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Photographer: Brian Scott
Taken: September 13, 2008
Caption: Gov. Patrick Noble Tombstone
Additional Description: Here Repose
the mortal remains of
Patrick Noble
who died at Abbeville Court House
the 7th day of April 1840 in the 53rd year of his age.
He was a native of Abbeville District which he
represented successively in the Senate and House
of Representative of South Carolina during a long
course of years and was finally elected Governor
which office he held at the time of his death. As a public
man he was distinguished by moderation resulting
from a mild and even temperament and by firmness
of purpose proceeding from a high sense of duty
and sound judgement drawing its conclusions from
careful and dispassionate examination. In all the
relations of private life he was singularly exemplary,
and in public and private, such was the unblemished
purity of his character that both friends and
opponents would concur in inscribing on his tomb,
"Here lie the bones of an honest man." The example
of his virtues silently impressed upon the community
in which he lived, contributed largely to the formation
of the high moral character of his native District
and long will the District, in common with the
whole State deplore his loss.
Submitted: September 14, 2008, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p35553
File Size: 2.396 Megabytes

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