Dougherty-Jasper-Jones County GaArchives Obituaries.....Avent, William Herry, Jr March 14 1930 ************************************************ 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: Donald L. Pye Redstar36@aol.com May 17, 2004, 11:11 am Eatonton Messenger, Eatonton, Ga In Memory of Mr. Henry Avant Hillsboro. GA On the 11th day of May Brother Henry Avant passed from his tabernacle of clay to receive the plaudits of them awaiting that spiritual home in the beyond. Uncle Henry, the endearing term we all so loved to call him by, in the mist of his last illness of several months, passed his 82nd birthday on the fourth of March in the year of our Lord, 1930. Uncle Henry's childhood as well as youth and manhood through a long and useful life was spent in and near the community in which he was born. His friends were numbered by the legion as nearly perhaps as many man of his simple pretentious and modest retiring nature. During or just after the civil war, he wooed and wedded Miss Susie Jones of the highly esteemed family of that name in Hillsboro. Of this union there were five children, namely Mrs. J. S. Marsh, Macon, J Avant, Hillsboro, O. A. Avant, Hillsboro, Mrs. T. R. Hattaway, Hillsboro, and H. T. Avant, Hillsboro. Each of whom survive him to mourn his loss in that fitting way suggestive of the tender solicitude manifested by them in his old ---- as decrepitide and last illness, even to death. Joining with these in ministering to his suffering was a large number of grandchildren vying with each other in giving comfort and pleasure to Grandpa. And who shall ---- the large number of kind and loving friends who joined so wholeheartedly with those loved ones in self sacrificing concern during his long illness. A loyal husband, a devoted father, he was unswerving in his adherence to his church and faithful to his Lord to whom he gave his heart and life many years before his death, since when his consuming passion was to see his children and friends saved by that grace which sweetened and made glad his own heart. While strength permitted, present at all services of his church, ready to join in songs of praise, his soul"s delight on bended knee to implore a throne of grace for the salvation of sinners. We shall miss you Uncle Henry in church and home, your happy, kindly nature, your fatherly advice, those wonderful prayers, that fellowship which we enjoyed as your pastor for so many years. We carried him to old Union Hill Church where the funeral services were conducted by the Pastor and tenderly laid him to rest by the side of the mother of his children who preceded him there by several years, which her and all those who sleep in Christ to await the resurrection morn. Wm. E. Long, Pastor This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb