Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dr. Troy Saunders 1891
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of February 3, 1891
Memory of Dr. Saunders

To say a shadow has been cast over our county does not half express it.

No man ever lived and died, in Butts County, who was so universally loved as 
Dr. Saunders.

By his kindness, generosity, and simplicity of character, he built for himself 
a living monument in the hearts of his neighbors. 

It can be truthfully said of him that he sacrificed his life for humanity.

He was one of the few successful business men who achieved success in the home 
of his childhood.

He was one of Butts County’s noble sons, to who’s virtues we can point with 
pride, and teach the rising generations to emulate him.

Where is there a mother who would not feel a thrill of pride to know that her 
son would emulate the virtues of Troy Saunders?

The writer has known him from his boyhood and well do we remember having 
pointed with pride to him as one of Butts county’s rising young men, when he 
first offered his services to the public.

That generous and noble heart went out in sympathy for his patients when he, on 
his dying bed, requested his people to be liberal with things who were indebted 
to him.  Behind this generosity was a Christian heart to point to a brotherly 
feeling.  That Christian heart which had so long been overshadowed by the 
burden of healing the physical being of his fellow creatures, now relieved of 
that burden gave vent to feelings which could no longer be subdued, and he 
called the loving ones around him to beg them to prepare to meet him in Heaven.

What a lesson we have in the life and death of Dr. Saunders!

What home in this county has not had a visit from him, and felt that in some 
way, he had brought sunshine into it?

Who does not remember his genial smile, or words of cheerful friendship?

Looking back over an eventful life, and contemplating how much he could have 
done in the service of the Lord, he said: I know my redeemer liveth; my sins 
are forgiven, but I feel that the better part of my life has been wasted.  He 
realized how much comfort he might have been enabled to have given to his dying 
patients, had he given his heart to God, and his service to his cause in his 
young manhood.

Bit is enough to know that he died happy, in the light of Heaven, for our sad 
loss is his great gain.

Let us bow in submission to the will of Him; who knew just when to take him, 
and be sure we don’t forget his last admonition   W. F. S.




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