Marion-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Harris, Bettie July 16, 1907
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The Marion County Patriot, July 26, 1907
The Marion County Patriot, No. 28
Friday, July 26, 1907
Page Ten

Death of Mrs. O.R. Harris

Mrs. Bettie Harris, as she was called by her friends and acquaintances, widow 
of Mr. O.R. Harris, late of our county, died at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. 
J.S. McGarrah, in Sumter County, on the night of the 16th inst., surrounded by 
sorrowing friends and relatives.  Her remains were interred in the cemetery at 
Union church, near Draneville in this county, on the evening of the 17th inst., 
Rev. T.R. McMichael performing the burial rites.

It was the lot of this good woman to rear to manhood three young sons, bright 
intellectual boys, the climax of whose ambition was to gratify every wish of 
their parent, considerate and self-sacrificing mother; and to beautiful and 
accomplished young womanhood, two daughters, whose lives of love and devotion 
were always living demonstrations of the fact that “mamma” merited and obtained 
without stint from them the exertion of every effort that would contribute to 
her happiness.

As a wife she measured up to the highest standard.  As a mother she made a 
companion of her children – patient with their infirmities, sharing their 
disappointments and sorrows, encouraging their efforts for good and exulting in 
their success, thereby at all times meriting and obtaining their complete 
confidence.  Endowed with a cheerful disposition and a charitable spirit, 
magnifying the good which she found in those with whom she came in contact, and 
covering their faults with a mantle of charity, she carried the sunlight of joy 
and gladness wherever she went.  In her home and heart the motherless child 
found shelter and sympathy, and decrepit old age was the beneficiary of her 
tender and ministering hand, ready at all times to hold it up in its weakness 
and her sympathetic and loving heart ready to soften its gathering shadows.  
Her life was a benediction to those with whom she associated.  With that 
submission which is born from a higher source, this wife and mother stood in 
deep grief by the open grave of her husband, and child after child, until she 
was left alone; and though each death brought its sadness and sorrow, yet her 
resignation, consistent with the life which she lived, was akin to the divine.  
Her quiet unassuming consistent Christian life, with the resignation with which 
she bore her bereavements, has made the impress on hearts of friends and 
relatives alike; and while all give her up in sadness, all rejoice in the fact 
that the privilege was theirs to know her, and to be the beneficiaries of her 
noble and unselfish life.

As it was the writer’s privilege in his school-boy days to share in her home, 
with her children, her affectionate care and motherly love, it is his to join 
hands of sadness in her death with her friends and relatives and mingle his 
tears of sympathy with the tears of her grandchildren, who were the recipients 
of her tender consideration and loving care during the last years of her life.

W.B. Short




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