Putnam-Jasper-Jones County GaArchives Obituaries.....Henry Avant May 11 ??
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Eatonton Messenger (I thinnk) # 25

In Memoery of Mr. Henery Avant
Hillsboro. GA

On the 11th day of May Brother Henry Avant passed from his tabernacle of clay 
to receive the plaudits of them awating tha spiritual home in the beyond.
Uncle Henry, the endearing term we all so loved to call him by, in the mist of 
his last illness of several months, passed his 82nd birthday on the fourth of 
March in the year of our Lord, 1930.
Uncle Henry's childhood as well as youth and manhood through a long and useful 
life was spent in and near the community in which he was born. His friends were 
numbered by the legion as nearly perhaps as many man of his simple pretentions 
and modest retiring nature.
During or just after the civil war, he wooed and wedded Miss Susie Jones of the 
highly estemed family of that name in Hillsboro. Of this union there were five 
children, namely Mrs. J.S. Marsh, Macon, J.J Avant, Hillsboro, O.A. Avant, 
Hillsboro, Mrs. T.R. Hattawya, Hillsboro, and H.T. Avant, Hillsboro. Each of 
whom survive him to mourn his loss in that fitting way suggestive of the tender 
solicitude manifested by them in his old ---- as decrepitide and last illness, 
even to death. Joining with these in ministering to his suffering was a large 
number of grandchildren vying with each other in giving confort and pleasure to 
Grandpa. And who shall ---- the large number of kind and loving friends who 
joined so wholeheartedly with those loved ones in self sacrificing concern 
during his long illness.
A loyal husband, a devoted father, he was unswerving in his adherence to his 
church and faithful to his Lord to whom he gave his heart and life many years 
before his death, since when his consuming passion was to see his children and 
friends saved bythat grace which sweetened and made glad his own heart. While 
strength permitted, present at all services of his church, ready to join in 
songs of praise, his soul"s delight on bended knee to implore a throne of grace 
for the salvation of sinners.
We shall miss you Uncle Henry in church and home, your happy, kindly nature, 
your fatherly advice, those wonderful prayers, that fellowship which we enjoyed 
as your pastor for so many years. 
We carried him to old Union Hill Church where the funeral services were 
conducted by the Pastor and tenderly laid him to rest by the side of the mother 
of his children who preceded him there by several years, which her and all 
those who sleep in Christ to await the resurrection morn.
Wm. E. Long, Pastor

Additional Comments:
The article had been folded and the --- was words I was unable to read. I found 
this in some things of my mother who is 84 years old and related someway to the 
Avants. Her name is Louise Bradley Key. I believe it may have been printed in 
the Eatonton Messenger, the only thing on it other than the article is the #25 
at the top of the page. 

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