Rutherford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Walton, John Alfred Dr. August 25, 1830
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North Carolina Spectator and Western Advertiser
North Carolina Spectator and Western Advertiser Rutherfordton, North Carolina 
Fri Aug 27, 1830

DIED-- In this town, on Wednesday morning the 25th inst., Dr. John A. Walton, of
billious fever, aged 23 years; son of Thomas Walton, Esq. of Morganton, N.C. 
[Obituary notice deferred until next week.]

North Carolina Spectator and Western Advertiser Rutherfordton, North Carolina 
Friday Morning Sep 3, 1830

Died, in this place, on Wednesday, the 25th ult. Doct. John Alfred Walton, of 
Congestive Bilious Fever, which, after confining him twelve days with 
fluctuating degrees of violence, at length baffled every effort of medical 
skill, and terminated the painful solicitudes of friendship and affection; his 
remains were interred in the graveyard at Morganton, on Friday morning, amidst 
a numerous concourse of those who had been the companions of his infancy and 
the friends of his manhood. With the exception of a few transient intervals, 
Doct. W. retained during the whole period of his confinement the possession
of an unclouded intellect, and under a deep rooted consciousness of impending
dissolution, sustained himself with a composure and resignation, which strikinly
developed the fortitude of his character, and affords to his friends the 
cheering hope that the darkness of the tomb was illumined with visions of a 
bright and glorious reversion hereafter. Rarely have the ravages of death in 
the selection of their victim, made a more touching appeal to every 
generoussentiment of the heart, or afforded more appalling evidence of the 
uncertainty of life and the vanity of all human expectation; but yesterday he 
was among us in the pride of youthful health and vigor, -- respected by all, -- 
cherished by a numerous circle of personal friends, -- an object of devoted 
fondness to his relatives,  and just entering on the successful prosecution of 
a profession, of which he seemd destined to become a distinguished ornament; -- 
to-day "the places that once knew him know him no more forever", could the 
wishes of friends, -- the ardent prayers of dearest kindred, -- could a 
vigorous constitution, and prosepects of a life of unclouded enjoyment have 
guaranteed the boon of exisctence, he had not been plucked from us in the 
flower of his youth, -- in the budding of his honors and his usefulness. The 
youthful associates who survive him may profit by the example he has set them, 
of untiring application to the pursuits of his profession, -- of temperance in 
all his habits, -- of the stictest morality in his conduct, and of that suavity 
of manner and benevolence of heart,-- that sensibility to the afflictions of 
others, which so eminently adorned his professional character.
May He "who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," minister of his abundant
consolations to the afflicted parents and relatives he has left behind him; it
is but natural they should lament the loss of a son so gifted by nature, -- so
fitted by his numerous virtues and accomplishments to gladden a parents
heart, and that they should weep over the grave which encloses the remains
of so much anxious solicitude, and expectations so justly and so fondly
cherished; but when the first painful burst of parental anquish shall have
subsided, and they shall have ceased to feel so acutely the pangs of
separation, they will submit with unmurmuring resignation and sustain 
themselves with the cherishing hope, that while the mortal vestments of 
him they loved are mingling with the clods of the valley, his emancipated
spirit has arisen to the bosom of that God who, in the beautiful
language of inspiration "chaseneth who he loveth." 
                                                     [Communicated.]

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