Calhoun-Cherokee County AlArchives Obituaries.....Leak, Laura A. May 20, 1893
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Piedmont Inquirer, June 10, 1893
Death of Mrs. J.F. Leak
	The hearts of the many friends and relatives of Mrs. Laura A. Leak, who 
was so well and favorably known by many of the citizens of Piedmont and 
vicinity, have recently been pained by the sad intelligence of her death, which 
occurred at Navasota, Tex., on the 20th ult.  She was born in Laurens Dist. 
S.C., March the 16th, 1832, and married to J.F. Leak Dec. 18th, 1850.  Soon 
after her marriage she removed with her husband to Cass county, Ga., where they 
resided for many years.  About fifteen years ago they came to this section, 
where they lived until about nine years ago, when they went to Navasota, 
Texas.  Mrs. Leak was the mother of a large family of children, two of which 
preceded her spirit land.  Mrs. Wm. Leak and Mrs. John A. Amberson, of near 
Piedmont, are among her surviving children, who are left to mourn the loss of a 
kind and loving mother.  May they all, together with the bereaved husband and 
father, compose at last an unbroken family in some one of the many mansions in 
Our Father’s House.  Mrs. Leak professed religion and joined the M.E. Church 
South in early life, and lived a devoted christian [sic] until the day of her 
death.  Her piety was not a fitful flame, manifesting itself only on special 
occasions, but was as “a shining light, that shineth more and more unto the 
perfect day.”  Truly her peace “flowed as a river, and her righteousness as the 
waves of the sea.”  She was always ready to do and to suffer the Master’s Will; 
and it may truthfully be said of her, “She hath done what she could.”  Her’s 
was a beautiful life, and its close was as peaceful and calm as that of a 
bright summer day.
So fades a summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale when storms are o’er;
So gently shuts the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore.
			P.H.B.  (Patrick H. Brewster)



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