James Colleasure

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Husband James Colleasure ¹

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           Born: Cal 8 May 1847 1
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           Died: 25 Feb 1876 1
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         Father: John Colleasure (1800-1875) 2
         Mother: Margaret Graff (1802-1885) 2 3 4 5

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General Notes: Husband - James Colleasure

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OBITUARY OF JAMES COLLEASURE.
DIED at his residence near Doddsville, the 25th of February, at 2.40 P. M., of typhoid fever, JAMES COLLEASURE, aged 28 years, 9 months and 17 days.
He was the youngest son of Elder John Colleasure (who was himself suddenly called to his rest on Christmas morning, just two months before), and was a young man of most excellent Christian character. He made a profession of his faith in Christ in the Presbyterian Church of Doddsville, January 26, 1867, under the ministry of Rev. James T. Bliss, and was admitted to membership in that church. His was no empty profession; no sooner was he received into the church than he entered upon active Christian duty. He was a young man given to prayer, a regular attendant upon the means of grace, but seldom absent from the prayer-meeting, always in the Sabbath School, unless providentially hindered, supporting the cause of Christ both by his influence and means. He engaged in every good word and work, and when brought to lie upon his dying bed, that Saviour whom he loved and religion that he professed did not forsake him.
While he had a strong desire to live, as would be very natural for a person of his age, yet as he drew nearer his end, his faith appeared to grow brighter and stronger. When told on the morning before he died, by a member of the church, that he could not live, it produced no excitement. He calmly said that he was prepared to go, if it was the Lord's will, and asked that his Sabbath School class might be sent for. They came around his bed-side at 1 o'clock; at that time he was not able to talk to them, but recognizing them he took them severally by the hand, when Mr. Pollock, feeling what their teacher wanted to say to them, told them to be good boys, love their Saviour and prepare to meet their teacher in heaven.
While he was at home in all religious services the Sabbath School was his great delight. For thirteen months before his death, and how much longer the writer does not know, he was not absent one day from his class. And while we sorrow that we shall see him no more on earth, and that he cannot come to us, we rejoice that if we are faithful we shall see him in that better world where sickness and death are not known, and where Jesus walks in the midst of his people.
His funeral was the largest ever held in the neighborhood, and had a stranger been present he would have said, from the concourse of people come together, surly a good man has fallen. The old church was full to overflowing. The funeral discourse was preached by Rev. H. C. Mullen, from 2 Timothy, i: 10, last clause, after which the remains were deposited in the cemetery north of the village, beside his father, there to await the resurrection morning when he shall come forth and be numbered with those of the first resurrection, and so be forever with the Lord.
At a congregational meeting the day after he was taken sick, he was elected to take his father's place in the Eldership by an almost unanimous vote, but did not live to be installed.
Let his young associates follow him as he followed Christ, so it may be also well with you when you come to die.H. B.

1 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 63.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 328.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 711.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 141.

5 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 6.