Pike County  Georgia Obituaries - Lizzie Allen Jackson 1895
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The Pike County Journal.
Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, June 14, 1895

Death

On the evening of the 16th of May, as the sun's last rays were fading,
fading, to shine no more and the still watcher of night came stealing
on, the cold messenger of death visited the home of W.T. Driver, and
bore away on its dark wings his loving wife Lizzie. Yes, Lizzie is dead.
Today her form quietly sleeps with the cold and lifeless clay. Ere long
it will burst the tomb, shake off the cold, icy fingers of death, and
with the dead in Christ arise in wondrous beauty and loveliness. She
leaves a sorrowing husband, one sweet little girl, a loving mother and
three fond brothers, together with a host of friends to mourn her death.

How sad, how awfully solemn the words, "wife, mother is dead?"

Kind friends come with comforting words. They tell us to forget. Forget?
Ah! That can never be. Forgetfulness is not with life, but with the
silent dead. But let us not grieve for her and say, thanks be to God our
loss is her eternal gain. Husband weep not for your wife, we know that
she has gone from you. We know that you will never more see her in this
world, but cheer yourself with that sweet thought, no, dear brother,
Lizzie can never come back to walk the path of life with you, but if you
will live a devoted, consistent Christian life, you will by and by cross
over the Jordan and forever be with Lizzie, in the presence of Jesus our
Savior, where there is no more parting with wife, father, mother and
children, but there to abide with angels ever more on that bright and
shining shore. - Mamie

A precious saint her work has done,
And laid her armor by;
A glorious victory she has won,
A home beyond the sky.

(Transcribed 11/05/02 Lynn Cunningham)

Note:
At Concord Baptist Church, Pike County, Georgia:
Mary Elizabeth, Wife of W.T. Driver, b. 25 July 1866, d. 16 May 1895.
Lizzie Pauline, Daughter of W.T. and M.E. Driver, b. 14 April 1895, d. 1
July 1895