Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Saunders, Alexander November 11, 1898
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Jackson Argus – Butts County, Week of December 2, 1898
Tribute of Respect – Alexander Saunders

Indian Spring Lodge 307, F. & A.M.  -  Flovilla, Ga. – November 26, 1898

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, entered our lodge and claimed as a victim our beloved brother, 
Alexander Saunders, in his eighty-fifth year of his age.  He was made a mason 
in McIntosh Lodge No.______ in 1836.    He was a consistent member of the 
Baptist church for sixty-four years.  He died November 11, 1898.  He was 
confined to his room for three months before his death, and bore his 
afflictions with patience and Christian fortitude and was never heard to murmur 
or complain.

In the midst of life we are in death.  Our brother has fallen.  But a short 
period of time has passed since he was with us enjoying all the sweet 
vicissitudes of life and honored with all sacred ties and endearments which 
bind us to earth, but in this bright hour of existence the solemn signal was 
given.  He has been called from his labors on earth to an eternal rest.  Death 
has entered our ranks thereby  weakening the chain by which we are united man 
to man.  With humble resignation do we recognize the hand of God, trusting 
through his mercies that the loss of our brother is his eternal gain, and that 
he has an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.  

As a friend Brother Saunders was a generous and sincere.  As a husband and 
father, kind and affectionate; as a mason true and worthy for sixty-two years.  
He has been a faithful brother amongst us, seldom missing a meeting only from a 
providential cause.  Having attended the remains of Brother Saunders to the 
house appointed for all the living and commended his spirit to God who gave it 
an his body to the tomb, therefore be it resolved:

That while we mourn the loss of our brother and moisten the sod that covers his 
last resting place with the tears of our grief we bow in humble and resigned 
submission to the will of our supreme master.

That enshrined in our memories.



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