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Published in The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, North Carolina), October 15, 1856, p. 3.
Died, in Gonzales County, Texas, on the 13th of August last, Mr. Charles Floyd, formerly of Granville County, N. C., in the 47th year of his age, leaving a wife and several children to mourn his loss.
He embraced religion in his youth, and continued to act according to its dictates in the various relations he sustained in life, until summoned hence. For many years he had been afflicted, and his last afflictions were very severe. His spirits were much depressed in the former part of his sickness, but on the day previous to his death his clouds dispersed, and his confidence revived. He then called his family and friends to his bedside, and requested them to meet him in heaven, and desired them to sing and pray with him. Afterwards to sing a favorite song, "O sing to me of heaven." Was last heard to exclaim, "O my glorious home above [?] and thus passed away from the world.
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Published in The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, North Carolina), October 15, 1856, p. 3.
Died, in Gonzales County, Texas, on the 13th of August last, Mr. Charles Floyd, formerly of Granville County, N. C., in the 47th year of his age, leaving a wife and several children to mourn his loss.
He embraced religion in his youth, and continued to act according to its dictates in the various relations he sustained in life, until summoned hence. For many years he had been afflicted, and his last afflictions were very severe. His spirits were much depressed in the former part of his sickness, but on the day previous to his death his clouds dispersed, and his confidence revived. He then called his family and friends to his bedside, and requested them to meet him in heaven, and desired them to sing and pray with him. Afterwards to sing a favorite song, "O sing to me of heaven." Was last heard to exclaim, "O my glorious home above [?] and thus passed away from the world.
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Published in The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, North Carolina), October 15, 1856, p. 3.
Died, in Gonzales County, Texas, on the 13th of August last, Mr. Charles Floyd, formerly of Granville County, N. C., in the 47th year of his age, leaving a wife and several children to mourn his loss.
He embraced religion in his youth, and continued to act according to its dictates in the various relations he sustained in life, until summoned hence. For many years he had been afflicted, and his last afflictions were very severe. His spirits were much depressed in the former part of his sickness, but on the day previous to his death his clouds dispersed, and his confidence revived. He then called his family and friends to his bedside, and requested them to meet him in heaven, and desired them to sing and pray with him. Afterwards to sing a favorite song, "O sing to me of heaven." Was last heard to exclaim, "O my glorious home above [?] and thus passed away from the world.
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Published in The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, North Carolina), October 15, 1856, p. 3.
Died, in Gonzales County, Texas, on the 13th of August last, Mr. Charles Floyd, formerly of Granville County, N. C., in the 47th year of his age, leaving a wife and several children to mourn his loss.
He embraced religion in his youth, and continued to act according to its dictates in the various relations he sustained in life, until summoned hence. For many years he had been afflicted, and his last afflictions were very severe. His spirits were much depressed in the former part of his sickness, but on the day previous to his death his clouds dispersed, and his confidence revived. He then called his family and friends to his bedside, and requested them to meet him in heaven, and desired them to sing and pray with him. Afterwards to sing a favorite song, "O sing to me of heaven." Was last heard to exclaim, "O my glorious home above [?] and thus passed away from the world.
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