Tattnall-Statewide-Unknown County GaArchives News.....Sergeant SOCRATES MOBLEY November 11, 1862
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Southern Recorder, Nov. 11, 1862 November 11, 1862
Sergeant SOCRATES MOBLEY, of the Tattnall Rangers, 61st Georgia Regiment, son 
of John Mobley, Sen., and P. L. Mobley, of Tattnall county, Ga., died in the 
hospital at Richmond, Va., August 15th, of typhoid fever, in the 19th year of 
his age.

He joined the M. E. Church at the age of eighteen, presenting a moat exemplary 
Christian life.  He was a dutiful son, a kind and attentive brother.  What 
happy ties are sundered; what brilliant anticipations for the future are 
forever blasted by death's resistless hand!  Vigorous youth and feeble age are 
alike subject to his cold embrace.  The warm heart that beats with sympathy 
and the cold breast that felt nut for another's woe, are alike laid silent in 
the dust.  Such are the reflections caused by the death of the subject of this 
notice.  What a sad memorial of life!  Cut down in the first blush of manhood, 
his short but honorable and useful career has been thus untimely ended.  There 
were few who possessed more of the general traits of character to endear them 
to all with whom they were associated than Socrates.  Keenly alive to every 
honorable instinct, he presented at once the trusting confidence of childhood, 
and the firmness and judgment of mature years; prompt and energetic in the 
discharge of all his duties, he commanded the admiration of his officers and 
the emulation of his comrades, who mourn his loss with deep and heartfelt 
sorrow.  He leaves aged parents, brothers, sisters and a Urge circle of 
friends to lament their irreparable loss; hut doubtless infinite and eternal 
gain is his in the abodes of the blessed- They have learned the sublime, the 
glorious truth, that the Lord God omnipotent reigneth, ever unerring in the 
administration if His kingdom that ruleth over all.

God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform,
He plants his footsteps in the deep, He rides upon the storm.

A BROTHER.                  James Island, Nov. 5th, 1862.

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