Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Barfield, M. G. January 26, 1897
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Jackson Argus – Week of February 11, 1897
M. G. Barfield – Tribute of Respect

By St. John’s Lodge to M. G. Barfield

Far back in the mysterious past, darkness covered the face of the deep and yet
light appeared.   That light which cheered all nature, nurtured God’s handiwork
has been since and is now that light which brings joy out of sorrow, comfort to
the weary, balm to the soul.    That light which touches and tenders the God
like element and part of poor fallen man, “The Soul”.  “The Branch of the True
Vine.”

So darkness has rested upon our community, our Lodge and the family of one of
“The Mystic Tie.”

St. John’s Lodge, No. 45, F. & A. M. sorrow with the friends and family of our
brother, the upright citizen, the devoted husband and father, the kind and
honest M. G. Barfield.  Yet the light burst upon his immortal vision in undimmed
effulgence.   It was the rain bow of hope, the halo of Angels presence at his
departure.    Therefore we give him to the God who claimed him and we rest his
body in the mother earth without murmur, yielding now as we hope ever to do the
direction of the Master, questioning not His Wisdom in this dispensation.    We
lay it not to heart, but such is taken as a reminder that all must pass, as our
brother, to the presence of Him whom we are taught to worship.   We humbly bow
to this.

Bro. M. G. Barfield, who departed this life Jan.26th,1897, was a member of St.
John’s Lodge, No. 45, and was made a Mason herein on Feb. 4th, 1884.  during his
masonic life he walked the way of a mason, no trust that he did not hold in
great regard, his was an open hand, a cordial grasp for the brothers.   He loved
his Lodge and practiced the precepts taught him therein.   He during his term as
one of the stewards of this Lodge was ever faithful and worthy, took pleasure in
any duty imposed, had the full confidence of his brothers and obeyed the gavel.

We miss him, yet he is not gone, for his works survive him.   No one mortal
could say naught of Mack Barfield.    All were his friends.   He had a smile for
all.   What more can we say?

Therefore, resolved, that these sentiments are the feelings of each member of
this Lodge.    That the same be published and recorded upon the minutes of this
Lodge and copy furnished his family, with whom we deeply sympathize.

Y. A. Wright, D. G. McMichael, H. L. Daughtry, Committee




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