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Obituary of Joseph Alvey Clayton
This handwritten obituary was written by
Norris Witherspoon1
Died on Friday the 1st day of August 1873 Joseph Alvie [sic] Clayton aged 55 years seven months. He was born in Giles County Tenn., moved to Texas in 1835, was actively engaged in the Texas revolution. His tragic death has envolved [sic] the county in the saddest gloom. He lived 16 days after the fatal accident.2 We may truthfully say that in him "there was no guile." He belonged to no church; had honesty without policy, principle and not expediency characterized his life, and endeared him to all who loved truth and virtue. He had strong family ties, [was] an effectionate [sic] husband and kind father, a fast friend and brave soldier. Just past the meridian of life, he has been cut down in his usefulness in an unusual and unlooked for manner. We sympathize in common with his many friends, with the orphanage he has left, and cordially promise comfort and support. Oh blindness to the future kindly given, that each may fill the place marked by heaven, who sees with equal eye as Good of all, a hero perish or a sparrow fall.
1. Joe Guthrie, Corsicana, Tex.,
provided a copy to Roger Bartlett on 31 May 1973.
2. His arm was mangled by a threshing machine, and
he died two days later. Mattie Beth Harper Moore, "Historical
Facts About Rice and Chatfield, Texas, Navarro County, and of Families of Both Communities,"
in Navarro County Scroll 1967 (Corsicana, Tex.: The Navarro County Hist. Soc'y,
1967), pp. 28-35.
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