Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wight, Mae Humphrey January 17 1919
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, January 24, 1919
Mrs. J. Slater Wight Died Friday Morning

There passed away on Friday morning, January 17th, a most beautiful life, whose 
memory will be fresh and fragrant as the dew in the long years to come.  Mrs. 
J. Slater Wight died at her home near Tallahassee, Fla., early that morning 
after a very brief illness of influenza and pneumonia.  This news was quite 
shocking to her many friends in Cairo.

Mrs. Wight was first known here as Miss Mae Humphrey when she came here from 
Bowling Green, Ky. in 1916 to visit her sister, Mrs. J. P. Vanduzee.

She was born in Hopkinsville, Ky., in December 1892.  When she was only one 
year of age her father died.  In a short while after his death her home was 
removed to Bowling Green, Ky., and here she continued to live until the fall of 
1916.  Her mother having died she then made her home with her sister, Mrs. Hugh 
Morris, in Louisville, Ky.  She was educated at Bethel College in Bowling.  On 
April 12, 1917, she was married to Mr. John Slater Wight of this city.  Cairo 
was their home until May 1918, Mr. Wight accepted a position with the 
Tallahassee Pecan Company and since that time they have resided three miles 
north of Tallahassee.

She was 26 years of age and was a member of the Presbyterian church until after 
her marriage she then removed her membership to the Methodist church of which 
her husband is a member.

She was a beautiful young woman; always bright and happy, her genial smile will 
be greatly missed by her friends and loved ones to whom our hearts go out in 
sympathy.

The funeral services of Mrs. Wight and her infant son were held from the 
residence of Mr. J. B. Wight at two-thirty o'clock Saturday afternoon and the 
interment followed in the local cemetery.  Rev. J. G. Christian led the 
services being assisted by Dr. J. A. Wynne.

The pall bearers were: Messrs. C. P. Poulk, Wh. Searcy, E. C. Powell, W. L. 
Wight, of Cairo, G. W. Wight of Atlanta and Fred Benton of Monticello, Ga.

She leaves besides her husband, two sisters, Mrs. J. P. VanDuzee of Cairo and 
Mrs. Hugh Morris of Louisville, Ky., and two brothers, Messrs. Adriel Humphrey 
of Washington, D. C. and Tom Humphrey of the U. S. Navy to cherish her 
beautiful life.   
 

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