Wayne County, NC - Miscellaneous

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William & Emmet Robinson Collection
Johnston County Heritage Center
Reference Box, P.C.1.1.
George Ragsdale Collection

                        In Memoriam

Died - In Goldsboro, a few minutes after 8 o'clock on Saturday evening, 
the 23rd inst., Dr. John Wendal Davis, in the 44th year of his age.

Dr. Davis was born in Lenoir county, on the 8th day of August, 1825, 
graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1847, and immediately
thereafter entered on the practice of his profession in Goldsboro.

It needs not the pen of friendship to tell how rapidly he rose in 
popularity and esteem, both in town and country.  How well he retained
them is sadly attested by as many sorrowing hearts as often lament the
death of departed worth.  As a Physician, he stood at the head of his
profession.  As a gentleman, in all the relations of citizens, he was
above reproach.  In the softer relations of son, brother and husband,
his affections were as warm and tender as those of woman.  He was
eminently distinguished for true courage, exquisite probily, unwavering
uprightness, uncompromising principles and unsullied patriotism.  His
death, though sudden, at the time, was not altogether looked for.

The death was as calm and tranquil as his life had been honorable and 
useful.  To the last moment, he retained perfect consciousness and 
expired as one falling to sleep.

He leaves a wife, on the sanctity of whose sorrow let no pen intrude,
by attempting to describe her irreparable loss or the depth of her
anguish.  Her only consolation is in the hope of his glorious resurrection
through Christ, his Savior, whom her lamented husband had put on by
baptism in the bosom of the Episopal Church.

On Monday evening, the 25 inst, all that was mortal of the dear, lamented
dead was deposited in the grave, with the customary Masonic honors, the
beautiful funeral service of the Episcopal church having been previously
performed by Rev Mr Stickney.

It was indead a solemn and imp_____ occasion, as never before, in Goldsboro
was witnessed such a universal expression of sorrow for the dead and 
sympathy for those most immediately affected by that sad event.  Long, long
will his memory live in the hearts of all who knew him, while hundreds of
sorrowing hearts are feeling "we shall never see his like again."  May he
rest in peace.

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