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Name: Thomas Jefferson Gorin
Residence: Louisville, Jefferson, KY
Died: 4 a.m. Thursday, 11 January 1883.
Services: Conducted by Rev. J J Hynes, Glasgow Methodist Church, 11
o'clock, burial Gorin graveyard
near old family residence.
"The death of Mr. Thomas J. Gorin which occurred in Louisville on
the morning of Thursday, January
11th, 1883, though not an unexpected event, was one of those afflictions
for which we are never
prepared. He was a man while not at all eccentric, preserved the
characteristics of his own individuality,
and his utterances and actions were never borrowedd. Amiable by nature
and a sincere christian by
choice, his influence was always along the path of peace, and his voice
was never stifled in open
expression of his firm belief in the great underlying principles of
Christianity. He was a listener of fruitful
ultimation, and a talker of exceedingly happy and sunny fertility and
expression. Had he chosen a
learned profession instead of pursuing the vocation of a tradesman, he
would have achieved a high
distinction. An ardent believer in his church and its doctrines, though
always catholic in opinion, he
possessed the fervid style and Weseleyan eloquence which, if practiced
and cultivated in the exercise of
ministerial life, he would have franked with the highest dignitaries of
the Methodist church. Mr. Gorin
enjoyed more than the average share of worldly blessing at the hands of
the fickle goddess of furtune,
though his latter days lay heavy pon him in their shadoowly misfortunes.
He was tenderly affectionate
towards those with whom he was cemented in strong bonds of blood
kinships and professions. His
death makes painful removal of a conspicuous representative of Glasgow's
older days, and saddens his
friends of auld lang syne with the melancholy thought that a few more
driftings and returns of the
seasons and all the older human links that have so pleasurably, bound
this generation to the century's
beginning, will have to look to history for communication with the
infancy days of Glasgow's founding.
The battle of life is over for him.
After nearly seventy-five years of honorable, useful and vigorous life,
his activity is hushed, his voice
stilled, and 'The wearied feet at last have found A long, eternal rest'.
His poor mortal remains sleep,
after the storms and sunshine of a long life and changeful fortunes, in
the quiet of the graveyard of the
old town that gave him birth, prosperity, and long years of pleasurable
associations and unruffled
domestic joys, while his spirit has gone to the God he always trusted
and for whom he was always a bold
and willing witness. May the turf rest gently over him, and may those
who sorrow with bleeding hearts
take comfort in the fact 'After life's fitful fever he sleep well.' in
the eternal haven of love and calm."
Undated Glasgow KY newspaper
Notes: Born 1808 in Glasgow, son of John and
Elizabeth Franklin Gorin.
Buried originally in the Gorin Family Cemetery on West Washington
Street; interment is now in the
Glasgow Municipal Cemetery. His wife, Mary Ann Bowman Gorin born 2 March
1814, died 5 Sept 1870 is
buried beside him.
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