Madison County GaArchives Obituaries.....Goss, Lucy F. August 18, 1932
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The Christian Index Sept 8, 1932
Mrs. Lucy F. O'Kelley Chandler Goss was born in Madison County, Ga., November 
28, 1841, and died August 18, 1932.  Her parents, B. F. O'Kelley and E. M. 
White O'Kelley, were large planters in this county and were descendants of a 
long line of prominent ancestors who distinghuished themselves during the 
Revolutionary War.  She was married to Simion Chandler, December 20, 1860.  He 
died in October, 1863, while serving in the Confederate cause.  Two children 
were born by this marriage, both girls.  In 1877, she united in marriage with 
Rev. W. R. Goss, a Missionary Baptist preacher.  He died eight years later.  

"Aunt Lucy," as she was affectionately known in her community, was baptised by 
Rev. J. G. York, uniting with Union Baptist Church at seventeen years of age.  
Her membership remained there until her death, a period of seventy-three 
years.  Even after she passed her nintieth birthday her church obligations were 
a pleasure to her, and she continued to take an active part in the meetings and 
work of the church and W. M. U.

An interesting account of her conversion appeared in The Index some months 
ago.  "Her father, she said, was  a living Christian, not a dead one." When she 
was thirteen years old, she and one of her sisters were seriously ill and she 
awoke in the still hous one night to hear her father's voice pleading that 
their lives might be spared, and as she listened to his earnest voice raised in 
prayer, she wanted to cry out; she trembled, and it seemed as if her very soul 
must leave her body; she seemed to hear a voice say, "Fear not, it is I"; she 
felt happy, and all her troubles rolled away." Throughout the years that 
followed she "kept the faith," and the closing hours of her life were made 
beautiful by her possession of the "Peace that passeth all understanding."

Aunt Lucy is survived by one sister, Mrs. Sallie O'Kelley Tolbert; a daughter, 
Mrs. W. B. Gunnels, and a large number of grandchildren and great-
grandchildren, besides a host of friends.

The funeral was conducted at Union Baptist Church by Rev. A. E. Logan.  The 
body was interred in the family cemetery at her childhood home.

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