Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hugh G. Johnson  July 28 1888
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The Griffin Daily News. Griffin, Georgia, Wednesday Morning, August 1, 1888

In Memory of Hugh G. Johnson

Editor News: - Hugh G. Johnson, the subject of this sketch was one of Pike 
County's most honored men. He was born in the year 1794 and died July 28, 1888 
at the age of 94 years. He was one of the organizers of the county and built the

first dwelling house, hotel and courthouse in Zebulon. He was ordinary of the 
county for 20 years, county clerk three years and afterwards Judge of the 
Inferior Court for many years, filling every position with honor to himself. He 
also engaged in merchandising and for quite a while a public inn keeper. He was 
honest to a fault and would sacrifice his interest rather than seek legal 
redress and was never known to sue anyone. I have known him for 64 years and no 
complaint could be offered against him either in public or private life. He has 
passed through the fiery ordeal of life and over the raging billows of the rough

seas without a tinge or stain on his character, in which he has left his 
children and grandchildren and grandchildren a heritage richer than all the gold

of Opher - a character which has shone 94 years on earth with the brilliancy of 
a noonday sun and is now and will shine in a youthful, happy felicity which is 
beyond his grave.

I know of no other clause in the Bible which is more appropriate to his life 
than is found in the 37th Psalm and the 37th verse, "Mark the perfect man and 
behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace."

Rev. Dr. Bradley preached his funeral Sunday evening last at 5 o'clock in the 
Methodist church, from the text, "As in Adam all die so in Christ shall be made 
alive."

He showed very beautifully how all were made alive in the death of Christ; that 
the death of this mortal body was only the gate to endless life. That the mortal

body could not spring into a new life of existence except it die, like as a 
grain of wheat when sown after its germ, it dies and in its death it springs up 
into a new existence in application of the subject to the life of the Old Father

in Israel, that in his death the terrestrial body had put on a celestial body; 
that he was assured that he was now as safe in heaven as though he had died as 
an infant. Christ did not conquer death. He abolished it. There is no death for 
the Christian; his body falls into decay but he does not die - "he shall never 
die" is the declaration of the Son of God.

Let this take all the sadness from our hearts, and may children and 
grandchildren imitate his example, and in so far as I have seen of them they are

chips of the same old mortal. I am proud to say that he raised as grand a family

of boys and girls for mortals or business transactions, as belong to Ga., a set 
of finished gentlemen and ladies in any rank of society whereever thrown.

Mr. Editor, I write this for the parential [sp] love I had for him, for he felt 
like a father and his children my nearest kin.

Resp't.,
Robert H. Allen

(Transcribed 12/31/02 Lynn Cunningham)
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