ROYCE, M.S. – (d. 1873)
We are sorry to report the death of the Rev. M.S. ROYCE, Rector of Trinity Church, Nashville. He died June 9, after a brief and severe attack of cholera. Mr. ROYCE was an excellent man. He was a native of Vermont, and was trained for the ministry by the late Bishop HAWKINS. He settled as a minister in Tennessee, and was rector of St. Paul’s Church, Franklin, when the war broke out. He served as Captain of Confederate cavalry till the close of the war, and then took charge of Trinity Church, Nashville, where he has devoted himself with great self-sacrifice and zeal to the poor and neglected classes of society. He had formed a parish in Claiborne’s Addition, where he was erecting a new church, when he was suddenly removed from labor to reward. Soon after his attack, he felt that his end was near, and that he was prepared for it. Many die as sudden, few as safe. Mr. PLAXTON, one of our foremen, a vestry man of Mr. ROYCE’s church, speaks of him in exalted terms as a devoted minister, and such we considered him, though our personal acquaintance with him was limited. How mysterious that such men should be suddenly stricken down in the xenith of their usefullness! But the great Employer knows what to do with his workmen. “The Lord’s appointment is the servant’s hour.” — Christian Advocate.
Source: Atlanta Constitution, 14 June 1873.