Pike-Lamar County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sarah Ellen Leak Holsey September 11 1919
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Barnesville Gazette, Thursday, September 18, 1919
Mrs. J.W. Holsey Dead

Last Thursday, September the 11th, the spirit of Mrs. J.W. Holsey passed 
to 'that shore from whence no traveler ever returns.'  Mrs. Sarah Ellen Holsey 
was born February 6th 1845, in Pike county (now Spalding county), Georgia, and 
was a resident of Pike county all her life.  She joined the Methodist church 
when a child.  She married Mr. J. W. Holsey November 22nd, 1866.  Mrs. Holsey 
was the mother of five children, three of whom are living.  She is survived by 
her husband, Mr. J.W. Holsey, Zebulon, Ga., Mrs. A. F. Waller, Dawson, Ga., 
Mrs. J.M. Means, Zebulon, GA., Mrs. O.C. Bell, Athens, Ga., and nineteen 
grandchildren.
The funeral sermon was preached by her pastor, Rev. Tatum, of The Rock, Ga., 
assisted by Rev. R. W. Rogers and Rev. Arthur ?.  The body was laid to rest in 
the cemetery of Ebenezer church, of which church Mrs. Holsey had been a member 
for sixty years.
Mrs. Holsey had been almost an invalid for three years when death came to 
relieve her of her suffering.

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