MADISON COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Layton Yancy Teague  1847
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Obituary of Layton Yancy Teague Nashville Christian Advocate Vol. XI. - NO. 14;
Friday January 29, 1847

THE TRIUMPHANT DEATH OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL SCHOLAR Layton Yancy, son of Abner and
Martha C. Teague, was born in Jackson, Tenn., August 15th, 1834, and departed this
life November 25th, 1846; being 12 years, 3 months and 10 days old.

This little boy had been a regular attendant at Sabbath School for about 4 years,
and his attendance there was in order to recite his lesson and receive
instruction.  He embraced religion at Salem camp-ground last July, and to the day
of his death had an abiding evidence of his acceptance of God.  When it was quite
perceptible to his parents that his disease had assumed a malignant form, his
father asked him if he was thought he was going to die.  He answered, yes.  Are
you afraid to die, Oh no!  Why, Pa, if I were to die I would take wings and fly
away to heaven.  On the return of his father, who had absented himself for a short
time, he commenced shouting and praising God aloud.  His father advised him not to
exert himself too much; he then laid his head into his lap, and with a great deal
of composure said, "Pa, I see into heaven, and God and Angels are inviting me
away, and I am going."  Said he, "Yes, Dr., and if my hands were not so cold and
stiff I would clap them and praise God, for I am going home."  After exhorting his
parents and friends to meet him in heaven, he calmly fell asleep in the arms of
Jesus.

He was a dutiful son, an affectionate brother, an attentive scholar, and a good
boy.  Let us meet him in heaven.

J. H. Brooks 
Jackson, Tenn., Jan. 12, 1847