Newton-Walton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Reynolds, Hon. Permedus March 19, 1873
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The Georgia Enterprise, March  21, 1873
DEATH OF JUDGE REYNOLDS
     On Wednesday morning, March 19, at 10 o’clock, the spirit of Hon. PERMEDUS 
REYNOLDS left its tenement of mortality after several months suffering from 
dropsically effusion. His distress from shortness of breath was at times 
intense; but the indomitable will which characterized his whole life, sustained 
him to the last, and disease only prostrated him when his system had been 
completely wrecked.
     Born in Clark County, Georgia, in 1805, his father removed to Walton, 
while Permedus was but a youth and the country afforded meager facilities for 
his education; but his native mind and unswerving devotion to the right first, 
last and always, soon triumphed over all unfavorable surroundings, and the 
people ever attested their appreciation of his worth by calling him 
continuously to serve in the halls of Legislation for more than a generation. 
Yet his brightest and best traits were concealed from the public eye. Firm as 
an iron wall against all attempts to win his consent to public or private 
wrong, in domestic life, and in the inner  court of his sympathies, his heart 
was tender and easily touched as the affection of a little child. During his 
last illness  the writer was with him much of the time, and knew his deeper 
feelings perhaps as well as any one outside his immediate family. While he felt 
strong regrets for the sorrow his departures must inflict upon his children and 
the wife of his youth, for himself he desired to depart and be with his Lord. 
The faith which had been his guide in life since early youth he united with the 
Primitive Baptist Church at Harris Spring, was his support in death; and with 
no confidence in the flesh, he saw heaven opened in the hour of his departure 
and expressing a wish to “go up higher” he calmly fell asleep in Jesus, 
realizing the fulfillment of the prayer expressed in his favorite hymn to which 
he frequently referred which is the following:

O Land of rest, for thee I sigh,
When will the moment come,
When I shall lay my armor by,
And dwell with Christ at home?

No tranquil joys on earth I know
No peaceful sheltering dome
This world’s wilderness of woe,
This world is not my home.

To Jesus Christ I sought for rest,
He bade me cease to roam,
And fly for succor to his breast,
And he’d conduct me home.

I should at once have quit the field,
Where foes and fury roam;
But ah! my passport was not sealed,
I could not yet go home.

When by affliction sharply tried,
I view the gaping tomb,
Although I dread death’s chilling tide,
Yet still I sigh for home.

Weary of wandering round and round,
This vale of sin and gloom,
I long to leave the unhallowed ground,
And dwell with Christ at home.


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