Obituary of Grier Bonner, Wilcox County, Alabama

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June 2003 

Wilcox Progressive Era
Thursday, January 31, 1901
   It is our sad and painful duty to chronicle the death of Grier Bonner, the 
youngest son of Maj. Jas. Bonner, deceased. His death was a great shock to his
relatives and friends - he was only sick a few days with Pneumonia. One 
peculiarly sad fact of his death was being from home. He was a student at Auburn
College. He was his mother's boy and was preparing to make himself a farmer and 
live with her at the old homestead and make green her declining years. He left 
surviving him, six brothers and one sister. They were with him when he died. His
body was brought home and buried on last Tuesday at Oak Hill. He was just 
budding into manhood with promise of great usefulness. He had been trained from
infancy by a mother's love and wisdom in "that perfect way" that leads to honor
in this life and hapiness in the great hereafter. He was a member of the church 
of his father at Oak Hill, and took pleasure in the work of the church. We can 
only bow to the great mystery of death when one so young and promising is taken.
   To his stricken mother and to his brothers and sisters, in this dark hour of
grief, we can only extend sympathy, and leave them with their God who is full of
love and will one day make all these dark events clear and wise. "Wait on the
Lord."