Lincoln County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dowsing, William October 18, 1818
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Georgia Journal, 17 Nov 1818
Departed this life on Sunday evening the 18th October last, in the 68th year 
of his age, Wm. Dowsing, senr of Lincoln county; after a long and tedious 
indisposition of nearly two years, which he bore with almost unparalleled 
patience and christian (sic) fortitude. In the death of this man, 
society...considerable loss. He was a kind...husband, an indulgent parent...He 
was beloved and...by all who knew him. His bosom glowed with the purest 
patriotism. He volunteered his services in the defense of his country, during 
the revolutionary war, was soon appointed to the command of the company in 
which he had volunteered, in which he acquitted himself with much honor, and 
evinced to all who beheld his conduct in the bloody conflict of the battle of 
Guilford, that he was possessed of undaunted courage. Shortly after the 
revolutionary war, he examined the evidences of Christianity -- became deeply 
sensible of the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, was fully awakened 
to a sense of his lost ...

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