Muscogee-Harris County GaArchives Obituaries.....J.W. Sparks June 14 1906
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The Talbotton New Era, July 5, 1906

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, July 5, 1906
Page 6

Death of Mr. J.W. Sparks

The death of this noble young man, occurred at the hospital in Columbus, on the 
14th of June, and was rendered peculiarly sad, from the fact that his father 
was critically ill at a hospital in Atlanta, and his mother could not be with 
him; was on her way to see him, when the sad intelligence of his death, reached 
her.

His brother, Mr. E.K. Sparks of Atlanta, attended his bedside, and other loving 
hands administered to every want.  Wick held a responsible position as 
stenographer in Columbus, where he made many friends; quite a number 
accompanying the remains here, where the interment took place, at Shiloh 
cemetery.  The casket being entirely covered with costly and lovely floral 
designs, the high esteem in which the deceased was held.  He was a member of 
the M.E. Church, and a regular attendant at its ordinances, his last 
conversation with his mother, testifying to this assurance.

Death came to this young man of fine promise; in the bloom of life, at the age 
of twenty- one years; and from a human standpoint before his work was 
finished.  There is no surer prophecy of immortality that the incompleteness of 
human life.  Indeed it is like an unfinished shaft.  But somewhere in God’s 
great universe, there is a place, where life, God given life, will be 
completed.  Faith whispers that there is surely such a place, that its gate is 
alas; the grave; but having once passed its portals we then only, shall begin 
to live.

Then look up grief stricken loved ones, through your blinded tears, with a 
radiant hope of a happy reunion beyond the tomb.

Mrs. G.Y.M.


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