Bibb-Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Edwards, Beachie Cushman September 18, 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Pat Coyle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006560 September 6, 2015, 6:02 pm Macon Telegraph dated 29 September 1898 OBITUARY - Macon Telegraph, Thursday, September 29, 1898, pg 8 MRS. EDWARDS FUNERAL - The beautiful Tribute of a Friend to Her Memory. The funeral of Mrs. J. A. Edwards will take place from her late residence on Huguenin Heights at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The announcement of her death yesterday was received with much sadness, as she was universally loved by all who knew her. All of her life since her early girlhood has been spent in doing good for others and she took a prominent part in every movement gotten up for charity or to relive those in distress. The following tribute to her memory was written by a friend: Shortly after midnight this morning died at her home in this city, Beachie, the wife of Mr. J. A. Edwards. Apparently well twenty-four hours before, she was suddenly seized with a mortal illness, and as falling asleep, passed quietly from the circle of loving friends, whose loving friend she had been. Her husband, summoned by a telegram to face the shocking tragedy, was at her side during the final hours, and there also were two little babes, one of them with eyes just opening upon life. Death, the end of one mystery and the beginning of another, is always sad, always terrible, always beyond the conception of the finite; death under the circumstances that surround the little home on Huguenin Heights today carries with it grief too deep and too sacred for public expression. In the full flower of young womanhood, crowned with the graces of mind and body which make womanhood life's best solace, with children, a devoted husband, a tender mother, and sister for the expression of the heart overflowing with affection, she lived out the brief span of her life, a happy Christian woman and died in the triumph of an unshaken faith. To the sorrowing relatives and friends many hearts are turned today in sympathy. A Friend. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/bibb/obits/e/edwards14555ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb