Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....MANDEVILLE, LAURA 2 OF 3 January 1889
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THE ADVERTISER, FT GAINES, JAN 18 1889
IN MEMORIAM
THE DEPARTURE OF THE OLD YEAR IS NEVER WITHOUT ITS SADDENING MEMORIES BUT 
PARTICULARLY IS IT SO WITH THOSE WHO AT THAT TIME BID FAREWELL TO LOVED ONES 
AS THEY PASS THRU THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH.

MISS LAURA RUTH MANDEVILLE, BORN IN FT. GAINES, GEORGIA ON THE 15TH OF JULY 
1872, AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS WITH TYPHOID, MALARIAL FEVER DIED AT 6:30 MONDAY 
MORNING THE LAST DAY OF THE OLD YEAR.  FOR SOME TIME PREVIOUS, MISS LAURA HAD 
BEEN SICK WITH CHILLS AND FEVER BUT THE BEGINNING OF THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS 
FOUND HER MUCH IMPROVED AND IT WAS HOPED BY HER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS THAT HER 
RECOVERY WAS ASSURED.  ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT SHE WAS GAY AND LIGHTHEARTED, 
ATTENDED A GATHERING AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH, SUFFERED AN IMMEDIATE RELAPSE AND 
THE NEXT MONDAY MORNING AMIDST THE TEARS OF LOVED ONES QUIETLY BREATHED HER 
LAST ONLY A SHORT TIME BEOFRE HER, SHE SENSED DEATH, APPEARING TO REALIZE THAT 
THE END WAS DRAWING NEAR AND NOT FEARING TO GO, CALMLY TALKED TO THOSE ABOUT 
HER BEDSIDE OF HOPES OF A BETTER LIFE, GIVING TO EACH SOEM LOVING WORDS, AND 
BEQUEATHING TO THEM AS KEEPSAKES, SOME LITTLE MEMENTOS WHICH SHE HAD ONCE 
OWNED AND PRIZED.

AT THE AGE OF 10 YEARS, SHE JOINED THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND WAS 
UNTIL HER DEATH, A ZEALOUS CONSISTENT MEMBER AS SHE WAS AT HOME  A DUTIFUL 
DAUGHTER, AN AFFECTIONATE SISTER, AND AN EARNEST, TRUE-HEARTED FRIEND.  THE 
YOUNGEST, BUT ONE, IN THE FAMILY SHE STOOD ON THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN 
CHILDHOOD AND YOUNG WOMANHOOD WHERE SHE COULD GLANCE BACK OVER THE PATH OF ONE 
JUST TROD AND INTO THE NEAR AND CAPTIVATING, BUT UNTRIED FIELDS OF THE OTHER 
WHEN THE SUMMONS CAMD AND IN HER MAIDEN INNOCENSE, SHE PASSED AWAY..CONTINUED

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