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J. C. Spruill, our dearly beloved brother, was born in the State of Alabama September 16th , 1851, and was called to his eternal home May 6th, 1926. Later in life he moved to Mississippi, where May 13th, 1879, he married Miss Sarah Isadora White. To this union were born ten children, two of whom preceded him in death, leaving eight, together with his dear wife, to mourn his departure. Our brother professed a hope and joined the Primitive Baptist Church in the year 1894 (name of church not known to the writer), where he remained a faithful member in full fellowship until dismissed by letter November 7th, 1907, which letter was received by Friendship Church, Carroll County, Mississippi, where he lived until death. He was ordained to the office of Deacon, officiating in that humble and godly way that so beautifully adorns that office. He was a plain, unostentatious man, ruling his family in that godly, fatherly, loving way that begets obedience and love. He lived to see four of his children united with the dear old church of his membership, where they still remain. He leaves two brothers in the flesh, one of whom is a Primitive Baptist minister. He has gone. God has called him to his reward. We loved him and were loth to give him up, but hope that by the grace of God we are made to humbly bow in submission to the will of him that does his will in heaven and in earth, and can truthfully say, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. His dear wife and children have lost a loving husband and father, the church a faithful member, but we believe that heaven has gathered a jewel home.
The humble writer tried in much weakness to speak a few words of comfort to a large company of grief stricken relatives and friends, after which he was laid to rest in our Friendship Cemetery, there to await the resurrection day. May God’s holy presence fill up his absence and bless and comfort the bereaved, is the prayer of his humble pastor.
J.H. Ricks
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