Butts-Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bankston, Charlie August 1893
************************************************
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 June 15, 2004, 6:33 pm

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of August 23, 1893
CHARLIE BANKSTON – LINES WRITTEN IN MEMORY

Of Little Charlie, Son of L. A. Bankston, Formerly of Butts County

I saw a young mother in tenderness bend
O’er the couch of her slumbering boy.
And she kissed the soft lips as she murmured his name.
While the dreamer lay in silent joy.
Oh, sweet is the rosebud encircled with dew,
When its fragrance is flung to the air,
So fresh and so bright to that mother he seemed,
As he lay in his innocence there.
But I saw when she gazed on the same lovely form,
Pale as marble and silent and cold.
But paler and colder her beautiful boy.
And the tale of her sorrow was told.
But the healer was there who had stricken her heart,
And taken her treasure away,
To allure to heaven he has placed it on high.
And the mourned will sweetly obey.
There has whispered a voice – ‘twas the voice of God,
“I love thee, I love thee, pass under the rod.”

A Friend   -   Atlanta, Ga., August 14, 1893



Additional Comments:
This was son of Leonidas Augustus Bankston and Lula Wilson Bankston, by his 
third wife.
           Charles (Charlie) A. Bankston was born September 14, 1888



This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/

File size: 1.6 Kb