JESSE A.
SHULTS (1849)
From Dr. James
Perkins:
Obituary-Errata, page 716
DeSoto County, Miss. Oct. 28, 1849
Dear Brother Campbell: It becomes my painful
duty to record the death of my loving and affectionate husband,
Jesse Shults. On the first day of June last,
he fell asleep in Jesus, of a disease of the lungs. His
affliction, though not very long, was revere, yet he bore it
with Christian fortitude and resignation. He was young in the
cause of the Redeemer, but zealous, and desirous to do all the
good he could. He made the Bible his study, and was also a
reader of your Harbinger. Just before he departed, he exhorted
all present to prepare to meet him in Heaven, that he was going
there, and believed that God would own and accept him, and for
me not to grieve after him. He requested that sweet song to be
sung-
When languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis sweet to look beyond my pains,
And long to fly away.
He has left me and two helpless little children to mourn his
irreparable loss, the youngest one a promising little son, which
he named Alexander Campbell, and said he was raising him for the
Lord.
Margaret Shults.
