Henry County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jones (nee Edwards), Mrs. Martha January 12, 1897
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The Henry County Weekly, January 22, 1897
Another Good Old Mother Gone
     After a long and terrible battle, Mrs. MARTHA JONES passed away to her 
long home on Tuesday evening, the 12th instant. The good old woman had long 
been the subject of severe and deep affliction. Her physical form had been 
greatly contracted and bowed with distorted shape, but thanks to God, the hard 
battle is now over. Her long warfare in life’s terrible battle has been 
finished and a glorious victory won. Skepticism with its stupid blindness 
stands out in the shadows of its own darkness, and derides the Christian’s 
faith. MARTHA EDWARDS JONES was born on the 21st day of October in the year 
1822. It will add nothing to her peaceful slumbers by extending this notice to 
a lengthy detail of her long life’s conflicts and sorrows. They are known 
already to those whose hearts were moved with feelings of sympathy in her 
behalf. No more will she need our prayers and tears. She has thrown on the old 
worn out casket to put on a more enduring habitation. She was laid to rest by 
the side of two elder sisters. Some where on the celestial plains to our 
Fathers many mansioned house, me thinks the melody of golden harps may be 
heard. Wait a little while, children, till you are called to go over to 
the “land beyond.” Your beloved old grandma, Carrie will have her mind all 
right, and she will know you. For a long time, Carrie, your old grandma’s mind 
was greatly impaired, but it will never be so again. Tell me not that our 
loving Father will ever desert a faithful child in the dark hours of mental 
failure. The pressure was more than she could carry, but the tug of her warfare 
is now “all over.” Let her now sleep in rest. Yes, there is rest for the weary 
in the fair fields of Eden, where the tree of life is blooming. Meet her there. 
W. T. G. 



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