Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thomason, Florence August 24 1887
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The Georgia Enterprise, October 28, 1887
IN MEMORIAM
  THOMASON- Florence Thomason, daughter of Oscar and Florence Thomason, was born
in Covington, Ga., Dec. 9th, 1871, and died in the same town, at the home of her
grandmother, Mrs. Fannie _____, August 24, 1887
  Florence was in no small sense the child of her native town for she had been
left an orphan when but a babe, comparatively, and her mother being well and 
widely connected left her babe a legacy to a willing people. So when it is 
announced that this child was dead though Covington was not yet recovered from 
the unprecedented afflictions of the present year she wept as if she were but 
bearing a first staggering blow.
  Besides this reason, (above recited), for our own interest and love there 
were many others attaching themselves inherently to the character of the subject
of this short memoir. To unusual graces of face and form and carriage she had 
in herself, the additional attractions of a tender, unselfish, devoted heart.
Possessed of all the comforts, advantages, and temptations that money gives; 
surrounded by all the allurements of high social position, and cared for by 
brother, grandmother, aunts and uncle, who put into that care, love unstinted 
and endeavor that never wearied to guard her from any want, she, yet remained
childlike, unassuming and unspoiled.
  This writer- like her pastor ___ ________  bears gladly the most _______ 
testimony to these parts of a beautiful character and to the brightness of a 
mind which was for her in the school room the one prominent place her heart had 
won among her schoolmates.
  Her sickness, which was protracted and excruciating, so far from wringing 
complaints from her was but an occassion for the beautiful illustration of 
christian fortitude and resignation. During its weary hours her only complaint 
was that it made trouble for those about her bed. "Poor grandma, poor Aunt Fan"-
this the burden and all the burden of her bed. Once God _______ for a great and
assuring blessing unto her. A little while thereafter with a face all shining, 
she called one by one the dear ones to her, and embraced and blessed them 
begging them to meet her in the skies. All her life long she had dreamed about 
her sainted mother; just before she died she said; "I know my mother now." To 
begin to recite the many beautiful and touching senses of her sick bed would be
like one trying to select from out a golden bowl of rarest stones one or two of 
greatest value, who paused so long over each that he could never make a choice. 
And so feeling grieved that she is no longer with us in the flesh, but certain 
that she waits for us over yonder we will treasure her precious memory, follow
her good example, remember all her promises to her, and bye and bye, meet her 
in a mansion of that city whose builder and maker is God.
  Oh how we pray that her weeping relatives and friends may be able to accept 
the sentiment of the song that loving, trembling voices sung around that body
her fair spirit left.
R. ?. BIGHAM
COVINGTON, GEORGIA Oct. 24, 1887

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