Georgia:  Decatur County:  Obituary of Mrs. J. I. Brockett,  

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The following appeared in the Bainbridge Post Searchlight.

MRS. J. L. BROCKETT DIED LAST THURSDAY........[Nodate available]


Beloved Woman Passed Away Last Thursday After Long Illness.

On Thursday morning last,  just at the Dawn,  when all the world was waking 
from its night of slumber,  Mr. J. L. Brockett fell asleep from which there 
is no awakening and her gentle spirit went to the God from whence it came.

Mrs. Brockett was Miss Susan Elizabeth Culbreth, and was born in Edgefield, 
S.C., July lst, 1853, moving to this section of the country with her parents 
when ten years of age and settling in Baker County, where the days of her 
girlhood and young womanhood were spent.  She was twice married;  in 1869 to 
Mr. William Mathis, and in 1884 to Mr. J. L. Brockett.  She is survived by 
four children,  Mrs. E. W. Hall,  by her first marriage and Clifford,  
Misses Jessie May and Fannie Brockett by her second marriage,  all of this 
city.

In early life she professed belief in the Lord Jesus Christ and united with 
the Baptist Church, of which she was a consistent member until her death.  
She had an abiding faith which never wavered, and often expressed herself as 
being resigned to the will of God, believing that He doeth all things well.  
During her long and painful illness, she was patient and reconciled, and 
bore her suffering with the courage and fortitude which characterized her 
life.  Home was her kingdom and those who knew her in her every day life 
loved her best.  With her life was a sacrifice;  she spent her strength for 
her children and the motherless children who were entrusted to her care and 
keeping, and counted this a joy and privilege.  While she has gone forth 
from this world of care and sorrow to meet her Saviour face to face and join 
the heavenly hosts in praising Him, the memory of her courage, fortitude and 
gentleness lives on.   Death has taken her from those to whom she was so 
dear, but her life of love and sacrifice cannot be taken from them.