Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Stone, Rev. George W. W.  August 30, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise, September 5, 1889
Rev. G. W. W. Stone is Dead.
     When Professor Stone “wrapped the drapery of his couch about him and lay 
down to pleasant dreams,” the State lost a worthy son and the Church a faithful 
servant. He was patriotic and benevolent, generous, kind and always forgiving, 
true to every trust and false to none. He was as full of modesty as he was of 
merit. In his death his friends and loved ones can “look through the veil of 
sorrow and the valley of the shadow and see God in it all.” He was ready for 
the Master’s call when it came.
     The funeral services came off in the M. E. Church, at Oxford, Sunday, and 
fitting tributes were paid to his pure and spotless memory by Drs. Candler, 
Haygood, Hopkins, Callaway, and Professors Moore, Harris and Dowman. The 
services were opened with prayer by Rev. W. H. LaPrade.
     A friend, good and true, of Prof. Stone, has kindly furnished us with a 
brief tribute for publication, which we give below:
     REV. GEORGE W. W. STONE, D. D. died at his residence at Oxford, Friday 
afternoon, Aug. 30.
     Dr. Stone was graduated from Emory College in 1842, and engaged in the 
work of Christian Education at once. For short periods he taught at Cokesbury, 
S. C., and at Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Ga., but nearly all his life 
since his graduation has been devoted to his own ALMA MATER, whom he has aided 
to cherish and send forth thousands of honorable sons, each one of whom now 
living will feel that he has lost a true and earnest personal friend in the 
death of this good man.
     Dr. Stone was a man of unusual worth. A purer, more guileless man I have 
never known, nor one possessing more of that rare type of courage of which the 
best expression is consistency. He was a truly conservative man; not what the 
world calls conservative, by which term is meant either lack of clear cut 
convictions or want of courage to maintain them, but conservative in the sense 
that he saw just what was good for society and not suffering him to be led into 
excess of enthusiasm on the one hand, or to be frightened into inaction on the 
other, quietly and persistently labored for the good.
     Dr. Stone was a holy man. Whether he ever professed sanctification I do 
not know- or care to know. He lived it. He loved God, loved his fellow men, 
loved what was pure, and right, and good. He walked with God, and evidently 
enjoyed His companionship. He was earnest and continuous in his effort to 
induce others to do likewise, and how successful hundreds of his former pupils 
who were won to Jesus by the force of his godliness can testify.
     Newton county never lost a more valuable citizen than Dr. Stone. Such men 
are the “salt of the earth.” Learned without ostentation, brave without 
boasting, strong without noisy movement, pious without cant, a model father, an 
almost unequaled instructor, a wise counselor, he was indeed a man among men, 
such as we will do well to teach our children to honor. W. H. L.


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