Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sarah Dixon Leonard June 2 1906
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The Talbotton New Era, June 7, 1906

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, June 7, 1906
Page 3

Death of Mrs. John P. Leonard

After an illness of several months, Mrs. John P. Leonard died at her home five 
miles east of Talbotton on last Saturday morning.  Her condition had been 
critical for some time before she died and her family and relatives realized 
that the end could not be far distant.

Mrs. Leonard was a woman who was loved by all who knew her.  She was a noble 
Christian woman and carried her religion into the walks of every day life.  She 
was a member of Collinsworth church and her place there will be hard to fill.

The funeral services were conducted by Dr. J.B. McGehee of Helena, a long life 
friend of the family, at Collinsworth on Sunday morning at ten o’clock.  The 
church did not afford sufficient room for those who were present at the 
burial.  Dr. McGehee paid a touching tribute to the memory of Mrs. Leonard.  
The remains were gently laid away in the family burying ground near the church.

Mrs. Leonard is survived by her husband, Mr. John P. Leonard and three sons, 
Messrs. J.A., William and E.K. Leonard, who with numberless friends, mourn her 
death.


The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, September 27, 1906
Page 3

Obituary

Sarah Dixon Leonard, daughter of James T. and Mary E. Owen, of Talbot County, 
Ga., was born June 3rd, 1837.  In her 14th year while attending school in 
Culloden, Ga., she was happily converted under the ministry of Rev. Chas. E. 
Fulwood and joined the M.E. Church South.

In the days of her youth she remembered her Creator in recognition of His claim 
to her heart and life, and gave that young heart’s purest, best love, to His 
service.  Her whole life was given to God; hence her soul was never lacerated 
with painful memories.  An assuring heart and an affectionate disposition, a 
tender sympathy and an unusual personal magnetism, drew to her a host of 
friends.  There was also an atmosphere about her, the out breaking of her pure 
soul, that expressed the hidden and heavenly life within.

On Dec. 3rd, 1857, she was married to John P. Leonard.  This happy union was 
blessed with one daughter and four sons.  As a wife and mother she was 
affectionate and self-sacrificing; as a friend and neighbor her heart was open, 
and her hands were ready in all deeds of kindness and sympathy.  In her the 
Christian graces shown brightly.  Loved and respected by all, a friend to the 
needy, generous in her hospitality, an excellent neighbor, a faithful, good 
woman.  She suffered much in this life but bore it all with remarkable 
Christian fortitude until on June 2nd, 1906, the Master said: “It is enough, 
come up higher.”  She has left a devoted husband and three sons and a host of 
relatives and friends to mourn her loss.

Her happy presence will be missed in that home, and there will be many weary 
longings for her gentle ministrations, but we would not call her from the 
sunlight heights of the hills of God to work again in the mingled sunshine and 
shadows of earth.  Her work is finished, her mission is fulfilled, and she is 
safe at home in her Father’s house.

W.C. Glenn




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