Lowndes County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cone, Grover Cleveland May 13, 1907
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Ed Cone, Cone Family Webpage, Date Unk.
Grover Cleveland Cone was born to Warren and Della Cone on Feb. 8, 1888 and 
died on May 13, 1907.

(It is said that Grover had contracted the measles.  He stayed out on the 
front porch in inclement weather the afternoon before he died.)
 
A loving tribute to the memory of Cleveland Cone by his teacher, 
B. H. Culbreth.

 
Whom the Gods love, die young; Was said of yore.
 
This morning - Monday - our town is shrouded in profound gloom.  A guest has 
visited one of our homes - a guest unbid - who, armed with resistless power, 
remained without a welcome from his host.  For nine long days, this guest 
loitered around the room with lawless freedom, and at night, would stalk into 
the room, and cast his shadows on the walls.  At last he grew more familiar, 
and bending lowly over the couch, called the noble, generous spirit of 
Cleveland to the God, who gave it.  There is something exquisitely touching in 
the tolling of a church-bell amid the silence of quiet country folks.  The 
plowman stops his horse to listen to the solemn tidings of mortality.  The 
sympathizing mothers forget their work, and with the needle suspended 
tremulously over the garment before them, give a deep sigh, and wonder who it 
is that is gone to his long home; And the innocent children, cheerful as their 
glee, and merry as their songs, pause amid their merry gambols and catch the 
melancholy sound and cover their little heads when they go to bed at night.  
And this is death.
 
If a man die, shall he live again?  Yes; and more abundantly.
 
Cleveland died at the approach of morning, just as the stars were fading away, 
one by one, from the gray heavens, and night had slowly receded before the 
approach of golden morn.  It was one of the loveliest customs of the ancients 
to bury their young at early morning twilight.  They gave a soft 
interpretation to death, believing that Aurora, the goddess of light, who 
loved the young, took them to her soft embrace, and forever looked after their 
happiness.  Better for us, that we should think more of the happiness and 
beauties of Heaven, than have such fearful concern about that other place.  Is 
there anyone so faithless as to believe that God will not provide for those 
for whom his Son died!
 
I believe that my young friend, Cleveland, is safe in the embrace of a loving 
Savior.  He left this life just as he was merging into the prime of manhood.  
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Cone of this place.  He was a pupil of 
the Barwick school, and be it said to his credit, that during two terms, her 
never had to be corrected.  He knew his duty and always did it.
 
The entire community go out in deep sympathy toward the bereaved family.


Additional Comments:
Grover Cleveland Cone is a descendant of Daniel Cone of Scotland. William 
Cone, also a descendant of Daniel Cone and in Grover's direct line, fought
under Lt. Col. Francis Marion in The Revolutionary War. Grover's sister, Ruth
Daisy, the submitter's grandmother, also died young, as a result of a heart 
condition in the late 1920's.

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