Banks-Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ash, John Edgar August 26, 1891
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Banks County Gazette, Wednesday, 2 September 1891, page 3, column 2
     John Edgar Ash was born in Banks county, Ga., May 23d, 1856, and died at 
his father's residence near Homer, Ga., August 26th, 1891, aged 35 years, 
three months and three days.
     To know John Ash was to love him.  From early youth he was the soul of 
honor and integrity.  He was gentle, kind and obedient.  Few young men were 
endowed with more noble and generous qualities of mind and heart, and these 
virtues grew with him and became the basis of his successful and busy life.
     When quite young he left his parental home, and engaged in business with 
the firm of Reaves & Nicholson, in Athens, and remained with the same house 
until the time of his death.
     His life was a bright example of Christian fortitude.  Modest and 
unassuring in manner gentle, yet firm, and faithful in the discharge of every 
duty, he endeared himself to all who knew him, thus he won for himself the 
love and esteem of a host of warm friends who will sadly miss him in the every 
day walks of life.
     But it was in the home circle, and in the bosom of his dearest of earthly 
companions where his many virtues were most prominent.  There his loving 
affections were centered, and there will his kind and tender ministrations be 
most painfully missed by the bereaved ones.  May the merciful Heavenly Father 
bind up the broken hearts of those who loved him so dearly while on earth.
     He made public profession of faith in Christ and joined the Presbyterian 
church, in Homer, August 9th, 1872, and was a member of the same church, at 
Athens, at the time of his death.  He was married on his 26th birthday, May 
23d, 1882, to Miss Lula Brown, a most estimable young lady of Madison county, 
and two children of tender age, a boy and a girl, was the result of their 
happy union.
     While on a visit to his parents he was stricken with a slow fever which 
resulted in his death.
     All that loving hands could do, or that unremitting medical attention 
could avail failed to restore him.  During his last illness he displayed 
unusual fortitude and patience.  Perfectly resigned to the will of God, 
awaiting His own good time he slowly sank into His everlasting arms, and 
stepped fearlessly into the narrow, chilling stream, that divides the living 
from the dead.  May our last end be like his.
     "Rejoice for a brother deceased
        Our loss is his infinite gain.
      A soul out of prison released,
        And freed from his bodily pain,
      Escaped to the mansions of light,
        And lodged in the Eden of love.
      With songs let us follow his flight
        And unite with his spirit above,"
 
     Athens papers please copy.

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