Warren County OhArchives Obituaries.....Sabin, Judge James Calvin January 19, 1860 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Arne H Trelvik atrelvik@earthlink.net January 1, 2006, 7:23 pm The Western Star http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohwarren/Obits/sabin.htm#JamesCSabin Judge James Calvin Sabin Death of Judge James Sabin. The public will hear with sincere sorrow, the unexpected decease of our fellow-citizen, Judge Sabin. This sad event transpired on Saturday morning last, at 5 o’clock, at his residence in this place. His disease was malignant typhoid fever, which baffled the best medical skill, and in six weeks terminated his useful and active life. His death is not only mourned by his immediate family and a very large circle of relatives, but by the entire community. He was a native of Warren county, having been born near Harveysburg in Apr, 1816, and has resided in Warren during his whole life. He had witnessed the county changed from a wilderness to the highest condition of material culture, and society in all its features, become elevated and refined by the arts and elegancies of a Christian civilization. This rapid and beautiful transformation, our friend and deceased fellow-citizen not only witnessed with pride, but aided to realize. His energies and principles were devoted to the prosperity and progress of the best interests of the county, and he had the pleasure of seeing, ere his eyes closed in death, his native county enjoy the highest material prosperity, and wielding great moral and political influence. In his private and public life, he was guided by honorable and honest motives, and maintained with unfaltering fidelity, what he considered to be just and right. The cause of Temperance and of human liberty, and all the great moral and political movements which prospered and blessed our county, found in him a warm and steady friend. His own earnest convictions and zeal in their advocacy, did not prevent him from being affable and courteous to others. His integrity, genial spirit, and hearty devotion to the public interests, gained from him popular favor, and in 1858 he was elected by the suffrages of his fellow-citizens, to the honorable and responsible post of Probate Judge, which he held at his decease, and the duties of which he discharged with honor to himself and satisfaction to the public. He had, for the last twelve years, resided in Lebanon, and was engaged in the profession of Law, till elevated to office. In these public circles of life, the deceased will be greatly missed and mourned. But the home circle will most of all feel his death. His wife, herself in very feable health, and the four fatherless children, have met with an irreparable loss. His love, tenderness, and genial temperament, shed over his home a happy influence, and as a devoted husband and an affectionate father, he was greatly beloved. He greatly desired to live, on account of his family, and in his last interview with his wife, he commanded her and his children to God, and breathed a prayer that she might live to train them in the ways of virtue. He bore his long illness without murmur, was submissive to the will of God, and expired without a struggle. His burial took place on Sabbath afternoon, and the funeral cortege was very large and impressive. His brethren of the legal profession acted as pall-bearers and his remains were borne to the Baptist Church, were Divine services were performed by various clergymen of this place, and thence carried to their last resting place in the cedar-green Cemetery of Lebanon. Our friend was removed in the meridian of his life and usefulness, being about forty-five years of age, and his death reminds all of the touching words, “what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.” May the providence be impressed on all, and especially may his wife and children share in the Christian sympathies of the community, and be sustained and comforted by the God of the widow and the fatherless. Source: The Western Star 19 Jan 1860 [copy obtained from obituary collection at the Warren County Genealogical Society] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/warren/obits/sabin70gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb