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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