Dooly County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lewis, Thomas Jasper August 7, 1862
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Carol Hinson wildrose1965@bellsouth.net February 21, 2009, 9:38 pm

 Clipping  from  The Christian Advocate, found in Thomas Lewis' Bible
Thomas Lewis, a resident of Dooly County, Georgia, died at the Huguenot 
Springs, Virginia, August 7, 1862, of Typhoid dysentery, born in Greene 
County, 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 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, was taken down when 
death claimed him as his own, far away from his famiy to save his sick son, in 
a distant land, there to rest until the last Trump shall sound and bid the  
sleeping millons rise. Mr. Lewis, was not a member of any church, but a 
professor of the religion of the Lord Jesus Chris. 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 
soliders 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 was in the Bible that belonged to Thomas Lewis. In 1978, the 
Bible was in the possession of Charlie T Lewis, now deceased.
Thomas Lewis, married Sarah K Bragg, he was the son of Richard Lewis and 
Elizabeth Ann Rogers

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