Hopkins CO. Tx - Obit for Daniel McDonald

Submitted by: June E. Tuck <1224be@neto.com>

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McDonald, Daniel, Mr., a father in Israel, now lies with the sheeted
dead. He is no longer seen nor heard among the living. The evening of the
14th of January, 1892, at Reily Springs, Hopkins County, Texas, brought
that hour which he was expecting, and for which he many days had been
waiting, when the dust should return to the earth as it was, and the
spirit to God who gave it. He had entered upon his seventy fifth year. He
was born in Robeson County, North Carolina, of parents in whose veins ran
the purest of Scotland^Òs blood, and in whose hearts were cherished and
loved those doctrines which identify the Presbyterian Church. Hence in
early life he joined the Carolina Presbyterian church in Neshoba County,
Mississippi, where he and his parents moved, and where he married Miss
Mary A. McRay, who was also a Carolinian of like blood and faith, but
whom he left a widow after more than fifty years of pleasant married
life. In 1866, he moved to Texas and settled at Reily Springs, Hopkins
County, to which point he carried his religion and neither hid it under a
bushel nor his certificate in his trunk, but cast his lot with others and
organized a church in which he maintained the Christian character. The
Church he regarded as the body of that Saviour whom he loved, and in
whose faith he died a peaceful death. (Edited)