Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Claude Hall May 27 1903
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The Talbotton New Era, June 4, 1903

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, June 4, 1903
Page 2

In Memoriam

“We shall not know here but we shall know hereafter”.  This we feel when we 
think of the bright young life so suddenly ended a few days ago, when Claude 
Hall solved the great mystery of death.

In the very bloom and vigor of young manhood, the very picture of health and 
strength, he lay one short week on a bed of pain and then fell asleep, let us 
hope, in Jesus.  That he was much loved, the large crowd of sorrowful relatives 
and sad faced friends present at his burial can testify.  He was the third son 
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hall, and leaves besides his parents, three sisters and a 
number of brothers to miss him in their shadowed home.  During his brief 
illness, while strength remained he tried at intervals to sing the sweet old 
song, “How firm a foundation,” and we can but trust that as his feet came out 
from the chilly waters they rested on a foundation firm and sure in that land 
beyond the sunsets gleaming gold.

The pall bearers who tenderly bore his flower strewn casket into Mathews Chapel 
were all his first cousins, all young men who had known and loved him through 
boyhood and early manhood; and their sad faces told how deeply they felt the 
blow, that had bereft them of the companion of many happy hours in the past.

The quantity of beautiful flowers, friendship’s loving offering, was unusually 
large.  Rev. Mr. Parker conducted the funeral services and his remarks were 
true and heartfelt.  To add to the sadness of the occasion the bereaved mother 
was too ill to be present either at the death, or burial of her son; not 
knowing that her boy had “passed over the river and was resting under the shade 
of the trees.”

We ask ourselves, whey the feeble and aged are left while the young and 
vigorous are taken, and the answer comes, God knows best, and “He doeth all 
things well.”

Let us hope that God may comfort; and Time, the great healer, may bring 
surcease of sorrow to the bereaved family from whose midst this bright strong 
son and brother has passed to –

“Rest till the day shall break, And the shadows flee away.”

Mae McMillan



Additional Comments:
Claude Hall's date of death was derived from his mother's (Mrs. Thomas Hall)
obituary.


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