BRYANT LOVIN DEAD
Fayetteville Observer [Fayetteville, North Carolina] 2 July 1863 Shared by Myrtle Bridges August 19, 2017
Bryant Lovin departed this life at his residence in Richmond County, N.C., on the 22nd May 1863, in the 76th year of his age. He was born in Wayne county, and when about 10 years old, with his parents he removed to Richmond County. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Some 43 or 44 years ago he embraced the Christian Religion and joined the Methodist E. Church in which he remained an acceptable and useful member until death, having been a faithful class leader for the last thirty years; indeed brother Lovin was an excellent Christian model; a kind husband, an affectionate father and generous hearted neighbor, his house has long been a home for the Ministers of the Gospel. With dropsy and a diseased stomach he was confined to his bed three or four weeks before his death, but he bore all his sufferings with great patience and resignation to the Devine will. Notwithstanding he was attended by an able and skillful physician, he appeared conscious that the time of his departure was at hand, hence he delayed not the arrangement of his temporal affairs. Having thus "set his house in order," he calmly and patiently waited for the appreoach of death, which to him was stingless. The day before he died, while the Rev. J.O'Bryan was conversing with him, his sons and his daughters gathered around his bed; he opened his eyes and gazed upon them with a kind and symphathising look and said, "All is right, all is well!" He has left a loving wife, and many affectionate children and grand-children, as well as a large circle of friends, to mourn their loss; but they do not, they need not mourn as they who have no hope; they feel that he died in Jesus and is blessed… H.H. Crowson, Rockingham, NC. June 22
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