Wilkes County GaArchives Obituaries.....Verdel, John Anthony April 8, 1879
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Augusta Chronicle 19 Apr 1879
I don't know who the deceased is but this was such a lovely memorial that I
thought it should be shared.

Augusta Chronicle, 19 Apr 1879

A GOOD MAN GONE.

Death of An Old Citizen of Wilkes - A Descendant of the Conquerors of Yorktown.

Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:

My father, John Anthony Verdel, was such a warm admirer of your paper, and
almost a life long subscriber (over three score years uninterruptedly) for it,
that I would like for his obituary to appear in its columns.

He passed away quietly on the morning of April the 8th, 1879, after an illness
of a few days. He was the only son of Antoine Verdel, of the Province of
Languedoc, came to this country as a soldier under LaFayette, and was present at
the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis. John A. Verdel was born in
Washington, Wilkes county, Ga., on the 14th day of October, 1787, and was nearly
ninety-two years old when he died. When but an infant he was carried by his
mother to Charlotte county, Virginia, her native home, where he remained till
about the year 1811, when he returned to Georgia and became a permanent citizen.
He served for a time in the war of 1812. On the 21st of January, 1819, he was
married to Sarah Chandler Williamson, of Elbert county, Georgia, and in 1841 he
joined the Methodist Church at Bethlehem, in Elbert county, under the pastorship
of Robert Stribling. I am sure that the testimony of those who knew him best
will sustain me in the declaration that he was truly an honest man, which is
said to be the noblest work of God. He allowed no prospect of worldly gain to
affect his principles and conduct of upright dealings with his fellow-men.
Unassuming and modest in his character and manners, his true worth could be
known only by those who were intimately acquainted with him. A good citizen,
husband and father, he filled honorably all the relations of life with which he
was connected, and discharged, as far as he could, all of its duties faithfully.

D.B. Verdel
Washington, Ga. April 17


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