Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....CULPEPPER, BESSIE MANDEVILLE September 19, 1896 ************************************************ 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 27, 2011, 5:41 pm FT. GAINES SENTINEL,OCT 30 1896 BESSIE H MANDEVILLE WAS BORN OCT 12 1868 IN CLAY COUNTY GEORGIA, NEAR THE TOWN OF FORT GAINES TO WHICH PLACE HER FATHER MOVED HIS FAMILY WHILE SHE WAS QUITE YOUNG AND SHE WAS THERE BROUGHT UP. INCLINED FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD TO THE PIOUS, SHE UNITED WITH THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON THE 10TH DAY OF JUNE 1882 BEING THEN FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND REMAINING IN THAT CHURCH UNTIL OCT 6 1895 WHEN SHE WITH HER HUSBAND JOINED THE BAPTIST CHURCH. ON AUG 24TH 1887, THEN IN HER NINETEENTH YEAR SHE WAS MARRIED TO J.M. CULPEPPER AND AT HER DEATH WAS THE MOTHER OF FOUR CHILDREN, THREE OF WHOM, LITTLE GIRLS, DIED IN INFANCY, ONE CHILD, A BOY, SURVIVING HER. AFTER A VERY BRIEF ILLNESS SHE DIED ON THE 19TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1896 AT 11 OCLOCK PM, BEING IN HER TWENTY EIGHTH YEAR. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK, AND TRULY HAS THIS, IN THIS INSTANCE, BEEN VERIFIED FOR, TO ALL WHO MET HER SHE WAS A TRUE AND UNASSUMING CHRISTIAN, HONORED AND RESPECTED BY HER ACQUAINTENCES AND LOVED BY THOSE WHO KNEW HER MORE INTIMATELY, AND WITH ALL HER MEMORY WILL BE CHERISHED AS A SACRED AND LASTING HERITAGE. DEATH FOR THOSE WHO HAVE HAD A LONG LEASE OF LIFE HAVE PASSED FAR ON THE DOWNWARD JOURNEY, OUTLIVED THEIR USEFULLNESS, AND OFTEN LEFT ALMOST ALONE, IS SELDOM A WELCOME GUEST; HOW THEN MUST IT BE FOR THOSE WHO, WITH EVERYTHING TO MAKE LIFE ATTRACTIVE AND WITH YOUTH’S CAPACITY TO ENJOYARE CALLED UPON TO OBEY THE SUMMONS THAT SOONER OR LATER MUST COME TO ALL? TO HUMAN UNDERSTANDING IT SEEMS HARD THAT SUCH LIVES SHOULD BE CUT SHORT BUT TO THOSE WHO WOULD MURMUR COMES THE ASSURANCE THAT “GOD WILLS IT TO BE SO AND HE DOETH ALL THINGS WELL” AND IN HIS OWN GOOD TIME HE WILL SHOW US THAT OUR DEEPEST AFFLICTIONS ARE SENT FOR OUR OWN GOOD AND WE WILL REALIZE THAT “WHOM HE LOVETH, HE CHASTENETH” AND UPON HIS BEST BELOVED CHILDREN FALLS HEAVIEST THE ROD OF HIS DISCIPLINE AND… ‘SOMETIME IN HEAVEN, IF WE BUT FAITHFUL PROVE, ALL DOUBT, ALL GRIEF SHALL PASS FOREVER AWAY AND THROUGH ETERNITY WITH THOSE WE LOVE THERE’LL BE FOR US ONE BRIGHT AND ENDLESS DAY’ A DEVOTED HUSBAND, LOVING PARENTS, BROTHER AND SISTERS, WITH WARM AND LIFELONG FRIENDS, MOURN THAT THIS BRIGHT YOUNG LIFE IS ENDED AND SORROW THAT NO HUMAN SYMPATHY CAN ALLEVIATE, BEARS HEAVILY UPON THEM ALL, BUT ABOVE AND BEYOND THIS GRIEF IS THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SHE WHO IS NO MORE WAS, WHILE ON EARTH, A CHRISTIAN AND THE BELIEF THAT TODAY SHE IS IN THAT HAVEN OF REST WHERE THERE IS NO MORE GRIEF OR TEARS WILL SUSTAIN THEM IN THIS GREATEST OF ALL EARTHLY AFFLICTIONS, AND WHAT NOW APPEARS TO BE AN ALMOST UNBEARABLE UNENDING SORROW ILL, AS THE YEARS FADE AWY, BE TO THEM BUT ONE MORE LINK IN THE CHAIN THAT BINDS THEM TO THAT HOME BEYOND THE SKIES. ‘COULD SHE TODAY BUT SPEAK TO THOSE WHO MOURN HER HOW SOON SHE ALL THEIR BITTER GRIEF COULD QUELL IF FROM THAT LAND WHERE ANGEL WINGS HAVE BORNE HER SHE COULD BUT SAY…WEEP NOT FOR ALL IS WELL.’ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay/obits/c/culpeppe10448gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb