Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Kello, Samuel M., 1854 

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SAMUEL MILES KELLO

   Died, at the residence of his father, in the county of Southampton, on the 
16th September, 1854, of typhoid fever, Samuel M. Kello, son of Samuel Kello, 
Esq. in the 23rd year of his age.

   The deceased was a young man of many amiable qualities, obedient, kind and 
affectionate to his parents, benevolent and obliging in social life, with a 
disposition free from envy of malice. It is not surprising that he had many 
endeared friends, and so far as we know, of believe, he had not an enemy.

   It was to this amiable young man that the fond parents looked as their stay 
and support in the decline of life. It was to him they looked, as a guide and 
protector to his little brothers and sisters, when they should have been 
deprived of their earthly parents and consigned to the cold embrace of an 
unfeeling world. But in a moment all these bright hopes and fond anticipations 
have been blasted. But though they mourn, they sorrow not as those who have no 
hope.

   Our young friend had, for several months, been much concerned upon the 
subject of his soul’s salvation. It was on the bed of affliction, that he was 
enabled to trust the sinner’s friend, and that friend spoke peace to his soul.

   The deceased assured the writer that he was at peace with God, and with all 
mankind; that he "loved everybody, that he, loved God supremely." "Mother," 
said he, "don’t grieve for me, I am going to heaven." He then exhorted his 
afflicted parents and weeping friends to meet him in heaven. May this severe 
dispensation of Providence be overruled to the eternal good of the afflicted 
family. May the words of the dying child sink deep in the parents’ hearts. Dry 
up your tears afflicted family; Samuel "cannot come to you, but you may go to 
him." If the skill of physicians, the unmerited attention of friends, the 
prayers of a pious mother, the anxiety of an affectionate father, the tears of 
brothers and sisters, could have availed, our young friend had not died; but 
in defiance of human effort, Samuel Kello is no more.

   To thy will, Oh! Father, we would be resigned.    A.A. Drewry.


Samuel Miles KELLO, 
d. 16 Sep 1854, at father's home, Southampton Co., age 22, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

Apparently identical with "Samuel W.," Clerk, age 18, in:  
  1850 Census, Southampton Co., Nottaway Parish, p. 293a, ln. 10 
  (Col. P.J. Turner's transcription) 
  http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/census/1850/pg0282b.txt 

Burial site not known (Feb 2016) to the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project.  As a "place-holder" he and his father have been 
   added to their ancestral KELLO cemetery on "Millfield Plantation."
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-11):
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

His brother James Richard KELLO Sr. is buried on "Rose Hill Plantation." 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-42):
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mariah Kello Nunn, 
& Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/k400s2ob.txt