Coweta County GaArchives Obituaries.....Rev. Elijah Elmore May 16 1877 ************************************************ 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: Valerie (Johnson) Freeman vcjfreeman@aol.com February 2, 2003, 8:21 pm "The Lutheran Visitor" - 28 May 1877 Rev. Elijah Elmore Obituary "The Lutheran Visitor" 28 May 1877 He was resigned and patient; and that God he served and had so long and faithfully preached to others, did not forsake him in the trying hour of death. After calling up his family and giving them his dying admonition "to live right," then they would "die right," his immortal spirit most triumphantly took its flight to the spirit world. His remains were deposited in Mt. Pilgrim Cemetery, where lie the remains of two companions and two infant children, who had preceded him to the enjoyment of that rest which earth cannot give nor take away. He leaves a companion, a son, three daughters, and many friends and relatives to mourn over this heavy affliction to the family and to the Church. But they "mourn not as those who have no hope." The Rev. E. Elmore was born in Newberry county, S. C., June 24, 1811, and died May 16, 1877. He united with Mt. Pilgrim Evan. Lutheran church in 1810: was licensed to exort by the South Carolina Synod on the 17th of November, 1843; was received as a licentiate, with authority to administer the ordinances of the Church, by same Synod, on the 22d of November, 1848; and by the same was also regularly ordained to the work of the gospel ministry on the 14th of November, 1854; united with the Georgia Synod at his organization in 1860, and has been one of its faithful members until death. But his work is done, and now he rests from his labors. L.B. "Senoia, Ga., May 19, 1877,." [I believe L. B. is Rev. Levi Bedenbaugh, the founding Pastor of Mt. Pilgrim, who died about a year later - vjf] This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb