Wilcox County AlArchives Obituaries.....Maggie Kilpatrick November 22 1907
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, November 28, 1907
Death of Mrs. Kilpatrick.
  Miss Maggie Kilpatrick, whose death last Friday night brought sorrow to her 
home and circle of friends, was well-known and highly esteemed in our entire 
community. She suffered a paralytic stroke on her left side a week before her 
death and never recovered from it, but grew gradually worse, until the end 
came. She was conscious and could speak with some distinctness until within 
twenty-four hours of her death. When the end of life came, it was like passing 
into a dreamless repose.
  Miss Mag, as we all knew her, was born on the 22nd day of April, 1833, near 
Saulsbury, N. C., and came with her father to Alabama in the early history of 
our state. Her father was an educator, and a man of literary and scientific 
culture, and did a large and upbuilding work in the school room for many years 
in Clarke and Monroe counties. Her ancestry, both maternal and paternal, was of 
Scotch-Irish Presbyterian type, and was prominent in church and state in North 
Carolina, when religious and civil liberty won victory from the hand of King 
George in revolutionary times.
  The subject of this sketch was the only living sister of Hon. Jno. Y. 
Kilpatrick, our honored and esteemed fellow citizen. With him she had made her 
home for the past forty years, and in his home, amid all the vicisitudes of his 
life, has been to him a devoted sister, and to his children as a mother. Her 
life was a home life. Like the shy mimosa plant, whose frightened leaves close 
up at every touch, she shrank from the rude glare of the public, and was happy 
and useful in the charmed circle of home, the true sphere of womanly glory. She 
was a diligent and intelligent student of the Bible, and was loyal to her 
church and its history. Her intellectual vitality was charming. She gave her 
life in full measure to the home and its members and to her immediate friends, 
and it is here she will be missed most, and here the grief will be sorest.
  She was buried in the family lot in our cemetery at 10 o'clock Sabbath 
morning, amid a large gathering of sorrowing friends and relatives. Rev. R. L. 
Robinson officiated in appropriate services in the home and at the grave. 
Beautiful flowers, that she loved so well and cared for tenderly, came from 
loving friends to make fragrant her grave. "Beauty is deceitful and favor is 
vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised." From loving 
service in the home made with hands, she has been transferred to that higher 
and better home "not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
                       A Friend.

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