Partial Obituary
..Sarah died near Jackson Court House (Americus) Miss., on the 29th April, 1862, of pneumonia. Mrs. Sarah Wilson, age 24 years. in her death the Church has lost one of its best members, the community an excellent neighbor, and her husband (Seborn) and three children (Azlean, Annie and Harmon) a most affectionate wife and mother, of a retiring disposition, her great worth was known to but few,--reminding one of those lines of the poet,
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
and lose its fragrance in the desert air."
She joined the M.E. Church May 1858, and professed to receive the pardon of her sins in October the following at Salem Camp Meeting after which she lived a consistant christian life until death. She bore her sufferings with great christian fortitude, and when told that she must die, said she was ready!
Obit courtesy of Ellen Havens ( wife of Tommy Ray Havens, who is a descendant of Sarah Goff Wilson. Info from the Kenneth Roy Wilson collection)
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In the 1970s I took my grandmother Josephine Havens Barnes, across the river looking for her grandmother Sarah 'Sallie' Goff Wilson's grave. She wanted to move her to the Wilson Cemetery and bury her beside her husband Seborn Wilson.
We never found her grave.........
1st wife of Seborn Wilson; the daughter of William Goff Jr & Sarah Black. She and Seborn were the parents of three children, Azlean, Annie and Harmon.
Partial Obituary
..Sarah died near Jackson Court House (Americus) Miss., on the 29th April, 1862, of pneumonia. Mrs. Sarah Wilson, age 24 years. in her death the Church has lost one of its best members, the community an excellent neighbor, and her husband (Seborn) and three children (Azlean, Annie and Harmon) a most affectionate wife and mother, of a retiring disposition, her great worth was known to but few,--reminding one of those lines of the poet,
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
and lose its fragrance in the desert air."
She joined the M.E. Church May 1858, and professed to receive the pardon of her sins in October the following at Salem Camp Meeting after which she lived a consistant christian life until death. She bore her sufferings with great christian fortitude, and when told that she must die, said she was ready!
Obit courtesy of Ellen Havens ( wife of Tommy Ray Havens, who is a descendant of Sarah Goff Wilson. Info from the Kenneth Roy Wilson collection)
***
In the 1970s I took my grandmother Josephine Havens Barnes, across the river looking for her grandmother Sarah 'Sallie' Goff Wilson's grave. She wanted to move her to the Wilson Cemetery and bury her beside her husband Seborn Wilson.
We never found her grave.........
1st wife of Seborn Wilson; the daughter of William Goff Jr & Sarah Black. She and Seborn were the parents of three children, Azlean, Annie and Harmon.
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