Randolph County GA Archives Obituaries Alexander Culbreth Jr. 1820 - 1896 This file contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Velma Shaw Beale **************************************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay.htm Table of Contents page http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Georgia Table of Contents **************************************************************************************************** OBIT for Alexander Culbreth, Jr. b. 25 Mar 1820 in Sampson Co, NC; d. 4 Nov 1896 in Randolph Co., GA. Alex. Culbreth ___________ After several days of utter prostration following years of weakness and decline, this aged patriarch of Bethel fell asleep in Jesus on Wednesday of last week. Gently, as the balmy eventide succeeds the toilsome summer day, did death come to end the labors of a well spent life. Mr. Culbreth was born in North Carolina, from which state he was brought to Georgia when quite a child. As he was born in March of 1820, his life extended through more than seventy-six years. Most of this time was spent in this county, as when a young man, in 1813, he married Mary Ivey and settled on his paternal estate. One year before his marriage he united with the Baptist church at New Bethel and was soon made a deacon, which office he held for more than fifty years. Faithful to the meeting time he was and often came when his tottering footsteps showed to us all that only devotion to the Master's cause could have moved him from the fireside. Many tender expressions of love fell from the lips of his friend through boyhood and manhood, Rev. John Martin, who conducted the funeral rites. A number gathered to meet him at Bethel for the last time and to show by their presence their respect for the dead and to attest their sympathy in the sorrow of the aged widow and her seven children - all grown to womanhood and "man's estate." While in possesion of health death seems terrible, but something in the inner, holier part of man whispers: it is grand to rest a dying head on a pillow smoothed by the hands that were nailed to calvary's cross. Think of this, ye bereaved, and remember that while your hearts are sad, angels have rolled the stone of affliction away from him and the freed spirit, glad in the presence of the Lord, has entered into the joys of "just men made perfect." Velma Shaw Beale