Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Conner, Mrs. Lucinda February 19, 1890
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The Georgia Enterprise, February 27, 1890
DEATH’S SAD ROLL
     Mrs. LUCINDA CONNER departed this life at her home in Covington at 1 
o’clock, on Wednesday, Feb. 19th, 1890. Aged 85 years, 10 months, and 11 days. 
She had been a consistent member of the Old School, or Primitive  Baptist 
Church, for 61 years, and it was fitting that Elder Wm. Adams whom she had 
known for more than a third of a century, had been chosen to officiate at her 
funeral service, which came off Thursday afternoon in the Methodist Church 
here. He paid a beautiful and deserved tribute to the life and character of 
this gentle Christian lady. Rev. W. H. LaPrade conducted the services at the 
grave. Many friends and dear ones attended the services in the church and at 
the cemetery.
     The departure of this old Mother in Israel removes from this community one 
of the best and most useful women whoever lived in it. She was a woman of 
strong intellect and untiring energy, always hopeful and cheerful, she did good 
and succeeded in making those around her happy. For many years the sick room 
was her headquarters, and where the wail of distress or the cry of suffering 
was heard, there could “Doctor” Conner, as the people called her, always be 
found. In her old age she lived in the past, as it were, and loved to tell of 
the happy events long since gone forever; she also often spoke of the future 
and announced her ready willingness to answer the Master’s summons when it 
came. Death had no terrors for this grand old woman, and while she suffered 
pain untold for several weeks before she died, she bore it with fortitude and 
patience without murmur or complaint, and when she lay in the cold embrace of 
death there was no trace of grief or sorrow upon her aged but still beautiful 
face, a beauty which was created and retained by kind deeds and tender care for 
God’s creatures in their times of grief, pain, sorrow, sickness and even death, 
yes, at the age of almost 86 active, useful years. Grand-Mother Conner was a 
beautiful woman in the higher and nobler meaning of that admirable word, and 
“She died in beauty, like the dew
   From flowers exhaled away.
She died in beauty, like a star,
   Lost on the brow of day.
She lives in glory, like the gems
   Set round the radiant moon,
She lives in glory, like the sun
   Amid the blue of June!”


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