Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....E. M. Hooten December 1889
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Middle Ga Argus
Mrs. E. M. Hooten

Mr. E. M. Hooten, wife of the pastor, of the Baptist Church at this place, 
sweetly passes through the dark valley of the shadow of death.

Never has it been our duty as a journalist to chronicle a more peculiarly sad 
death than that of Mrs. E. M. Hooten, which occurred on Friday at 11 o’clock 
a.m. of a complication of diseases, principle among which was pneumonia.  Her 
remains were interred in the city cemetery at 12 o’clock Sunday after a funeral 
service at the Baptist church, conducted by Rev. J. T. Kimbell.  The minister 
dwelt very feelingly and pathetically upon the many queenly virtues of the 
departed one as a wife, mother and friend, and everyone listened to his talk 
with the greatest interest, and often the whole congregation would be moved to 
tears.  At the close of the services the casket was opened and everyone in the 
church came forward to look up the face for the last time.  The family came 
last and the scene, when six grown sons, besides the husband, several daughters 
stood over the coffin weeping as if their hearts were indeed broken, went home 
to heart.  The pitiful cry of little Willie and Susie, twins, for “Mama! Mama!” 
was enough to move a heart of stone.  The sorrow of the whole family was 
pitiable and the sons could hardly bear to move from looking upon the face of 
their mother for the last time.

Rev. Mr. Kimbell announced that the services would be concluded at the grave 
and then the body was conveyed to the hearse and then to the cemetery.   The 
procession was one of the longest ever seen in Jackson, as every one who could 
do so, attended the burial.  At the grave the closing prayer was offered and 
the coffin with its precious contents was covered and with sad hearts for all, 
and sadder ones for a large, now motherless family, turned away.  As a wife, 
mother, neighbor and friend, Mrs. Hooten had few equals and no superiors, and 
she will be sadly missed.  We extend our deepest sympathies to the sorrowing 
ones in this their hour of sore affliction. 

In this connection Mr. Hooten requests us to return his sincerest thanks to the 
people of the whole community of Jackson and others for their kind attention 
during his wife’s illness, and their universal sympathy extended him and family 
in their great bereavement.

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of  December 3, 1889


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