Isle of Wight County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Cofer, Thomas W., 1885 

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THOMAS WRENN COFER

   Thomas W. Cofer departed this life July 23, 1885. He was born March 22, 1828, 
in Isle of Wight County, and died at his home in Portsmouth, Va., aged fifty-
seven years and four months.

   About six years was he a member of the Church of Christ. A man of integrity 
and excellent character when he assumed the obligations of Christianity, he was 
faithful and exemplary, modest and unpretending, sincere, as a friend; gentle 
and loving in the home circle - alive to every interest of his family and true 
to his religious vows. Our brother was a model of Christian excellence, and 
worth of all admiration. He was not aggressive as a Christian - rather of the 
shrinking class - but at all times his light shone and his life proclaimed his a 
true disciple of the meek and lowly One.

   The last illness of our brother was severe and trying. For nine months he was 
confined to his house, and much of the time to his bed.  His suffering was often 
great, but during all that tedious time no murmur, no manifestation of 
impatience escaped him. He was as gentle as a lamb. Patient and perfectly 
resigned to the Father’s will, he seemed most concerned about the comfort and 
welfare of his wife and children. To the last their happiness was the care of 
his heart.

   When death came he had no fears. In life he had learned to walk by faith, and 
the same faith carried him fearless through the dark valley. Resigned to the 
Father’s will, he gently, and without a struggle, passed to the land of the 
blessed. As we watched around him it was difficult to mark the moment when the 
tide of life ceased its gentle flow and ebb.

   No husband and father was ever blessed with a more constant and tender care 
than was extended this sufferer. If attention and skill of physicians and loving 
ministrations of wife and daughter could have sufficed, surely our brother had 
not died. But God called him. He was ready and willing to go, and it is all 
well. It was a Friend, and one who knew all the bitterness of Bereavement, that 
said: "Let not your heart be troubled."  These bereaved and sorrowing ones will 
best please the dear departed and best secure the Divine favor as in resignation 
they say: "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of 
the Lord."

   May God’s richest blessings rest upon the afflicted family that, guided by 
His wisdom, they may again, with the loved one gone before, from an unbroken 
circle. The mansions of the Father’s house.


[Thomas Wrenn COFER, 
 b. 22 Mar 1828, Isle of Wight Co., d. 23 Jul 1885, Portsmouth, 
 interred in Portlock Cemetery (Walk 9, Lot 356), Oak Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, 
 donated obit, newspaper unknown] 

[VAGenWeb Archives cemetery list: 
 http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/portsmouth/cemeteries/portlock1.html] 

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