Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bankston, Sarah January 1897 ************************************************ 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: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 November 3, 2006, 1:04 pm Jackson Argus – Butts County, Week of September 3, 1897 Mrs. Sarah Bankston Dead While it is the common destiny of all mankind to die, yet there are those who have so endeared themselves to the people among whom they live, that we cannot reconcile ourselves to their deaths, even when they are old. One who has relieved more suffering of unfortunate human beings than anyone in memory, and who has stood by those whom they could not relieve and breathed words of cheer as they were crossing the river, has now paid the debt, and the useful, generous and lovable form of that noble spirit whom everybody knew and loved as “Aunt Sarah Bankston” is resting today in the silent city of the dead, under the moaning pines, hard by the sacred church known(by common consent) as County Line, but loved by hundreds and hundreds as the house of God. She reversed the immortal bard’s concise and philosophical sentence: ”Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless millions mourn;” and to the extent of her ability, she proved that woman’s humanity to woman makes countless numbers smile. As a nurse by the bedside of the sick and dying, she had no superior, and her charitable visit knew no cost in a society sense. The rich and poor, white and black – the great and the fallen were alike – the objects of her solicitude. Her love knew no bound inside the great sea of humanity. She was indeed the Good Samaritan to all she knew, and the guardian angel of the village of her residence, Jenkinsburg. She was a member of the Primitive Baptist church, and trusted implicitly to God for her salvation. As an evidence of the blessing she was to the world, refer to her noble sons and daughters she has given the world. Messrs. J. M. Bankston, Wm. And Ed Bankston, Mrs. Ashbury, Mrs. Farrar, and Mrs. Delia Moss are citizens of whom any county may well feel proud. No one who knows Mrs. Bankston has any doubt as to her future state. She is in Heaven, even now. The Argus joins her many friends in deepest sympathy over the death of this good lady. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/obits/b/bankston5673gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb