Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....BELL, EVELYN January 1895 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: REBECCA STEWART rstewart@enervest.net December 14, 2011, 11:09 pm THE FT. GAINES SENTINEL, JAN 18, 1895 DIED ON LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON, EVALYN THE LITTLE DAUGHTER OF MR AND MRS THOMAS BELL, AFTER A PROTRACTED ILLNESS, PASSED AWAY. FOR WEEKS THE LITTLE SUFFERER HAD BEEN SICK, AND THOUGH ALL THAT LOVING CARE AND MEDICAL SKILL COULD SUGGEST, WAS DONE FOR HER, AND AT TIMES SHE APPEARED TO IMPROVE, NOTHING COULD STAY THE PROGRESS OF THE FEVER, WHICH AT LENGTH ENDED THE YOUNG LIFE. THE PARENTS LEFT SATURDAY MORNING WITH THE REMAINS, WHICH WERE INTERRED AT WOODLAWN, ALABAMA, THE FORMER HOME OF MR. BELL. WE KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE WHAT AFFLICTION IS, AND WE OFFER OUR HEARTFELT SYMPATHY TO THE BEREAVED PARENTS IN THE LOSS OF THEIR PRETTY, BRIGHT LITTLE GIRL. 'THE MASTER HAS NEED OF THIS SWEET LITTLE FLOWER, TO PLANT IN HIS GARDEN ABOVE WHERE, FAIRER THAN BLOOMS FROM EARTH'S CHOICEST BOWER SHE'LL BLOSSOM AND GROW IN HIS LOVE AND WHEN IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOW, HE'LL CALL, AND BID THOSE WHO LINGER TO COME MAY FATHER AND MOTHER AND BROTHER AND ALL WHO LOVED HER THEN MEET HER AT HOME' File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay/obits/b/bell10389gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb