Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Godwin, Callie  February 26 1909
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, March 5, 1909
A Sad Death
Miss Callie Godwin, daughter of Mrs. J. F. Godwin, died at the residence of Mr. 
James McKown, her step-grandfather, near Cairo, last Friday, Feb. 26th.  She 
was the second daughter of Mr. J. F. Godwin, deceased, a formerly well-known 
citizen of Grady County -- Mrs. Lucius G. Merritt, of Cairo, the other and now 
only surviving child.

Miss Callie was a lovely young lady, affectionately esteemed by all who knew 
her, and in her death, her widowed mother has sustained a sad loss; the 
bereavement is almost equally trying to her devoted grandmother, while her 
sister, her aunt, Mrs. M. G. McManeus, and other relatives are afflicted with a 
great sorrow.

She was a sincere and devoted Christian, having been united with Long Branch 
church, at the age of fifteen or sixteen years, and in her modest, quiet way, 
her life was a beautiful model.

She was greviously afflicted, for a number of years, with a spasmodic trouble 
of frequent recurrence and her attendant sufferings were dreadful; but she bore 
all in a spirit of heroic Christian fortitude.

From the point of view just presented, her death was a blessed release, and in 
that occurrence, so sad and trying to her family and friends, she really 
experienced a happy transition from a bondage of inexpressible suffering, on 
earth to a heaven of infinite peace and bliss, above.

The attack which carried her off lasted only a few hours.  She appeared to 
realize, from the first, that the end was at hand and she met it without fear.  
Then, the excruciating agony over, her sweet spirit doubtless gladly left the 
tortured body and winged its flight joyfully home.
Friend    

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