Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Finley Mahone Holmes January 17 1906
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The Talbotton New Era, July 12, 1906

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, July 12, 1906
Page 3

In Memory of Finley Mahone Holmes

Man’s disquiet and precarious hold on life and happiness is his sin-acquired 
legacy.  Light and shadow chase each other; clouds obscure the starlight, the 
wall of sorrow mingles with laughter, the pallor of disease succeeds the flush 
of health, youth shrinks into imbecility, and in the midst of life we are in 
death.  Man realizes that “There is nothing true but Heaven”, accepts his 
entailed lot and goes to his long home.  This tribute of love and appreciation 
is dedicated to the memory of Finley Mahone Holmes who died at his father’s 
residence in Talbot County, January 17, 1906.  His death was sudden, following 
a long season of sickness and suffering which he bore patiently and bravely.  
Such heroic endurance can come only of Christian resignation.

When a boy he united with the M.E. Church, believing himself too frail 
from “the infirmities of the flesh” to deserve heaven, he was grateful for the 
assurance of faith that a vicarious atonement had been made for him and 
accepted the reward which he claimed as the free personal gift from a merciful 
God.  He was modest and diffident, yet he believed firmly, acted unhesitatingly 
and gladly left the result with “Him who doeth all things well.”  The 
fundamental characteristics of his life were a love of truth and justice, a 
respect for law and order.  He deplored the appearance of insincerity and 
hypocrisy.  His life though quiet and retired was an open book of protest 
against the plea that circumstances alter cases, “that the difference between 
wrong and right is relative and not absolute.”  He was not self-assertive but 
his acts were the expressions of his convictions and sentiments.

He was generous in his charity, fidelity marked his friendship and a self-
sacrificing devotion and affection were the inspiration of his life in the 
realm of the home.  Those who knew him best loved him most.  In his death his 
loved ones sustain an irreparable loss, which we hope is his eternal gain.



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