Paulding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ritch, Lizzie 1885
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The Paulding New Era, Dallas, Georgia, January 23, 1885
Some weeks ago there appeared in the local columns of the Douglasville Star a 
brief notice of the death of Miss Lizzie Ritch, daughter of Hon. H.C. and Mrs. 
Sallie Ritch, of Paulding county, Georgia. Her memory deserves a more extended 
notice. She was the only daughter of fond and devoted parent; they delighted 
to gratify her wishes and to see her happy. It might be truthfully said that 
to a great extent she was the presiding divinity of the household, and 
relieved a feeble mother of many of its burdens and anxieties. The father too 
often profited by her good judgment, for she seemed to have an intuitive 
perception of the more prudential course or the better plan to pursue. 

Her brief young life seems now like the memory of a pleasant dream. But loving 
hearts wake up to the sad realization that it is but a dream and the once 
loved form is cold and dead and moldering back to dust again. Her death 
produced a profound impression on a wife circle of relatives and friends. She 
was highly esteemed, and those that knew her loved her more. She was 
accomplished, loved books and the current literature of the day; was fond of 
music and the association of the more intelligent and refined. She had a taste 
for the beautiful and the adornments of home exhibit, her artistic skill; but 
now they are but the sad mementoes of her who was once its light, its music 
and song. 

She had been a member of the M.E. church South for several years and felt 
deeply interested in the Sabbath school and in the completion of the beautiful 
country church near Brownsville. To her untiring zeal the church is greatly 
indebted for their sacramental service. About two months before her death she 
was elected president of the Woman’s Missionary Society. The writer witnessed 
her maidenly reserve at the time, but she did not live to preside and the 
place death has made vacant must be filled by another. 

Her sickness was protracted; at one time the prospect was fair for her 
recovery, but a sudden relapse crushed the fond hopes of friends, and loving 
and prayerful sympathy and the skill of the physician were all unavailing, and 
death triumphed. Robed for the grave and placed in a beautiful casket, the 
remains were carried into the parlor. Her classmates of the Sabbath school 
sang a song, but her voice did not this time mingle with theirs. The organ was 
silent and the book was open at the hymn she played and sung the last time. A 
very large crowd was present at the burial. Tenderly she was laid away to her 
dreamless sleep to await the voice of the Resurrection Angel. 

How many sad memories sweep over my heart—visions of loved ones crowd about 
me. Shall I find again my lost jewels and those I so much loved in this wave 
of tears—a few fleeting years and then Heaven will repeat the story of our 
grief’s and joys. J.B.C. Quillian.


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