Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Greene, Ellen A. (Gibson) [Mrs. Hamilton H.] January 25, 1880 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 November 25, 2006, 3:11 pm "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. ---- 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 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb