Henry County GaArchives Obituaries.....Tarpley, Mrs. Mary J. December 23, 1892
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The Henry County Weekly, February 24, 1893
Obituary
TARPLEY 
     The subject of these lines, Mrs. MARY J. TARPLEY, wife of C. S. TARPLEY 
and daughter of JAMES and NANCY WATERS was born in Newton County, Georgia, on 
the 2nd day of May,  1827, and died at her home in Henry County, Georgia, on 
the 23rd day of December, 1892, being sixty-five years seven months and twenty-
one days old.
     She remembered her Creator in the days of her youth, having made 
profession of religion and united with the Missionary Baptist Church between 
ten to fourteen years of age. She grew up to lovely womanhood and was married 
to CHARLES S. TARPLEY, on March 9th, 1848, with whom she lived happily to the 
day of her death, leaving him six children, three sons and three daughters. A 
bereaved family, with many relatives and friends, mourn her loss, but they 
mourn not as those without hope. Her death was sudden, but not untimely or 
unexpected, for she repeatedly said that she expected to depart in this way, 
being in delicate health and troubled with heart failure. She was always ready 
and prepared to go no mater how sudden the summons. Her children were all grown 
and settled in life, her husband passing swiftly down its declivities; her 
life’s labor ended, and, we think, well done; she had builded her house and was 
ready to go to sleep as she did.
     From long and intimate acquaintances with sister TARPLEY we wish to say 
that she was a consistent, kind, faithful, obliging, and in some respects, most 
remarkable woman. As a Christian she was broad minded and liberal, believing in 
and practicing the precepts of Christianity. As a wife she was all that the 
term wife and companion can imply, as a mother, most gentle, kind and 
considerable, and as relative, friend and neighbor, most affable, true and 
obliging. Her gratitude amounted almost to a passion. It seemed like she feared 
that she could not sufficiently require what she regarded as a kindness. Sister 
TARPLEY was blessed with a most retentive memory and well stored mind, and was 
to the very last a lover of good literature, and always kept well posted on the 
current topics of the day.
     We feel that in her death Brother TARPLEY loss is irreparable until he 
shall join her in the great beyond, that her children have lost a good mother 
and counselor that her church has lost a good and faithful member, and society 
an ornament worthy of imitation.
JOHN M. THURMAN, Feb. 14th, 1893


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