On Wednesday morning, Feb. 8d, the people of Rockmart and community were made sad by the death of Florence Carmichael, son of our efficient Deputy Sheriff, Jno. F. Carmichael, who is well known and highly esteemed throughout the country. To behold one fallen in the bloom of life is to be impressed with the uncertainty and the seriousness of life. He patiently bore the ravages of a fatal malady, and met face to face the great enemy, saying, "I am not afraid to die." Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Rockmart on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, conducted by Rev. T. J. Branson and Rev. J. Lee Allgood. Despite the muddy streets and the cold, a large attendance at the church and the cemetery gave evidence of the high esteem in which the family is heed by our people. The writer having been the young man's teacher when he was last in school spoke of seriousness as being a necessary element in character growth. Not to have a substratum is to be out of harmony with the deepest meaning of life. Rev. J. Lee Allgood, with manifest pathos and effective earnestness, spoke of the beauty of obedience to parents that wherever this was found there was evidence of kindred virtues. A spirit of serious regard for the high and good, of cheerful and willing obedience to parents characterized Florence Carmichael' s entire life, and enabled him in the morning tide of twenty-three years to approach serenely the valley of the Shadow; and "like him who winds the drapery of his couch about him, lie down to pleasant dreams." May the God of all comfort solace and sustain the bereaved family. T. J. Branson. (Cedartown Standard, February 11, 1904)
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