TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - OBITS Watkins, Matilda Yelverton ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Taylor Tracer April 1997 Butler, Ga., October 1890, Vol. 12 No. 10 Matilda Watkins wife of Zachariah Watkins, daughter of Deacon Gideon and Nancy Yelverton, died at her home in Taylor county, Ga., April 5, 1890, after a severe case of heart dropsy. She was born in South Carolina, December 23,1811, and was in her seventy-ninth year. She was married to the husband that survives her February 14, 1833, living in wedlock fifty-seven years, and was the mother of thirteen children, seven of whom still survive her. She obtained a good hope through Grace of the pardon other sins in early youth, and was baptized into the fellowship of the Primitive Baptist church in South Carolina by Elder Asa BeB.All other living children (except one) ere present at her death, and I can truthfully say that I never saw a mother received more tender care and attention from her children that the deceased. Sister Watkins lay motionless for at least forty eight hours during which time her eldest daughter, living at a distance, had not arrived, but now she arrives, and in five minutes the brittle thread of life is clipped, and this made the occasion still more affecting, for so many of them had not been in their father's house at once in many years before. Three of her children have professed the same faith upon which she lived and died; and all of them are good, worthy and useful men and women. All are married, and this leaves the aged and heart-stricken husband and father, living lonely and alone with one little granddaughter, and she is an orphan. As a wife, mother, member of the church, or neighbor, in all my long acquaintance with her I have never heard ought said against her. What an inheritance. Bro. Watkins greatly desires to be remembered in the prayers of the saints. ELDER JOHN GREEN MURRAY