Butts-Lamar County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bell, Elisabeth December 6 1893
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of February 15, 1894
Sister Elisabeth Bell, of Patillo, Ga. departed this life after many months of 
suffering, Wednesday evening, December 6th 1893.  Sister Bell bore her 
afflictions with unusual fortitude, was apprised of her short stay on earth for 
several weeks, but often spoke of her perfect resignation to the will of the 
good Lord.

She was converted in 1860, and joined the Primitive Baptist church, of which 
she has been a consistent member and a pillar of the church.  At one time she 
and one more sister composed the membership of Beulah church.  Her funeral was 
preached by Elder W. T. Goddard at the cemetery.  Using the 8th verse of the 
14th chapter of Mark, “She hath done what she could.”

Never were her words more suitable, or more completely applied to the subject.  
She was indeed a Christian.  A Christian wife, who lead her husband to church, 
a christian mother, who led her children to God, a Christian neighbor, who 
influenced her neighbors to a better life, and a Christian citizen, who made 
the world better by having lived in it.  In a letter she wrote to the Towaliga 
Messenger and died before it was printed she used the following, after having 
told her experience of grace she closed with these words: “I hope I will be 
ready when I am called away.”

Possibly no husband, children, grand children, neighbors, or church ever lost 
more in the death of any one, than those who lost dear Sister Bell, but let us 
all thank God and take courage for our loss is only an earthly one, while in 
exchange hers is a heavenly and an eternal gain.



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