Coweta County GaArchives Obituaries.....Arnall (Dr.), J. G. January 24, 1879
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JANUARY 31, 1879 
 
DEATH OF DR. J.G. ARNALL 
 
Our community was shocked last Friday morning at the death of Dr. J.G. Arnall. 
He had been sick but a short time and the serious nature of his illness was 
known to but a few. The disease from which he died was pneumonia. 
 
As our readers are aware, Dr. Arnall had just moved back to this place from 
Newnan where he had gone about a year ago. He had returned here, where he had 
lived several years previous to going to Newnan, and where he had many friends 
and acquaintances, for the purpose of practicing his profession. 
 
In the death of Dr. Arnall our town and county has lost a good man and a good 
citizen. No one stood higher in the confidence and respect of his fellow 
citizens than he did and his life as a Christian gentleman was one of the 
purest and most consistent we have ever known. He had fewer of the frailties 
attached to our common humanity than is generally seen, and his daily walk and 
conversation testified in strong language the reality of the Christian 
religion. 
 
Dr. Arnall leaves a widow and five little children to mourn his departure. We 
tender them our sincere sympathy and commend them to that God who is a Father 
to the fatherless and a Husband to the widow. The remains of the deceased were 
carried to Coweta county on Saturday morning, where they were interred. 
 
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TRIBUTE OF RESPECT IN MEMORY OF DR. J.G. ARNALL 
 
It has pleased our Heavenly Father in the dispensation of his Providence to 
remove from our midst our beloved brother, Dr. J.G. Arnall, who died of 
pneumonia on the 24th inst., at his residence in Carrollton, Ga. 
 
Dr. Arnall had been for six years a citizen of Carrollton, with the exception 
of the last year, during which he resided in the city of Newnan, being engaged 
in business in that city; but had recently moved to his home in Carrollton and 
resumed the practice of his profession. During his residence here he had by 
his amiable and courteous deportment, endeared himself to the hearts of many 
citizens of this county who deeply mourn his loss. 
 
Dr. Arnall was, at the date of his death, about thirty-four years of age, 
having been, from his early youth, a consistent member of the Baptist church 
and for nearly two years an ordained deacon, the duties and responsibilities 
of which office he failed not to appreciate, being in any eminent degree 
possessed of the scriptural qualifications, grace, temperate, of Godly 
conversation and having a good report of them that are without. 
 
Among his last words was a repetition of the short but expressive sentence 
found in the 7th verse of the 39th Psalm, "My hope is in Thee." It may truly 
be said of Dr. Arnall, he was a devoted husband and affectionate father; as a 
citizen, skillful, kind and attentive; as a Christian, meek and gentle, but 
firm and unwavering; as a Sunday school worker, zealous and untiring. But on 
earth, his labors of love are ended. 
 
"Death came with cold hands and his eyelids have closed, 
 
and laid his cold corpse in the tomb. 
 
His soul has ascended to eternal repose, 
 
Above, in his heavenly home. 
 
His loved habitation and garden adieu, 
 
No longer his footsteps ye greet, 
 
A mansion celestial stands full in his view, 
 
A paradise welcomes his feet." 
 
In penning the above, the writer has feebly expressed the sentiment of a large 
circle of friends whose hearts beat in tender sympathy with the bereaved 
family of our departed brother, whose true comfort is found in the words of 
the blessed Savior: 
 
"Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord from henceforth, yes, saith the 
Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." 
W.W. Roop, Carrollton, Jan. 27, 1879. 


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