The Pike County Journal Zebulon, Ga., Friday, September 11, 1891 Obituary Sad, indeed was the intelligence which revealed to us the fact our dear young friend Miss Biddie Touchstone, was dead. Just as she was budding into young womanhood the angels came and plucked the flower and conveyed it to heaven that it might bloom forever in unfading beauty. Strange to us, sometimes are the way of God. That one so young and full of promise should thus be called to die, we do not always understand, but God knows best and will one day make it plain. In the bloom of sweet girlhood, with a bright intellect, crowned with woman’s best earthly jewel – modesty – “with garlands of purity” entwining her young consecrated heart, she represented one of the earth’s purest children. When the end came, so conscious was she of a safe passage into the better land, that death to her was gain. Her kind mother, with many kindred and friends mourn her early death. But the deep joy she expressed at the close of life made death sweet, and should be a source of comfort to all her loved ones. The city of God is being filled with just such treasures, the crown of future rejoicing is being decked with jewels like these. May loved ones, by grace kiss the hand that has [been] afflicted , and remember that while there is one less to gladden the home circle, there is an angel more to gladden Heaven. – E. Sept. 8th, 1891 (Transcribed 10/10/02 Lynn Cunningham) Note: Obedience “Biddy” Estelle Touchstone, b. November 1876, d: 29 May 1891 in Pike County, Georgia. She is buried in the Touchstone Family cemetery, Spalding County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Thomas B. Touchstone.