BRIGHT, L. M.

BRIGHT

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/10/2015 at 04:37:37

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa

Obituary.

Brother L. M. BRIGHT died July 7th, 1882, in Morgan Township, at the residence of his father, Mr. Jacob L. Bright, after a lingering illness of nearly a year. In the 38th year of his age. He was buried in Leon cemetery, and a large crowd of friends and relatives followed him to his last resting place. He leaves a wife and five little children, also in and old father and mother, two brothers and two sisters to mourn his loss.

How true the saying; Death his no respecter of persons! He was a citizen of our town and highly respected by all who knew him for his noble and generous heart. He went to his father’s about two weeks before he died with the intentions of tying the mineral spring at Lineville, but took worse and was not permitted to return till he was brought back a corpse.

He was a soldier in the Union army; enlisted in the 13th Mo. Cavalry and served till May, 1865, and in Co. H. 7th Mo. Cavalry: served till May, 1865, and it was often said that the stoutest man in the regiment.

He was converted years ago and united with the Baptist church, but at his death belonged to the First Day Advent and died in the triumph of a living faith. – He bore his sickness with Christian fortitude and was perfectly resigned to the will of God, sanctified wholly in the Lord, telling his friends he was willing to go, but wanted them to meet him in Heaven, where parting would be no more, and after singing those beautiful lines –

My days are gliding swiftly by
And I a pilgrim stranger
Would not detain them as they fly
Those hours of toil and danger
He shouted Glory Halleiujah! Amen!
The last song he requested them to sing was so sweet to his soul:

O, sing to me of Heaven
When I am called to die;
Sing songs of holy ecstasy
To waft my soul on high.

We do not sorrow as those that have no hope, for we know in the resurrection morn Brother BRIGHT will sing "O, death, where is they sting? O grave, where is the victory."

~ T. B.

Transcription and submission by Sara Rose Joan LeFleur