Bartow County GaArchives Obituaries.....McWhorter, Martha Jane (Hayes) [Mrs. Millard F.] October 3, 1931
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, OCTOBER 8, 1931

RITES FOR AGED WOMAN HELD LAST SUNDAY

Mrs. Martha Jane McWhorter, 69, wife of Commissioner M.F. McWhorter, died at 
the home Saturday morning following an illness of several months. She was a 
native of Cleburne county and had resided in the northern part of the county 
for a number of years.

Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Sunday at Mount Paran church with 
the Rev. Mr. Robinson officiating. Interment was made in the church cemetery 
with F.P. Owens company in charge. Surviving are the husband, sons and 
daughters, among them being Deputy Sheriff Walter McWhorter and Mrs. Leo R. 
Jones of Heflin.

The Cleburne News extends its sympathy to the bereaved relatives.

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NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, NOVEMBER 5, 1931

IN MEMORY OF MRS. MILLARD F. McWHORTER

Mrs. Martha Jane Hayes McWhorter was born near Cartersville, Ga., on March 
14, 1861. She moved with her parents at the age of eight years to Cleburne 
county. The family lived for several years in the Lebanon community and then 
came to Oak Level neighorhood where she grew to womanhood and in this 
community, she met and married Millard F. McWhorter, the marriage taking 
place on February 8, 1877. With the exception of one year in Georgia and two 
years in Calhoun county, Ala., Mr. and Mrs. McWhorter have spent their 
entire fifty years of married life in Cleburne county, for a few years they 
lived in Heflin while Mr. McWhorter was Sheriff and they lived in the Mt. 
Paran community.

To this union was born eleven children, five boys and six girls. Of this 
number, Henry N., Walter P., John C., Millard F. Jr., Mrs. Leonard Morris, 
Mrs. Leo R. Jones, Mrs. Carl A. Pruitt, Mrs. Homer N. Lambert, together with 
Mr. M.F. McWhorter, survive her while Essie, Billie O. and Henrietta 
preceded her to the grave. Besides these, there are sixty- three 
grandchildren living and thirteen dead; twenty- two great grandchildren are 
living and two dead.

Mrs. McWhorter joined the Camp Creek Missionary Baptist church in the summer 
of 1876 and remained a faithful member of this congregation until 1900 when 
she and Mr. McWhorter became members of the Mars Hill Primitive Baptist 
church. Throughout her life, Mrs. McWhorter ever continued to be a devoted 
christian wife and mother, who numbered her friends by her acquaintances. No 
higher tribute can be paid to anyone regardless of station in life, gender, 
nationality or race than this. That she was a devoted wife, a christian 
mother, and a home builder, giving daily of her life to the services of her 
husband, family and friends and neighbors in a humble God fearing way. This 
can truly be said of Mrs. McWhorter. It has truly been said that "the hand 
that rocks the cradle rules the world as well as guides the destinies of the 
race."

History may be forgotton, marble statues will crumble to dust, fame and 
fortune will grow dim and sordid, but the name "Mother" will ever remain the 
hope, the inspiration and the most sacred memory of mankind.

"Mother", you are in the sunshine of God's eternal love and may your family, 
like you, when they reach the bank of the river that marks the Unknown 
Shore, have their hands filled with deeds of charity that opens the gate of 
the place of eternity. Leo R. Jones




Additional Comments:
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 
Name: Martha J. McWhorter 
Death Date: Oct 1931 
Death County: Cleburne  
Comment: M.F  
Volume: 44  
Roll: 3  
Page #: 21568  

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