Wilcox County AlArchives Obituaries.....Millie Belle McDowell 1904
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, October 27, 1904

The Death of Miss McDowell.
  Our community was saddened, when the tidings were known, that Miss 
Millie Belle McDowell was dead. For some months, she was a sufferer, 
from that seemingly incurable malady, tubercalosis; and everything 
that love, care and attention and that medical skill could devise 
was freely given and offered for her relief, but the dread summons 
came on Saturday night and the pure spirit has gone to God who gave 
it. The young lady was so patient; yet so hopeful; so resigned to her
fate, yet so anxious to live, that her presence might further cheer 
her father and sister; so loving, so earnest and so true to her 
relatives and friends; that it is sad to think, her kindly voice, her 
sympathizing footsteps and her friendly features, will no more, be 
seen on earth.
  Miss Millie Belle McDowell was born in Camden in March 1876, and 
lived here all her life. She was the daughter of Mr. David A. K. 
McDowell, and sister to Mrs. Fannie McDowell McCaskey, and they 
with a brother are left to mourn her departure. A large concourse of
sorrowing friends assembled at the family residence last Sunday 
afternoon, and escorted the remains to the Methodist Church, when the
beautiful service of that church of which she was a devoted member 
were held. There were but few eyes, that were not moistened by tears,
when the chorus sang low, sweet music like angelic trills, were 
softly echoed in the sacred edifice. The tender words of the minister
Rev. G. K. Williams touched the hearts of all.
  The remains are deposited in the Camden Cemetery, near her sainted 
mother, who left Miss Millie Belle a baby, to the care of her devoted 
father. The young lady was good, was true, was noble and was worthy of 
her ancestry, who lived in Revolutionary days, and when she wended her 
flight heavenward, there remained to her relatives and friends, the 
example of a pure, sympathizing soul, which will brighten and cheer 
the distressed, even in their sorrow.
                            A FRIEND


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