Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Noah M. Collens  November 1888
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net December 23, 2002, 12:22 am

The Griffin Daily News. Griffin, Georgia, Friday Morning, November 9, 1888

Funeral of Col. Collens

The funeral of Col. N.M. Collens, which took place
at ten o'clock yesterday morning at the residence of
Col. F.D. Dismuke, was very largely attended. The
services at the house consisted of a very beautiful
and touching prayer by Rev. M. McN. McKay and the
reading of the Episcopal burial service by Rev. C.
Dow. The Spalding Greys and the Red Men turned out,
and the impressive services of the latter
organization completed the ceremonies at the grave,
while the bar also attended in a body. As part of
the ceremony a pure white dove was liberated
from a flowery prison over the coffin just before it
was lowered, and flew upward over the trees,
typifying the flight of the soul from its clayey
cerements. Among the mass of floral decorations on
the coffin was an arch with the initials ‘O.Y.M.A.'
from a club of thirteen young men formed several
years ago, and of which Mr. Collens was a valued
member. Ten of the club were present,
the two absent ones being in Oregon and Texas.

The funeral is over; the soul has long since taken
its flight, and the form is beneath the sod; yet is
hard to realize the Collens is dead.

(Transcribed 12/22/02 Lynn Cunningham)

Note: At Oak Hill Cemetery, Spalding County,
Georgia: Collens, Noah M., Son of N. & A. Collens,
Age 27 years, 11 months, 11 days

Noah Collens died from Typhoid Fever.
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