Dooly County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lewis, Thomas Jasper August 7, 1862
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Christian Advocate
Thomas Lewis a resident of Dooly County, Georgia, died at the Huguonot 
Springs, Virginia August 7, 1862 of typhoid dysentery, born in Greene County 
Georgia January 19, 1804, being in his 59th year.
 
The deceased has been from the time of our seperation from the old government, 
devoted to our Sunny South and one among the foremost to contribute to the 
support of the new government. He had made three trips to Virginia to visit 
and administer to a fond son who had early volunteered in the defense of his 
country, and who had been for months prostrated with disease, and had exerted 
himself a great deal in arranging matters properly to return home with his 
afflicted son, and on the eve of his starting for home he was taken down when 
death claimed him as his own, far away from his family to save his sick son, 
in a distant land there to rest until the last Trump shall sound and bid the 
sleeping millions rise. Mr. Lewis was not a member of any church, but a 
professor of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, His faith was that of the 
Primitive Baptist, though a constant attendant of the house of worship among 
the different denomations. He has left a wife, three sons, and a daughter, 
besides innumerable friends to mourn his loss, which will be felt by more than 
soldiers families, He was always one among the first to contribute to their 
necessities. But weep not, dear friends, for we feel assured that our friend 
only sleeps to awake and shine forth at the last day.

Additional Comments:
This clipping from the Christian Advocate was in the Bible that belonged to 
Thomas Lewis. The Bible(1978) was in possession of Charles Teasley Lewis, 
great grandson of Thomas Lewis.

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