Cobb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ward, Mary Sorrells 1917
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The Marietta Journal & Courier  November 2, 1917
DEATH OF MRS MARY WARD

"The many make the household
 But only one the home."

On Tuesday morning of last week Mrs Mary WARD told her daughter, Mrs Carrie
COTTON, and her granddaughter, Miss Bertha BULLARD, to take her breakfast away
because she was going to die and then lay back on her pillow and very gently
fell asleep in the arms of Death.

She had been injured two weeks before by a fall from a porch but had walked back
into the house afterward.  A sciatic nerve had been torn loose causing paralysis
so she could not walk.  If she had lived she would have been an invalid and
perhaps suffered much pain.

She had been in good health and was strong and active and to be taken so
suddenly is a shock hard for her children to bear.  Hers was a most affectionate
and happy family living in close touch with one another.  She was Miss Mary
SORRELLS and was a beautiful girl of 16 when she and Mr T J WARD were married 50
years ago.

They had always lived near Lost Mountain and had reared their family in the same
home they went to in their youth.

After Mr WARD's death exactly six years ago Mrs WARD had a small cottage built
for a residence and her widowed daughter, Mrs COTTON, lived with her.

All her children, Mrs BULLARD, Mrs COTTON, Mrs LEWIS and Messrs Andrew, Charlie,
Henry, Judson and Lucius WARD were present at her funeral beside hundreds of
relatives and friends.  She had visited her ninth great-grand child, Phillip
BATE, Jr, only three weeks ago.

Since she was 18 years old she had been a member of the Lost Mountain Baptist
church and a former pastor, Rev A J MORGAN of Acworth, preached her funeral
sermon from the text: "This woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she
did."  Often the preacher's voice failed as he recalled happy hours he had spent
in the sweet home she made for her family.  The funeral was held in the
Presbyterian Church which Mrs WARD loved to attend and the pastor, Rev E D
PATTON, had been requested by her to read the 23rd Psalm at her funeral and also
to lead in prayer.  Miss Nannie KEMP was at the organ and the congregation sang
"Nearer My God to Thee" and "Abide With Me" during the service and as the
friends passed by the casket to take a farewell look at the sweet placid face,
she played softly "Shall We Meet Beyond the River" and "Oh Think of a Home over
There."

The pall-bearers were her grand sons, Esmer SORRELLS, Mayes and Esmer WARD, Fred
and Homer COTTON and Phillip BATE.

Among the many beautiful floral tributes was a large pillow of white roses,
dahlias and chrysanthemums, exactly like the one sent by their sons at Mr WARD's
funeral except the golden word on the white satin ribbon of this was "Mother."

So this home is ended as the lovely and beloved mother has been laid to rest,
but her sorrowing children hold her in tender memories and so can feel that
"Live is ever Lord of Death
 And love can never lose its own."

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