Died At St. Louis, Mo., of Cholera, on the 6th of September, 1866, in the 59th year of his age, JOSEPH A. BRUA, son of John and Harriet Brua, long citizens of Harper's Ferry, Va.
Early in the war for the Independence of the South, the deceased, with all the warmth of a patriot lover of his home and country, allied himself and fortunes to the army of the Confederacy, and at the first battle of Manassas was most seriously wounded. After recovering from his wound, he was detached for the most honorable and important duty of Master Armorer, in the service of the Confederate Government in Richmond, Alabama and South Carolina, in the discharge of which duties he was, until the events of March, 1865, in Virginia, rendered all hopes of success by the further prosecution of the war, by arms, useless and inexpedient.
The ordinary even tenor of the life of our friends, such as that which marked the subject of this notice, whenever it is abruptly broken up, reminds us, by contrast, in language as strong as nature, of the uncertainty of our living tenure, of earth's pleasures, hopes and ends.
The friend whom we mourn was for many years of a happy, well-spent life, the beloved companion of all the social circles of his neighborhood; but, alas! he has, no doubt, for his own eternal happiness and good, realized the "last of earth" and been borne away on Angel wings to his immortal home.
Spirit of Jefferson, Charlestown, WV Tuesday, September 18, 1866 Vol. 19, No. 3; 2/6.
(Special Thanks to Howard Eugene Butts for this information)
Early in the war for the Independence of the South, the deceased, with all the warmth of a patriot lover of his home and country, allied himself and fortunes to the army of the Confederacy, and at the first battle of Manassas was most seriously wounded. After recovering from his wound, he was detached for the most honorable and important duty of Master Armorer, in the service of the Confederate Government in Richmond, Alabama and South Carolina, in the discharge of which duties he was, until the events of March, 1865, in Virginia, rendered all hopes of success by the further prosecution of the war, by arms, useless and inexpedient.
The ordinary even tenor of the life of our friends, such as that which marked the subject of this notice, whenever it is abruptly broken up, reminds us, by contrast, in language as strong as nature, of the uncertainty of our living tenure, of earth's pleasures, hopes and ends.
The friend whom we mourn was for many years of a happy, well-spent life, the beloved companion of all the social circles of his neighborhood; but, alas! he has, no doubt, for his own eternal happiness and good, realized the "last of earth" and been borne away on Angel wings to his immortal home.
Spirit of Jefferson, Charlestown, WV Tuesday, September 18, 1866 Vol. 19, No. 3; 2/6.
(Special Thanks to Howard Eugene Butts for this information)
Died At St. Louis, Mo., of Cholera, on the 6th of September, 1866, in the 59th year of his age, JOSEPH A. BRUA, son of John and Harriet Brua, long citizens of Harper's Ferry, Va.
Early in the war for the Independence of the South, the deceased, with all the warmth of a patriot lover of his home and country, allied himself and fortunes to the army of the Confederacy, and at the first battle of Manassas was most seriously wounded. After recovering from his wound, he was detached for the most honorable and important duty of Master Armorer, in the service of the Confederate Government in Richmond, Alabama and South Carolina, in the discharge of which duties he was, until the events of March, 1865, in Virginia, rendered all hopes of success by the further prosecution of the war, by arms, useless and inexpedient.
The ordinary even tenor of the life of our friends, such as that which marked the subject of this notice, whenever it is abruptly broken up, reminds us, by contrast, in language as strong as nature, of the uncertainty of our living tenure, of earth's pleasures, hopes and ends.
The friend whom we mourn was for many years of a happy, well-spent life, the beloved companion of all the social circles of his neighborhood; but, alas! he has, no doubt, for his own eternal happiness and good, realized the "last of earth" and been borne away on Angel wings to his immortal home.
Spirit of Jefferson, Charlestown, WV Tuesday, September 18, 1866 Vol. 19, No. 3; 2/6.
(Special Thanks to Howard Eugene Butts for this information)
Early in the war for the Independence of the South, the deceased, with all the warmth of a patriot lover of his home and country, allied himself and fortunes to the army of the Confederacy, and at the first battle of Manassas was most seriously wounded. After recovering from his wound, he was detached for the most honorable and important duty of Master Armorer, in the service of the Confederate Government in Richmond, Alabama and South Carolina, in the discharge of which duties he was, until the events of March, 1865, in Virginia, rendered all hopes of success by the further prosecution of the war, by arms, useless and inexpedient.
The ordinary even tenor of the life of our friends, such as that which marked the subject of this notice, whenever it is abruptly broken up, reminds us, by contrast, in language as strong as nature, of the uncertainty of our living tenure, of earth's pleasures, hopes and ends.
The friend whom we mourn was for many years of a happy, well-spent life, the beloved companion of all the social circles of his neighborhood; but, alas! he has, no doubt, for his own eternal happiness and good, realized the "last of earth" and been borne away on Angel wings to his immortal home.
Spirit of Jefferson, Charlestown, WV Tuesday, September 18, 1866 Vol. 19, No. 3; 2/6.
(Special Thanks to Howard Eugene Butts for this information)
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