Newton County GaArchives News.....COLORED ORPHANS HOME January 15, 1891
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Georgia Enterprise January 15, 1891
     The corner stone of Dinah Watts Pace’s Colored Orphans Home will be laid 
sometime in May. The ceremonies will be interesting and the public generally 
will be invited. Col. L. H. Patillo, of the Augusta Chronicle, had this to say 
of this noble charity: Covington is distinctive in the possession of an 
institution which ranks as a most singular monument of Christian charity. It is 
an orphan’s home for friendless Negro children. The architect and builder of 
this monument is a Negro woman. Her name is Dinah Pace. She is a teacher in the 
colored public school at Covington. For years she has been taking care of five 
or six motherless children, giving them the rudiments of an education and 
preparing them for the duties of life. As soon as one child grew large enough 
to earn a livelihood, the devoted benefactress would supply its place with 
another waif. For years no purse strings were unloosed for this Godly charity 
but her own. Humble, unostentatious, but loyal and loving she continued in her 
noble work. Sometime since, the curtains of heaven were moved aside and light 
fell athwart the lowly mission. Donations followed. With such contributions, 
and with money earned by her own toil, she began the erection of a three story 
wooden building last fall. The building is now nearing completion, and beneath 
its roof is sheltered fie or six colored foundlings. It is called “The 
Covington Colored Orphan Asylum,” and every nail in the structure will 
crystallize into diamonds to deck the brow of the sheltering mother.


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