Paul A. Harcourt (1937 - 1944)

Ancestors

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Biography

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Name

Name: Paul A. /Harcourt/

Name: Paul Aubrey /Harcourt/^[2]

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Paul A. /Harcourt/.

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1937

Birth:

Date: 05 AUG 1937

Place: East St. Louis, St Clair, Illinois, USA

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1937

Death

Death:

Date: 1944

Place: age 7

Death:

Date: 04 AUG 1944

Place: East St. Louis, St Clair, Illinois, USA

Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 1944Array

Burial

Burial:

Date: 07 AUG 1944

Place: Mt. Hope Cemetery, Belleville, Illinois, USA

Event

Event:

Type: Record Change

Date: 11 NOV 2004

Note

Note: #N46

Sources

1. ↑ Harcourt-346 was created by Joyce Hodges through the import of turrentinejmancestors.ged on Dec 30, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
2. ↑ Source: #S435 Page: Marriage Licenses, Henry County, Tennessee Data: Text: 15 JAN 1862QUAY 3

• Source: S435 Title: Marion County, Indiana Index to Marriage 1906-1910 Records Volume 16Letters A tolL NOTEABBR Marion County, Indiana Index to Marriage Records Volume 6 Letters A to ZQUAY 3 CONT

Notes

Note N46Indiana MEMORIAN

PAUL AUBREY HARCOURT

AUGUST 5, 1937

AUGUST 4, 1944

It was my privilege and pleasure to know this little fellow. I baptized him when he was one month and seven days old and was his pastor during his short span of life.

He was a happy little fellow - always wore a smile. He would see me and call tome from a great distance and wave to me. All the women loved him. I have reason to believe - and I have the Bible to back me in that faith - that the soul of little Paul is with the Lord, looking down upon us this afternoon, smiling and wondering why we are mourning. For that is such a lovely world he is in with

our wonderful Saviour.

In the midst of this and at a time like this, many will ask the question, "Why this untimely death?" "Why should this child go to a premature grave?" The answer is, "I don't know, you don't know, nobody knows." God knows, and some day we will know and it will be perfectly all right. He will have proved to us that "All things work together for good for those who love God."

But in an accidental death like this, there is invariably someone who will ask

the question, "Who is to blame?" We answer that question very frankly, "Nobody was to blame." I might illustrate it in this way:

We are living in a mechanized age. We see a fine airplane, of the best construction, well manned; a stream-lined train, with an experienced crew; a

fine automobile, with a careful driver. And suddenly a plane will crash. An

investigation is made. Why did it crash? No reason can be given-every man was

in his place, every man was performing his duty. Everything seemed to be

functioning perfectly, but it happened.

It is the same way with little Paul; there is nobody to blame. God wanted him

and He saw fit to take him in just this way. We know some day it will be all

right, and we should not wonder about it.

Perhaps the Bible could give us a little light on this. We think of death as

applying to people of old age. We say the old must die and the young may die.

When we think of heaven, we think we will see our loved ones. The Bible says we

will. How would we like to live in this world if there were only old people. We

love all the older ones, but we don't care to spend all our time with them, but

enjoy the young people, infants and little children. God made it that way. I

don't think heaven would be heaven if we should go there and there would be

nothing but the old and aged.

Let us read Zechariah 8:4-5; "Thus saith the Lord of hosts; there shall yet old

men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his

staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of

boys and girls playing in the streets thereof."

So just for such a reason, it seems the Lord needed a little seven-year-old boy

for the streets of heaven and Paul was the little boy He wanted, and He sent an

angel here who lifted him up. Paul is in a much better world then we are - no

war, no sickness, no death.

I was shown through a hothouse one time by a friend. He showed me the beds

where the seeds were planted, and when the plants were well-rooted, he told how

they were transplanted into individual pots or into the ground outside. And so

its - when we are rooted here, then we are grounded in heaven, if we are in

Christ Jesus, and there we are developed into our full maturity and so with

little Paul. He became well-rooted and it was an opportune time for God to

reach down and transplant him into the rich soil of heaven where he will

blossom in all his glory as God had intended.

The story is told of a shepherd tending his flock, and in the afternoon he

started for home, expecting to reach the sheepfold just about dark. He had not

gone very far when he came to a stream and as he led the way, he tried to get

the sheep to follow him into the stream, but they would not, and finally the

shepherd crossed back to the flock and picked up a little lamb, and as he

started into the water with the little lamb, the mother sheep followed, and

soon all the sheep were across the stream and safe in the sheepfold on the

other side.

So it is in life. God will often go back and pick up a little child and carry

it across the stream and then when the family comes to the stream they will not

be thinking of the stream itself, but of the little one who has gone ahead and

then they follow the little one into the arms of the Shepherd. You folks have a

new interest in heaven now. Our Lord has picked Paul up and carried him across

this water. Your eyes are fixed upon the sheepfold. You will not hesitate to

cross the water because your eyes are upon the One who has gone before and you

will see only the sheepfold and the Good Shepherd.

"Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my

Father`s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I

go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will

come again, and receive unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto Him, Lord,

we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto

him, I am the way, the truth. and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but

by me."

So, may we this afternoon find that way through the valley into the light.

If the Lord is our shepherd, we shall not want for time nor eternity. Little

Paul did not want in time. He will never want in eternity; for Jesus was his

Good Shepherd and now he is taking his part in the street scene in heaven,

where you may go in your time and join him forever.

My God bless and comfort your sorrowing hearts. Amen.

Rev. Griffin

August 7, 1944

Kurrus Funeral Home

East St. Louis, Illinois.

Paul drown at a public swimming pool is East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois

Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950 Certificate # 0033197