422 John BacJiman. .. 



•will welcome you with our whole hearts. With 

 kind wishes for 3'ourself and family, 



Your friend and aged brother in Christ, J. B. 



The illness and death of Dr. Dosh's youngest 

 child detained him in Winchester. On the 8th of 

 February he reached Charleston ; the day after his 

 arrival the wish of the old Pastor of St. John's was 

 gratified — the families dined together in his homel 

 Inexperienced in the school of suffering, he had ready 

 words of Christian sympathy for the bereaved fam- 

 ily. The close relation established between the two 

 pastors from the beginning, remained uninterrupted 

 to the end. 



During the following months we find the record 

 of many visits paid by Dr. Bach man. He would 

 stop at the door of his parishioners ; in a few minutes 

 the grandmother and mother, with the baby, would 

 come out to welcome him. Sometimes his com- 

 panion would resign her seat to an invalid to whorn 

 he desired to give the fresh air. Month after month 

 peacefully glided away. He had entered his eighty- 

 third year. The absent members of his family, on 

 his birthday, sent him letters of congratulation, and 

 in the home, friends united with the family in cele- 

 brating the day appropriately. 



. Alluding to this time, the Spring of 1872, Johii 

 Haskell wrote : " Among the very last acts of my 

 grandfather's life, was taking part in the Ladies 

 Society of St. John's. Riding in his carriage to the 

 place of meeting, and being borne into the room^ 

 here he sat joyous among his heart's children. He 



