Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....W. G. McMichael September 1889
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Middle Ga Argus
W. G. McMichael – Masonic Resolution

We, your committee appointed to draft resolutions upon the death of our 
deceased Companion, Rev. W. G. McMichael, submit the following:

His sun has set, his time is finished, but the golden reflections of his square 
and even life still fall joyously across our pathway. It was his to live for 
the joy of his fellow man.  His life was devoted to doing good, and teaching, 
as well as practicing, all the tenets of our noble and ancient order, of which 
he was a true, tried and devoted member.  His motto of “prompt in all things” 
was a virtue which outlives his trail and aged flesh, but like the beautiful 
and exemplified characteristics of Faith, Hope and Charity, so blended in his 
nature, will ever perpetuate his memory among his Companions, as well as the 
people to whom he was so well known. 

We can but look back over his past life and ponder over his noble and self-
sacrificing deeds.  His words of cheer to the way faring, as well as his deeds 
of charity and love to the poor, commend themselves to us and are worthy of 
emulation.  We bow with resignation to the will of the “Great I am” in thus 
removing from this temporal lodge to the Celestial Lodge above, our 
Companion.   God knew that his three score and ten years had not been spent in 
vain.  His talents had made yet other five.  None knew him but to love.  
Therefore

Resolved, That we mourn his death as one gone, but not forever; missing, but 
not lost.

That we record upon the minutes of this Chapter these resolutions and that a 
blank page be left to his memory.  

That we request the Middle Georgia Argus to publish these resolutions and a 
copy be furnished his family.  

Y. A. Wright, S. McKibben, W. S. Henly – committee

Middle Ga. Argus, Week of September 10, 1889


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