Lenoir County NcArchives Obituaries.....Loftin, Sarah  (Mrs. Shadrack Loftin) September 10, 1853
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New Bern Weekly News  1 October 1853
On the 10th instant, at her residence in this county two miles from Kinston, 
of bilious typhoid fever, Mrs. Sarah Loftin, wife of Shadrack Loftin in the 
68th year of her age.

Mrs. Loftin was of that class of Christian, who live and die and pass from the 
stage of life, leaving not an enemy behind. She was a zealous, firm and 
consistent follower of the blessed Savior of mankind, striving to the best of 
her ability to fulfill all the duties of wife, mother, neighbor and christian, 
in a manner that we have an abiding hope was acceptable to her maker and to 
her fellow creatures.  Her purse was always open to relieve the distresses of 
her  poorer neighbors and friends, and not only that, but her personal 
services were  invariably given to smooth the aching head of the afflicted , 
and her counsel and advice ready to point the poor sinner to the “Lamb of God 
that takest away the sins of the world.”

Having married very early in life, she was soon acquainted with the cares and 
anxieties incidental to the rearing and educating of a family.  But having 
discharged all its duties in a manner that must have been acceptable to 
her “silent monitor within” she has gone to receive the reward of a well spent 
life to rejoin the company of those of her relatives and friends who have 
preceded her; among whom will doubtless be found her spiritual father in God, 
Elder Wm. P. Biddle, who left this world for another and better, but a few 
weeks previous.  She was baptized by the Elder forty-three years ago and 
doubtless their meeting on the blessed shores of the spirit land will be 
joyful in the extreme.

She met her death with all the firmness characteristic of the followers of him 
on Calvary. Not a sigh nor a murmur escaped her during her illness although 
surrounded by a host of sorrowing friends and relations, well knowing that 
their loss would be her eternal gain.

                     (Four lines of a quote that is unreadible
                     beginning with "Lord" and ending with the
                     initials "T.R.")




Additional Comments:
According to the records of the DAR, Sarah Loftin was the daughter of William 
Cox and Anne Bright.  She married Shadrack Loftin on 31 May 1801, and of that 
union they had 3 children:  William Cox Loftin, Cynthia Loftin who married 
Walter Dunn, and Shadrack Elkanah Loftin.

The Elder mentioned in her obituary was William Phillip Biddle,a prominent 
leader of the Baptist church in NC. He died one month before Sarah Loftin on 8 
August 1853. The Loftins (especially her son Shadrack Elkanah Loftin)were 
among the founders of the First Baptist Church in Kinston, NC.

Sarah is buried next to her husband in the Dunn Family Cemetery, 2 miles north 
of Kinston.

Steven J. Hill
3rd Great-grandson

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