| From the Raleigh Standard |
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| December 7, 1864 |
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| Obituary Notice |
| In Memoriam |
| Killed instantly at Danville, Virginia, on
Sunday morning the 27th of November, 1864, while attempting to jump from
the tender of an engine to the top of a car on the Piedmont Railroad
when in motion, Fabian Genadius Beves, eldest son of Mr. Alsey and Mrs.
Candis Beves of this City, aged 26 years, 7 months and 10 days. His
mangled and severed remains were conveyed to Raleigh by kind and
generous friends, and interred in the City Cemetery. Death, at all times
distressing, is in this instance peculiarly so, in view of the sad and
heartrendering circumstances under which it occurred. But recently he
had written a letter informing his parents of his intention to spend the
Christmas holidays with them; in a few days they received the mournful
intelligence of his untimely death! Such is human life, and such are
human hopes and purposes -- so uncertain and so subject to
disappointment! -- May He, "who gave and who hath taken away," reconcile
the parents, whom He has seen proper thus to afflict, to this
dispensation of His inscrutable Providence. |
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