HOUSTON COUNTY, GA - Obits  Louisa Smith Bryan

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Houston County, Georgia


Louisa Smith Bryan - Obituary

This obituary appeared in the Southern Christian
Advocate dated February 1, 1839.

Departed this life in Houston county, Ga., on the 1st
inst. mth. LOUISA, wife of Simeon B. Bryan, and
daughter of Needham and Ardelia Smith.  She was a lady
of eminent modesty and virtue, and embraced the
religion of the Redeemer, experimentally, at a young
protracted meeting at Emory chapel, in 1837, and
joined the M. E. Church.  Her marriage took place in
May last and in the fall afterwards her husband's
father and brothers emigrated to the far west, in the
State of Louisiana, he alone remaining with his young
wife in the land of their nativity.  But what is our
hold on the interests of time.  The had scarcely
touched their distant destination before she for whom
he had parted with father and brothers, was taken from
him. Her death was sudden, but found her well
prepared; and to her mother and friends, who in the
short interval of danger barely had time to make a
mournful leave of her, she professed that she was
happy in the triumph of Jesus.  With this profession,
she fell into a comotose state, in which on the same
evening she expired.  THOMAS SPEIGHT