Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Spann, Mrs. W. M. November 21, 1892
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Flovilla & Indian Springs Enterprise
 
 Spann, Mrs. W. M. – Dead

The Great God has called; the fit (?) has gone forth; life’s taper burned out 
and another sweet spirit passed into Eternity.

In the wee small hours of the morning on the 21st day of November 1892 Mrs. W. 
M. Spann, of Flovilla, Ga. quietly and peacefully breathed her last on earth.

Mrs. Spann was born at Antioch, Tenn, on the 25th day of November 1866.  She 
was the only daughter of parents who almost idolized her.  She also leaves two 
brothers at the old Tennessee home who loved here with a spirit of adoration.

Being the youngest child and of a beautiful character and of affectionate 
nature she was naturally the pet, the most loved at home, the most missed when 
absent.

She had been in Georgia for nearly one year and for a few months a resident of 
Flovilla.

The subject of this sketch has only very recently gotten up from a slow and 
lingering fever, when late one night, being aroused by the cries of her sick 
baby, she masterly, lovingly took the little babe in her arms, and only as a 
mother could do sang a lullaby, and led sweet baby smitting into sleep, when, 
almost immediately, she fell on sleep, on slumbers both long and deep.  The 
husband, who had also a little while before been awake, was suddenly aroused 
by the heavy, labored breathing of his wife where up he called to her.

Nothwithstanding Mrs. Spann had been in our midst only a short time, yet she 
without an effort, gracefully, easily succeeded in endearing herself to a 
large circle of admiring and loving friends.

A few months before a stranger in Flovilla, but at her death honored, mourned 
and loved by every heart.

She was a dutiful, loving child, an affectionate wife, a tender mother, an 
amiable sister, a faithful and constant friend.

In all the relation of life she was true.  Her character was without 
reproach.  Her life was charming in its beautiful simplicity.  Her manners 
were quite like those of a sweet  tempered child.  Her little deeds of loving 
kindness shown out like golden sunbeams.

Her disposition was even and uniformly bright.

And like some bright laughing stream her sunny life ran on its even way to the 
ocean of Eternity.

In all her sickness we never heard one murmer escape her lips.  We never saw a 
frown upon her brow.  Through aches and pains sometimes, like arrows, shot 
through her frame; though scorching fever painted restlessness, yet like angel 
dreams sweet smiles played o’er her face, and with the beautiful patience of a 
Christian Martyr she waited till the ________fever was over.

Her little boys were with their grandparents in Tenn.

For a week the mother had been planning to join them in along delightful 
Christmas holiday.

Her fond heart was set on Tennessee.  Her eyes were turned on the dear old 
home of her girlhood days.

Every day she spoke of _________going home.  She was dreaming of home and of 
mother of father and brother and precious children.

Ah! What a happy day there will be, she thought.  Every care banished.  Every 
cloud displaced.  Every heart beating with a new grinding _________.

Home again ! Home sweet home.  Sunshine and song, laughter, and love and peace 
so sweet, pure like the beautiful snow(show) in its far off clouded home.

But atlas! Like a thief in the night, like a bolt from the clear blue sky the 
clock pinion of death swooped down and claimed the happy dreamer as its own.

So the dream was ended and the sweet vision of the Tennessee home had ended(?) 
out of sight.

Several paragraphs illegible, but no genealogy information

For there is no weeping there
And there is no death.
J. C. Solomon

Flovilla & Indian Spring Enterprise – Butts County Ga.
Week of January 6, 1893




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