Muscogee-Elbert County GaArchives Obituaries.....Decker, Nancy Chapman April 25, 1872
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Southern Christian Advocate; Macon, GA; Wednesday, 5 Jun 1872
Southern Christian Advocate; Macon, GA
Wednesday, 5 Jun 1872, p. 88, column 3

Mrs. Nancy Decker died of consumption after a lingering illness, in 
Columbus, Ga, April 25th, 1872, in the 69th year of her natural, and about 
the 40th of her spiritual life.
 
The subject of this notice was a native of South Carolina, from which State 
her parents removed to Elbert county, Ga, in her early life. Her early 
religious advantages, (separate from the counsels of a pious mother) were 
not such as the present generation enjoy, living as she did in the rural 
districts of a then sparsely settled country. It was not until after her 
marriage and she was the mother of children, that she was converted to God. 
Her conversion was bright, satisfactory and glorious. She joined the 
Methodist Church, in which communion she remained until death severed the 
connection. A husband and eight children preceded her to the grave, six of 
whom died after reaching mature age, with the same disease-consumption. The 
life of our departed sister had its portion of the trials and sorrows 
incident to earth. But amid all the eventual scenes through which she was 
called to pass, the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ was a solace and 
comfort, and proved its divine origin in her case. Her religious experience 
was such as might be expected of one whose consecration to God at 
conversion, was so entire and absolute. Often she was enabled to shout aloud 
the praise of her Redeemer, from a feeling sense of His love shed abroad in 
her heart. During her illness, she frequently requested her children not to 
grieve over her decease, as she felt her course on earth finished, her duty 
discharged, and that she was ready and anxious to enter into that rest “that 
remaineth for the people of God.” Even up to life’s latest hour she was 
conscious that the time of her departure was at hand. Her voice having 
become inarticulate, the writer, who was at her bed side, enquired if she 
still felt Jesus precious, and she responded by the motion of her features 
in the affirmative. How appropriate the text of scripture used by her pastor 
on the funeral occasion, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of 
his saints.” Our sister leaves four daughters, three married and one a 
widow, besides other relatives and friends to mourn her loss, but they mourn 
not as those who have no hope, feeling that their loss is her eternal gain. 
G.M.V.

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