Georgia:  Coweta County:  Obituary of Mrs. Millie A. Smith
The Times Herald, 5 March 1897

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OBITUARY

Mrs. Millie A Smith, wife if Mr. Isaac Smith, died in the Sixth district of 
Coweta County very suddenly on Sunday morning, Feb. 7th, 1897, aged 61 years, 
1 month and 7 days. She had not been in very good health, but seemed as well 
as usual; had eaten her breakfast, and was sitting conversing with her 
family, when stricken with death. She died without uttering a word.

Her maiden name was Haynes, and her first husband was William Hammock, by 
whom she had four children, who are yet living – a son in Texas, a daughter, 
Mrs Reynolds in Arkansas; another daughter, Mrs Morgan in Athens; and Mr. 
John Hammock of the Sixth district of this county. 

Early in life, she joined the Methodist Church, and remained a member for a 
number of years; but on marrying Mr. Smith, he being a member of the 
Primitive Baptist Church, she deemed it her duty to connect herself with that 
church. She remained a strict member thereof to the day of her death.  She 
was regarded by those who knew her as a woman who practiced, in her daily 
life, the religion which she professed. Two things convinces me that she was 
a woman of most excellent qualities:
(1)  I never heard her spoken of except in terms of praise.
(2)  She was a good stepmother. Her last husband had a number of children, some 
of whom were small at the time of her marriage to their father.  All these 
stepchildren were raised with the tender solicitude and care of a mother. 
They seemed to love her, and now lament her death as much as if she had 
been their own mother.
	
On the day after her death her funeral was preached by Rev. R C Rhodes of 
Palmetto, to a large congregation of sorrowing relatives and neighbors, and 
her remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Coke’s Chapel.  She leaves 
An aged husband, who, with her children and other relatives, has the sympathy 
of the whole community.   W. W. T.