Horry County ScArchives Obituaries.....Thompson, Richard  April 4, 1911
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Horry Herald May 4, 1911
Richard Thompson


Richard Thompson was born March 8, 1882 and died April 4, 1911. He was born in
Bucks township and resided near Bucksville with his father the greater portion
of his life. His kind and loving disposition not only made him a great treasure
in his father’s home, but one who was admired and loved by the many who knew his
sterling worth.


Mr. Thompson’s death was a great shock to the community, and the fact that the
community realizes the great loss is seen in the sad expressions on so many
faces and heard in words of regret and sorrow. His death was caused by a blow on
the head from a falling limb which he received while at work in the woods a few
hundred yards from home, on Monday, April 3, and one the following morning about
9:30 o’clock, death brought to an end his extreme suffering.


Through the long dark night we watched at this bedside, expecting death to come
before daylight, but he lingered on until the light of day had dispelled the
darkness of the night, but as all else began to stir with the life and
activities of a new day, he sank into that long, lonely and indescribable sleep
which we call death.


Sad indeed it is to come face to face with the visible evidence of the visible
evidence of the great Bible truth, “It is appointed unto man once to die” As we
watched with intense interest and extreme sorrow the failing breath and
weakening pulse and realized that nothing could be done, we remembered what a
frail thread our earthly existence and how helpless man is in the presence of
death. All that we could do was to give our brother, loved one and friend into
the care and keeping of God and pray him to prepare for us that great change
which sends our soul into eternity and prepare our mortal remains for the grave.


How complete would be the victory of the grave were it not for the glorious fact
that, through Christ life, and immortality have been brought to life? But as we
behold his great fact in the light of divine truth we can with one of old,
triumphantly ask the question, ‘O! Death, where is thy sting? O, Grave, where is
thy victory?”


The remains were laid to rest in Hebron churchyard among relatives and friends
who long ago “took up their abode in this City of the Dead When the hour of
interment came the weather was unfavorable and while nature’s tear drops were
falling from a clouded sky, we placed his body in the earth, and amid falling
tears and the showering of flowers upon the new made grave was brought to a
close the last sad act which we could perform in his behalf.


To the Christian there is no death, only an open door through which he passes
out of time into eternity, a variety through which he travels from the sorrow
covered plains of earth to the divinely lighted hills of God. “Because I live,
ye shall live also.” Bright and beautiful the light which flashes from the open
door leading into eternal life through Christ.


When earthly light and life grow dim

Our bodies seek the ground

Then may our spirits rest in him,

Where life alone is found.


W. R. Barnes


Bucksville, S. C. April 18, 1911



























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