Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....John E. Bankston May 1890************************************************Copyright.  All rights reserved.http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htmhttp://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm************************************************File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 January 6, 2004, 4:17 pmMiddle Ga. ArgusJohn E. Bankston, OBITUARYIt is the sad mission of this letter to chronicle the death of one of our most worthy citizens, Mr. J. E. Bankston, the senior member of the popular and well-known firm of J. E. Bankston & Son.  Mr. Bankston was one of the first to open business at this point, and has steadily gained ground in popular sentiment and in as well, deserved patronage.  Shortly after his opening he induced Mr. J. M. Bankston to become his partner, and the son has borne the burden of business for the last several years, and this made it easy for the old gentleman in his declining years.  Thought a hard worker in his younger days, he has spent the greater part of his time for several years in a kingly and easy retirement.  The virtues of J. E. Bankston cannot be enumerated in a letter like this.  He had in him all the Christian virtues happily blessed.  He was a gentleman n every sense of the word.  He was not only charitable, but he was a philanthropist; not only generous, but a peacemaker; not only polite, but the master of courtesy; not only firm, but stable; not only honorable, but the personification of honor and virtue; not only a dutiful husband, but an adored father.  He has been a consistent member of the church for a number of years and has lived up to his profession all the way through.  He was a model Christian, and as sure there is a home for the soul, and just as sure as the pure in heart shall see God, he is in Heaven today.  We tender our sympathies to the bereaved wife and children and the sorrow stricken relatives, and to all we will say; try to live to live the life he did, and do the works he did.  “For as the body without the Spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”N. J. H.Middle Ga Argus – Week of May 12, 1890
(The J. E. Bankston stands for John Edward Bankston

The J. M. Bankston stand for Jacob McDaniel Bankston)
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