Butts-Newton-Upson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Goodall, Mary September 4, 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 December 1, 2006, 12:41 am Jackson Argus – Butts County, Week of September 16, 1898 Miss Mary Goodall Dies A very Popular Young Lady Passes Away Our town received a severe shock when it became known that Miss Mary Goodall was very sick with an attack of gastritis. She came down to Jackson and we hoped against hope for her recovery, but our hopes are blasted. She passed away on Sunday night, September 4th. The funeral occurred on Monday evening at three o’clock at the Jackson Methodist church, brother Winn the pastor officiating. The esteem, in which the departed was held, was indexed by the unusual crowd in attendance. The barge church was filled to its utmost capacity with the friends and sympathizers of the bereaved family. In the death of Miss Mary, Jackson has suffered a great loss, for such characters are the true wealth on any community. She was a bright and shinning light in our midst, being a faithful and successful worker in whatever field she was placed. An exemplary daughter, a conscientious teacher, a willing working in God’s vineyard and a sincere and earnest ____?_______, she has set us an example for all to follow and has left a line worthy our fullest emanation. Serving gladly in her place, she found that life can be filled with a wealth of good deeds and well may we say that the performance of her duty brought her to know and show in _______?_______?_______. The true heroes and heroines they have knowing that the best life and the truest success consist in the accomplishments of small and apparently insignificant possibilities rather than the attempt to achieve great impossibilities. Having so lived in the constant discharge of her duty it was not surprising that she feared not to do and could calmly say “I am not afraid to die”. Miss Mary came to our town in 1888, having a short time before converted, she joined the Methodist church in Covington. She entered school here in the fall of “88, graduated with first honor in the class of ’92, was at Wesleyan in ’93, having had both her Junior and Senior years in Jackson Institute, won the Wesleyan Scholarship. After graduation from Wesleyan, she taught for five years in Jackson and, at the time of her death, was Principal-elect of the primary department of the R. E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga. The death of the young is always peculiarly sad. There is the sadness of disappointed hope added to that of separation, for we feel that, “The fairest hope is the hope which faded The brightest leaf is the leaf which fell.” Then too for one so active, capable and bravely anxious to do her life work, we sigh to think of the fate that called her away with the problems of life all unsolved. But can we say that they re unsolved ? Do not the redeemed continue their work with added capacity and skill ? I think we are justified in saying that they do, O glorious thought, that with every heart-ache healed, every racking pain eased, every sin-blinded sight and sin burdened power free to do the biding of our Lord we shall serve him with perfect wills and see the matchless glory of our God even as we are seen ! When considering these things we feel that the sore hearts of her beloved who are left behind may look up and placing the armor of the Christian in Order, march gladly on to join in perfect worship. Jackson Argus – Butts county Week of September 9, 1898 ………………………………………………… Resolutions on the Death of Miss Mary Goodall The board of trustees of R. E. Lee Institute at Thomaston passed the following resolution on the death of Miss Mary Goodall on the 17th inst. Whereas, by letter from Mr. C. S. Maddox, we are informed of the death of Miss Mary Goodall, teacher-elect of R. E. Lee Institute. Resolved by the Trustees, that we deplore her early death, and we sympathize with her kindred in their sad bereavement. Her good works for the young, and her noble influences by precept and Christian example, are living memorials to her good name. Our Secretary is directed to enter this tribute to her memory upon our Record and furnish a copy to the relatives the deceased and request its publication in the Thomaston Times. By the Board of Trustees, G. A. Weaver, Pres. September 7th, 1898 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/obits/g/goodall6043gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb