Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Vincent Montgomery May 24 1903
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The Talbotton New Era, July 2, 1903

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, July 2, 1903
Page 6

In Memory of Vincent Montgomery

Truly Death is no respecter of persons; for he knocks at the palace and the 
cottage alike and, with his unsparing hand, he robs the home of its sunshine 
and steals its most precious flowers, so dear to our hearts.  Yes, we all have 
to lay down our cares to answer to the summons of death, and at the feet of 
this monster the noble and the ignoble, the high and the low, the learned and 
the unlearned, the good and the bad, all meet in humble submission.  All alike 
have to pass this stage of action and pass on to eternity.  Alike and yet very 
unlike; for when the noble and good come to die they can look back to many a 
kind deed by which someone was blessed; to many a sleepless night administering 
to the sick and comforting the brokenhearted and best of all, by their own 
Godly lives, to those changed from sin and death to the light of salvation and 
eternal life.  They can also look ahead and see Heaven awaiting them with joys 
unspeakable and that fadeth not away.

Such was surely true with brother Vincent Montgomery, who was born Sept. 20th 
1836 and departed this life May 24th, 1903, being 67 years, four months and 
four days old.

My heart was made sad and it seemed that a cloud had come over me when I 
learned of his death.  It has been my pleasure to know him for a quarter of a 
century, living near him most of the time.  He moved into the community where 
he died, years ago.  In those days the country was very thinly inhabited, by 
people many of whom spent even the Sabbath in no reverence to God.  But by the 
life of this brother much of the sin and vice of that day was dispelled and the 
name of the Lord was magnified, for he never tired of teaching and leading the 
people.  When I knew him first he was superintendent of a Sunday School where 
he labored Sabbath after Sabbath to teach the Word of God, that it might become 
the power of salvation to many girls and boys over whom he so tenderly 
watched.  His labors and prayers did not meet with failure; for many of these 
have grown to manhood and womanhood, united with the church and are living for 
God and His glory.

He also taught a literary school.  It was with him that my first school days 
were spent.  I have found him, from then until the last, ready to serve in any 
capacity, those whom he could.  He represented his county one term in the 
legislature and held other offices of honor.  He was a bright and shining light 
in the Methodist church.  He was one of the very few men about whom I never 
heard one harmful word, and if anyone had been so void of truth as to have 
spoken unkindly of him no one would have believed it.  It we all were like him 
we would have occasion to sing: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace 
good will toward men”.

Among the many good deeds of his life those to my father and his family appeal 
to me the greatest, especially at the death of my parents and brothers, where 
his noble Christ-like spirit was so well manifested; for it seemed that he 
could not do enough for our comfort.  He, unconsciously but very fully carried 
out the Scripture injunction: “Let your light so shine before men that they may 
see your good words and glorify our Father which is in Heaven.”

As a Christian husband and father he was equaled by few and surpassed by none.  
When affliction and death came into his home he always met them with Christian 
submission, knowing that God doeth all things well.  His children can, with 
unusual pride, rise up and call him blessed.

He leaves a wife, two sons and one daughter, besides a number of relations and 
a great host of friends to mourn his loss.  We commend the grief-stricken ones 
for comfort and consolation to the Father who watched over him all the journey 
of his life, and who has now lifted him up out of this sin-cursed world to be 
with Him and his Christ.

Brother Montgomery had no occasion to dread death, for “The rod and the staff” 
of the Father were surely with him to comfort him.

E.T. Moore


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