Madison County GaArchives Obituaries.....Seabolt, Martha Grizzle December 22, 1923
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Danielsville Monitor,   15 February 1924
IN MEMORY OF MRS. J.H. SEABOLT

Mrs. Martha Grizzle Seabolt fell asleep in Jesus, Dec. 22, 1923.  She was 
forty four (44) years old and was the mother of seven children, five of 
which survive her.  To these and the devoted husband, we would beg 
you to be reconciled to God, for she is just asleep in Jesus.  "Blessed 
sleep from which none ever wake to weep."

Mrs. Seabolt was born and reared in Union county and spent her life 
there up until the pst few years and for the past four years has been an 
esteemable reaident of Madison county.

In early girlhood Mrs. Seabolt gave her heart to God and was a faithful 
follower of the lowly Nazarene.  At the time of her death she was a loyal 
member of Mt. Zion church, a friend to the pastor and a sharer of good 
works.  Her greatest desire was to get more rooted and grounded in 
Christ Jesus.  She often expressed her heart's desire in the words of 
her favorite hymn "Only Give Me Jesus."

"Traveling down life's pilgrim way,
This my prayer from day to day,
Lord, let come to me what may, 
Only give me blessed Jesus,
Give me Jesus night and day, 
Give me Jesus all the way; 
I will bear both toil and care, 
Only give me blessed Jesus."

Death came to her as a merciful release after an illness of several months, 
during which time she was compelled to stay in a sanitarium, separated from 
loved ones, but the thought that comforts our sad hearts is that she had Jesus, 
blessed Jesus.

Her's was the winning smile, the cheerful face, the gentle voice, the quiet 
spirit and the sympathic heart which makes the loss more irreparable in the 
church and is the home, where the devoted husband mourn over the stilled voice 
and vacant chair that never can be filled.  Above all things this saint of God 
was the Christian mother who gave herself with unlimited devotion of her 
children.  Last spring Little Teddy, the four year old baby was stricken with 
infantile paralysis and this devoted mother prayed correctly to God for 
patience and strength to nurse her back to health, but God in his infinite 
wisdom has seen fit to let the affliction rest on the precious little Teddy who 
was the pride of a fond mother's heart, and in love and mercy has laid the 
mother's frail body to rest and the soul has gone to that eternal home not made 
with hands. 

And now she has gone--

"Where there are no sad farwells, 
    no tear dimmed eyes;
But all is joy and peace and love, 
Where the sould of man never dies."

Her earthly career was cut off here and a lovely life taken from our midst 
but her influence abides. Possessed of a naturally sweet, modest and gentle 
nature, the grace of God wrought in her until there was perfected an 
unusually beautiful character.

The family circle has been broken, but the radiance of her concecrated 
Christian life will remain to bless those left behind.

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."

                        ---One who loved her. 

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