This is the obit of my gg grandmother Lucy Ann Lingo Solomon. She was the first wife of Rev. Lewis Solomon. She was born 1 Mar 1818 and died 14 Apr 1863. Rose OBITUARY OF LUCY ANN LINGO SOLOMON Died in Twiggs, County, April 14th, after an illness of one week, Mrs. Luch Ann, wife of Rev. Lewis Solomon, aged 45 years. It is with feelings of the deepest regrets that we chronicle the death of Mrs. Solomon. But God in his wise providence has seen fit to remove her from our midst. She has left a husband and nine children to mourn her loss, and her death has caused a vacuum in our midst which time can never fill, for as a wife there is none can surpass her, as a mother, none more fond or affectionate. She was amiable in her disposition, kind and affable in her manners, and none loved her so well as those who knew her best, but, alas! She has passed away. Mother--what a world of affection is comprehended in that single word, how sad to think that her little children is deprived of the wise counsel and zealous care with which she would have guided them through life, and watched with feelings which none but a mother can know. But the gloomy grave has places her far beyond their reach, and the sweet voice of con- solation for the various life attended upon them, sounds in their ears no more. Mrs. Solomon possessed that gem of all gems which enrich the coronet of a Lady's character, unaffected piety, and the spell which bound her affections to things below is broken and she is wafted on the wings of hope to the habitation of God, where it is her de- light to hold sweet communion with the spirits that have been ransomed from the thralldom of earth and wreathed with a garland of glory. Her name is now written in the "Book of Life," and when mountains fade away, and every memento of earthly greatness is lost in the general wreck of nature, it will remain and swell the list of that mighty throng which is clothed with the mantle of righteousness, and her voice attuned to the melody of Heaven. When the last trumpet shall be heard and sleeping millions awake to judgement, she shall be presented "faultless before the throne of God with exceeding joy, and a crown of glory that shall never fade away." Husband and children, follow the Christian example set by your wife and mother; it will light you through every labyrinth in the wilderness of life, gild the gloom that will gather around you in a dying hour, and bring you safely over the tempestuous Jordan of death into the haven of promised and settled rest. W.T.Z. April 22, 1863