Cherokee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Olive, Mary  February 8, 1881
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The Cherokee Advance 17 Feb 1881 p 3
Obituary
Miss Mary Olive, daughter of the Rev. J. L. and Mary Olive, was born May the 
19th 1860 and died at her father's in Cherokee county, Ga., Feb. 8th 1881, 
aged 20 years, 8 months, and 19 days.
Her sufferings were beyond description as we are informed from Thursday 
night the 3rd, until Tuesday following, when she said to her father, "I 
cannot stay here; I am going to a better land than this." And soon after, 
God in His mercy, relieved her sufferings by removing her from the earthly 
house to one not made with hands.  Her remains were followed by a number of 
relatives and friends to the grave yard near Col. J. E. Rusk's, where after 
the usual ceremony, kind friends laid her beside two sisters and brother, 
who preceded her, there to sleep till the resurrection morn.  We sympathize 
with the bereaved family, especially Mother Olive, who being blind for 
several years was dependent on some (sic) one to administer to her temporal 
wants, this duty devolved upon Mary, her surviving sisters and brother 
having married and left the paternal roof.  Though Mary's cheerful voice can 
no more be heard to cheer Father and Mother Olive, nor these willing hands 
administer their comforts.  He who tempers the winds to the shorn lamb, will  
comfort and supply their wants.  Mary was marked for her easy, quiet manner, 
and seemed naturally possessed of that meek and quiet spirit recommended by 
the Apostle as becoming women professing Godliness.  She made a profession 
of religion at a protracted meeting held at Old Mt. Gilaed church in August 
1879, and though she had not joined the church here below, we feel sure that 
she is singing the new song of sweet deliverance with the church triumphant.  
All who were acquainted with her speak of her rare qualities.  That modest, 
good nature, which seemed so natural to her won the love and esteem of all 
who know her.  May her good example be followed by her young associates, and 
may the strong arm of Jehovah suppos (sic-succors) the aged parents of the 
deceased, and at last bring the entire family to the house of their Father 
in Heaven, and there united be, from sin and sorrow, sighing and death set 
free.  
                                                      A. F. Norton

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