Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Beeland, Mr. Mat February 15 1897
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Georgia Enterprise, February 25, 1897
DEATH’S SAD ROLL
     Mr. Mat Beeland died at his home in Newborn on Feb. 15th, 1897. He was 
buried with Masonic honors on the 16th. Kind, good and true for eight decades, 
his affections must have watered many an oases in this earth so hungering for 
such pleasure; yet his own life was so prosaic, so barren of those very springs 
of joy so readily found in this human hive of tumultuous, emotional blending of 
good and bad. The smiling and the kind word is gone from us. The familiar, 
drooping, nervous step will be seen in his usual haunts us more forever. His 
kind attentions and gentle words to the children will be sadly missed, for he 
was their friend.
     The Masons must have loved this kind, golden hearted old gentleman, who 
had for so many years been of this Mystic Order. Death had come, against whose 
entrance the Tiller’s sword can afford no defense. He sleeps. The gentle breeze 
fans his earthly covering. The sunshine and the storms will pass over the 
house, but he heeds them not. He fulfilled his destiny.
     “I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me,” write from henceforth, 
blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Even so saith the spirit, for they 
rest from their labors.”  W.


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