Decatur County Journal
April 26, l900

OBITUARY - JOSEPH R. CHEW.

JOSEPH R. CHEW was born July 9, l870, and died at his home near
Hopeville April l8, l900. He leaves a wife, a father and mother and
four brothers, and a host of relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held in the M.E. Church at Hopeville, of which he
was an active member. The interment was in the Hopeville Cemetery.
Beautiful floral decorations were used and testified more eloquently
than weak words of the esteem and respect in which the deceased was held
by his friends. He was patient and cheerful through all his suffering.
His last words were: "The beautiful city of gold," repeated over and
over.

The sermon was preached by Rev. Hays, the U.B. minister of Beaconsfield,
the M.E. minister being absent. The text was taken from Psalms 57:37:
"Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is
peace."
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