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Edmund D. Puckett, Jr. |
The Standard and Express |
Cartersville, Georgia |
March 14, 1872, page 3 |
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We are pained to announce the death of E. D. Puckett, Jr., of this place. He died of consumption, on the morning of the 12th inst. A more extended notice will be given in our next issue. ******************** March 21, 1872 EDMUND DOUGLAS PUCKETT, one of Cartersville’s nicest and most highly esteemed and popular young men, in the very vigor and flush of young manhood, fell a victim to that flattering but insidious disease—Consumption, at his father’s residence near this place, at three o’clock, Tuesday morning, the 12th inst. He professed religion, joined the church, and received the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, at the hands of his Pastor, Rev. Geo. R. Kramer, before his death. –When the messenger came with the summons, in the early morn ere yet the sun had dissipated the darkness in which nature slumbered, it found him ready to go, his lamp was trimmed and burning, and bidding adieu to earthly ties, he folded his arms and gathered up his feet, and **************************** The Standard and Express Letters of Dismission. C. G. Trammell declares that he has fully administered the last Will and Testament of Edmund D. Puckett, Jr. |
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