Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Payden, Albert March 23, 1876 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Suzy Ward Fleming wardflemin@aol.com March 9, 2015, 6:19 pm żLandmark 3-24-1876, pg. 1. Death of an Esteemed Citizen Mr. Albert Payden, who for several years has been in the employ of Johnson &Son, in the capacity of General superintendent of lumber getters in the forests of Virginia and North Carolina, and to whose energetic exertions and close application to business the mills in proximity to this town have been kept in operation, expired at the hotel here yesterday morningi from a severe attack of pneumonia. Less than three years ago this young man was united in wedlock with Miss Maggie Miller, daughter of Josephus Miller,Esq., at Northwest, and from that time, as previously, followd his avocation with persistant assiduity until disease warned him and the one he loved to seek a purer atmosphere in anticipation of a restoration of health. He came here about three weeks ago, but alas death had singled him as his victim. During his brief illness his wife, herself stricken with disease, continued with him regardless of her own suffering. The venerable proprietor, Mr. Evans, and his family, were unremitting in their in their attention to the stranger guest, and the noble, generous impulses of Howard Johnson, Esq., were never perhaps more conspicuously developed than in his ministrations at the bedside of the sick and dying. For it was him that knew the worth of the deceased better than others, showing at all times unbounded confidence in his strict integrity, and confiding in him most implicitly in all matters of business and financially. In the death of this young man, over whose head scarce thirty summers have passed, the firm of Johnson & Son has sustained a loss which they keenly realize. For as none appreciated his worth to the extent as did the firm that honored and trucsted him (save the surviving partner) realize the loss with more heart felt sorrow than they. To her who survives this sad blow falls crushingly, yet in her hours of solitude her thoughts will revert to the closing scene, and her bereavement will be soothed by the recollection that during during the painful ordeal kind friends were not wanting at the bedside of the dying, or the couch of the afflicted one, who at this moment suffers with the combined weight of disaster and sore bereavement. The funeral will take place at the Baptist Church Saturday morninig at 10 o’clock. Additional Comments: Elmwood File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/p/payden7502gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb