Talbot-Upson-Oglethorpe County GaArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Charles Lee Sr. And Martha T. Glenn Smith  Combined Memorial/Obituary December 4, 1877
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The Talbotton Standard, Oct. 1, 1878, p. 3, col. 2
Charles and Martha Smith.

"Our buried friends can we forget
Or must the grave eternal sever,
They linger in our memory yet
And in our hearts will live forever."

There is something in death so sad, and gloomy, so dreaded to human nature, it 
separates from so much that is near and dear on earth, from kindred and 
friends, from so many objects of affection and hope, that we hail with delight 
our heavenly Christianity which furnishes rational assurances of safe and 
blessed passport through death's iron gates. Countless millions have tested 
the religion of the Bible and have confirmed its sufficiency in life and 
exulted in its victories in death. In its light of life and immortality, 
"Even now by faith we join our hands
With those who went before
And greet the blood besprinkled bands
On the eternal shore."

The Venerable Charles Smith, [Sr.] who passed away from earth near twelve 
months ago, was the oldest man, save one, in Talbot county, at the time of his 
death. He was also a soldier of the war of 1812.

As a citizen honest, and trustworthy, as a friend sincere, and true, as a 
farmer industrious and successful, as a husband and father devoted and tender, 
his death is deeply felt in our community. He did not profess religion and 
unite with the church till late in life. The noble man whose Christian life 
ought to have begun in the morning, and shone like the sun through a long day, 
brighter and brighter unto the day of heaven, was postponed till the evening 
tide, and it was only like the evening that not appearing till the day was 
closing, beautiful indeed, but seen only for a little time. The last days of 
Charles Smith were the brightest and best, even tide it was light.

Mrs. Martha Smith, the sharer of his joys and sorrows for nearly 60 years, a 
member of the Methodist church 61 years, in the 77th year of her age, fell on 
sleep September 6th, 1878. She was converted in her girlhood; her experience 
was clear, steady, scriptural, heart and life transforming. An aged disciple, 
honored in the church, respected in the world. Her hoary head a crown of glory 
because she was found and steadily walked in the ways of righteousness. Rich 
in the experience of the ways of godliness, she threw a venerated shade over 
younger disciples, ever faithful found. How eloquent such a life! There says 
the world, is a true Christian, one whose goodness is not like the morning 
cloud and early dew that passeth away; the suns of many summers, the storms of 
many winters, adversity and prosperity have assailed her and she turns neither 
to the right hand nor to the left, we believe after all she has not followed a 
cunningly devised fable. For several years, too old to find her way to the 
house of God, she sat at home ministered to by her loving children the light 
of heaven kindles upon the dim eyes, and strikes through the gray locks folded 
on the wrinkled temples, peace fills her last days, calmness sweeter grows her 
spirit, until the gates lifted and let in the worn out pilgrim into the 
mansions of light, to be forever associated with the white robed immortals 
around the throne. 
"O for the death of those 
Who slumber in the Lord,
O, be like their's my last repose,
Thine my last reward."

- W. W. Stewart.


Additional Comments:
Charles Lee Smith, Sr. was born February 10, 1795 and died December 4, 1877.  
He was a son of Larkin Smith, Sr. who was a veteran of the American Revolution 
and is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Oglethorpe County, GA.

Martha T. Glenn Smith was born Dec. 31, 1801 and died Sept. 6, 1878.  She was 
the daughter of Simeon Glenn, Sr. and Elizabeth Murphey Smith of Elbert 
County, GA.  Charles L. and Martha T. Glenn Smith are buried in the Charles 
Lee Smith, Sr. family cemetery in Talbot County which is located within the 
Big Lazer Creek WMA (Wildlife Management Area) in Talbot County.


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