Coffee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Stowers, Fannie Bellflower Maddox August 31, 1912
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In Memory of Mrs. T. A. Stowers   Oh, what sorrow and saddness came to the 
family and community August 31, at the hour of one o'clock.  < The angel -
death- came and carried off the pure soul of Mrs. Fannie Maddox Stowers to 
God, who gave it. <  Her remains were laid to rest  in the Douglas Cemetery, 
Rev. W. A. Huckabee and Rev. H. H. Shell officiating.  <  The large concourse 
of friends and loved ones that attended showed the highest esteem in which she 
was held. < On December 11, 1901, she became the the wife of Mr. T. A. Stowers 
in her nineteenth year.  She walked bravely and truly by his side  through all 
the joys and sorrows through which they had to pass.  Their union was blessed 
with six children two of which have preceded her by a few years to the better 
land.  <  She joined the Methodidt Church a year or so ago, and has tried to 
live a Christian life.  She leaves, besides a good husband and four children, 
aged parents who are bowed with grief and sorrow, three sisters Mrs. W. A. 
Clark, of Jacksonville Ga., Mrs J. S. Goodwin, of Atlanta, and Miss. Mattie 
Maddox; three brothers, Messrs. W. W. Maddox, H.T. Maddox, and J.B. Maddox. 
<It is at this time that words fail to express the feelings of our sad hearts-
a tender clinging vine intewoven in sweet memories from the time the angel 
gave her to our home.  A gentle spirit of light that flitted in and out like a 
gleam of sunshine.  No one can fill her place in our hearts. It will be a 
sacred thought in years and years to come, to loved ones and friends that she 
shed radiance in the home as long as she lived.  < It will be a blessed 
recollection that she grew up to love and be loved by those  who will ever so 
tenderley cherish her sweet and pure memory. I know how impossible it is to 
silence grief with words, but the heart pleads for utterance, and let it speak 
like thus. We bow in sorrow at the taking of our loved one, feeling that while 
the ripened fruit may be gathered, it seems hard that the mother wasn't spared 
to her dear ones.  In the ways of kind nature this is, perhaps, the best, in 
taking from us our dear Fannie. < We try to accept the cross and bear it, 
beleiving we will meet her in the angel-land, where the spirit of this dear 
daughter, wife, mother and sister has so early flown. < From a sad and broken-
hearted.                                                                       
                                                   
Mother                                                                         
       

Additional Comments:
Daughter of William Jackson and Martha Dandridge Hull Maddox.   All three 
buried in the Douglas City Cemetery.

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