Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Shell, Stephen D. January 27 1885
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The Enterprise, Feb. 6, 1885
DEATH'S SAD ROLL
  Mr. Stephen D. Shell, died at the home of his brother's children, in Houston,
Miss., on Jan. 27. "God's finger touched him," and the old man gently fell to 
sleep. For many long years he was a citizen of Covington, and was well and 
favorably known to the people of Newton and adjoining counties. Mr. Shell was an
honest, Christian gentleman, and one of the kindest hearted men we ever met.
  He was never married, but when misfortune and sickness came and his reason 
was dethroned, kind and devoted relatives tendered him a home where he could
live in peaceful plenty until the Angel of Death should pilot him to a resting
place in his Father's House beyond the skies. At the time of his death he was 
75 or 80 years of age. One by one the golded links which bind the living present
to, the departed part are being rudely severed by the cold and icy hand of 
death. One by one the old Landmarks are being removed. Soon we younger people
will grow gray and the brief span allotted will have been past. In the rosy
morn of youth and health let us make preparation for the solomn hour which shall
call us from time to eternity.

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