Butts-Jasper County GaArchives Obituaries.....Floyd Malone June 1882
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of June 15, 1882

FLOYD  MALONE - Preamble and Resolutions

Ashler Lodge, No. 208 -  F.A.M., Jasper County, Ga.

Again has old mortality reminded us of the instability of human affairs, the 
vanity of earthly hopes and aspirations, the uncertainty of life and the 
terrible certainty that dust must return to dust!  Again has death insatiate in 
his demands and ruthless in the discharge of his fearful mission eternal our 
Lodge and claimed as a victim, one of its brightest Jewels, one of its most 
honored and devoted members.  Again have we been called upon to perform the 
last and rites of Sepulture, and wear, the usual badge of mourning.  Again we 
are of the mystic faith Stricken in our membership and filled with grief and 
sorrowing.  Our beloved Brother, Floyd Malone is no more!

Suddenly he was called home by the Grand Master, which admonishes us, be ye 
also ready for in such an hour as ye think not, the Master calleth for us.  Our 
Brother has fallen!  In that brighter hour of existence the solemn signal was 
given.  He was called from his labor on earth to an eternal rest.  In the midst 
of a doting and interesting family, and surrounded by confiding friends with a 
mind imbued with liberal and progressive ideas, a soul full of generous 
impulses and a life guided and controlled by Faith Hope and Charity, the 
prominent tenet of our ancient and honorable order – suddenly, with all that 
makes home pleasant and lite dear, crowding around him, has our Brother been 
stricken down.  Verily verily are the ways of our celestial Grand Master, the 
Supreme Architect of the universe inscrutable and past finding out, verily are 
his dispensations, through infinite in wisdom and fraught with mercy to his 
dependent creatures, mysterious and incomprehensible to the lodge below; But he 
gives and in his own good time he takes away; and we know that he doeth all 
things well.   Having commended his spirit to God who gave it, and his body to 
the tomb, be it Resolved: That while we mourn the loss of our Brother and 
moisten the sod that covers his body with our tears we bow in humble submission 
to the will of our Supreme Master.

Resolved: That we tender to the family of our deceased brother, our sincere 
condolence in this, their sad bereavement and loss, and commend them for 
consolation and comfort to our Celestial Grand Master, the last reliable and 
changeless refuge as a guide and protector for the widow and orphans in their 
trials on earth.

Resolve: That this preamble and these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of 
the lodge, and that a page on the minute book of the lodge be dedicated to the 
memory of our deceased Brother, upon which shall be inscribed the date of his 
birth and death and a copy be furnished the family of the deceased and the 
jewels of the Lodge be draped in mourning, and the members wear the usual badge 
for thirty days, also that they be published in the Butts County Argus and 
Jasper County News.

Respectfully submitted – James C. Maddox, A. P. Thornton, Osion Benton.

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of June 15, 1882


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