Clay County GA Archives Obituaries Mrs. Elizabeth Lightfoot 1904

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Fort Gaines Sentinel 1 July 1904 [Fort Gaines, Clay Co Ga]

"Mrs. Elizabeth Lightfoot, one of the best known and most highly esteemed ladies of 
our town, died at Milledgeville last Sunday night at about nine o'clock. She had gone 
to that city to receive medical treatment from Dr. Allen for nervous prostration, and 
was thought by both the physician and herself to be greatly improved, when on Saturday 
afternoon, just after dark, she was accidentally burned in a very severe manner. The
 family here was at once notified, and Sunday morning Miss Hattie Lightfoot left for 
her mother's bedside, arriving there only a short while before death ending the 
sufferings. As soon as practicable Miss Hattie started home with the remains of her 
mother, but was detained by the wreck which occurred Monday on the Central Railroad. 
In the meanwhile Mr. Edwin Lightfoot and Mrs. L. P. Brown had gone to meet their 
sister, and were detained at Smithville, so that it became necessary for Messrs. 
T. J. Lightfoot, L. P. Brown and Alex Whatley to make the trip to Cuthbert by private 
conveyance Monday night, where they met the other members of the family Tuesday morning 
at about 2 o'clock. The party reached Fort Gaines at about 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, 
and the interment took place immediately in the cemetery here, being conducted in a 
most impressive manner by Rev. T. J. Brock, pastor of the Baptist church, assisted 
by Rev. D. D. Bateman.

Mrs. Lightfoot was 57 years old, and was a woman of the highest type of christian 
character. Intellectual, refined, and pious, she was much loved by all who knew her. 
The simple statement that she was a devoted christian mother, expresses all that could 
be said of any good woman.

To mourn her departure Mrs. Lightfoot leaves her mother, Mrs. Jane Farmer, of 
Shorterville, Alabama, four sisters, Mrs. M. A. Whatley, of Fort Gaines, Mrs. M. W. Kelly, 
of Columbus, and Misses Maggie and Jennie Farmer, of Shorterville, Ala.; three brothers, 
Mr. T. J. Farmer, of Fort Gaines, and Messrs. B. G. and C. B. Farmer, of Dothan, Ala., 
and five children, Messrs. T. J. and E. W. Lightfoot, Miss Hattie Lightfoot and 
Mrs. L. P. Brown, of Fort Gaines, and Mrs. Geo. C. Brown of Anniston, Ala.

The sincere sympathies of our entire people are with the bereaved ones."