Morehouse Clarion, January 30, 1880, Page 2, Column 4
OBITUARY. Obit found by Lora Peppers of Ouachita Parish Library - thanks so much, Lora!
Son of America Missouri Harp and Warren Alexander Montgomery. Married 8 May 1860.
Grandson of Thomas Marion Harp and Prudence Masoner Harp.
Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS MONTGOMERY, son of Mrs. America Weiss, and step-son of Mr. Charles Weiss, was born in Morehouse parish, La., on the 28th of June, 1861, and died on the 12th of January, 1880.
After a brief, but painful, illness caused by pneumonia, thus passed away, in the nineteenth year of his age, this very promising young man. The period of time between those two dates was the span of life allotted to a lovely, affectionate and remarkably kind youth just verging into manhood to act his part in life's great drama. He was the delight of the family. His sadly bereaved mother idolized and loved him as a source of great comfort for his kindness and obedience; his step-father loved him as a dutiful and obedient son; his associates respected him for his obliging and manly deportment; his friends and relatives admired him for his gentleness. Thus he lives in the memories of his grief-stricken family and friends.
We know not that Jeff made a profession of religion and hence are not aware that he lived with reference to a day of general righteous retribution.
We trust that he, whom we so dearly loved, but whose loss we now lament, was not aimless in life. To sorrow with those who have no hope, in view of the pains and anguish of death, is a burden to all christian hearts unknown. How deep the anguish felt when hope gilds not the tomb., and the bow of promise spans not the death-shrouded sleeper, none can know but they over whose minds the mantle of heathenism darkly hangs, or a chosen skepticism broods in appalling folds of more than midnight gloom. But for the cross, its atoning victim and the glorious doctrine of the resurrection, life itself would be a continuous burden, and death the summing up of all evil. We admonish the bereaved to live with reference to a day of reconing [sic]. May they find comfort in "God and the word of His grace."
J.M. McKEE.
Obit found by Lora Peppers of Ouachita Parish Library
Thanks so much, Lora!
OBITUARY. Obit found by Lora Peppers of Ouachita Parish Library - thanks so much, Lora!
Son of America Missouri Harp and Warren Alexander Montgomery. Married 8 May 1860.
Grandson of Thomas Marion Harp and Prudence Masoner Harp.
Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS MONTGOMERY, son of Mrs. America Weiss, and step-son of Mr. Charles Weiss, was born in Morehouse parish, La., on the 28th of June, 1861, and died on the 12th of January, 1880.
After a brief, but painful, illness caused by pneumonia, thus passed away, in the nineteenth year of his age, this very promising young man. The period of time between those two dates was the span of life allotted to a lovely, affectionate and remarkably kind youth just verging into manhood to act his part in life's great drama. He was the delight of the family. His sadly bereaved mother idolized and loved him as a source of great comfort for his kindness and obedience; his step-father loved him as a dutiful and obedient son; his associates respected him for his obliging and manly deportment; his friends and relatives admired him for his gentleness. Thus he lives in the memories of his grief-stricken family and friends.
We know not that Jeff made a profession of religion and hence are not aware that he lived with reference to a day of general righteous retribution.
We trust that he, whom we so dearly loved, but whose loss we now lament, was not aimless in life. To sorrow with those who have no hope, in view of the pains and anguish of death, is a burden to all christian hearts unknown. How deep the anguish felt when hope gilds not the tomb., and the bow of promise spans not the death-shrouded sleeper, none can know but they over whose minds the mantle of heathenism darkly hangs, or a chosen skepticism broods in appalling folds of more than midnight gloom. But for the cross, its atoning victim and the glorious doctrine of the resurrection, life itself would be a continuous burden, and death the summing up of all evil. We admonish the bereaved to live with reference to a day of reconing [sic]. May they find comfort in "God and the word of His grace."
J.M. McKEE.
Obit found by Lora Peppers of Ouachita Parish Library
Thanks so much, Lora!
Morehouse Clarion, January 30, 1880, Page 2, Column 4
OBITUARY. Obit found by Lora Peppers of Ouachita Parish Library - thanks so much, Lora!
Son of America Missouri Harp and Warren Alexander Montgomery. Married 8 May 1860.
Grandson of Thomas Marion Harp and Prudence Masoner Harp.
Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS MONTGOMERY, son of Mrs. America Weiss, and step-son of Mr. Charles Weiss, was born in Morehouse parish, La., on the 28th of June, 1861, and died on the 12th of January, 1880.
After a brief, but painful, illness caused by pneumonia, thus passed away, in the nineteenth year of his age, this very promising young man. The period of time between those two dates was the span of life allotted to a lovely, affectionate and remarkably kind youth just verging into manhood to act his part in life's great drama. He was the delight of the family. His sadly bereaved mother idolized and loved him as a source of great comfort for his kindness and obedience; his step-father loved him as a dutiful and obedient son; his associates respected him for his obliging and manly deportment; his friends and relatives admired him for his gentleness. Thus he lives in the memories of his grief-stricken family and friends.
We know not that Jeff made a profession of religion and hence are not aware that he lived with reference to a day of general righteous retribution.
We trust that he, whom we so dearly loved, but whose loss we now lament, was not aimless in life. To sorrow with those who have no hope, in view of the pains and anguish of death, is a burden to all christian hearts unknown. How deep the anguish felt when hope gilds not the tomb., and the bow of promise spans not the death-shrouded sleeper, none can know but they over whose minds the mantle of heathenism darkly hangs, or a chosen skepticism broods in appalling folds of more than midnight gloom. But for the cross, its atoning victim and the glorious doctrine of the resurrection, life itself would be a continuous burden, and death the summing up of all evil. We admonish the bereaved to live with reference to a day of reconing [sic]. May they find comfort in "God and the word of His grace."
J.M. McKEE.
Obit found by Lora Peppers of Ouachita Parish Library
Thanks so much, Lora!
OBITUARY. Obit found by Lora Peppers of Ouachita Parish Library - thanks so much, Lora!
Son of America Missouri Harp and Warren Alexander Montgomery. Married 8 May 1860.
Grandson of Thomas Marion Harp and Prudence Masoner Harp.
Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS MONTGOMERY, son of Mrs. America Weiss, and step-son of Mr. Charles Weiss, was born in Morehouse parish, La., on the 28th of June, 1861, and died on the 12th of January, 1880.
After a brief, but painful, illness caused by pneumonia, thus passed away, in the nineteenth year of his age, this very promising young man. The period of time between those two dates was the span of life allotted to a lovely, affectionate and remarkably kind youth just verging into manhood to act his part in life's great drama. He was the delight of the family. His sadly bereaved mother idolized and loved him as a source of great comfort for his kindness and obedience; his step-father loved him as a dutiful and obedient son; his associates respected him for his obliging and manly deportment; his friends and relatives admired him for his gentleness. Thus he lives in the memories of his grief-stricken family and friends.
We know not that Jeff made a profession of religion and hence are not aware that he lived with reference to a day of general righteous retribution.
We trust that he, whom we so dearly loved, but whose loss we now lament, was not aimless in life. To sorrow with those who have no hope, in view of the pains and anguish of death, is a burden to all christian hearts unknown. How deep the anguish felt when hope gilds not the tomb., and the bow of promise spans not the death-shrouded sleeper, none can know but they over whose minds the mantle of heathenism darkly hangs, or a chosen skepticism broods in appalling folds of more than midnight gloom. But for the cross, its atoning victim and the glorious doctrine of the resurrection, life itself would be a continuous burden, and death the summing up of all evil. We admonish the bereaved to live with reference to a day of reconing [sic]. May they find comfort in "God and the word of His grace."
J.M. McKEE.
Obit found by Lora Peppers of Ouachita Parish Library
Thanks so much, Lora!
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