In Their Own Words
March 11, 1739
Whitefield Recorded Funeral
George Whitefield gave his own account of the day noted above in his diary:
“Buried this Evening one of the Women that came over with me, who I trust died in the Lord. The Orphans sung before the Corpse from our House to the Court-House, where I preached, and after gave another Word of Exhortation at the Grave. My Soul was much affected with the Awfulness of the Solemnity. The Word came with Power.”
Source: [no author or editor cited], Our First Visit in America: Early Reports from the Colony of Georgia, 1732-1740 (Savannah: Beehive Press, 1974), p. 302.
