Georgia:  Morgan County:  Obituary of Phereby Dyer, 21 November 1890

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Obituary 
Madisonian Newspaper, November 21, 1890 
In Memoriam: 
Mrs. Phereby Dyer, wife of David Dyer, was born in Greene County, Ga. 
27th of March 1807, and was at the time of her death the last living 
child of a Mr. Reason. She was the mother of eight children, three of 
whom survive her--Mrs. Caroline Cornett, and Miss Mittie Heyser of this 
city, and Mrs. Susan E. Knox of Richmond, Virginia. At the time of her 
death, which occurred November 15, 1890, she was one of five living 
generations. When she was about twenty years old she united with the 
Methodist Church of Madison, and if the records of this church were 
searched, it is doubtful if there is one living of its' membership at 
that time. This good woman died in her 84th year, having lived a citizen 
of Madison, nearly four score years. 

She was a woman of strong will, great energy and remarkable common sense. 
While not demonstrative in her religious life, she was a sincere believer 
in the Lord Jesus Christ. She died, having the love and respect of a 
large circle of relatives and old acquaintances, and with a good hope, 
through grace, of a better life beyond the grave. "The Lord gave and the 
Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord" 

Thus one by one the older citizens of Madiosn are passing away. Mrs. Dyer 
served her day and generation well, by the will of God, and has fallen 
asleep. She had been a citizen of Madison longer than anyone in our 
midst, and came to the grave in a full age, like a shock of corn cometh 
in his season. Death had for her no terror, and the grave had over her no 
victory. She seemed,as she spake freely of her disease, like the old 
patriarch Job, who said, "all the day long I will wait till my change 
comes". Worn and weary she longed for "the rest that remainth unto the 
people of God" With her staff in her hand and her "feet shod with the 
preparation of the gospel of peace" this aged pilgrim looked out from her 
dying couch, for deaths coming as one would look for a long expected 
friend, with not a "wave of trouble to move across her peaceful breast." 

"How blest the righteous when she dies, 
When sinks a weary soul to rest. 
How mildly beam the closing eyes, 
How gently heave the expiring breath." 

There is something in the cheerful content and sweet resignation with 
which this aged Christian pilgrim met her death, which ought to silence 
all the cavillers of the religion of Jesus Christ. 

"So teach us to number our days that we may apply our wants unto wisdom" 
Religion 

S. A. Burney