Butts-Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Taylor, G. W. July 21, 1896
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Jackson Argus – Week of September 3, 1896
In Memory of Bro. G. W. Taylor

Patillo Lodge, No. 260, F.A.M.

The committee appointed present the following, which has been adopted;

Death has again entered our ranks and has taken our dear brother, G. W. Taylor;
only last year, or the first time his name was called among the Masons of
Georgia.   He has worn, with pleasure worthiness and honor to the fraternity,
the lamb’s skin.

That working tool, he has used well, whereby is found time for the service of
God, and a distressed brother:  divesting is mind and heart of all the
superfluities of life, thereby fitting his mind and soul for that spiritual
building, that house not made with hand, eternal in the skies.

With the plumb he has been admonished to walk uprightly before God, by the
square of virtue, he has squared his actions; and remembered that while
traveling here upon the level of time, to that undiscovered country, “from whose
bourne no traveler returns.” And with the trowel he has been spreading the
cement of brotherly love and affections.

It is very well known the sudden death that Bro. Taylor met at Orchard Hill,
July 21, 1896.  all was done that could be, to revive him, but the spirit had
gone to God, “Man that is born of woman is of few days, full of trouble, he
cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down, he falleth as a shadow and continueth
not.”

For forty four years Bro. Taylor lived among men, in the ripeness of manhood,
the heavy sheaf, ripe for the master’s harvest, dropped in the grave, to be
gathered home to be with the God forever.

In this solemn hour of mourning we bid Bro. Taylor farewell, and all hail to
earthly efforts for the good of the earth.

Farewell to Masonic pleasures and duties, farewell to the happy years, farewell
to the pains and troubles of earthly things; but hail to the jewels, jasper and
amethyst, all hail the glory of a celestial temple, where the bright
illuminations of our God are the working tools of the craft attest that labors
are done, weariness departed and the capstore of glory laid by the Grand
Master’s hand.

We pray God’s blessings upon his family.   Our brother has been called to give
an account of his stewardship.

We pause a while to shed tears upon his grave and then move on to assist the
widows and orphans of others whom we loved while they lived.   What virtues
unite, death never separates.   When we have finished this, may we remember that
we have not learned fully the lesson, our Heavenly Father would have us to
learn.  May we never forget that the fatal blow will strike us down also, and
the spade that dug his grave will dig ours, also, sooner or later.

And the tomb which received his remains, will one of these days, receive ours. 
 May these truths cause serious reflection to our thinking minds.

Respectfully submitted
J. B. Bell, I. J. Thornton, W. P. White, Committee





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