Butts County GaArchives News.....Bryant Cole Family Reunion July 1893
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Flovilla & Indian Springs Enterprise July 1893
Bryant Cole, Family Reunion

On Saturday July 15 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Cole assembled 
quite a number of friends and relatives to participate with the numerous 
progeny of, the noble old couple.

At noon the baskets and trunks filled with good things prepared by the head of 
he different families were brought to an extensive table that had been 
prepared under some venerable oaks that tower majestically in the yard, the 
contents were spread on this table until it groaned under the weight, and not 
more than half of those receptacles had been touched.   Diner was announced, 
guests consisting of 116 souls, partook of this sumptuous repast.  There were 
present 39 distant relatives and friends and 77 of the immediate family.  In 
addition to these there is a son in a distant state whose family numbers four, 
which makes 81 now living and 24 dead, making a family of 105.

Among them are three pairs of twins all of whom were present on this occasion, 
two pairs are grand children and one pair of great grand children.

This couple, though so aged, are stout and active, doing their own work, 
cultivating a small farm from which they obtain a good living, which proves 
that the honest tiller of the soil is the sinew and back bone of our country, 
for their products are the basis on which all other enterprises depend and 
from them generally comes the purest and best citizens of our land.

May the God in whom they trusted and served so long lead them gently down the 
slope of time and spare them for witness many more reunions with their friends 
and loved ones.
Clarrissa.

Flovilla & Indian Springs Enterprise – Butts County Ga.
July  1893


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