Thomas-Washington County GaArchives Obituaries.....Davis, Edwin Traloma April 14, 1879 ************************************************ 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: James Wade Bishop jimbishop2@gmail.com April 13, 2012, 12:38 am Thomasville Times / 19 April 1879 :::::::::NEWS EXTRACT::::::: DEATH OF EDWIN TRALOMA DAVIS ============================ 19 APRIL 1879 THOMASVILLE TIMES THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA ==================== .... "DIED"......... At his residence, in this city, at a quarter past three o'clock on Monday evening, the 14th inst., Capt. Edwin T. Davis, in the 36th year of his age.It is indeed, a painful task to the writer to pen the above lines; for among the earliest of his acquaintances in Thomasville, was the subject of this sketch. The acquaintance early ripened into a friendship that lasted, unbroken, until severed by death. In the social circle; in the office; in the busy, bustling scenes of everyday life; in the Sunday school room, we met and knew him intimately, and a more unselfish, noble, generous hearted man, we have never known. The plaintive cry of want and the wail of distress, ne'er fell upon an ear more keenly attuned to the woe of others, or touched a heart more ready to respond to a good cause. As a citizen, he was public spirited and progressive. As a soldier, he was brave and generous; as a member of the church, he was zealous and consistent; as a friend, he was faithful and true; as a father, he was loving and kind and as a husband, devoted and tender. When the black clouds of war darkened southern skies, he was among the first, though then, but a youth, to fly to arms. Enlisting in Capt. L.C. Bryan's Co. 57th Ga. Vol, he served through the long and bloody struggle and only surrendered when the last ray of hope had faded. No duty was ever too hazardous for him to perform. Dangers had no terror for him. He won his epaulettes on bloody field & wore them to the end untarnished. He made Thomasville his home at the close of the war. In 1867 he married Mrs. Mattie T. Jones, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Jones, Esq. The wife, with two bright little girls survive the husband and father. As president of the South Georgia Fair Association and as a member, for many years, of the Executive Committee, State Fair,he made an enviable state wide reputation. The sad funeral services took place in the Baptist Church, of which he was a member. on Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. The church was draped in deep mourning and filled with relativesd and sympathizing friends.The Rev. Mr Golden read from Job,14:1-16 Psalms, 103;13-16, John 11;24-27; Rev.20;6;21;4- 9-10-22-23;22;1-7 and from first Corinthians, 11;55-58. A few appropriate remarks and a fervant prayer followed. Before leaving the church the choir sang, 'Nearer My God to Thee.' During the singing, the teachers of the Sabbath School and members of the Bible class went forward and deposited wreaths of flowers on the casket. The scene was a very touching one. Many eyes unused to weeping were suffused with tears. The remains were escorted to the church by a detachment of the Thomasville Guards, of which the deceased was an honorary member. A large cortege followed the remains to the family burial ground near Mrs. Lavinia Jones, where they were laid away by loving hands,there to sleep untilthe last great day. After all: "Death's but a path that must be trod, if man would ever pass to God. In the language of Heber: "Thou art gone to the grave,-but 'twer wrong to deplore thee, When God was thy ransom, thy guardian, thy guide; He gave thee, and took thee, and soon will restore thee, Where death hath no sting, since the Savior hath died." ================================================ ============================== ================TE TRANSCRIBED BY JAMES WADE BISHOP================ This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb