Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bledsoe, W. M.  March 27 1893
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of April 7 & 14, 1893
W. M. Bledsoe

It was sad to chronicle the death of Mr. W. M. Bledsoe, which occurred on 
Saturday.  He was buried at Macedonia Cemetery.

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of April 7, 1893

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 Van. D. Harris was born October 5th 1867 and died at the home of his father, 
M. L. Harris in Jenkinsburg, March 27, 1893.  Prof. Harris was confined to his 
room only a short time before his death, which was caused from that dreadful 
disease which seems to select for its victims the very flower of our country – 
Consumption.

To those well acquainted with Prof. Harris any words of eulogy from pen would 
be superfluous.

It was my fortune to be intimately associated with this noble hearted man for 
nearly two years prior to his death and it gives me great pleasure to say that 
no time did I hear of his doing or saying anything no in strict keeping with 
the law of morality.  He kept the even tenor of his way and was always the same 
generous hearted and pure spoken gentleman.  His father said to me a few days 
ago “I never knew Vanny” to commit any act that deserves serious reproof from 
his infancy to his death, although he was surrounded by temptations to become 
wild.  You man of Butts County, is this not a lesson, an example we could 
emulate right in our own midst.  A few years ago Prof. Harris matriculated as a 
student in the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega and being 
possessed naturally of a bright mind he made rapid strides in his studies and 
would have graduated in a short while but dropped behind his class to teach for 
a while before finishing his course.  In his last __ (?)____ he was resigned 
and though he realized the end was fast approaching he contemplated death with 
that serenity and resignation characteristic only of those who had nothing to 
fear.  A few moments before his death he threw his arms about his father’s 
neck, who idolized him, and though he could not speak he gazed lovingly into 
the old man’s face while the very glory of heaven seemed to be reflected in his 
eyes.  Then motioning his mother, who was weeping from his bedside, he died

W. O. Bryant, M. D.   -   Jenkinsburg Ga. April 4, 1893



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