Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Herring, Margaret Ann January 23, 1920
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The Cairo Messenger, January 30, 1920
Mrs. Herring, Beloved Woman, Died Friday

Mrs. Margaret Ann Herring, one of the county's oldest and most respected women, 
died at her home in Cairo at noon on Friday, January 23rd, and interment was on 
Saturday afternoon in the family lot in the Cairo cemetery.  All the local 
ministers of the gospel took part in the services which were held at 2:30 
Saturday afternoon.

The Methodist Church was filled with relatives and friends of the family.  Mrs. 
Herring was the wife of Judge P. H. Herring who served for eleven years as 
Ordinary of Grady County.  She was one of the best loved women in all of this 
section.  No one who knew her well could help being drawn close to her by her 
kind, tender loving disposition.  She had hosts of friends but never an enemy, 
because she never did anything to make an enemy.

Mrs. Herring was born in Decatur County, Georgia October 1st, 1847, and was 
married to P. H. Herring September 24th 1868.  They lived long and happily 
together.  Many of our citizens were present at the celebration of their golden 
wedding at the home of their daughter.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Herring is survived by the following children, Mrs. 
A. E. Bell, Mrs. Ira Higdon and Mrs. Thomas Wight of Cairo; Mrs. Joseph Higdon, 
Marvin Herring and Pierce Herring of Calvary; Thomas W. Herring, Kedar M. 
Herring and Mrs. George L. Snider of Bakerfield, California and Henry H. 
Herring of Pelham.  There are also thirty one surviving grandchildren.

When a young woman, Mrs. Herring joined the Methodist church at old Pumphrey 
church and for fifty years lived an unblemished Christian life.  She will be 
long remembered for her many virtues.

Mrs. Herring had only been confined to her bed one week.  Her illness was first 
pronounced continued fever, but on the day previous to her death, complications 
developed, symptoms of pneumonia and influenza having been observed.

  

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