Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....PETERSON, LOUISA January 1917
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SOUTHWEST GEORGIAN JAN 24 1917
WOMAN LIVED IN CLAY 82 YEARS, AND NEVER SAW TRAIN OR VISITED FT. GAINES.
AWAY BACK IN THE YEAR 1835 IN A CABIN IN THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF CLAY COUNTY, 
A BABY GIRL WAS BORN.  SHE LIVED UNTIL FRIDAY OF LAST WEEK.  HER NAME WAS MISS 
LOUISA PETERSON—SHE NEVER MARIED.
WITHIN SIGHT OF THE SPOT WHERE SHE FIRST SAW THE LIGHT, LOUISA PETERSON WAS 
BURIED IN A LITTLE GRAVEYARD KNOWN AS THE PETERSON FAMILY BURIAL GROUND.
PRACTICALLY EVERY MOMENT OF HER LIFE, WHICH BEGAN BEFORE ALL OF THE CREEK 
INDIANS HAD LEFT THIS COUNTY, LOUISA PETERSON COULD HAVE BEEN FOUND WITHIN A 
FEW HUNDRED YARDS OF HER BBIRTH PLACE, AND WHEN HER SOUL FARED FORTH FROM ITS 
FLESHLY PRISON, THE FLESH—IT LINGERED STILL RIGHT WHERE IT HAD LINGERED DAY IN 
AND DAY OUT, SCARCELY WITHOUT A SINGLE INTERRUPTION FOR 82 YEARS.
BUT THIS IS NO THE MOST STRIKING FACT CONNECTED WITH LOUISA PETERSON’S 
COLORLESS LIFE.  FOR INSTANCE: SHE DID NOT EVER PUT HER FOOT ABOARD A RAILROAD 
TRAIN.  GOOD REASON—HER EYES NEVER BEHELD A LOCOMOTIVE, A CAR, OR EVEN A 
RAILROAD TRACK.  SHE NEVER SAW A STEAMBOAT, AND IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT SHE EVER 
SAW THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER WITHIN A TEN MILES OF WHERE SHE LIVED FOR FOUR 
SCORE AND TWO YEARS.  THE TOWN OF FOURT GAINES SHE NEVER ONCE VISITED, 
ALTHOUGH SHE LIVED SO NEAR THAT ON A STILL NIGHT SHE COULD HEAR A STEAMBOAT’S 
WHISTLE WHEN IT BLEW FOR THE FORT GAINES LANDING.
AND LOUISA PETERSON WAS TO ALL APPEARANCES A NORMAL WOMAN—GOOD EYES AND EARS, 
AVERAGE MENTALITY AND STATURE AND SOUND PHYSIQUE..  SHE JUST STAYED AT HOME 
AND WORKED AND ATE AND SLEPT, AND THEN WORKED AND ATE AND SLEPT SOME MORE—THE 
SAME THING, LITERALLY THE SAME THING, OVER AND OVER, FOR NEARLY 30000 
CONSECUTIVE DAYS.  PERHAPS A PARALLEL EVENTLESS EXISTENCE COULD NOT BE FOUND 
IN ALL AMERICA.
THE DECEASED WOMAN IS BELIEVED TO HAVE LEFT A RELATIVELY LARGE SUM OF MONEY—
CASH SHE SPENT NEARLY THREE QUARTERS OF A CENTURY SAVING.
MISS PETERSON HAD BEEN SICK FOR SOME TIME, AND HER DEATH WAS NOT UNEXPECTED BY 
RELATIVES.  SHE WAS BURIED LAST SATURDAY.  TWO MAIDEN SISTERS WITH WHO SHE 
LIVED ARE THE NEAREST SURVIVING RELATIVES.  TWO OF HER NEPHEWS, LINTON AND 
MARK PETERSON ARE WELL KNOWN CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTY.


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