Beaver County PA Archives Obituaries.....Mitchell, James McDonald  May 12, 1864
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.): July 06, 1864
Sergeant James McDonald Mitchell, of Co. H, 140th P. V., fell by a mortal fatal from
the enemy, in the valiant charge made by the Second Army Corps, on the morning of
the 12th of May, near Spottsylvania Court House. His mortal remains were buried by
his companions in arms, near the spot where he fell; with many others of his
neighbors and companions, he enlisted in the 140th P. V., in August, 1862, and nobly
did his duty in all his relations as a soldier. In every conflict in which his
regiment was engaged, Sergeant Mitchell was always at his post, till he was laid low
in death. But Sergeant Mitchell was not only a valiant soldier of his country, he
was also a good soldier of the Cross. For, eleven years he had been in the
Presbyterian communion, most of that time in the church of Hookstown, Beaver County,
Pa. Sergeant Mitchell was united in marriage on the 5th of November, 1857, to Miss
Sarah Lizzie McFerran, daughter of Joseph McFerran, Esq., of Hookstown, Beaver
County, Pa. Thus the wife of his youth, with three small children, were left to
mourn the sudden death of their soldier husband and father…  The widowed mother was
not long left to mourn however, but was soon, very soon, to follow. Mrs. Mitchell
had been in very delicate health for several months, and still more rapidly sunk
away after the death of her husband, until on the 15th of June, her spirit calmly
took its flight to her husband and to her blessed Saviour. Mrs. Mitchell had been in
communion of the Church about the same length of time as her husband. They both were
subjects of renewing grace, as is believed at the time of a revival in Mill Creek
congregation, in 1853. They grew up from childhood and youth together, journeyed
through the short period of married life... Thus have passed away from earth,
Sergeant Mitchell and his wife; he in the thirty-fourth year of his age and she in
her twenty-eighth. Their children, too young to know the loss of parents, or feel
the sorrows of orphanage, are kindly cared for by those who will, so far as can be,
supply the place of parents and guides to them through the pilgrimage of earth. 

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