Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Howze, Mattie Sue August 23 1910
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, August 26, 1910
Died, at the family residence in Cairo, Tuesday, August 23rd, 1910, at two 
p.m., Mattie Sue Howze, aged 18 years and three months, the only daughter of 
Matthew Howze.

Seldom, or never, has the Messenger been forced to record the death of anyone 
whose departure from our midst has called forth more genuine sympathy than that 
of the dear young woman whose name heads this brief notice.  In bed twenty-four 
days with a very virulent type of fever, she suffered patiently but intensely.  
Skilled physicians, attentive nurses, kind friends and sympathetic neighbors 
did all that was possible to save the life so precious to the already bereaved 
home, but it was not to be.  The death of her mother, from the same terrible 
disease seventeen days before, makes this second death, in this home, within 
the month, strikingly distressing.  The intensest sympathy of many friends and 
of the citizens of Cairo, as a whole, go out to the bereaved father, and to the 
two lonely brothers, Mark and Luke, who are the only ones left of this family 
of eight.  These dear ones sorrow not as those who have no hope but are 
comforted with the bright, happy testimony left them by their precious daughter 
and sister, and this comfort is priceless.  A little while before Mattie Sue 
went away, she called for that grand old hymn, which has comforted so 
many: "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord" and joined in singing it.  
After this was over, she asked for the singing of "We'll meet in the 
resurrection morning" and then for another favorite of hers "Will there be any 
stars in my crown?"  She then looked up and said, "My Lord and My King" and 
requested prayer.  Among her last words were these, which were clear and 
striking: "The Lord is with me and my sins are all taken away."  While the hour 
is very dark with brother Howze and his two sons, this last testimony from the 
dear one is of untold worth and comfort.

Revs. F. A. Ratcliffe and W. E. Towson were at the home as the funeral cortege 
left for Pearce Chapel cemetery, but were unable to go to the grave.  The 
services at the church and graveside were conducted by Rev. J. P. Swann, in the 
presence of a number of sympathizing friends and neighbors, Rev. Jesse Hurst 
making the prayer.  There were several very pretty floral offerings from Cairo 
friends and, perhaps, a dozen conveyances accompanied the hearse from Cairo.  
The attendance at the church was greater than the house could hold.   

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