township, April 11, 
1885, in the 81st year of his age and was buried in the family 
graveyard a few rods from where he was born. His wife had preceded him 
to the land of rest about two years. Brother Evans was more than an 
ordinary and deserves something more than a passing notice to his 
memory. He professed religion about 60 years ago at Meroney's church 
and connected himself with the Methodist church at that place shortly 
afterwards. He moved his membership to Corinth when that was organized 
but he always remembered Meroney's as the place of his spiritual birth, 
and loved to worship at the altar where he had first felt the power of 
a Saviour's love. He held and official position in the church, nearly 
the whole time of his membership, usually as a class leader. He was 
pure and upright and was devoted to the church and her ordinances. Few 
of his means gave more cheerfully or liberally to support her 
institutions. His house was the preacher's home and the weary man
of God always received a heartfelt welcome at his door. many a preacher 
in the N.C. conference will join kindred and neighbors in mourning over 
the death of this most excellent christian gentleman. He bore his 
agonizing pains with sweet composure and resignation, and died in the 
triumphs of a gospel faith. To him the grave had no victory neither had
death any sting.  His son and three daughters have lost a kind father, 
the church a faithful and worthy pioneer, and the community a wise and 
pious man whose place cannot be filled; but he has gone to his reward. 
Millwood, N.C. April 14, 1885.