Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thomas Jefferson Barrett March 24 1900
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The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, March 30, 1900

Death of Hon T.J. Barrett

Hon. Thomas Jefferson Barrett was born Feb. 28, 1831 and died in great peace at 
his home in Pike County, Ga., March 24th, 1900.

Bro. Barrett professed religion at a camp meting near Fincher’s church in 1848 
anf united with the family church at that place, and for more than a half 
century his name has been on the official roll of that church. In every office 
and in every place he was efficient and faithful. He was greatly beloved for 
his excellencies of head, heart and life. Having had all the advantages to be 
inherited from fine parentage and his environment conducive to the formation of 
that splendid character that crowned his life and made it beautiful. He was 
thus prepared for a noble work and for a sphere of great usefulness.

In 1851 he was happily married to Miss Manerva Slade, a noble Christian woman, 
well worthy of him. Together they built up a happy home pervaded by an 
atmosphere of courtesy and kindness which reached and influenced everyone who 
came within its hospitable walls. Here in his home and in the various social 
relations of life, his character shone with highest luster, and his frank 
affectionate nature was best exemplified.

Bro. Barrett was progressive and sought to aid his county and community in 
every possible way, morally and financially. He served his county faithfully as 
Representative, and as Chairman of the “Board of County Commissioners” and made 
an enviable record. His heroic work for the Prohibition cause will abide 
forever. He was liberal beyond his means. He was genial and cordial and loved 
to put sunshine in the lives of others. He never purposely put a shadow on the 
brow of anyone or gave pain to any human heart. He never yielded a conviction 
on but possessed the happy faculty of maintaining his opinion without being 
offensive to others. He did not turn the world upside down but steadily strove 
to raise it to a higher cause.

His second marriage was also a very happy one, with Miss Emma Taylor, an 
estimable Christian lady. The devotion of the wife to her husband and home was 
beautiful beyond words. The desire to save those comforts so sweet to ripening 
age inspired her devotion and filled her life with loving service. May the 
widow’s Friend and the orphan’s God, care for her and her six children. For 
several years he was in failing health, the real nature of his malady being 
difficult to ascertain. He was stricken with something like paralysis from 
which he never recovered, but gradually grew worse - until Saturday morning 
[when] he quietly passed away. Before his mind as so seriously involved, he 
seemed anxious to go and be with the Lord. A lucid moment came just before he 
died and he spoke of seeing his mother and his wife who years ago passed beyond 
the everlasting hills. The end was peace. "Death had no sting, the grave no 
Victory." He had only "to wrap the drapery of his couch about him and lie down 
to pleasant dreams," to be awakened by dear ones waiting for his coming amid 
the loving splendor of the eternal City. - G.W. Park

(Transcribed 09/21/03 Lynn Cunningham)

Additional Comments:
At Fincher Methodist Church Cemetery, Pike County, Georgia:
Thomas J. Barrett, b. 27 Feb. 1831, d. 24 Mar 1900

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