The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, December 6, 1895 Mrs. Nelms Dead The friendless lost a friend and the inconsolably afflicted a comforter when Mrs. Amanda M. Nelms passed peacefully away to her everlasting reward at 10 o’clock on Friday night. The end of this long and useful life was such as anyone might desire. She had been unusually well for some time past, and on Friday had driven out to Luella with no apparent fatigue. At 9 o’clock she had retired after taking a dose of some medicine. A little later she called in her daughter, Mrs. Smith, asked for a stimulant as she was not feeling well. Mrs. Smith was alarmed by her appearance and sent for a doctor, but her mother was dying as the doctor came. The cause of the death was heart failure from which she had suffered for several years past. - Griffin News (Transcribed 11/15/02 Lynn Cunningham) Note: At Oak Hill Cemetery, Old Section, Spalding County, Georgia: Nelms, Amanda M., b. 30 June 1820, d. 29 Nov 1895