Cleburne County AlArchives Obituaries.....Dennis, William April 5, 1853
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Jacksonville Republican
MASONIC HALL, ARBACOOCHEE, ALABAMA. 
At a meeting of Bethel Lodge, No. 141. the undersigned were appointed a 
committee for the purpose of offering suitable resolutions in reference to our 
deceased brother William Dennis, and beg leave to present the following: 
Whereas, by the decree of an all-wise Being, our Lodge has again been visited by 
the hand death, our brother Wm. Dennis is no more, for God has taken him. In the 
death of brother Dennis, which occurred on the 5th ult. this Lodge has lost one 
of its brightest members, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church a zealous member 
and pious Christian, the community in which he lived one of its best citizens, 
and his family a kind and affectionate father and husband. To his bereaved 
family and friends we do sincerely offer our sympathies and condolence, and let 
us all be admonished to imitate the last years of the life of our deceased 
brother, so that when we too come to lie down in death, we may, like him, be 
able to exclaim, though like him, we be in the furnace of affliction, with our 
expiring breath, "I shall soon be freed from my sufferings and at rest in 
glory". Therefore, be it Resolved, 
1st, that in the death of brother Dennis, a Star in Masonry has fallen the 
Church of Christ has lost a faithful Christian, his family a kind father and 
affectionate husband, and the community an honest man. 
2nd. That a blank page be left in our minute book, inscribed to the memory of 
bro. Wm. Dennis, stating the time of his death, etc. 
3d. That in testimony of our respects, this Lodge will wear the usual badge of 
mourning for 30 days. 
4th. That a copy of these proceedings be sent to the family of the deceased, and 
one to the Jacksonville Republican, and one to the Sunny South, for publication. 
5th That the above preamble and resolutions be spread on our minutes. 
JAS. MARTIN., W.W. ANDERSON, W. R. HARRIS

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