Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....ABBOTT, Susan January 18, 1909
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The Brunswick Journal; Monday & Tuesday 18-19 January 1909
[From Margaret Davis Cate Folder 125 Rec. 1 Series 1]

SUDDEN DEATH OF OLD SERVANT—For Many Years a Faithful Servant in Family of 
Judge Crovatt.

There will be genuine sorrow expressed by a very large number of white people 
when they learn of the death of “Mammy Sue,” who has been faithful servant in 
the family of Judge A.J. Crovatt for the past thirty years.

Everybody knew “Mammy Sue”; she had been so identified with the family of “her 
people” as to be one of them.

Born in Charleston, a slave, Susan Abbot [sic], as she was known, was brought 
to St. Simons Island and was the servant of the Hazzard family there.  At the 
close of the war, Susan became a member of the family of Col. C.L. Schlatter, 
the father of Mrs. A.J. Crovatt.  After the marriage of Miss Mary Lee 
Schlatter to Mr. A.J. Crovatt, “Mammy Sue” went with her young mistress and 
was the nurse of three children of Judge and Mrs. Crovatt.  As the widow of a 
soldier in the Federal Army during the war, Mammy Sue was awarded a pension by 
the government.  Though her husband fought on the Federal side, Mammy Sue 
staid [sic] with her “own people.”

Famous as a cook, devoted to the interests of those with whom she had been so 
many years, the death of Mammy Sue removes another of the rare ante-bellum 
negroes.

Her illness was of only a few hours duration; the young daughter of the house, 
Mary Lee Crovatt, had gone to see the old woman at ten o’clock to giver her a 
cup of tea; Mammy did not complain of being ill, and had been about her usual 
duties all day yesterday.  Though eighty years of age, Mammy Sue was 
remarkably active, and was in full control of all her faculties.  At one 
o’clock another of the servants heard the old woman calling, and Miss Crovatt 
and her brother went to the room in the servants house.  When the door was 
opened, Mammy Sue was unconscious and died with(in) a few minutes.  Four 
children survive, Thomas and Joseph Abbot and Eliza Cuyler, all of whom live 
on St. Simons.  Another son, Randolph Abbot, being in Charleston.  The body 
will be carried to St. Simons where it will be interred tomorrow.



The Brunswick Journal; Tuesday 19 January 1909; pg. 1

FUNERAL OF MAMMY SUE HELD ON ST. SIMONS

The body of Susan Abbott, or “Mammy Sue” the aged servant of Judge A.J. 
Crovatt, was carried to St. Simons this morning for interment.

Services were held last night in the First African Baptist Church, of which 
church, Mammy Sue had long been a member.


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