MARION COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - Obituary of Dr. Evan Huggins, August 5, 1879

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The Marion Star
Tuesday, August 5, 1879


DEATH OF DR. EVAN HUGGINS

Dr. Evan Huggins was born in Marion County South Carolina, November the 25th
1817 and died at his residence in Horry County, July the 19th 1879.  Dr. Huggins 
joined the Methodist Church in early life, and remained a devoted and useful 
member of the same until death.  In his death the church has lost one of its 
strongest pillars; his neighbors a kind and obliging friend, his family an 
irrepairable [sic] loss.  Yet they sorrow not as those without hope, feeling 
that their loss is his eternal gain.  Brother Huggins was sorely afflicted for 
eight months; yet he murmured not at the dispute of Providence, but bore his 
afflictions without a murmer, believing that they would work out for him a far 
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory in the world to come!  On one 
occasion he called his wife and children around his bedside and told them that 
he was going to Heaven, and exhorted them to meet him there.  May the blessings 
of God rest upon the widow with her fourteen fatherless children and may they at 
last meet in Heaven to enjoy with the Sainted husband and father the rest that 
remains to the people of God.
        Dearest father thou hast left us,
        Here they loss we deeply feel
        But ‘tis God that hath bereft us
        He can all our sorrows heal.

Southern Christian Advocate and Telephone please copy.

                                             LEWIS SCARBOROUGH