Greene-Lenoir County NcArchives Obituaries.....Mewborn, John Moses 1900
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Mewborn Church Records
OBIT - JOHN MOSES MEWBORN, 1854 - 1900
  John Moses Mewborn was the oldest son of Joshua Mewborn and Winifred 
Mewborn.  He was born on the 25th day of July, 1854.  While in his childhood 
and boyhood days he possessed a remarkable discriminating power and all 
through life he had an inquiring mind.  Wanting to know why a thing was so, 
and would try to analyze a subject in its various ways, and apply it at 
different points to see if some other plan or point would not be best.  He was 
a great lover of domestic fowls and animals and attended strictly to these.  
He was a good provider and farmer, making his own supplies at home and 
provided well for the necessities of his family, was a good, kind, and 
obligating neighbor, ever willing to assist the destitute and needy, never too 
busy to visit the sick and administer to their wants.  He was united in 
marriage to Miss Barbara Ann Fields on the 21st day of January 1874, and of 
this happy union there were born unto them ten children: four boys and six 
girls.  All survived him, they all being healthy, normal, and of a quick mind.  
He united with the church on Saturday before the 2nd Sunday in December, 1881 
and was baptized next day by Elder I. J. Taylor.  He ever adorned his 
profession with a well ordered walk, ever ready to obey the wishes and needs 
of the church.  If a visiting brother was to be met, or carried, his services 
were at the command of the church.  He was set apart and ordained as a deacon 
the 2nd Sunday in June, 1886.  Elders L. H. Hardy, T. B. Lancaster, & J. W. 
Gardner being the Presbytery, which office he filled with credit to himself, 
and satisfaction to the church.  Brethern I feel that it requires the pen of a 
ready writer to tell the merit and the great service he was to the church and 
to the community.  We can truly say that he was a servant in the house of the 
Lord and that he has filled his stewardship, and has gone home to enjoy the 
inheritance reserved for the children of God.  We feel while we mourn and look 
at the vacant seat he so readily and ably filled, that he is now enjoying the 
sweet blessed call of our Savior where he says, "Come, ye blest of my Father 
and enjoy the place prepared for you."  Our brother leaves behind to mourn a 
beloved wife, ten children, one son-in-law, and one grandchild, an aged father 
and mother, one brother, and one sister, with numerous other relatives and 
friends and the church.  He passed over the river of death in the triump of 
the faith of the blessed Jesus on the 28th day of August, 1900, in his 47th 
year and was laid to rest the next day in the family burying ground.  A large 
crowd of sorrowing friends attending.  His sickness of of the heart and he 
suffered for several months but was not confined in the house continually.  We 
would implore this dear wife, we would persuade the dear lovely children not 
to mourn or grieve for him for he has passed over. He having his passport, 
(which was faithfulness) stamped, sealed, and coutersigned with the blood of 
Jesus, but follow in his footprints and examples set by him, ever putting your 
trust in Jesus.  May your passports be like precious faith, that you may meet 
Him in that mansion above, where parting, and sadness, and sorrow, will be 
ever done away and there will be one eternal bliss of happiness and praises to 
a triumphant and holy Redeemer.  Let the Lord be praised forever, Amen.
  Read, approved and ordered to be recorded on order of the church in 
conference on Saturday before the 2nd Sunday in December, 1900.
  Elder T. B. Lancaster - Moderator
  L. J. H. Mewborn - Clerk
  From Mewborn Church Records


Additional Comments:
MEWBORN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH RECORDS

This church is located in Jason, Greene Co right on the Lenoir Co line.  These 
obits were abstracted by the late Ima Mewborn from the original records and 
are mostly members of the extended Mewborn/Hardy family.


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