Pike County  Georgia Obituaries - Obedience Estelle Touchstone 1891
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The Pike County Journal
Zebulon, Ga., Friday, September 11, 1891

Obituary

Sad, indeed was the intelligence which revealed to us the fact our dear
young friend Miss Biddie Touchstone, was dead. Just as she was budding
into young womanhood the angels came and plucked the flower and conveyed
it to heaven that it might bloom forever in unfading beauty.

Strange to us, sometimes are the way of God. That one so young and full
of promise should thus be called to die, we do not always understand,
but God knows best and will one day make it plain. In the bloom of sweet
girlhood, with a bright intellect, crowned with woman's best earthly
jewel - modesty - "with garlands of purity" entwining her young
consecrated heart, she represented one of the earth's purest children.

When the end came, so conscious was she of a safe passage into the
better land, that death to her was gain. Her kind mother, with many
kindred and friends mourn her early death. But the deep joy she
expressed at the close of life made death sweet, and should be a source
of comfort to all her loved ones.

The city of God is being filled with just such treasures, the crown of
future rejoicing  is being decked with jewels like these. May loved
ones, by grace kiss the hand that has [been] afflicted , and remember
that while there is one less to gladden the home circle, there is an
angel more to gladden Heaven. - E.

Sept. 8th, 1891

(Transcribed 10/10/02 Lynn Cunningham)

Note:
Obedience "Biddy" Estelle Touchstone, b.  November 1876, d: 29 May 1891
in Pike County, Georgia. She is buried in the Touchstone Family
cemetery, Spalding County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Thomas B.
Touchstone.