Individual Details

Death

Notes for JOHN SIMPSON FURR: 
John Simpson Furr buried Nelsondale Plantation. 
John Simpson Furr of Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi.
John Simpson Furr died on the Verner Plantation in 1841 in Lowndes County, Mississippi. He is probably buried on the Verner Plantation in Lowndes County, Mississippi. 

At the residence of William E. Verner Esq. Monroe County Mississippi, on the 4th inst. John Simpson Furr, in the 27th year of his age, leaving a wife and two children to mourn for the loss of one of the kindest of husbands, and the best of parents. He lingered long and suffered much, but through Christ strengthening him, he was enabled to bear his affliction with fortitude. As a member of the Presbyterian Church he adorned his profession by a Godly life. and a this death he realized the preciousness of that promise of Scripture, "I will be with you through the valley and shadow of death, my rod and my staff they shall comfort you” —Shortly before his death he was enabled to praise God at the prospect of being released from this clay of Mortality, and that his unfettered soul world then leave this world of pain and sorrow, and be at rest in the bosom of his God. Here was an emaciated body, the only prey of death, and here also was a soul fearless of its power. The sting of death was overcome,the soul triumphantly ascending to immortality and eternal life. Truly the righteous hath hope in his death. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.