Meriwether County GaArchives Obituaries.....Williams (Obituary), John Henry April 1910
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"The Newnan Herald and Advertiser"
Newnan, Coweta Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, August 5, 1910

NOTE: Five or six pages of this newspaper issue were so poorly scanned for 
the microfilm that they are totally illegible)

OBITUARY OF JOHN HENRY WILLIAMS

Bro. John Henry Williams, the only son of Dr. Clarke T. and Harriet Jossey 
Williams was born at Greenville, Ga., on Jan. 9, 1834. When about 14 years 
of age, his parents moved to their farm in the upper part of Meriwether 
county. Here the birds and flowers and wholesome life of the country added 
their quota to the well rounded education which fitted him for life. Most of 
his school days were spent at Greenville but in his early teens he entered 
Emory College and graduated in the class of '55. Here he was converted and 
united with the church. What a rich treasure we have in the Christian 
college! His unswerving loyalty to the church and love for her ministry for 
more than fifty years, will be attested by all whose privilege it has been 
to be served by him as pastor.

When the call of arms was sounded throughout the Southland, he joined the 
first company that left Meriwether county, being a member of the famous old 
8th Georgia regiment. He remained in the Army of Virginia eighteen months. 
After hiring a substitute, he returned to Greenville and on Nov. 11, 1862 
was united in marriage to Miss Martha Robertson. Eleven children were born 
of this union, nine of whom still live to bless the world. The fires of 
patriotism and the voice of duty forbade a life of ease and the siren voice 
of pleasure. Leaving his fair young bride, he returned to the war front and 
served until the close of hostilities. After the war he located at 
Lutherville, where he continued to reside until his death, except for about 
five years.

In contemplating the sum total of the elements that enter into the formation 
of a beautiful character, we cannot even partially account fo rit until we 
look at the environment favorable to their existence and growth. Born beyond 
the "floods of war and change", beyond the tides of commercialism and greed, 
beyond the maelstrom of politics, beyond the strenuous life, our brother 
typed a class of men fast passing away. Unilke the Plymouth settlers, our 
Southern ancestors became a nation of planters. Looking out over their broad 
acres they expanded in heart and mind. Having time for what Hillis calls a 
lost art, meditation, out of the fruitful soil of reverence for God and 
reverence for woman naturally grew that refinement of feeling, delicate 
sense of honor, chivalry, generosity, hospitality, which characterized the 
old South. A resultant of such forces and conditions, and polished unto 
beauty by divine grace, no wonder his was spoken of as a beautiful life. He 
was the embodiment of these virtues of the old South.

About six months before his death, in a gracious revival at Lutherville, 
Bro. Williams received a great spiritual uplift. Several of his children 
were brightly converted. His own cup was running over. He seemed to be made 
perfect in love. Through the corridors of his love the angels were ascending 
and descending. He was ripe for the heavenly garner. On Sunday, April __? , 
as he was preparing to attend 11 o'clock services, the fatal stroke came 
which on Wednesday following set him free to join the church triumphant, 
demonstrating once again that for a good man, death has no terrors. A few 
hours after he was stricken, in conversation with his pastor and others, 
utterly mindful of his bodily condition, he was telling of his great joy in 
entertaining a few years ago, his old college mates, Dr. Young J. Allen and 
Dr. Geo. W. Yarbrough, under his hospitable roof. It was charateristic of 
this unselfish, whole-souled man, that, having loved these friends of early 
manhood, he loved them unto the end.

He was laid to rest at Greenville in the presence of a large concourse of 
friends, looking for the "general resurrection and the life of the world, to 
come through our Lord Jesus. His Pastor



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