Died at the residence of her step-father, William Parker, in Jefferson county, Ga., on Friday night the 12th inst., Mrs. Frances Watkins, wife of Henry P. Watkins, Esqr., in the 28th year of her age.

She had been a consistent member of the M. E. Church for the last six years of her life, during which time she adorned the doctrine of Christ, her Saviour, by her holy and consistent walk, and conversation; consequently her sick bed was one of cheerful hope. Though young, she had drank deeply of the cup of affliction—she was an example of suffering and of patience. For months she was rapidly descending the valley of the shadow of Death; and though many hopes were cherished in regard to her recovery, and though she had much, humanly speaking, to live for, a fond husband, two children, (one an infant) and a large circle of friends and relatives, yet, all these could not stay the shafts of the insatiate archer, for he came, but not as an enemy, but a friend, to release her spirit from its Earthly house, while ascending angels bore it home to that House, not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens.    W. A. H.

The Central Georgian, Sandersville, Georgia, 23 March 1852, page 3, column 4.

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