Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jesse Croghan Banks August 11 1897
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The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, September 17, 1897

In Memoriam

On the morning of the 11th of August while the eastern sky was still tinted 
with the purple crimson and gold of a glorious sunrise, that grim Reaper, 
Death, invaded the home of Mrs. G.V. Banks and took from it the youngest child 
and only son, Jesse Croghan Banks.

Had he lived until the third of Oct., he would have been eleven years old. For 
many weeks he battled with typhoid malarial fever. Finally he took pneumonia, 
and all the kind and loving hands could do was done, but the hands of death 
could not be stayed.

The little one suffered intensely during his illness, but with him now “life’s 
fitful fever o’er, he sleeps well.”

We know that God in his infinite mercy doeth all things for the best, or he 
would have lingered yet awhile before calling the dear one home.

On the day following his falling asleep, he was laid to rest in the old family 
burying ground near Beeks. The newly made mound was covered with many beautiful 
floral offerings.

A home is left desolate; a mother, with an aching heart, grieves for an only 
son; three sisters mourn the untimely death of an only and well beloved 
brother. They listen for the coming of a well-known footstep and hear it not; a 
loved voice is stilled.

(Transcribed 07/29/03 Lynn Cunningham)

Additional Comments:
Jesse Croghan Banks is buried at the Coggins Family Cemetery. He was the son of 
John J. Banks (who died the year his son was born) and is buried next to him. 
Jesse’s mother was George Virginia Gregg. She was was the daughter of George 
Croghan Gregg and Fetnie Ann H. Coggin. George Croghan Gregg died in Virginia 
during the Civil War. John J. Banks and George Virginia Gregg married in Pike 
County in 1878 when she was about 16 years old. She was a widow with four 
children when about 24 years old. She is buried at Providence Baptist Church 
Cemetery, dying Dec. 19, 1928.

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