Passed from this life on the 18th of October near Milledgeville, Ga. James A. Pendleton, third son of the late Maj. P. C. Pendleton and Catherine S. Pendleton, of Valdosta, Ga. In the morning of life, a young man of brilliant promise, he graduated in the law department of the University of Georgia; but before he had fairly entered into the duties of his profession he was seized with that destructive disease known as typhoid fever and after a long and painful battle life triumphed. But health of body was sacrificed as well as vigor of mind - a mind, it was said by his former instructors and other judges that contained surprising capacity for future development. His natural character, as known to his relatives and a few near friends, was above reproach; and, though beset with peculiar trials, up to the time his sad affliction in life was one of continual usefulness and Christian self-denial.
His principal thought seemed to be for his mother and her fatherless children. The last years of his life were spent in quiet patient suffering, waiting and longing for the call to "come up higher."
Man is not like the tree, mortal. This life is only a preparatory state for the full and complete life to come - this earth only a seminary for heaven. Here he was faithful over a few things and bare little fruit; there he will be ruler over many things and bear much fruit. Who can acquire greater rules?
"There is no death. What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath.
Is but a suburb of the life Elysian,
Whose portal we call death."
~The Valdosta Times. 22 October 1881. p3
Passed from this life on the 18th of October near Milledgeville, Ga. James A. Pendleton, third son of the late Maj. P. C. Pendleton and Catherine S. Pendleton, of Valdosta, Ga. In the morning of life, a young man of brilliant promise, he graduated in the law department of the University of Georgia; but before he had fairly entered into the duties of his profession he was seized with that destructive disease known as typhoid fever and after a long and painful battle life triumphed. But health of body was sacrificed as well as vigor of mind - a mind, it was said by his former instructors and other judges that contained surprising capacity for future development. His natural character, as known to his relatives and a few near friends, was above reproach; and, though beset with peculiar trials, up to the time his sad affliction in life was one of continual usefulness and Christian self-denial.
His principal thought seemed to be for his mother and her fatherless children. The last years of his life were spent in quiet patient suffering, waiting and longing for the call to "come up higher."
Man is not like the tree, mortal. This life is only a preparatory state for the full and complete life to come - this earth only a seminary for heaven. Here he was faithful over a few things and bare little fruit; there he will be ruler over many things and bear much fruit. Who can acquire greater rules?
"There is no death. What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath.
Is but a suburb of the life Elysian,
Whose portal we call death."
~The Valdosta Times. 22 October 1881. p3
Family Members
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Edmund Tebeau Pendleton
1843–1846
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Rev William Frederick Pendleton
1845–1927
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Phillip Coleman Pendleton Jr
1848–1870
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Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton
1850–1914
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Emma Tebeau Pendleton
1852–1919
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Alexander Shaw Pendleton
1855–1925
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Mary Zella Pendleton
1857–1932
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Louis Beauregard Pendleton
1861–1939
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Nathaniel Dandridge Pendleton
1865–1937
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