Coweta County GaArchives Obituaries.....Brakefield, Mary Eva 1905
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The Enterprise Gazette, August 17, 1905
A Tribute of Love.
It is with deep sorrow we mourn the departure of our little friend Mary Evan 
Brakefield.  Her life though brief, was a rare poem of infinite sweetness and 
earnest Christian piety and the tendrils of the hearts of the Juniors and 
teachers had been drawn close about her.

But yesterday, as it seems, she was among us in the full flush of innocent 
childhood, yet in a few short days the grim Destroyer seized her and her gentle 
lovely spirit took its flight to that Celestial home of Eternal Light.

God loaned her ot us for a little while, then reached down and plucked the 
lily, leaving us the sweet fragrance of a pure, spotless life.  Fare-thee-well 
pupil and friend.  We have loved thee and love the still.  Thy character is 
fairer than the lily and more fragrant than the jessamine.

"Thou art gone like a beautiful dream of youth or the vision of an angel 
vanishing in the night, yet thou dost still abide like sweet strains of music 
echoing in the memory and wooing us to a nobler life".  We shall miss thee in 
the Sunday school, no more will thou answer to roll call for thou has answered 
the summons on high.  Thy sweet face, gentle voice and unselfish deeds are 
things of yesterday, but in the days to come memory will oft times whisper thy 
name in loving ears and hope ??? down to loved ones and point a finger 
heavenward.  Since it has pleased the All wise Providence to take from us our 
beloved friend and esteemed associate, be it

Resolved, That the Senoia Baptist Sunday school has lost a most faithful little 
attendant, the church a consecrated worker, the school an ambitious pupil and 
the home a precious jewel.

Resolved, That her gentle, modest, pure life ever be cherished and that her 
example of sweet humility and consecration ever linger to stimulate and inspire 
us to a brighter, nobler life.

Resolved, That we join in sorrow and sympathy for the dear ones of her home and 
entreat God's blessings upon them.


Resolved, That these resolutions be placed on the minutes of the Sunday school 
and that a copy be sent the family of the deceased.

Mrs. Annie M. Davis,
Miss Maud Fowler,
Miss Lucile Carlton,
Miss Grace Jones,
Miss Ruth Edwards,
Committee.


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