Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wood, Miss Irene June 3, 1885
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The Covington Star, June 10, 1885
Death of Miss Irene Wood
     Died, in Covington, in her 19th year, on Wednesday evening, June 3, 1885, 
after a few weeks illness, borne with high maidenly fortitude. Miss Irene Wood, 
the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Wood, beloved by them greatly according 
to the measure of her loveliness, the light and delight of their household, her 
mother's sunny and congenial companion and joy and the pride of her father. To 
them, she was dear and precious beyond the power of expression. Over their 
willing hearts she presided, as of right, a fair young princess, receiving 
daily the homage of their deserved parental love, and giving back to them in 
rich return the service of her sweet offices. Never was there a more winsome 
daughter than she, and never had any a higher measure of true praise than the 
separate declarations of her father and mother to a friend the day before her 
death, that they had never cause to scold her, and that their wishes were the 
cheerfully accepted law of her life. How dear to them she must have been, and 
what a human heart will not go out to them now in lively sympathy, akin to the 
sure and all embracing sympathy of the divine Savior?
     Not perhaps, in the history of Covington, has there occurred here a death 
which so tenderly and distressfully touched and saddened the public heart as 
that of this lovely girl, "fashioned so slenderly, young and so fair." In 
character and manners so engaging, in person so comely, a beautiful vision in 
our midst, we had come to regard her as one of the cherished ornaments of our 
society, and to assert in her an affectionate proprietary interest. She was 
ours, also. Daily during her sickness did the whole town make eager and loving
inquiry of her condition, and yearn for her quick recovery. And when, at last,
"death fell on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower in all the 
field," there went a pang into every corner of the public heart, and a cloud of 
bereavement overspread us all. A sense of personal loss pervaded the whole 
community. But in the pain and gloom which, in this providence of God, has 
visited her fond family and all who loved her, there comes, with power to 
soften and dispel, the pleasing knowledge that she gave her heart to God, 
entreating her friends to do the same, and went through the valley and shadow 
of death leaning undismayed, trustfully and triumphantly upon the arm of Jesus
to her rightful and happy place among the angels. J. M. P.

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