Butts-Jasper-Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Chapman, Sara Ann Long August 30, 1897
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Jackson Argus – Butts County, Week of September 24, 1897
Mrs. Sallie Chapman

It is with feelings of sorrow I offer a few lines as a last tribute of love, to 
the memory of my old friend, Mrs. Sara Ann Chapman, who after a lingering 
illness departed this life at her home in Spalding county, Monday morning, 
August 30th , age 43 years, leaving a husband and six children.

She was the last of three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. David Long, father, mother, 
two sisters and one brother having died before; three brothers now living.

In girlhood days she was happily married to Mr. H. H. Chapman, a worthy citizen 
of Jasper County.

Living near me for several years, I learned to know ad love her as a true 
friend and good neighbor, sharing each others’ joys and sorrows, and many times 
since she went away have I recalled the pleasant visits’ floral offerings, the 
dear old familiar scenes of the happy days long gone by, and little thought 
when last I saw her, that she would soon be laid beneath the sod.  But life is 
short as the days pass by, and I older grow to see loved ones, one by one, 
passing away, the sadder the years seem to me, for “all that is mortal must 
decay; the fairest rose will wither,” and I, too, must die.

Mrs. Chapman was of such a genial nature it was a pleasure to be with her, 
while the sunshine was warm in the glove of her heart, beaming with Christian 
affection.  As wife, she was devoted; as a mother, positive and firm, kind and 
gentle.

Several years ago she professed a hope in Christ – was of the Primitive 
persuasion, but no church of the kind being near, joined the Missionary 
Baptist, living a faithful member up to the time of her death, winning the 
highest esteem of her family physician and pastor, who, in his funeral 
discourse, spoke so beautifully of her as being lovely at home, lovely in the 
church, and lovely everywhere.   She was consecrated her self to God while 
living, and in her last moments, too feeble to speak aloud, in a low faint 
whisper, “Jesus, my Jesus” fell from her dying lips, and her spirit soared home 
to Jesus.

‘Neath the wide spreading branches of the waving trees, where the songbirds 
love to linger, mother and babe side by side sweetly sleep, awaiting the coming 
of Jesus in the bright resurrection mourn, while the faded flowers from her 
grave serve as sweet reminder of the loved ones gone before.  May God bless the 
bereaved husband and sanctify this sad dispensation of an All Wise Providence 
to the good of his soul; and may He, in tender mercy, bless dear Minnie, 
enabling her to walk in the footsteps of her Angel mother, guiding with wise 
counsel her younger brothers and sisters, and preserving the sacred joys of a 
once happy home on earth, with a happy reunion of an unbroken family in Heaven!





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