Charleston County ScArchives Obituaries.....Walton, Jas W Y  July 26, 1842
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The Southern Patriot, Aug 8, 1842
Obituary

To record the virtues of our departed friends has always been a grateful 
undertaking. Tho' conscious we shall see them here no more, we nevertheless 
derive a melancholy satisfaction in reflecting upon those qualities which 
endeared them to us when living, and will perpetuate in our fondest 
affections, their memories when dead. Our feelings, however, become peculiarly 
interested when death--terrible and insatiate--cuts off in the midst of his 
usefulness and activity, some of "heir of immortality," that has grown up 
beneath our daily gaze to quick maturity.

These reflections have arisen from the contemplation of the recent death of 
our excellent friend and fellow townsman JAS. W. Y. WALTON.--Mr. Walton died 
in this city on the 26th July, in the 35th year of his age, after a few hours 
illness. He was a native of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, son of Thomas and 
Martha Walton, of Morganton, in the same State, but had been a resident of 
Charleston for the last 15 years of his life, actively engaged in mercantile 
pursuits. He is too well remembered in a large circle of attached friends to 
need any eulogium from us. The long retinue of mourning friends that followed 
his remains to their final resting place, proclaimed his worth, and the 
estimation in which he was held, in any language not to be misunderstood.

Among the number of his many prominent virtues, if there was one that shone 
out more conspicuously than another, it was his benevolence. For the duties 
and delights of friendship he seemed peculiarly formed. In the whole 
intercourse of social life he always pleased-he never offended. He was always 
the generous friend-the affectionate son-the devoted brother-the good citizen-
the upright man-but alas! alas! when his amiable character was becoming more 
and more generally known-his prospect of usefulness brighten-the sphere of his 
business extending, and the energies of his mind more and more exerted, 
shadows, clouds and darkness overspread the future, and his life was suddenly 
closed. Who, then, but regrets his term of mortality had not longer been 
continued? But it becomes us not to repine at the decrees of an all wise 
Providence, but humbly to submit to whatever in his infinite wisdom he may 
think proper to visit us with, taking (in this melancholy bereavement at 
least) this comfortable hope to our hearts, that though suddenly called our 
deceased friend was not unprepared, and that when the excellent of the earth 
are taken away, they go but to replenish the celestial mansions.

August 8, 1842
The Southern Patriot, Charleston SC

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