Few men have been so blest as to look back upon a life as blameless, as happy, and as useful as his. He never mingled much in public affairs, and vexed his soul little with the contentions of men or the battles of the world. Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, he kept the even tenor of his way, content to do his duty as man, citizen, and neighbor. Ostentation was contrary to his nature. Simplicity and modesty characterized him always, and made his benevolence and his life doubly beautiful. He was as unassuming as the most shrinking child, and had the perfect poise and self-control of the strongest man. In movements for the public welfare he was always among the foremost and most generous in action, the most backward in accepting praise or reward. He did his full duty always, and always as if it would not have been possible for him or any man to have done otherwise.

            In these times of rush and hurly-burly and false purposes and base standards and loud selfishness and false pretence, it is refreshing and comforting to find a life like that of Mr. Cleveland’s — pure, simple, gentle, kindly, and modest — a life marked by duties and good works well done, without proclamations of the doing or demands for recognition, by far-reaching charity; for which no trumpets were sounded, by a very sweet and very practical Christianity, in which there was no praying at the street corners or obtrusion of his own righteousness.

            There are many honored graves in South Carolina, marked and unmarked, many places where high and noble and true men sleep. In none of them will there rest a nobler, kindlier gentleman, a higher or more manly man than he who will be buried today near the blue mountains he loved. He lived gentle, generous, and honest ; he will sleep peacefully : and when the time comes he will rise in peace to go before the Creator whose will he did well, whose spirit of love and compassion he faithfully illustrated in his life.

                        From Enterprise and Mountaineer, Greenville, S. C, Sept. 7, 1892:

DEATH OF J. HARVEY CLEVELAND.

            On last Sunday, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Hamlin Beattie, of this city, Mr. James Harvey Cleveland breathed his last.

            One of the old landmarks of Greenville County, and one whose name has, during his life of more than three score years and ten, been associated with Greenville, has passed away. A son of Capt. Jeremiah Cleveland, who was one of the pioneer settlers of this county, and a descendant of the Clevelands who fought at King s Mountain, J. Harvey Cleveland was born in Greenville on December i, 1815. His early life was spent at the place of his birth until, about 1838, upon his marriage to Miss Mary L. Williams, he moved to Cleveland’s mill, about four miles above Marietta, and entered upon his life’s work of farming. Subsequently, upon the death of Dr. Williams, his wife’s father, he purchased from that estate the place upon which he was living at the time of his death, and to which he gave the name of Marietta. He removed for a season back to his birthplace for the purpose of educating his children, of whom there were given to him six. Of this number there survive him five, three daughters and two son’s: Mrs. William Wilkins, Mrs. H. Beattie, Mrs. Lizzie Cleveland, Hon. R. Mays Cleveland, and Mr. Jesse F. Cleveland. The other daughter, Mrs. J. T. Williams, preceded her father several years ago.

            Mr. Cleveland was himself the youngest of eight children, having had four brothers and three sisters, all of whom he had survived for several years. In his death, therefore, passes away the last of his father’s family. Some of his brothers migrated to Georgia and Tennessee, and one of them, Hon. Jesse F. Cleveland, was at one time the Congressman from the Atlanta District. The deceased was also an uncle of Mr. W. C. Cleveland, of our city, and had a very large circle of relatives and friends in this immediate neighborhood.

            At the commencement of the war between the States, Mr. Cleveland enlisted as a private in the Brooks Troop, and was attached to the Hampton Legion, but after a service of somewhat more than a year he was discharged, being exempt from duty by reason of his age.

            Mr. Cleveland studied in his youth civil engineering, but possessing by inheritance a competency he never made a pursuit of his profession. Possessed of large landed estates, he gave his attention almost entirely to their management, and prosperity attended his efforts. For over forty years he had resided at Marietta, passing his life in the enjoyment of home pleasures and farming pursuits, wherein was his chief delight. His life was uneventful Of gentle disposition, and far more fond of domestic pursuits than the turmoil of public life, Mr. Cleveland never sought or seemed to desire office. The family circle and familiar intercourse with friends were congenial to him, and his affectionate, cheerful disposition made him particularly welcome and happy in these spheres. Kind and sympathetic, he was willing and ready to give aid when needed ; and of an amiable, even-tempered frame of mind, he never wittingly injured or needlessly offended any one. Of generous nature, he delighted in hospitality, and although a patriarch in years and appearance, his heart was ever warm with the glow of youth. We would imagine that nothing would be more enjoyed by him than the thronging of relatives and friends within the precincts of hospitable old “Antiquity,” as his home was called.