Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Foster, Lewis T. February 8, 1830
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Lynchburg Virginian (Lynchburg [Va.] March 8, 1830 page 3

                Obituary
    Died, on the 8th of Feb. at his residence, in the
county of Patrick, LEWIS T. FOSTER, in the 26th year
of his age, of pulmonary consumption. The writer of
this last tribute of respect to the memory of a friend,
is conscious of that disposition inherent in our nature,
which prompts us to magnify the virtues and to conceal
the frailties of the dead. He is far from claiming 
exemption from a weakness (if weakness it may be called)
which does honor to human nature--yet he feels, that
on this occasion, no language that he could employ can
convey an adequate idea of the unaffected simplicity of
maners, the frank cordiality of disposition, the unsullied
purity of heart which characterized the subject of this
notice.
    Lewis T. Foster was emphatically the noblest work of
God--an honest man. In all the relations of life he was
most exemplary, and few men enjoyed more of the confidence
and esteem of his neighbors and friends. He had been for
several years a highly respectable member of the Baptist
Church, whose faith and principles he had long cherished
and supported. The writer is conscious that the parent
who deplores the loss of such a son-- the wife who mourns
the deep and dreary privation of such a husband-- the
sister who heaves a sigh or drops a tear of sympathy
over the tomb of the departed wor?h, can find no consolation
but in the softening hand of Time, or in the bosom of
pure and unaffected piety.

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