Southern Christian Advocate August 30, 1839

OBITUARY

Died, at Cokesbury, on the 11th ult, NATHANIEL MARION, in the 66th year of his age; and in the safe hope of everlasting life. He was born in St. John's parish; and his parents dying shortly afterwards, he was brought up in the family of Gen. Marion, to whom he was related. In 1819, he removed to Abbeville District, and shortly afterwards attached himself to the communion of the Methodist E. Church. In the quiet discharge of the duties of private life, he was the gentleman without reproach and fear; - the upright and useful citizen; - the affectionate husband and father. He was a master, kind to his servants, careful in attending to their physical and moral wants; beloved by . . . . His temperament was estimated without an approach to levity; his conversational powers were excellent; and the hospitalities of the Carolina gentleman, reigned around his board.

His piety was sincere and consistent, though not loud in its type of pretension. It gave full proof of its excellence, in the mighty supports it afforded his soul, in his last illness, and in view of the mortal agony. His persuasion was that his sickness would terminate in death. But from the beginning of it, a blessed patience and resignation to God's will marked his spirit. His constant language was, "whatever please the Lord is my choice-" Towards the close of his illness, he was favoured with rich outpourings of the spirit of grace. - Resignation rose to rapture; and he shouted forth, with joyful lips, the praises of God. In this state of mind, he remained, while the cords of life were gently loosed; and his death was as emphatically a "failing asleep," as any I ever witnessed. After having been sick about eleven days, he breathed his last on the evening of the 11th July, in the faith, hope, and comfort of the gospel.

W. M. Wightman

Cokesbury, 6th August, 1839.