SCHLEY COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Mrs. Lou Sears

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This obit was taken from the Sears family history
compiled by Lynward Lightner in 1985.    The
obit originally appeared in the Ft. Valley newspaper
and was dated 23 Jan 1872 and was written by the
deceased's Baptist pastor Dr. B.L. Ross.  Louisianna
Lockhart Sears was first wife of Dr. William Joseph
Sears and mother to 4 of his 5 sons.

MRS. LOU SEARS, consort of Dr. W.J. Sears, and daughter
of David and Nancy Lockhart of Talbot County, Ga., died
of consumption, in Americus, Dec. 25th, 1871.

Said deceased was quickened into spiritual life when a
girl of but fifteen summers, joined the Horeb Baptist
Church, and was baptized by Rev. Henry Revel.  From her
baptismal vow unto the day of her death, she adorned
the Doctrines of God, her Saviour, by a well ordered
life and pious conversation, ever holding forth and
exhibiting most prominently the Christian
characteristics of grace devine.  She was for years,
more or less the child of affliction, in which was
developed the true inner life, exempllifying truly the
gospel, "how" these afflictions work for the Christian,
"a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."
Her pious life demonstrated her to be truly "a
cornerstone polished after the similtude of a palace." 
As a Chistian wife and mother, she was all that husband
and children could desire.  "Her children will call her
blessed;  her husband, also, he praiseth her."  Her
life as a child in all its details, will ever be
remembered fondly and gratefully by her pious parents. 
As a friend, she was true, never failing, always
dispensing the milk of genuine kindness to all.  As a
church member, her life was a continuous stream of good
works, a tree bearing precious fruits to the honor and
glory of God, and the perpetual comfort and delight of
the blood-ransomed brotherhood.  In the sacred
precincts of her family, also, her life was one
unbroken page of kindness and love;  her soul bathed
itself in the existance of husband and children, and
nothing but death and the bright future beyond, could
clip her underlying attachments from them.  In the
moribund state, she called her devoted and heart
strickened husband, together with her four sweet little
jeweled boys, and said to them, and each of them, "be
good and do good and meet me in heaven."  Having
finished thus, she meekly and quietly fell asleep in
Jesus.
 
Asleep in Jesus!  Blessed Sleep,
From which one never wakes to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes."
 
The four sons mentioned where:  William David Sears (8
Dec 1856-15 Mar 1945), Robert Joseph Sears (1859-
Oct.1953), Edward L. Sears (1862-10 Jul 1941), and John
Whitney Sears (1864-26 Oct 1927).