Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Travis, Dr. A. C. W.  April 3, 1890
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The Georgia Enterprise, April 10, 1890
DEATH OF DOCTOR TRAVIS
     Died in Covington on the morning of April 3rd, Dr. A. C. W. TRAVIS, in the 
55th year of his age. He had been in feeble health and a great sufferer for 
years, but his death was sudden and unexpected. Death did not find him 
unprepared. He made preparation for it in the days of his youth and just before 
his death he earnestly asked his heavenly Father to take him out of his 
sufferings. He was converted somewhere in the “Teens” and joined the Baptist 
Church at Sharon, in Henry County. The vigor of his manhood and strength of 
maturer years was spent in the service of the Savior who redeemed him and in 
going about doing good. He was a devoted husband and father, making the 
happiness of his wife and children the great end of his life, under his 
obligations to his Savior. The writer is informed that he was highly successful 
in the practice of his profession and particularly in the specialty to which he 
devoted the last years of his life, to wit: the cure of that dread of mortals, 
Cancer. There are many all over this land who will remember him gratefully in 
this department of his work. He was a man of deep sympathy, strong attachment 
and tender heart. Some instances manifesting those traits in a high degree 
could now be mentioned. He was truly charitable, ministering to the wants of 
the poor and fatherless and showing favors to that degraded and despised class, 
tramps, when no one else would. The testimony to his usefulness, by the people 
of Conyers, where he lived for twenty years, in general. He leaves a wife and 
three children. Two of the children are just entering late manhood, one 
occupying a prominent position as an educator in one of our chief cities, 
another will graduate at Emory College this summer, while the youngest remains 
at home with his good mother. The writer’s acquaintances with him was brief, 
but from it’s beginning was sweet, because he manifested love for and likeness 
to Jesus. He loved the prayer meeting and bore testimony of his devotion to the 
Savior, with full heart, trembling voice and weeping eyes. “And I heard a voice 
from heaven, saying unto me, write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord 
from henceforth. Yes, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors. 
and their good works do follow them.”
T. J. SWANSON


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