Grady-Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Connell, Nancy Gertrude  January 6 1910
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, January 7, 1910
Passing Away of Mrs. A. B. Connell
Again the death angel visited one of the happiest homes in all Grady.  Last 
Wednesday Mrs. Connell, wife of Mr. A. B. Connell, who resides near Cairo, 
passed peacefully away after an illness of only a few weeks. All that kind 
attention, good nursing and good medical skill could do was done but all to no 
purpose.  The summons had been received and was quickly answered.  None thought 
that so soon would her spirit take its departure to that bourne from which no 
traveler returns.  She leaves a husband and two daughters to mourn her death 
besides many relatives and friends.  The Messenger deeply sympathize with the 
family in their loss of wife and mother and may He who can, comfort them as He 
alone can.


The Cairo Messenger, Friday January 21, 1910    
Mrs. A. B. Connell
Mrs. Nancy Gertrude Connell whose maiden name was Applewhite, was born in 
Thomas County, Georgia, April 24th, 1858.  Converted in girlhood, she joined 
the Baptist Church while in her eighteenth year.  Two years later, on the 
occasion of her marriage to Abner C. Connell, she united with the Methodist 
Church, of which her husband was a member, continuing in it till she was 
translated to the Church triumphant, Jan. 6th, 1910.  Her husband and two 
daughters, Mrs. W. E. Drew of Grady Co., and Mrs. J. W. Lilley, wife of Rev. J. 
W. Lilley of the South Georgia Conference survive her.  Besides her husband and 
two daughters, she leaves an only sister, Mrs. Sallie Jones of Grady county and 
two brothers, T. P. and R. N. Applewhite, both of Thomasville, Georgia, who 
mourn her loss.

Sister Connell was a good woman and had a living faith in her Lord.  She left a 
bright testimony as to her salvation and readiness for her translation.  
Although never seriously ill, still she seemed possessed with a premonition 
that she would not survive.  A week, or more, before her death, she sent for a 
beloved friend for the express purpose of telling her that she had saving faith 
in Christ and that she believed she would go home to be with God, should her 
illness terminate seriously, as she thought it would.

Leaving them suddenly, her family and friends rejoice greatly in this spoken 
testimony, given so near to the end of her life's journey.  But it was not 
needed to assure them that "Mama" is at Home with God, for they knew what her 
life was here -- walking with God, and doing His service -- and that her new 
life, on the Other Shore, could only be of the same character.  One who knew 
her well, -- and has spent several weeks of each of nearly a dozen years in her 
home -- testifies that she was naught but love, "the happiest home I ever 
saw."  "The only absolutely contented woman I ever met, loving her family 
devotedly."

Sister Connell died suddenly, but it was
"Not death to die,
To leave this weary road,
And amid the brotherhood on high
To be at home with God."

She sleeps well for she sleeps in Jesus; and those who sit alone in their 
sorrow know whither she has gone, and the way to reach her.
A friend  

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