Baldwin-Jasper County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bettie Digby March 17 1884
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of April 1, 1884
In Memorium

Died at her residence in Jasper County, Ga., March 17, 1884, Mrs. Bettie Digby, 
formerly Bettie Puly, wife of W. B. Digby.  She was born in Baldwin county, 
Ga., November (13 or 18th), 1853.  Her father was killed in the battle at 
Jonesboro in 1864, and her mother died in May 1857.  She was raised by her 
grand-father, Joseph Lenord in Baldwin county.  She had for several years been 
residing in Jasper County among her relatives and was married to W. B. Digby 
September 19, 1881, and lived with her husband a happily as man and wife could 
live together.  Providence has seen fit to separate them and we are made to 
wonder why is it thus?  When loving ones are so much attached to each other, 
why are they thus separated?  But the answer is, we cannot have an idol.  She 
joined the church at Concord in 1875 and lived an exemplary Christian until her 
death and as a sister in the church she was obedient to all the requisitions of 
the church.  As a wife, she was loving and obedient and as a sister in the 
flesh she was kind and affectionate, and as a friend none ever knew her but to 
love her.  She has left a host of friends to mourn, but we can say to her 
friends, be of good cheer feeling assured that our loss is her eternal gain.  
To the husband and sisters, we can say to them her kind words, trust in Jesus.  
So dry up your tears and week not for me, but for yourself and your children.  
We can say, follow her examples; though it seemeth hard to give up such a 
lovely sister, say to yourselves the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh and 
blessed be the name of the Lord.  She can never come to you but you by the 
grace of God can go to her.  As the writer was very well acquainted with her 
for years, I can say as the poet she sleeps in Jesus, blessed sleep form which 
none ever wake to weep.  In a calm and undisturbed years unbroken by the last 
of foes.  You’re in hope to meet her again where sorrow and affliction will be 
no more.   T. G. P.




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