Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Repress, John R. December 1900
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Jackson Argus
Repress, John R. – Oldest Citizen Dies
Last Wednesday evening “Uncle John R. Repress died peacefully at his home on 
South Oak street.  His death had been a most momentarily expected for several 
days.  The funeral service was conducted at the home yesterday morning by Dr. W. 
A. Nelson, pastor of the Baptist church, in which the deceased has been a 
faithful deacon for more than forty years.  In the afternoon the remains were 
carried to Eatonton for burial.
“Uncle” John Repress was by a few days the oldest citizen of our town being 
eighty-eight years of age.  He was a ripe Christian and all our people loved and 
honored him.
Jackson Argus – Week of December 21, 1900
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Respess, John R.
Whereas on the 19th Dec., 1900, our beloved brother in Christ John R. Respess, 
fell peacefully asleep in death like one who draws the drapery of his couch 
about him and lies down to pleasant dreams.  The life of our brother in this 
community was an open book, every page of which testifying of his love and his 
loyalty to or loyalty Lord and Savior.  For 40 years he had been a deacon in  
the Baptist church, and in reference to his service he said meekly on his death 
bed, I have tried to do my duty.  Standing as it were at the end of time’s grand 
corridor and viewing his life of service and love as all in the past, the words 
of our brother were suggestive of the words of the Apostle Paul when he said I 
have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; 
henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the 
righteous judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only but to all them 
also that love his appearing.  We deem it fitting therefore, on the departure of 
our dear brother to offer for adoption by the Baptist of Jackson the following 
resolutions:
1.	That in the death of Bro. J.hn R. Respess our church has lost a faithful 
member and a deacon who filled this high office with credit to the cause of 
Christ.
2.	That while we do not call upon our church to emulate his example, yet we 
point with joy to his life as an illustration of the blessedness that comes to 
one from following in the footsteps of Jesus.  The great power of our brother’s 
life is in the fact that it spoke not so much of itself, but was a living 
testimony for the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.
3.	That through such a life as our brother has lived before us we get an 
enlarged view of our own privileges as Christians for which we return thanks to 
our Lord.
4.	That we offer to the widow of our deceased brother our tenderest 
sympathies and rejoice that she know the source of all comfort without our 
pointing her thereto.
F. S. Etheridge, Chmn, R. L Daughtry, Parry Lee, Com.


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