Fairfield County ScArchives Obituaries.....Greene, Ellen A. (Gibson) [Mrs. Hamilton H.] January 25, 1880
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 13, 1880

GEORGIA News

From the West Point Press: Mrs. Hamilton Greene of Long Cane, died last week 
at her home, and was buried at that place, Rev. Mr. Wynne preaching the 
funeral sermon. She was a good woman, a member of the Baptist church. She 
leaves several sons and a daughter, the wife of E.R. Sharpe, Editor of the 
Carrollton Times.

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IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. ELLEN A. GREENE

Departed this life on January 25th near Long Cane, Georgia, after a 
lingering illness, Mrs. Ellen A. Greene. Her maiden name was Gibson. She was 
born in Fairfield district, South Carolina, August 16, 1813 and with her 
parents removed to Troup county, Georgia in 1835. On December 17th, 1841, 
she was happily married to Hamilton H. Greene. She was bereaved of her kind, 
devoted husband seven years; but she realized the truth of the inspired 
penman who likened "children of the youth" to "arrows in the hand of a 
mighty man" and proclaimed him happy that hath his quiver full of them, for 
they, who had been "like olive plants round her table", were the staff and 
comfort of her declining years.

As a mother, she was faithful, and strove to train her children in "the 
nurture and admonition of the Lord." As a neighbor, she was kind and 
affable. In all her walk and conversation was manifested a love of peace and 
harmony. It was the privilege of those who were with her in her last illness 
to hear her discourse freely and calmly upon death. On one occasion she said 
to a friend who had but recently come from a distance, " I have lived longer 
than I thought I should; have been very near death, but was perfectly 
willing to go; and now, I haven't a care in the world! But Oh, is it awful 
for one to feel that they are about the enter Eternity unprepared! Many 
years ago, I was very ill indeed and felt that if I died I was lost. My 
agony of mind, I cannot describe. Friends thought my restlessness, clammy 
perspiration and cold extremities, the result of disease or the icy fingers 
of death; but it was my mind! I felt myself a lost sinner and soon to be 
called from the world. Oh, it was awful!"

But as she agonized in prayer, the door of mercy opened wide and her Savior 
revealed himself to her in pardoning love. Then no tongue, she said, could 
express her happiness. Not a cloud obscured her vision, not a doubt, not a 
fear! Death had no terror, she was perfectly willing to die. What a blissful 
experience! Oh, grace divine that enables a soul to look beyond the confines 
of time and sing to the angel band: "Lend, lend your wings, I mount, I fly; 
O grave, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?"

Her afterlife verified a regenerated heart. She joined the Baptist church at 
Long Cane, was baptized by Rev. Asa Simmons and ever after led an upright, 
consistent life. As the rosiest beams of the sinking sun gilds his farewell, 
no more beautifully shone the light of Christianity in the declining years 
and last days of our departed friend. Her time was chiefly spent in Biblical 
and other sacred readings; her hand was not slack in scattering good seed by 
distributing among her neighbors and friends her religious journals.

Those who ministered around her couch during her last affliction, and had so 
many evidences of her peace of mind, and heard her oft repeated expressions 
of deep abiding trust in her Savior, feel that she has been taken into the 
heavenly garner, a fully ripened stock. A Friend.


Additional Comments:
1880 - U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedule
Name: Ellen Green 
Gender: Female  
Race: White  
Marital Status: Widowed  
Place of Birth: Georgia  
Estimated birth year: abt 1815  
Age: 65  
Month of Death: Jan 
Cause of Death: Consumption  
Place of Death: Long Cane, Troup, Georgia

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