Jno Jack

JACK

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/27/2008 at 22:11:51

Davenport Gazette, December 9, 1847.

OBITUARY

Departed this life on the 14th Nov. ult., at the residence of his father in Scott Co., Iowa, Mr. Jno Jack, in the 24th year of his age. The deceased had been for the last six years of his life a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and at the time when arrested by disease-was pursuing a course of liberal education at Washington College, with a view to the office of Gospel Ministry. But it has pleased the head of the Church suddenly to remove him of his service on earth to a higher reward in Heaven.
During a rapid decline of six months continuance he frequently expressed his entire acquiescence in the sovereign will of God-and "that he had nothing to fear either from death or hell." His end was peaceful and his numerous surviving friends have the satisfaction to know that he left them in the full assurance of a blessed immortality. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints."