Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....BOGGUS, GEORGIA July 7, 1894
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THE CLAY COUNTY REFORMER, FT GAINES, JULY 27, 1894
IN MEMORIUM
AS THE DAY WAS DRAWING TO A CLOSE IN THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 7 1894, THE SPIRIT 
OF MISS GEORGIA BOGGUS WAS BORNE BY ANGELS TO THE HOME OF THE BLEST TO MEET 
LOVED ONES GONE BEFORE HER.  
THE SUBJECT OF THIS TRIBUTE WAS BORN JULY 4 1849 INTO THE HOME OF A GOOD 
CHRISTIAN MOTHER, AND HAVING BEEN BROUGHT UP UNDER SUCH HOLY INFLUENCES SHE 
UNITED HERSELF WITH THE METHODIST CHURCH IN WHICH LIVED TILL THE TIME OF HER 
DEATH.  SHE WAS THE LIGHT AND JOY OF THE HOME WHICH IS NOW SO DARK AND DREARY 
WITHOUT HER SWEET PRESENCE TO CHEER AND COMFORT THEM, HER BELOVED BROTHER WHO 
WAS THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WHO REMAINED WITH HER TIL HER DEATH.
SHE LEAVES AN AGED FATHER, TWO BROTHERS AND TWO NEICES WHO WERE REARED AFTER 
THEIR MOTHER'S DEATH UNDER HER TENDER CARE, AND NO MOTHER COULD HAVE STRUGGLED 
HARDER, AND UNDER MORE TRYING DIFFICULTIES TO HAVE REARED THEM THAN SHE.  SHE 
WOULD HAVE LIVED FOR THE SAKE OF HER LOVED ONES BUT WHEN SHE WAS CALLED TO GO 
SHE WAS PREPARED AND WILLING TO LEAVE ALL THINGS IN THE HANDS OF GOD WHO DOETH 
ALL THINGS WELL AND GOOD TO ALL.

AS A NEIGHBOR SHE WAS UNSURPASSED BY NONE AS HER KIND HEART WAS EVER READY TO 
EXTEND SYMPATHY TO ALL IN SICKNESS OR DISTRESS, SHE WAS ON HAND WILLING AND 
READY TO ADMINISTER TO THE WANTS OF THE SUFFERING, AND HER PATIENCE  IN A SICK 
CHAMBER WAS A MARK WELL DESERVING.  FOR FIVE OR SIX YEARS SHE WAS ALMOST AN 
INVALID, SUFFERING MOST EXCRUCIATING PAIN FROM NEURALGIA AND COMPLICATED 
DISEASES BUT BORE HER AFFLICTIONS WITH CHRISTIAN FORTITUDE, NEVER MURMERING 
AGAINST THE WILL OF GOD.  A FEW DAYS ERE THE SPIRIT TOOK ITS FLIGHT SHE 
EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO GO AND BE WITH HER MOTHER WHO HAD PRECEDED HER SEVERAL 
YEARS TO A BETTER LAND.  MISS GEORGIA HAD BEEN CONFINED TO HER BED ONLY A 
WEEK, AND WHEN FRIENDS WER SANGUINE OF HER RECOVERY, SHE SUDDENLY AND QUIETLY 
PASSED AWAY WITHOUT EVEN A STRUGGLE; SO QUIETLY DID SHE LEAVE US THAT WE WERE 
LOATH TO BELIEVE THAT SHE WAS GONE, NEVER TO RETURN.  BUT OH, SORROWING HEARTS 
SHE IS NOT GONE, BUT ONLY SLEEPETH A SWEET LASTING SLEEP.
HER TRUE FRIEND
MRS. R.C. WEAVER

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