Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Alford M. Watkings February 1890
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Middle Ga Argus
Alford M. Watkins

Our heavenly Father, in His wisdom and love, saw fit on January 26th, 1890 to 
take him from us.

Six months ago little did we think that we should have a vacant place in our 
hearts, and made vacant by the angel of death.  Little did we think that eh 
form of our dear father would o soon be laid to rest in the cold and silent 
grave.

He was a devoted to his wife and children.  He loved them with a pure and holy 
love.  It was one of the greatest pleasures of his long life to make them 
happy.  Father is gone! Yes gone! But God knew best which would be to his 
happiness, life, or death.  We may have been selfish to have wanted him to 
stay, but God said no, and humbly we should bow and say “Thy will be done.”  
Father we shall miss you sadly, but we would not call you back; oh, no! thou 
hast suffered enough.  Farewell until He calls us to join the, Oh God, fill the 
aching void Thou hast put into our hearts.  Thou and Thou alone can give the 
comfort we need.  May God abide with his wife and children and comfort them the 
remaining time which they must linger here and finally when their days are 
ended, may He take them to where their father is waiting and watching for them.

Dear father, thou hast passed away.  Now lonely you sleep in the clay, and the 
silent stars are nightly weeping o’er thy grave, since death hath borne your 
spirit away.  We too, will hear the same command when our lives on earth are 
over, May you be the angel hand to pull us onto the other shore.

His daughter, Amanda.


Middle Ga Argus – Week of February 12, 1890


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