Clearfield County PA Archives Obituaries.....Mead, Richard C.  March 11, 1858
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Raftsman's journal. (Clearfield, Pa.): March 17, 1858
In Lawrence township, Clearfield county, of consumption, on the 11th inst., Richard
C. Mead, in the 24th year of his age. He was converted in his seventeenth year,
since which time he remained a firm and faithful member of the M. E. church. In his
death his friends have sustained an irreparable bereavement. Not a murmur escaped
his lips during his illness. As a man he was engagingly amiable, ingenious, and
agreeable. As a christian, his piety was deep and uniform. As a friend, he was warm,
ardent and confiding, and not less generous than constant. In all these relations I
knew him well, and can therefore speak from the confidence of personal knowledge,
and accredited information. His intimate friends, however, were few and well
selected, his disposition being exceedingly reserved. He was a student of Allegheny
College, and truly did he say, when asked what should be said to his classmates, in
case he met them no more, "Tell them I died a Methodist." Such I am sure he lived.
The last time I saw him in health was in April. Little did I think at this interview
that his ripened virtues were so soon to receive the rewards of the heavenly world;
but so it was, and I, less fit to die, am spared, perhaps another and another year.
His dying testimony was too clear to doubt for one moment his acceptance with God.
Well may it be said of him, "that religion which he had so long professed, was
sufficient to sustain him in a dying hour." His
last words were "glory, glory."  G

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