Cape May County NJ Archives Obituaries.....Primrose, James H.  March 17, 1856
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West-Jersey pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1851-1884: March 22, 1856
Died at Tuckahoe, March 17, 1856, Rev. James H. Primrose, of the New Jersey
Conference, aged 28 years. The subject of this memoir, was a victim of that fell
destroyer, Pulmonary Consmpion. Having contracted a severe cold about the latter
part of October last, in a few weeks after, the premonitory symptoms of disease of
the lungs began to manifest themselves. He continued gradually sinking from that
time until his death… On Saturday last, the Rev. Dr. Jones of Bridgeton, called upon
him and offered a prayer in his behalf, before “Our Father’s Throne.” About one
o'clock on Monday  morning it was painfully evident that his end was rapidly
approaching. His wife, relatives and friends came around his couch to look upon him
they so much loved, in the “dark valley.” Seeing them standing near his bed, he
inquired, “Do you think me dying?’’ Some one answered ‘yes!’ then said he, “Bless
the Lord! Amen!” he then requested all in the house, as well as the neighbors living
near, to be called in, and taking each by the hand, he desired them to bid him good
night with a farewell kiss.
Then calling his wife he said to her I leave a ‘good night’ for all my friends.
“Now, said he, let us lie down and sleep.” Thus resting upon the bosom of the
Saviour of men, he passed thro’ the gates of Paradise… He has left a young widow to
mourn her irreparable loss. May the “everlasting arms” sustain her, and all the
bereaved friends. B. F. W

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