Trimingham, James Harvey
Obituary
Royal Gazette
28 April 1829

DIED, on Thursday night last, Mr. James Harvey Trimingham, of Paget's Parish, aged 50 years.

Mr Trimingham had arrived in Bermuda a week before his death.-- A disconsolate widow and eight children are left to deplore his loss. Their sudden deprivation has, as may be expected, filled them with unutterable sorrow; but amidst their piercing anguish and pining regret, they have one great source of consolation, in the pious resignation, which he exhibited during the sufferings of extreme illness. He trusted to the mercy of God, through the merits of Jesus Christ-- prayed to be forgiven, even as bhe forgave-- and earnestly desired to enter the joy of the Lord. By leaving his family such an example he indeed proved himself, to the last, a kind husband, and affectionate father; and they may surely entertain the comfortable and well grounded hope, "that he is now numbered among the children of God" and "that his lot, his glorious Inheritance is now among the children of light!".

A sermn was preached at Paget's Church, on the melancholy occasion, by the Rev Richard Tucker, whose unaffected energy of manner, and emphatic enunciation, accorded well with the feelings of the congregation, excited as they were, by the distress, at the unexpected event; and augmented to the sorrowing friends of the deceased, the force of the consolation contained in his excellent discourse.

May all who heard this Sermon, treasure up its admonitions in their hearts, and endeavor so to live, that, when they depart hence, their faith and resignation may, like the stars, in the dark-vaulted Heavens, shed forth a mitigation light, to lesen the gloom of the night of grief, in which their surviving relatives will be involved!.