Georgia:  Chattooga County:  Obituary, Laura Hazeltine White Stephenson
7 February 1904
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In Memory

On February 7th, 1904, the sweet gentle spirit of Mrs. Oscar F. Stephenson
(Laura Hazeltine White) was called home to rest, after being sick a short
time with pneumonia.

She leaves a heart-broken husband, six children and a large number of
friends and relatives to mourn for her.

Why God in his Providence should see fit to take from us one so valuable to
her family, so true, so loyal to her Church and it's institution we are not
to know now. But if we are faithful, we have the assurance we will know
hereafter.

Sister Stephenson was married to Mr. Stephenson in 1891 and was thirty years
old.

She professed a hope in Christ when about sixteen years old and joined
Popular Springs Baptist Church. She lived a devoted Christian life. Always
anxious to do all she could for God and her family. Her great desire was to
live to raise her children right. But God knows best and called her home
and when the summons came she was ready to go.

Grieve not for her dear loved ones for you have every assurance that her
prize is won.

She called her husband to her a short time before she died, and asked him to
raise her in his arms, asked for each dear child to be brought to her, and
had some sweet words of consolation for them, kissed them all good bye,
telling the children to obey Papa when Mama was gone, be good children and
all meet her in Heaven.

She know how desolate that home would be but the God she loved and served
gave her grace and she knew he would sustain and comfort the husband and
father.

Oh! How sweet to know while we grieve for her she is at rest. No more
sickness nor sorrow but all is brightness.

May her gentle quiet life and Christian training lead her children in the
path of right. And her prayer sent up to the throne of grace make Christian
men and women of them. Only those who experience the loss of a dear good
wife can know the depth of the husband's grief. May God's richest blessing
rest upon him. May he be enabled to say "Not my will but Thins, O Lord be
done".

Dear Laura, how we miss you
Fond memories say we must,
But some day not far distant
We will meet again I trust.

By One Who Loved Her
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