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JCDR:
Jacob Staats, 7/21/1857, 62y, d Jackson Co, p Aln & Sarah Staats, married
Southern Methodist Itinerant.
Williamstown, Virginia, August 1, 1857.
Vol. II. No. 11. Whole No. 35.
Page 3, Column 1
DIED.--Mr. Jacob Staats, an old and respected citizen of our county died at his residence, near Ripley, on Teusday last, of lock-jaw, resulting from injuries received in his son's saw mill about two weeks ago. Three of his fingers were so badly cut that amputation was necessary.--Vir. Chron.
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Southern Methodist Itinerant.
Williamstown, Virginia, August 15, 1857.
Vol. II. No. 12. Whole No. 36.
Page 3, Column 2
OBITUARY.
JACOB STAATS, sr. died at his residence, near Ripley, Jackson county, Va., on the 20th day of July, 1857. He was born in Harrison county, Va., on the 6th day of May, A. D. 1795, being at the time of his decease, 62 years, 2 months, and 15 days old. He made a profession of the religion of the Saviour at an early age, and connected himself with the M. E. Church in the 16th year of his age, in which he lived a worthy and consistent member to the time of his death. At the time of the division of the M. E. Church, he took his position with the South. At the age of 19 years, he was joined in holy matrimony to Miss Elenor Evans, who still survives, to mourn her loss.
Brother Staats had been for many years a subject of affliction, being deprived, partially, of his hearing, he was cut off to a considerable extent from those social and religious enjoyments, connected with the intercourse of friends and "communion of saints." When permitted, he could say, "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord." The last time he attended the house of God, after service, in the class-room, in looking around and seeing so few present, he said to his pastor, "others may forsake this place, yet by God's grace here shall be my delight as long as I live."
The last few years of his life were, more than they ever had been before, given up to the service of God; and very frequently he referred to his approaching dissolution. Placing his temporal affairs in charge of one of his sons, he balanced his own accounts, ready for his final settlement.
On the 7th of July, on visiting his saw-mill to prepare some fingers for a cradle for one of his sons, by springing of the timber, his right hand was thrown against the circular saw, which took off one of his fingers, and cut his thumb and other fingers partly off, from which he suffered so much that in a few days it threw him into the lock-jaw, which soon closed his earthly existence. All his sufferings were borne with christian resignation; he said to his friends, "If I live all is well, and if I die all is well."
"All is peace and joy divine,
And heaven and glory now art mine,
All is well, all is well
On being asked, by Bro. King, who sat near him, if his "sky was bright?" not being able to speak, he twice nodded assent. He selected and pointed out to his son the place where he should be buried, and also selected the text for his funeral discourse, from which, on the 21st inst. the writer preached his funeral, it being that beautiful language of the Psalmist, (Psa. 62, 2.) "Lead me to the rock that is higher than I," to a large assembly of weeping relatives and sympathysing friends. He leaves a widow and many children and grand children to mourn for him.
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West Virginia Pioneers
Abt 1795 - 1857 (~ 62 years)
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