WILKINSON COUNTY, GA - Obits Bachelor, Elizabeth ***************** 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 Obituaries from The Gospel Messenger Miss Elizabeth Bachelor was born in Wilkinson County, Ga., in 1802, and died of congestion of the stomach, January 28, 1889. She joined the Primitive Baptist Church at Ramah, Wilkinson County, Ga., at a very early age, and lived a consistent and much beloved member until her death, a period of about seventy-one years. During this long period she stood firm and unshaken in the faith of the Baptist, notwithstanding the trials through which she was called to pass. Sister Batchelor's was a very peculiar case. At about the age of six she fell from an apple tree and received injuries from which she never fully recovered, and which disabled her for much domestic labor. She therefore never married, and had only to seek to please the Lord, and I feel comforted that there was never a more devoted Baptist within my knowledge. She was most of the time able to attend meeting and was prompt to fill her seat every time, if not providentially hindered, always showing great devotion to the cause and love for the brethren and Lord. The last five years other life she was bedridden, enduring extreme suffering, but not murmuring or a complaining word ever escaped her lips, but was ready to say the wifl of the Lord be done. Sister Bachelor was poor in this world's goods, but was rich in faith and lacking nothing. After services by the writer, she was buried in the cemetery at Bethlehem, Taylor Co., Ga., where she had been a member ever since the constitution. Elder John Green Murray