Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Julia September 1894
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of September 27, 1894
Little Julia Smith

The angel reaper, Death, visited our city on last Thursday and clasped in its 
cold embrace Little Julia Smith, 3 years of age, the youngest daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. A. H. Smith, of Jackson. Little Julia was striken with diphtheria some 
three weeks ago, and at one time was thought to be convalescing, and her 
hundreds of friends were confident of an early recovery, but a relapse occurred 
which soon overcame her vitally and she sank rapidly under its weakening 
influences.

Rev. J. H. Eakes, of Atlanta, preached the funeral sermon at the Methodist 
church, of which she was a member.

There was a large concourse of people present, and as Mr. Eakes dwelt upon the 
Christian virtues of this loveable child, it seems to be as if a pin fall would 
have marred the solemnity of the occasion.  No death has ever elicited such 
genuine sympathy in our midst, as did the demise of this charming example of 
Christ and His works.  Julia has left a large concourse of friends to mourn her 
departure, and a place is vacant in a home, which has once reverberated with 
the merry prattle of her childish voice, but is now stilled with the lamentable 
mourning of grief stricken parents.  Our sympathies are extended to the 
sorrowing family in their distress, and as consolation we point them to God who 
doeth all thing for the best.

The remains were interred in the Jackson cemetery on Friday afternoon, and were 
followed to their last resting place by an exceeding large concourse of friends.





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