Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lawhorn, Dorris August 28, 1911
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The Schley County News  Friday, August 4, 1911
CONCORD HAPPENINGS
On Friday morning at five o'clock the angel of death claimed little Dorris
Lawhorn, seven months old daughter of Mr. F.D. Lawhorn.

The Schley County News  Friday, August 25, 1911

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE
On the 28th day of May 1911, the death angel visited our home and claimed our 
dear sister Mrs. F.D. Lawhorn.  After eight days of severe suffering, she 
passed from the kind embraces of husband, brothers, sisters, and dear little 
children, into, we trust, the loving arms of our Heavenly Father.  It is sad 
indeed to know that she is gone.

One of my greatest pleasures was to have her visit us.  She was always so 
cheerful, looking always on the bright side of everything.  On Sunday morning 
before death came about four o'clock in the afternoon, she told us not to 
bring her any more medicine.  We had done all we could do, had gone as far as 
we could go, just to give me the lines "I am ready to go."  Oh! what a sweet 
consolation to hear from her own dear lips, "I am ready to go."  But oh! how 
rebellious I find myself against His Holy will in taking her from us.  She 
leaves a heart-broken husband, four small children, four brothers, and three 
sisters, to mourn their loss, together with a host of friends.

And now by way of consolation for our dear brother, I will say no man ever had 
a more loving and devoted wife, and no woman a kinder and more faithful 
husband, and remember that this, the darkest cloud that has ever over-shadowed 
your life has a silvery lining, and ere long we hope to be reunited in that 
beautiful land of our Redeemer.

By her sister,
Mrs. J.R. Murray (This is a misprint, it should be Mrs. D.R. Murray)


Since the above was written we have been bowed in the deepest of sorrow at the 
going away of our dear little niece.  The sweet little babe was born Dec. 
18th, and died July 28th.  Only two months to the day was little Dorris 
permitted to gladden our hearts with her sweet presence after her mother's 
death.  

We all loved her so much, because she was so quiet and patient, and had such a 
soft expression in her little eyes.  Oh! she was so dear to us; and though we 
begged to keep her, and did all we could to frighten death from her little 
cradle, yet at last we had to let fall our powerless hands.

But when the last moments came and her little body rested in such quiet and 
perfect ease, that those who stood by hardly knew when her little spirit left 
this world of sin, and passed through the pretty gates of Heaven, leaving a 
sweet smile of perfect peace and rest upon her face.  Now we know that little 
Dorris is with Jesus and we who loved her so dearly should be reconciled and 
say, "Thou God doeth all things well."

Mrs. D.R. Murray




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