Talbot County GaArchives News.....Tribute to Leonard P. Freeman 12-21-1911 December 21, 1911
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The Talbotton New Era December 21, 1911
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, December 21, 1911
Page Two

A Tribute to Heroism

(By Lynda Lee Bryan)

L.P. Freeman

As the days go swiftly by and the season of Christmas is at hand, there comes 
to us the sorrowful reminder that the hearthstones of some of our friends will 
be darkened by the shadow of desolation that in some hearts there is 
the “sigh” for the touch of a vanished hand, the sound of a voice that is 
still”.

Memory carries me back to the years that are passed, and calls to light the 
scenes of other days.

From earliest recollection Mr. Leonard Freeman was my neighbor.  From a child 
I considered his judgement of men and measures as superior.  He was always 
industrious, always carrying more than his portion of every burden.  He was 
upright and true, while looking “carefully after the ways of his own”.  Yet, 
he had time to minister to the needs of others.  Mr. Freeman had a faculty for 
making friends, and reason he loved people and loved to be with them.  He 
loved the sanctuary and the chimes of the church-going bell always summoned 
him to the “house of God’s abode.”

Disease marked him for its own, and for years he suffered beyond the knowledge 
of mortal men, but it was

A spartan spirit that made life so grand, Mating poor daily needs with high 
heroic deeds, That wrested interest from Fate’s hard hand.”

At last rest came, the rest, no doubt for which his weary pain racked form had 
yearned so long, and he answered: “Master, Here am I.”

His courage, his cheerfulness, his indomitable energy, his life of honest 
usefulness, devoted to making manhood happier and better, his Christian 
fortitude are a blessed heritage.  Such a life lived in such a way, leaving 
such a memory is infinitely greater than the diadem of the Caesars.


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