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Southern Christian Advocate (Augusta, Georgia)
Thursday, 28 July 1859
MRS. SARAH D. WILLIS was born in Petersburg, Va., and died in Greensboro, Ga., on 13th April, in her 64th year.
She had been a member of the M. E. Church 38 years. Amid the vicissitudes of a long and chequered pilgrimage, she was "soothed and sustained by an unfaltering trust" in the Redeemer. Her piety was noiseless and unobtrusive. Conscious of many infirmities, she meekly and modestly glided down the hill of life, giving offence to none, loving God supremely. Her last days were distinguished by suffering and sorrow. Adieu, dear, dear mother! Thy soul, purified in the furnace of grief, chastened and sanctified by tribulation and grace, is at rest in heaven. Your children may be scattered -- wanderers on the earth -- their graves may be in distant lands, but the resurrection will reunite. O! when the glorious day shall dawn, may mother and children say, "Good morning," on the hills of Immortality.
J. P. DUNCAN.
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Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, Georgia)
12 April 1842
DIED at the residence of his father near Greensboro, Greene county, on Monday the 4th inst. Mr. EDWIN S. WILLIS, in the 26th year of his age.
The disease of which Mr. Willis died was pulmonary consumption. About a year since, finding his health rapidly declining, he repared to Havana, where he spent the winter in the mild and genial climate of that place, and upon his returning home, he as well as many of his friends were flattered with the hope that the blow which had threatened his life if not averted was at least suspended for a considerable time. How soon, alas, were all their hopes blasted. Their hopes were, in the language of the poet,
"Like the snow drop on the river,
A moment white -- then gone forever."
Death is always a great mystery; but there are many circumstances which relieve the mystery of death when it comes to the aged and mature. It seems according to the law of nature that the aged and infirm, those with whom there remains but few links of life's broken chain, should lie down in the grave; but when the young die there is no other rational way of accounting for it, but that laid down in the volume of inspiration: "Childhood and youth are altogether vanity; as a flower of the field so are they: In the morning it is green and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth away." Mr. Willis was a generous, warm-hearted friend, amiable in his manners, and upright in all his dealings.
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Five members of this WILLIS family rest in a single plot in Greensboro City Cemetery:
- Loudon Willis - husband of Sarah, son of Lucy, and father of Edwin and William
- Sarah D. Willis - 2nd wife of Loudon, daughter-in-law of Lucy, step-mother of Edwin, mother of William
- Lucy Willis - mother of Loudon, mother-in-law of Sarah, grandmother of Edwin and William
- Edwin S. Willis - son of Loudon, step-son of Sarah, grandson of Lucy, half-brother of William
- William Willis - son of Loudon and Sarah, grandson of Lucy, half-brother of Edwin
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