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Obituary.
and a good Christian . He died on the 7 th of April , in only the fiftysecond year of his age . "—Literary Gazette . Bro . Jerdan in this brief sketch , has done but justice to his departed friend . We , too , knew him well , as a Mason he was worthy of his calling ; if he had possessed the means , those means would have been placed freely on the altar of charity ; as it was , friendly counsel and
good wishes were most cordially offered , and at a time , too , when the question of the Asylum met with the most unmasonic opposition , and its founder with reckless persecution . Bro . Isaacson , we record thy name with fraternal gratitude !
" Died on Monday last , after a short illness of four days , aged twentyseven , JOHN LUCE PICKSTOCK , ESQ ., ( eldest son of Thomas Pickstock , Esq ., of London , many years a magistrate of this settlement ) who , from his kind-heartedness , gentleness of disposition , and unaffected manners , is universally regretted by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance . He has left a young widow and only child to mourn his loss . "—Honduras Observer , 17 th February , 1849 .
" Before his sacred name Hies every fault . " " The poetry of existence and the sentiment of love were his pride ; he overcame all things early , prophetic , alas ! of his career ' s premature close . Engaged in mercantile pursuits , with his attached father , for some years in London , during which he had been a member of Lloyd ' s , he continued a liveryman of the curriers' company , in the expectance of returning at a future periodamongst the friends of that honourable
, society from whom , by the urbanity of his manners , he had received many marks of flattering attention , previous to quitting England for ever , on the 10 th of May , 1844 , with most sanguine hopes , for the place of his birth , his marriage , and his death—Belize—in the breasts of whose inhabitants was soon warmly engendered for him , by the spirited nobility of his disposition , a sincere and undying love .
Worthy by being good , Far more than great or high . ' " He saw , but would not believe , deceit ; trusting to the imagined friendship , he experienced its bitter contrary , jealousy , mining unseen ; again was his mind perturbed in struggling for liberty under oppression ' s yoke , knowing that ' patience , under the detested tyranny of man , was rebellion to the sovereignty of God . ' Undertaking pursuits in the forests
of Yucatan , which proved unsuccessful , his elevated mind could not withstand the shock ; weakened in health by dysentery , from the waters of Bacalar , added to the grief of disappointed hopes , his proud soul burst , the fury of delirium ensued , and now in his grave , after life ' s fitful fever , he sleeps well . The solemnity of his funeral rites on the succeeding evening of his death , was enhanced by the mournful 'dead march' of the Royal Militia bandin which he was a lieutenant , to the
, Yarborough Ground , the place of interment in that colony ; and the affecting scene was made more sorrowful , and the high esteem in which they held him evinced , by the procession of his brother Freemasons and friends , whom , but a few weeks previously , he had enlivened hy the vivacity of his genius . "—Colonial Magazine and East India Review , June , 1849 . VOL . VII . A A
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Obituary.
and a good Christian . He died on the 7 th of April , in only the fiftysecond year of his age . "—Literary Gazette . Bro . Jerdan in this brief sketch , has done but justice to his departed friend . We , too , knew him well , as a Mason he was worthy of his calling ; if he had possessed the means , those means would have been placed freely on the altar of charity ; as it was , friendly counsel and
good wishes were most cordially offered , and at a time , too , when the question of the Asylum met with the most unmasonic opposition , and its founder with reckless persecution . Bro . Isaacson , we record thy name with fraternal gratitude !
" Died on Monday last , after a short illness of four days , aged twentyseven , JOHN LUCE PICKSTOCK , ESQ ., ( eldest son of Thomas Pickstock , Esq ., of London , many years a magistrate of this settlement ) who , from his kind-heartedness , gentleness of disposition , and unaffected manners , is universally regretted by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance . He has left a young widow and only child to mourn his loss . "—Honduras Observer , 17 th February , 1849 .
" Before his sacred name Hies every fault . " " The poetry of existence and the sentiment of love were his pride ; he overcame all things early , prophetic , alas ! of his career ' s premature close . Engaged in mercantile pursuits , with his attached father , for some years in London , during which he had been a member of Lloyd ' s , he continued a liveryman of the curriers' company , in the expectance of returning at a future periodamongst the friends of that honourable
, society from whom , by the urbanity of his manners , he had received many marks of flattering attention , previous to quitting England for ever , on the 10 th of May , 1844 , with most sanguine hopes , for the place of his birth , his marriage , and his death—Belize—in the breasts of whose inhabitants was soon warmly engendered for him , by the spirited nobility of his disposition , a sincere and undying love .
Worthy by being good , Far more than great or high . ' " He saw , but would not believe , deceit ; trusting to the imagined friendship , he experienced its bitter contrary , jealousy , mining unseen ; again was his mind perturbed in struggling for liberty under oppression ' s yoke , knowing that ' patience , under the detested tyranny of man , was rebellion to the sovereignty of God . ' Undertaking pursuits in the forests
of Yucatan , which proved unsuccessful , his elevated mind could not withstand the shock ; weakened in health by dysentery , from the waters of Bacalar , added to the grief of disappointed hopes , his proud soul burst , the fury of delirium ensued , and now in his grave , after life ' s fitful fever , he sleeps well . The solemnity of his funeral rites on the succeeding evening of his death , was enhanced by the mournful 'dead march' of the Royal Militia bandin which he was a lieutenant , to the
, Yarborough Ground , the place of interment in that colony ; and the affecting scene was made more sorrowful , and the high esteem in which they held him evinced , by the procession of his brother Freemasons and friends , whom , but a few weeks previously , he had enlivened hy the vivacity of his genius . "—Colonial Magazine and East India Review , June , 1849 . VOL . VII . A A