Buckingham County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Prestly, Lucy (Brown) [Mrs. Elijah] June 20, 1882
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JUNE 23, 1882

IN MEMORY OF MRS. LUCY PRESTLY

In memory of Mrs. Lucy Prestly, better known by all as Grandma Prestly, who 
died on the 20th inst. at the residence of Mr. D.W. Sims, where for many years 
she had made her home with her granddaughter, Mrs. Sims.

The deceased was born in Buckingham county, Virginia on May 20th, 1790. Her 
father Jas. Brown moved with his family to Elbert county, Georgia when she was 
an infant, hence her life reaching back through nearly a century, was spent in 
Georgia.

When in her 25th year she was married to Elijah Prestly, whom she long 
survived. It has been the privilege of the writer to converse with her often 
and to listen with interest to her as she talked of the early history of the 
great Republic, speaking from the treasures of a retentive memory reaching far 
back to the days of Adams, Jefferson and others whose names gild the pages of 
history. 

But while she delighted to talk of olden times, still greater was her delight 
to speak of religion, which seemed to be her chief concern, and to relate her 
christian experience, dating back to the first Sunday in June, 1809, the day 
she 
was baptized and united with the Baptist church at Falling Creek, Elbert 
county, Ga. She was then in her 20th year of her age and though more than 
three score and ten years have passed, still that day with all its joys seemed 
as fresh in her memory as if it has been but yesterday, and from that day to 
the close of her life, her soul feasted upon the divine blessing, bearing 
constant testimony to the reality of her christian religion. 

She expressed at all times but one desire for herself; that was to depart and 
be with Christ, saying "whenever it is his will to call for me, I am ready". 
And finally when the summons came, without apparent pain or struggle, she fell 
asleep, thus closing a life of 92 years and 1 month, full of hope in Jesus. 

The bereaved family and relatives have not only the warmest sympathy of the 
many friends, but also the divine assurance that "blessed are the dead which 
die in the Lord."


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