Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Strange, Barry Alexander  April 19, 1897
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The Schley County News  22 Apr 1897
A VERY SAD DEATH
After a Lingering Illness, Mr. B.A. Strange Passes Away at his Home in New 
Smyrna, Florida
 
A message was received in Ellaville Monday night bringing the sad intelligence 
of his death.  It caused great sorrow among all, as Mr. Strange was well known 
here and throughout the county.  He was about fifty-two years of age, having 
lived in this county all his life until about eight years ago, at which time 
he moved away, and engaged in the mercantile business in Florida and was very 
successful, until he like many others of his state, felt reverses caused by 
the severe cold winter of 1894, which blasted their great industry, but he 
like the man he was, gave up all to satisfy those who had trusted him.  He 
always met his friends, (and enemies, he had none) with a cheerful countenance 
and a pleasant greeting, which endeared him to all who came in contact with 
him.  He was enterprising and ready to aid in any undertaking which would 
uplift humanity in both temporal and spiritual things; being a member of the 
Methodist church, he showed his liberality by action.
 
He had many relatives in this county and was on the eve of making them a visit 
at the time he was taken sick, but instead of a happy reunion, it is this sad 
lifeless form; met with tears and grief.  Mr. Strange leaves five children, an 
aged mother, four brothers, a sister and a host of friends to mourn the loss.
 
The remains reached Ellaville yesterday morning, and after the funeral service 
conducted by Rev. G.P. Pournelle, was interred by the side of his once devoted 
wife and little son, where every one present felt a throb of deepest sympathy 
for the bereaved family.


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