Glass Obituaries for Jesse DeBruhl 1859-1860

Jesse DeBruhl a citizen of Columbia, S.C. died in Columbia County, Florida on the 20th May 1860, from injuries received by the falling of a limb from a tree, and was buried in Columbia, S.C. May 24, 1860
Thus have been entombed on the same day, two citizens of about the same age, sixty five years. They both entered on their career in life (in Columbia) at about the same time; with unbounded ambition: the one for wealth, at all, and every hazard. Both toiled, were distinguished in their avocations. And were both successful, aye to the utter end. Preston, honored, admired, beloved, has passed to the tomb, amid public lamentation. DeBruhl too, sleeps beneath the clods of the valley, leaving as the success and fruit of his ambition, a large estate, to be enjoyed by those who claim as heirs and representatives.
Well be it so! How very mysterious are the dispensations of Divine Providence and in these instances specially so. Two men so opposite in their characters and lives, citizens of the same place, the one Preston a sufferer for years; the other, in the midst of health, strong still in the pursuit of his ambitious desire for wealth, cut down, bruised, mangled, and summoned hence, in a few days. The two separated in their places of abode, but gathered to their graves on the same day, in the same city. Alas! Alas! Well might we exclaim with the inspired pens man, "what is your life" Let another write the epitaphs of these two citizens, for the writer desires not to praise the one, or disparage the other. They were both mortal and there is not any perfection on earth. "Honesta mors turpi vita potior" "An honorable death is preferable to a degrade life".