Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hendrick, Meade L.  December 29, 1898
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Jackson Argus - Wk of February 3, 1899
Meade L. Hendrick - Resolution of Respect

On the 29th day of December 1898 brother Meade L. Hendrick departed this life.  
He was overtaken at an hour when he least expected it, and while his sufferings 
were short and severe yet he met his fate without a murmur.  His only regret 
seemed to be the final separation with his dear loved ones to whom he was as 
fondly and devotedly attached as any father we ever knew.  With and to them he 
was kindness and gentleness and love.

His character as a man was the personification of honor.  He had lived in this 
place from his birth.  He passed away without an enemy left behind to disturb 
his memory.  But with a large circle of friends and acquaintenances who will 
long hold it in sweet recollection.  He was a man ever ready when charity’s 
call was heard of deep sympathy and tender emotions. 

He was born in Jackson, Ga., July 14, 1819 and died as above recorded.  On the 
first Saturday in January 1871 having previously conceived a good opinion of 
masonry, he was regularly initiated and made an entered Apprentice in this 
lodge.  Having made suitable proficiency as such, he was passed to the degree 
of Fellow _______ in February of the same year.  When at the next regular 
meeting of this lodge in March 1871, he having exhibited such zeal as to entice 
him to our mysterious, was raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason and 
ever since he has been a devoted to its cause and attended its meetings so far 
as his business would permit.  He was honored with the highest gift in the 
power of the lodge by being made its Master to succeed our beloved brother, 
Carter Carmichael, which place he filed with ability and care.  He was a member 
of the Grand Lodge of Georgia where he represented his lodge for many years.  
He was a successful businessman and a useful citizen.

We have laid him to rest with the Masonic honors which he has often requested 
of the brothers.  We believe that he sleeps in peach and is safely over the 
tide where he will rest on and on forever.  We ask that this lodge adopt these 
sentiments and accept this short history of his life. 

Therefore be it resolved that the same is same and that this resolution be 
recorded upon the minutes of this lodge.  That a blank page on the minutes be 
inscribed to his memory.

Resolved further that we extend to his widow and children our tender sympathy 
in this sad hour and that a copy of these resolutions be furnished them under 
the seal of this lodge

Y. A. Wright, Chairman, H. L. Daughtry, J. H. McCallum, Committee

Jackson Argus – Butts County
Week of February 3, 1899


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