Madison County GaArchives Obituaries.....Crawford, Mamie June 17, 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Christine Crumley-Brown spida1023@gmail.com October 3, 2019, 9:24 pm Danieslville Monitor IN MEMORIAM The gay season of commencement has just closed. The sound of music and dance has passed away. The merry voices of young men and maidens have left us. The halls of pleasure have been dismantled and are closed. There is a settled stillness over all the town. With the quiet that follows a season of gayety comes a time for reflection and retrospection. The picture has not been all sunshine, for in it the heavy shows lie. There is a strange commingling of darkness with the light. While many homes have shone with radiance and beauty and there has been the sparkle of wit out on green lawns and in the gay drawing rooms, there has been one home not very far away, under the shadow and gloom of death. In the heart of our city, the fathers and mothers looked with pride and affection on their young and happy children; a little beyond out city, one heartbroken mother and a grief- stricken father, sat beside an open coffin and looked down upon the lifeless face of their darling daughter. In the heart of our city there was laughter and music, and dace; a kittle beyond our city there were the signs of a mourning and the cry of distress. In our city there was hope, and happiness, and joy; not very far away sadness, sorrow and despair. Truly these lives of ours are a strange commingling of darkness with light. the death of Miss Mamie Crawford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Crawford, of Barberville, a member of the Lucy Cobb Institute, has suggested these thoughts. She was born July 22, 1879, and died June 17, 1899, just before completing her twentieth year. She entered the Lucy Cobb when only five years of age, and had been in the school probably longer than any other pubil. From the time to time her course of study was interrupted by illness, and she had to be withdrawn some time for moths. This, of course, retarded her progress, but with persistence which characterized her, she would return as soon as she was able and go on with her work. Her graduation seemed to be the goal for which she was striving. For months before her illness she was really not able to be in school, but she refused to withdraw at the suggestion of teaches and friends. When she was seriously attacked by disease, she had no the strength to resist it. She was taken ill on Friday, June 2d the day her school work closed, and died two weeks later, June 16th. The prize for improvement in the piano department was sent to her during her illness, so also was the diploma for which she had so faithfully striven. They were honors well earned. The Lucy Cobb has never had a more conscientious, truthful and earnest pupil than Mamie Crawford. During the many years of her association with us neither pupil nor teacher has had aught but commendation and love for her. She had a beautiful Christian character. Her friendship was to be desired; her energy and persistence to be admired; her faithfulness to duty to be commended; and her example to be imitated. She was buried in her graduating dress. Her body was taken to the church where, three years ago, she pledged her young life to the service of her divine Master, and finally to the family burying ground not very far distant. The funeral rites were conducted by the minister who had baptised her, and a large circle of mourning friends and relatives followed her to the grave. Strange are the contrasts in the shifting scenes of the commencement that has just passed. Even in the brightest pictures there are shows deep and long. M. A. Lipscomb File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/madison/obits/c/crawford15546ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb