John W. Hodnett Son of Wm and Caroline Hodnett died in an old out house nere Middletown Verginia with Smoll Pox on the 24^th of November 1862

 

He was a member of company R 13^th Georgia Redgment He went into the rm army in July 1861 was with Gen Floyed in North Westen Va in the fall and winter of 1861 in the Spring of 1862 he hay was put under Gen Jackson and fought with that Hero through the Summer of & fall of 1862 without ever being hit by the inimy & by a Strange & misterious Providence was permited to contract that loathsom Dessese Smoll Pox & died in that old hous without being attended by any friend Save a brother who had the Same disease and a nurse He was a good Citizen a good Soldier & better still a Christian in evry letter to his friends he would Say Something about religion his brother in a letter States that he was happy while Sicke & would Sing of Glory thus lived & died one of the best men I ever knew

                                                The voyage of life’s at an end

                                                The mortal affliction is past

                                                While heaven and earth combine to Say

                                                How blest the righteous when he dies

 

Broth Myers will you Please publish the above obituary in the Advocate and obige the Par Farther and Mother of the deceast yours respectfully

                                                                                    J A. Palmer

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