Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Kenney, Sarah Alexander  March 4, 1860
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Southern Watchman 15 Mar 1860 
With deep regret and heart-felt sorrow, we pen the melancholy death of an aged
mother and sister in Israel.  Our mother, Mrs. Sarah Kenney, relict of James
Kenney, deceased, departed this life at the residence of her son, Joseph A.
Kenney, in Clarke county, on the fourth day of March, 1860, in the eighty-first
year of her age.  She died of disease of the heart, complicated with an
inflammation of the brain, after nine days severe suffering, without either
eating or drinking anything during the time, except cold water.  Her disease was
so violent from the first, that it baffled the skill of the Physician, and
defied the powers of medicine throughout the whole time.  For three years past,
her health has been rapidly declining and her mortal system fast sinking under
the ravages of many painful and wasting diseases; during a part of that time,
however, she kept up and able to attend to her family affairs as usual, but some
two or three months previous to her death, became very feeble and was often
heard to complain of debility of body, pain in the head and sick stomach, from
which she never recovered; on the 24th day of February, about twelve o'clock at
night, she awoke from sleep apparently greatly distressed from pain in the head,
together with sick stomach, in this condition she remained and continued to grow
more and more feeble, suffering the most excruciating misery during the whole
time, until Sunday afternoon, precisely at five o'clock, it pleased her heavenly
Father to release her from all her sufferings and take her home to rest.  My
mother had been a worthy and acceptable member of the Methodist E. Church for
many years, and although she was deprived the privilege of going to church
during the latter part of her life, and enjoying the preaching of the Gospel,
and the society of her christian friends abroad, yet she still maintained her
integrity and held fast her confidence in her Saviour to the last.  My mother
was a christian indeed; as a wife, affectionate and devoted to her husband, and
ever ready to comfort and minister to his wants in sickness and in health; as a
mother, tender and loving; as a mistress, kind and indulgent-she led an
exemplary life-she was an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile.  She was
beloved by all who knew her, but she is gone the way of earth-the place that
knew her once will know her no more.  She has left three children and a numerous
train of relatives and friends who deeply mourn her loss, but our loss is her
eternal gain; she will never return to us, but we can go to her, and to day,
while her mortal remains sleeps quietly and alone in the cold and silent tomb,
her immortal spirit, released from the cares and sufferings of this life, rests
in the heaven of eternal bliss and glory.  Thus, she died the death of the
righteous, and may we all imitate her holy example, and may our end be like
hers. C. K. 


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