Randolph County GaArchives Obituaries.....Moore, Milton Monroe October 17, 1871
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Cuthbert Appeal, October 20, 1871
Again we are called upon to chronicle the death of a friend, an eminent 
christian and citizen, Milton Monroe Moore, aged 49 years, 4 months and 24 days.  
He died at his residence near Coleman's Depot, a few minutes before 3 o'clock, 
A.M., in the 13th (?), after a painful and protracted illness.

"A brother has gone hence," Inspired by saving faith, courageous confidence, and 
with a sweet sense of pardoned sin, and with a hope so full of immortality, that 
(a few (?) before he closed his eyes in death) he ex(?) exclaimed, "Oh, yes, I'm 
ready and willing to die; I see my way clear."--
Although his death had been considered but a question of time for several days, 
it caused a shock; and a feeling of gloom seemed to pervade the entire 
community.  He leaves a wife and nine children to mourn his loss.
     Mr Moore lived in this community for many years, and was pre-eminently an 
example of the successful farmer, and perhaps no man in the vicinity possessed 
more energy or (?) qualifications.  He was a member of the Mt. Hebron M.B. 
Church, an active honest earnest citizen, and universally mourned by all who 
knew him.
     By this sad disposition the family has lost an an affectionate husband and 
kind father, his church, to which he was so warmly attached, an ornament, his 
acquaintances a dear friend, and the community one of our most useful, (?)and 
(?) citizens.  By his generous disposition, his frank deportment, manly bearing 
and Christian example, he had endeared himself to all with whom he mingles in 
friendly and social intercourse.  We will ever cherish his memory as a golden 
treasure in the true friend, a wise counsellor, and one ever devoted to the best 
interest of the community to which he lived.
     While we would not intrude upon the  (?) of his mourning family, we cannot 
refrain from offering them our unfeigned heartfelt sympathy, and sharing with 
them the bitter cup, with the assurance, that it is held out to us by "Him who 
doeth all things well."  Let us bow with humble resignation and (?) in this sad 
and afflictive decree of Providence.  And oh! when we, his relatives and 
friends, are summoned to join the (?) caravan that moves to that mysterious 
realm, where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death, may we be 
sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, and like our departed friend, see 
our "way clear" and approach our grave "like one who draws the drapery of his 
(?) about him and lies down to pleasant dreams. A. J. P. ...Coleman's Station, 
October 17th, 1871

CUTHBERT APPEAL, 20 October 1871

Additional Comments:
I received a 1995 newspaper copy from Karan Ann Berryman, M.S.L.S, Genealogy & 
Local History Research, Pitts Library, Andrew College, Cuthbert, Georgia 31740.
The name of the newspaper, date and page number were not visible but she added a 
note about the poor copier.  I transcribed it the best I could and was quite 
disappointed that the obituary did not contain any survivor's names.    

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