Wilcox County AlArchives Obituaries.....Katie DeWitt November 12 1906
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, December 6, 1906
  Mrs. Katie DeWitt, wife of W. G. DeWitt died on the 12th day of November, 
1906, near Gastonburg, Ala., of heart trouble and was buried at the Bassett 
Creek Grave Yard in Clarke county near Fulton, Ala. She was born June 11th, 
1850 and was married December 12th, 1869. She joined the Missionary Baptist 
Church at Salem and was baptized by the Rev. L. L. DeWitt. Of her seven 
children she leaves to mourn her loss two sons, Eddie of Wilcox county and 
Eugene, of San Francisco, Cal., and two daughters, Mrs. Sallie Warner of Camden 
and Mrs. Will Ross, of Canton Bend, Ala., and last but not least a loving 
husband who is inconsolable over his loss. Many friends and distant relatives 
mourn with those to whom she can never be replaced. Her life was filled with 
industry and piety, cheerfulness and charity and good will to all, affectionate 
as a wife and mother kind and good as a neighbor, here is one of those lives 
that have passed away leaving a great sorrow in the hearts of those who knew 
her without a premonition of her fate she went about her daily avocations, the 
day and night before she died she was cheerful and enjoyed a night of sweet 
repose. Just as the early dawn began to light up the day she repaired to her 
stove room to prepare breakfast for herself and husband, after exchanging a few 
kind words with her husband she returned to her work, where a few minutes later 
Mr. DeWitt entered the room and found her cold in death on the floor. All her 
friends mourn over her untimely end, but who can realize the grief, the agony 
of those who have lost a mother a loving and faithful wife. While her summons 
were sudden they found her not unprepared to going "the caravan that moves to 
that mysterious realm where all shall take there place in the appointed halls 
of death," but she was indeed one of who could "approach her grave as one who 
folds the drapery of her couch about and lies down to pleasant dreams. She was 
a bright exemplar of the religion she professed, charitable, sympathetic, kind, 
loving and meek, she toiled on in her sphere of life, no word of complaint 
escaped her and her daily walk showed the spirit of the meek and lonely Jesus. 


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