Wilkinson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lathia S. Rawls Linder August 1880
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Dublin Post, Aug. 11, 1880
August 11, 1880
Dublin Post
OBITUARY
Mrs. Lathia S. Linder
      "Yesterday the sad intelligence of  the death of this estimable lady 
reached me. I was greatly shocked, and felt it next to a personal bereavement. 
At it was not my sad privilege to see her in her last illness, or to 
participate, I ask to be allowed as one coming last - but not loving least to 
pay this tribute of loving friendship to the peaceful sleeper in this beautiful 
graveyard at the Rawl's house.
     She was the only daughter of my lamented friend, O. H. P. Rawls of 
Wilkinson County who proceeded her to the world above a few years ago. Being 
the only daughter of loving parents, and the only sister of six loving 
brothers, she was the idol of home - loved but not worshiped.  She was a 
considerate child and an affectionate sister. Blessed as she was with 
everything to make life comfortable, she did not yield to needless self-
indulgence but was generally helpful.
     I have known but little of her when she was a pupil at Shady Grove Academy 
in 1871. She was just then verging noble womanhood - blithe and happy. She was 
not frail - but rather inclined to corpulency, no indication in form or feature 
that she was to be the after-victim of consumption. Resembling her mother in 
personal appearance, yet inheriting her father's peculiar nervous 
temperament, too refined and tensely wrought to brook the aspirations of 
practical life. At school, as at home - she was the loved one - teachers and 
schoolmates all loved Lathia. As the sad words 'Lathia is dead,' are being told 
from one to another, many hearts that were then joyous will be made sorrowful. 
Dollie and Lathia were both friends then, they are both gone now. Their pure 
spirits are re-united ere to renew friendships that will know no parting.
     As wife and mother I cannot speak of her. She doubtless was all those 
relations imply. To the mothers and brothers I offer unfeigned sympathy; to the 
bereaved husband I tender heartfelt condolence; to God in humble prayer I 
commend the little motherless ones. George M. Prescott June 17, 1880

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