Goodwin, Samuel - 1833

Departed this life, in Port Gibson, of Cholera, on the 24th ult. Mr. Alfred S. Sullivan.
Mr. S. was poor but good man, and the death of this humble Christian presented the strongest vindication of the high merits and the saving truths of the Gospel of Christ.  He was permitted to take his departure from this life with a pure and sanctified spirit.

At his request a number of his brothers and sisters of the Methodist church attended his last moments, and offered up many an anxious prayer for his kind reception at the throne of God.  When the ceremony commenced, there he lay all motionless, and nothing but the occasional heaving of his breast shewed <sic> the spirit has not fled; the last breath appeared flickering at his lips, ready to depart at the final summons;-- But as the ceremony proceeded, a renovated soul was breathed into the body, the inanimate became more animate, the dying man was allowed a return of strength and consciousness for a few moments, and the voice that erst could not command a whisper, now burst forth in a song of resignation with his brethren, and fervent prayer, replete with home and thankfulness; and as he finished his holy invocation, and pronounced the name of his adored Jesus, his soul departed for the home of the righteous.

Thus did this poor man, in a triumphant death, compensate for the life of poverty and privation, of weariness and toil.  We have conversed with the widow and the orphans, who are left destitute, and the dwell with an inspiring consolation on the circumstances attending his departure.  Verily, who would not live a life, even of sorrow and suffering, for such a death?

Well might the good man, who had taken from his eye the prism through which the generality of mankind view the world, exclaim, in summing up the event of his wishes, “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.”-- Commu

--  In Port-Gibson, on the 24th, of Cholera, Samuel All.
--  On the 26th, of same, Adel Prescopp? Prescoff?
--  On the 28th, of same, Samuel Goodwin.
~ The Port-Gibson Correspondent 01 Jun 1833, Page 3, Columns 3