Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Meyers, Thomas B. March 19, 1894
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The Schley County News  Thursday, March 22, 1894
SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT WARNING Judge T.B. Myers fell dead
upon the street in front of Cheney & Co's Drug store
Monday evening at 7 o'clock.  For several days he
complained of not feeling well but no one apprehended
anything serious and his death was a terrible shock.
Dr. Cheney was one of the first to reach him and saw at
once that life was extinct though many hoped that it
was only a fainting spell and made every effort to
restore animation.  Mr. Myers was one of the most
popular men in the county and had he not been the
victim of drink might have been one of the most useful
men.  He was 55 years of age and had been many times
honored with public trust.  For seventeen years he was
sherriff and at one time represented this county in the
Legislature. He was at the time of his death serving
his second term as Ordinary. Uniformly kind and
courteous, he won the esteem of all.  To the orphan
nieces left to his charge, he acted the part of the
tender loving father. No one but God knows what a good
brother he was to me, sobbed the broken hearted
sister, at whose house he found home, and love and
encouragement. No word of reproach ever escaped his
lips, and no matter how far he wandered, her arms were
always about him.  Her devotion was beautiful.  No one
deplored his weakness more than did the unfortunate
man.  Only last week he wept bitterly as he reviewed
his life and realized that he had gone too far to ever
redeem his manhood.  But he was firm in his
determination to give up drink, and the effort cost him
his life.

It may be that the high resolve to break the chains
that bound him was but an answer to the ceaseless
prayers of those who loved him.  Let us hope that the
poor weak, erring soul, struggling in the grasp of a
power too strong for human aid, breathed a prayer to
heaven: "Other refuge have I none Hangs my helpless
soul on thee, Leave, oh leave me not alone." It needed
but this to bring the pitying savior, to lift him up to
be with Him in Paradise.  A very large concourse of
friends followed the remains to their last resting
place, and the church bells never tolled a sadder
funeral.  It was the grave of blighted hope, and love
and joy and promise of bright ambition drowned in the
wine cup.  His life and death is a sermon may it prove
a warning to those who have just started on the road to
ruin and a beacon light to show them the jagged rocks
in the awful abyss.

The tenderest sympathy is felt for the bereaved.
(Transcriber's note:  Thomas B. Myers served as a
private in Co. G, 5th Ga. Inf., The Schley Guards,
enlisting May 11, 1861 and surrendering at Greensboro,
N.C., April 25, 1865.)



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