OBITUARY:  Joseph Blake McDougal, 26 Aug 1888 - Smith County, TX

Submitted by Vicki Betts <Vicki_Betts@mail.uttyl.edu>
8 January 2003

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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 27, 1888, p. 7, c. 2

MCDOUGAL.—Joseph Blake, only son of J. Riley and Annie McDougal, 
of Center M. E. Church, South, Tyler circuit, on the 26th of 
August was transplanted from the earthly to the heavenly home. 
Joseph Blake was born Nov. 19, 1885, and was therefore only two 
years, nine months and seven days old. During this short stay 
on earth how he made joyous the heart and home of loving parents, 
and now that he is gone, how dark it seems to loved ones left 
behind. He was a bright, sunny child, and in him centered hopes 
of years to come. But "God took him." Truly human life is as a 
vapor—man "cometh forth like a flower and is cut down." The 
Christian religion alone casts a halo of light upon the awful 
darkness of such bereavements. Blake is gone; but to the eternal 
home and loving embrace of a more than earthly Father. May the 
grace of God sustain the dear parents until they meet again 
where death and sorrow can never come.

S. W. Turner.