The Pike County Journal Zebulon, Ga., Tuesday, July 1, 1890 Concord Rev. W.A. Brooks conducted the funeral obsequies Mr. Freeman McLendon here on the 24th inst. delivering one of the best and most appropriate sermons for such an occasion it has been our pleasure to hear in a long time. “Blessed are they who die in the Lord.” In Mr. McLendon’s death we can truly say, a good man has gone to sleep with the righteous. (Transcribed 10/1/02 Lynn Cunningham)