Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Rainwater, Margaret December 29, 1905
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Atlanta Constitution, 30 December 1905
Friendless In Death.
Margaret Rainwater's Funeral Paid For by Public Subscription.

Margaret Rainwater is dead and there is not a friend of relative on earth to 
mourn her or provide anything but a pauper's funeral for her body.  So the 
members of the Barclay mission are raising funds that she may not have to sleep 
in the pauper's field.
Margaret Rainwater lived on Marietta road beyond the city, where, partly by her 
own labor and partly by charity, she was enabled to eke out a meager living.  
She was a regular attendant at the Barclay mission, to which little 
congregation she was devoted.
On last Saturday evening, while the Christmas shoppers thronged the streets, 
she was threading her way among them, when a bullet fired from a pistol in the 
hands of a drunken negro struck her.  The wounded woman was taken to the Wesley 
hospital, where she lingered until yesterday morning.
She lived alone and she is alone in death.  Unless money is raised she will be 
laid away in a nameless grave among the paupers.  The members of the Barclay 
mission have tided her over the many rough place in her life and now they are 
striving to have her body placed in a grave where it will rest undisturbed.
Those who are raising money for this funeral and burial ask that all persons 
who may be touched by the lonely woman's life and lonely tragic death, send 
their contributions to John F. Barclay.


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