Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mary T. Smith March 1887
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Middle Ga. Argus

  Mrs. Mary T. Smith, OBIT


Died March, 1887 at Flovilla, Ga. Mrs. Mary T. Smith consort of Capt. William 
F. Smith, in the 35th year of her age.

In this feeble tribute we feel that our language is inadequate to express our 
thoughts on the death of such a noble Christian lady.  During her illness she 
bore her suffering with angelic fortitude and passed gently away from earth to 
Heaven in full obsession (?) of her mental faculties and with a triumphant  and 
assured hope of a glorious immortality.

She was an exemplary Christian, a good neighbor and a faithful friend.  Meek 
and unpretending in her walk and conversation, yet ever ready and true to her 
Savior’s cause and when the Messenger came she was ready to go at his bidding 
to appear before the throne of God she had loved and served so well.

The agony of her husband and children no language can portray.  To them it was 
like striking the sun from the firmament, leaving the earth a dark and dreary 
void.

Be it theirs to follow in the same humble and Christian like faith to Heaven.  
Could she speak to them the counsels of her latest human, and now present 
heavenly experience, would be to admonish them to cling to the Savior under all 
circumstances, and delay not to act upon their first convictions, that they may 
give God their best powers and fullest influence and go to the grave with a 
hope unshadowed by the worldliness of the past, or by the films of doubt and 
fear resting on the future.

To the bereaved family we would say, weep not; for your dearest friend has only 
gone home a little before you and is waiting for your arrival where Jesus ever 
reigns in his majesty and glory.

Middle Ga Argus – March  1887




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