Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Rhea, Dr Andrew August 2, 1836
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Macon Telegraph
Departed this life, in the town of Jackson, Butts County, about 9 o'clock, P. 
M. on the 2d instant, Dr. Andrew Rhea, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.

The deceased was a native of the State of Pennsylvania; in early life he 
emigrated to the South, and for several years devoted himself to the education 
of youth. His usefulness as an instructor is known best to those who have been 
the fortunate recipients of his instruction in the most respectable seminaries 
of learning in the States of Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia; where many, 
who now fill the highest places of honorable distinction and preferment, 
remember with gratitude, that the tuition of their youthful days began or 
terminated under the benevolent direction and fatherly care of the deceased.

Although eulogy of the dead avails nought to them; yet this much may be said, 
that the tear of grief when shed by those his friends in distant lands, may 
meet a ready response in the sympathizing sighs of one another breathed for 
the departure from among them of their patriarchal friend, of mankind's 
benefactor.

He had lived to reach almost three score and ten years of this life in the 
affection and esteem of all who knew him; and, after lingering under many 
months afflictions, his last moments were relieved by the filial tenderness of 
a daughter and son-in-law, with numerous friends, who bid the long, last adieu 
to his departing spirit which his dying words, in Christian devotion, 
commended to the Lord, who receives the humble and penitent in that house 
above made without hands eternal in the heavens.

August 25, 1836
Macon Telegraph

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