Henry County GaArchives Obituaries.....COPELAND, Mrs. BETSY  November 1892
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The Henry County Weekly, December 2, 1892
At Rest
    One by one the “old mothers and fathers in Israel” are crossing the 
swelling tide of the dark, mysterious river and entering into that “rest that 
remained for the people of God, leaving to those that follow after only the 
bright, shining light of pure, holy lives to keep them in the way that leads to 
that land where partings are no more.
     On last Friday evening, after long weary months of suffering, borne with 
Christian fortitude, the “silver cord was loosed” and the pure soul of Mrs. 
BETSY COPELAND winged its way back to the God form whence it came.
     On Sunday at Harper’s burying ground her earthly remains were laid to 
rest, after appropriate funeral services by the Rev. John E. Rosser.
     Mrs. COPELAND was the wife of Mr. DAVID COPELAND, of McMullen’s district, 
and the sympathy of all go out to him, who, thus late in the evening of his 
life, has been bereft of his companion with whom, hand in hand, he has passed 
so many mile posts, marking the rapid flight of years. May He that “tempereth 
the winds to the shorn lamb” comfort his heart in this sore bereavement, 
causing him to rest assured that when “life’s fitful fever” is o’er they shall 
again clasp hands inside the pearly gates, where
“Hearts from which ‘twas death to sever,
Eyes this world can ne’er restore,
There as warm, as bright as ever,
They shall meet to part no more.”
     She leaves numerous friends and relatives in our midst to mourn her loss 
and hallow her memory.
     When we, too, have borne the heat and burden of the day, may we, like her, 
have somewhat of that ”Where with the reaper filleth his arms, and he that 
gathered sheaves his bosom.”


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