Death
Obituaries & Death Notices: O Surnames
William T. Osborne
William T. Osborne, son of Johnathan and Jane Osborne, died at the residence of his father in Knox County, on the 16th of Sept., 1872, of scrofula in the eighteenth year of his age. The disease which terminated in his death was protracted for ten years and was at times intensely painful. Notwithstanding his great pain, he bore it with Christian patience. In the fall of 1869, he professed Christ and attached himself to the M. E. Church. Ever since he has been an exemplary Christian, and although his sufferings were great and constant, he still would say all was well - that the Lord had prepared a place for him, where there would be no more suffering. He often told his friends that he could not get well, and that he was prepared to die. The writer has often conversed with him on the subject of religion. He was always tranquil, even in his greatest affliction. He would exhort his friends to meet him in Heaven where suffering would be known no more. He would often rejoice by singing, "I want to be an angel, and with the angels stand." In his dying moments he would say to his friends, he could stay no longer, that Jesus was calling him home, saying "I am going home to die no more." The bereft parents have the sympathy of all their friends. Source: "Obituary," Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, 25 September 1872, page 5, digital images, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 17 July 2018).
