Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hemphill, Sarah Lizzie May 5, 1870
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Atlanta Constitution, 10 May 1870
[Two notices...different dates of publication.]

Publication date 10 May 1870.
Death of Mr. Hemphill's Child.- We learn the following facts concerning the sad 
death of Mr. Hemphill's little daughter, Lizzie: 
A party went out fishing to a mill pond near Athens, (none of Mr. H.'s 
immediate family but some of her mother's relatives being with her.) and little 
Lizzie accompanied them.
The party at the pond divided, and Lizzie attempted to go from one to the other 
crowd by herself (some hundred yards) and in doing so, fell in the pond.  The 
party did not know she was drowned until they saw her little hat floating on 
the water.  She was buried last Saturday in Athens.

Publication date 26 May 1870.
OBITUARY.
HEMPHILL-SARAH LIZZIE HEMPHILL, daughter of Wm. A. Hemphill, of The Atlanta 
Constitution, was accidently drowned at Saye's mill-pond, near Athens, on 
Friday, May 5th, 1870.
Lizzie was a pretty blue-eyed child, with a singularly sweet and happy face.  
Her affectionate manner readily attracted a stranger, and very particularly won 
upon those in whose keeping she lived.  Her mother was taken from her when the 
child was but a few months old, and she was now at the home of her grandmother, 
whose devotion did all that devotion could to supply a mother's care.  The 
little motherless girl had been taught already of Heaven, of Christ and of 
prayer, and her prayers went up every day to God.  Her favorite songs were, "I 
want to be an angel," and concerning the "Mother in the better land."  She was 
a member of the Methodist church Sabbath School, and thus, at home in the 
sanctuary, her religious training had begun.  But she was called away before 
she knew the evil of sinning, and is now an angel, continuing her happy life 
with mother and Savior in Heaven.
E.
Athens, May 17, 1870

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