Washington County GaArchives Obituaries.....Samuel Jordan Smith May 25 1881
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May 1881

Death of Samuel Jordan Smith

On Thursday last at his home, surrounded by his family and loving friends S. 
J. Smith breathed his last, in fifty-third year of his age, he was one of our 
most prominent citizens, a member of the Baptist church, a leading merchant 
and a large planter, his life was a busy one, success had crowned his labors, 
and full of honors he has retired to his last resting place, he will be sadly 
missed, not only at home around the old hearth stone by the wife of his youth, 
who climbed with him the hill of life, by his children both sons and daughters 
whom he loved with a father's love, but all over our county he will be sadly 
missed; upright, truthful, honest and industrious he had made for himself a 
name and a reputation of which his friends may well feel proud, he was born 
and reared in our county, was public spirited and liberal, ever foremost in 
every undertaking that was calculated to elevate the standing of our people 
and improve their condition, but he was gone from among us and the scenes 
which once knew him well will know him no more forever.  May he rest in 
peace.  He was buried on Friday evening, an immense crowd following his 
remains, services were had in the Baptist church, Rev. Thomas M. Harris 
officiating in a most eloquent and acceptable manner, after which the funeral 
cortege moved to the cemetary where the body was placed at rest, there to 
remain until the resurrection morn "when the angel shall declare the mystery 
o'er, that time had been, but time shall be no more."

Additional Comments:
Obituary found in the scrapbook of Sarah Alice Evans Booz.  May 1881 was 
handwritten at the end of the obituary.

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