| From the Biblical Recorder (Raleigh,
N. C.) |
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| June 8, 1887 |
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| Obituary |
| Col. B. B. Lewis was born in
Franklin county, N. C., on the 19th of Aug. 1816, and died in Louisburg,
N. C. on the 21st of May 1887. He was the son of Guilford Lewis and Jane
Lewis, of Franklin county. At the age of 16 he went to engage in
business where he spent most of his early life. He was happily married
to Miss Marietta King, of Alabama, with whom he lived for three years
and death called her hence. In 1861 he was married the second time. This
time he was united in matrimony to Miss Juliette Collins, daughter of
Dr. Collins, of Macon, Ga. This happy union lasted 12 years and again he
was called to follow his companion to the grave. |
| During the war Col. Lewis
resided in Macon, Ga., and at the close of the war he went to New York
where he engaged in banking business on Wall Street; while here he was
closely identified with the Church of the Strangers under Dr. C. F.
Deems, being one of its founders. |
| Having remained for five years
in New York he returned to Macon, Ga., where he remained for several
years and then he returned to his native State and made his home at
Louisburg, N. C., with his two sisters, to whom he was both a father and
brother. |
| Col. Lewis was truly a
princely man. He practiced that charity which adorns the Christian life
and makes it lovely. He was the delight of the social circle -- so
genial and kind was he, it was a benediction to be in his presence. All
who knew him loved him. In early life he professed faith in Christ and
became a member of the Baptist church. Later in life he united with the
Methodist Episcopal Church South of which his second wife was a member
-- in which communion he died. |
| He led an exemplary Christian
life. For some years previous to his death, he became more consecrated
than ever in the service of the Master, he was thoroughly identified
with the Methodist church in Louisburg, and labored in the Sabbath
school and in the social meetings of the church. |
| For some months before his
departure he had been in feeble health, having suffered a stroke of
paralysis. His death therefore was not a surprise to him or to his
friends. Quietly and peacefully he fell asleep to awake in the home
above. His body was brought to Raleigh and interred in Oakwood Cemetery.
Thus has passed away a brother beloved upon whom both nature and grace
lavished their gifts. The memory of Col. Lewis will be to us an ointment
poured forth. May we meet him in the eternal home. |
| W. C. Norman |
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