Rockdale County GaArchives Obituaries.....STANSELL, Mr. T. A. F.  May 1892
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Hales Weekly, May 14, 1892
A TRIBUTE
     It is a privilege and a sad pleasure to place the following tribute to the 
memory of a departed friend, Mr. T. A. F. STANSELL, whose recent death robbed 
our community of an honest and respected citizen and a true and upright 
Christian man.
     The death of a man so prominent and useful to his town and county is 
indeed an irreparable loss, and is received with manifest sorrow and regret by 
al his fellow-citizens. His gentle manner and his unobtrusive life, his 
devotion to duty and principle, his unfaltering belief in the religion of 
Christ, led all at once to have a warm feeling of love and friendship for him.
     There was something about him which impressed all who came in contact with 
him, that here was a man of conviction and force, a man of resolve and 
earnestness, a man of lofty conception of duty, and courage to essay its 
performance, a man who could not be swayed or severed from the line of right 
action.
     In a quiet unassuming way, peculiar to himself, he accomplished much good 
for his people, by the gentle, though powerful influence, of a right life.
     He was a man of high sense of honor, a gentleman in the truest sense of 
the word. He was courteous to all, and never, even in the hour of his death, 
did he forget to extend to those who attended at his bedside the respect and 
consideration which in his health was his custom to give.
     Frank and outspoken, free from concealment or deception of any kind, he 
never for a moment left anyone in doubt as to his position on any question.
     “His life was gentle and the elements So mixed to him, that nature might 
stand up
And say to all the world “This was a man.”
     “True greatness consists in doing one’s duty. In whatever station of life 
that duty might be, he who performs it well has done all that man or God 
requires.” Measured by his standard our departed friend was truly great, for no 
man more earnestly sought to know his duty or more faithfully performed it than 
he.
     Without pretention, he was industrious and earnest; firm, without 
obstinacy, scrupulously honest and conscientious about all things, without self-
righteousness ness; faithful to his friends and true to his convictions.
     He was a devoted member of the Christian Church, ever active and zealous 
in the performance of all his Christian duties. He was a gentle, loving and 
indulgent father and husband, and was never so contented and happy as when 
providing for the comfort and pleasure of his family.
     A good man has gone to his rest and the world is poorer for his loss, 
though richer and better because he once lived.  To those who knew him no words 
can add anything to the great incense that envelops his memory, or decrease the 
respect which his life and character won from all.
     To his bereaved wife and daughters the hearts of all our people go out in 
them ______ _______ ______.
A FRIEND.   May 5th, 1892


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