Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thomas, W. F. December 1907
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The Enterprise, January 3, 1908
In Memoriam
     W. F. Thomas, died at his home in Covington last Thursday night at 7:30 
o’clock, after an illness of nearly four weeks.
     He was born December 5, 1882, and has just entered into his 25th year at 
the time of his death.
     He was married September 18, 1903, to Miss Pearl Venable, daughter of Rev. 
W. E. Venable, of Covington.
     He was connected with the Covington Enterprise, which he had edited since 
the death of Colonel J. P. Cooley, its former editor, who died a few months ago.
     He was a devoted husband; to his sisters a tender brother, to his friends 
the soul of fellowship. And as a man it is that those who knew him best most 
love to contemplate him. There was a daily beauty about his life which won 
every heart. In temperament he was mild, conciliatory and candid; and yet 
remarkable for an uncompromising firmness. He gained confidence when he seemed 
least to seek it.
     It is sad at any time to stand beside the bed of the dying, and watch 
life’s ebbing tide drifting the loved one slowly, perhaps, but surely into the 
great ocean of eternity, and when there comes whispering from parched 
lips; :All is well,” it brings balm to the wounded heart. This closed the life 
of this noble young man.
     The funeral services were held at his home on Friday morning, at 10 
o’clock, conducted by Rev. Dr. Dowman, of Covington, after which the remains 
were carried to Conyers, and interred there, by the side of his little son, 
Frank Blackwell, who died November 17, 1904.
     As we stood beside his grave when the sky was trimmed with her gorgeous 
rosy hue, in fancy we could see him, not in death’s cold shroud of sorrow and 
despair, but smiling upon us from the sunset halo that marks God’s farewell to 
the day, smiling with all this well remembered grace of his
manhood love and devotion.
     He is survived by his wife and little daughter, Margaret; a father and 
mother, five sisters, together with many friends, who mourn his departure.
“We saw not the curtain,
Nor heard the invisible door.
As they passed where life’s problems uncertain.
Will follow and vex them no more, We lingered and wept on the threshold-
The threshold each mortal must cross-
Then we laid a new wreath down upon it.
To mark a new sorrow and loss.”




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There are 3 other articles concerning the death of W. F. Thomas in the December
1907 editions of The Enterprise.

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