OBITUARIES:  Dr. J. W. H. Hall & Virginia Clayton Hall, 1859 - Smith Co, TX

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13 Sep 2002

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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, November 24, 1859, p. 4, c. 2

The house of J. B. Hall has been visited by the angel of Death, on two 
occasions during the present year.

DR. J. W. H. HALL, son of J. B. and Mary C. Hall, was born June 24th, 
1835, and departed this life June 7th, 1859.

James spent the winters of '56 and '57 in Philadelphia, as a medical 
student—returned home in March of '57, and spent the remainder of the 
year at his father's house. Early in '58 he began to practice his 
profession with great promise of success, but during the summer found 
himself too feeble for the labor of his calling, and returned home to 
recruit his health. He remained feeble during the winter, and early in 
the spring it was too clearly seen that his condition was no better. 
About the first of May, he was afflicted with a pain in his eye, which 
was accompanied by disease in other parts of the body, and, seemingly, 
to cure one disease was but to encounter another. Thus he lived in 
great affliction up to the 7th of June, and fell asleep at 8½ o'clock 
in the morning.

From the beginning of his sickness, he was deeply engaged in seeking 
that peace which passeth understanding. A few days before his death, 
he called me to his bedside, and said: "The Lord has blessed me." The 
state of his mind, and the manner in which he afterwards bore his 
afflictions—which were exceedingly severe—make it evident that a 
change had passed upon him. I asked a few hours before he expired, 
if he knew he was soon to die? He answered: "I do." "Do you feel 
that the Lord will sustain you?" "I know he will." This was perhaps 
his last sentence. Oh! Father, sustain us all in this hour!

VIRGINIA CLAYTON, younger sister of James, was born August 23rd, 
1852, and died at 8 o'clock, Sept. 7th, 1859.

Virginia was a child of promise, beloved by her little associates, 
and devoted to her Sabbath School, in which she learned something 
of that land to which she has gone—and of Him who took her to 
Himself:

"This lovely bud, so young and fair,
Call'd hence by early doom;
Just came to show how sweet a flower
In Paradise would bloom."

J. ALEXANDER.
Jamestown, Nov. 10, '59.