Paulding County GaArchives Obituaries.....McLarty, George W. January 15, 1885
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The Paulding New Era, Dallas, Georgia, January 16, 1885
George W. McLarty was born in Mecklenburg county, N.C., the 30th day of August 
1804, and died in Dallas, Paulding county, Ga., January 15th, 1885, at 4 
o’clock a.m. aged eighty years, four months and sixteen days. He came to 
Georgia in the year 1832, and settled four miles West of what was then Skin 
Chestnut, but now Douglasville. He lived at the place for forty-one years, 
moving from there to Dallas, where he lived till his death. 

On the 24th of January, 1833, he married Miss Charity Bates, of Gwinnett 
county, with whom he lived happily for fifty years, surviving her only about 
two years. This union was blessed with eleven children—six sons and five 
daughters—six of whom—five sons and one daughter, together with his faithful 
companion—preceded him across the dark river. 

When about twenty one years of age he joined the Presbyterian church, and 
lived a consistent Christian life to the day of his death, having been a 
church member for sixty years. There being no Presbyterian church in the 
vicinity of the place where he settled after coming to Georgia, and his wife 
being a Methodist, he united himself with the M.E. church South, and ever 
afterwards was a member of that church. 

He had been a member of the Masonic lodge for about forty years having joined 
the lodge at old Villa Rica when that lodge was first organized. In all the 
relations of life he was a noble man, and one whose example could be followed 
with profit by the rising generation. 

His last illness was of five weeks and five days’ duration. To the last he 
retained the possession of all his faculties and realized that the end was 
near and calmly awaited the final summons, expressing by word and manner his 
faith in receiving the reward vouchsafed to those who had faith over the few 
things of earth. During his last hours he was surrounded by his children, and 
he expressed his gratitude at being permitted to die in the midst of his 
children. He will be buried at the old family burying ground, at Old Villa 
Rica, today with Masonic honors. 


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