Albert Ramsey, Obituary, Bedford Co. VA

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Submiited by Lynne Rush Hundley

Albert Ramsey Obituary [pasted on the front inside cover of Albert
Ramsey's Bible, which has a publication date of 1854.]
[The Bible was given to a great niece, perhaps Marguerite Ramsey, after
Albert's death, then to her cousin, Elizabeth Ramsey Venable, who gave
it to me, a distant cousin, several years ago. Lynne Rush Hundley, Portsmouth
Virginia, Oct. 2001.]

Inside front cover says: Albert Ramsey   Albert Ramsey 1806 [the two
names appear to be by the same hand, but the date by a different hand.] 
Inside back cover says: Albert Ramsey   Albert Ramseys Book. 1806 [the two names 
appear to be by the same hand, but  the date appears to be by a different hand.]

Pasted onto the front inside cover:

OBITUARY.
Died at his home near Centerville, on the night of September the fifteenth, 
after a short illness, Mr. Albert Ramsey in the seventy fifth year of his age.   
His popularity as a true friend and a good neighbor was evident from the large 
crowd which attended his funeral. He was indeed a good neighbor. His honest and 
upright character will ever live, in the hearts of those who knew him.  He 
scorned to do a man a low act. His motto was "live and let others live." He had 
been interested about his soul's salvation for some time. A few days before his 
death, he told his pastor, that he was in the hands of a just God, and that he 
was not uneasy about his spiritual welfare. The last words he breathed on earth 
were. "I am going home. I am most there."  O!   heart-broken, sorrowing sisters, 
what comfort in those words, for in them, you have the blessed assurance that 
your brother Albert is not dead but sleepeth and that you shall meet him, "In 
the sweet by and by." The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mr. 
Boatwright. He preached a comforting sermon from the text, "So teach us to 
number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." After the funeral 
services his body was laid to rest neath the land he loved, neath the skies he 
loved, his grave covered with flowers gathered by the neighbors he was all ways 
ready to help when they were in trouble. There he sleeps the sleep that knows no 
waking. His soul, we have reason to believe has been bourne by the downy pinions 
of rejoicing angels, to bask in the presence of God's glory forever.