Marion-Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Posey, Mary A.  July 13, 1908
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The Marion County Patriot, July 24, 1908
The Marion County Patriot, No. 28
Friday, July 24, 1908
Page One

Death of Mrs. Mary A. Posey

Once more the monster Death has entered our home and bore our gentle spirit of 
our beloved one, Mrs. Mary A. Posey, to its Heavenly rest.  On Monday evening, 
July 13, at the closing of the day there ended a life of many years, full of 
earthly care and joy.  Grandma was spared the suffering of a long spell of 
sickness, but during the short time she was sick, her suffering was intense, 
she being paralyzed entirely and unconscious from Saturday until her death 
Monday.

Her aged companion will miss her more than anyone else, they having traveling 
through life hand in hand fifty years.  While she was spared to be here the 
allotted time, we feel loathe to give up such a dear one, yet we are commanded 
to humbly submit to God’s will.

It is impossible for anyone to try to speak of the many good deeds of this 
woman.  Her life was full on usefulness, not only to her home circle, but to 
her neighbors.  Always helping the weak and comforting the sorrowing, spreading 
sunshine and joy wherever she went.

Oh, how her children whom she has raised to grown manhood and womanhood will 
miss the comforting words of mother to give them a better knowledge of this 
world’s ways and the grandchildren, who enjoyed nothing better than visiting 
grandma, will no longer have her to go to with their many cares and sorrows.

We feel that Juniper has lost a good woman and her church one of its 
influential members.  She was always ready to attend her meeting unless 
providentially hindered, and was not afraid to trust Jesus for help when cast 
down, willing to forgive and to ask forgiveness.

On Wednesday her body was carried to the chapel, where a large number of 
relatives and friends met to pay her the last farewell, yet we were comforted 
by the loving tribute paid to her by her pastor, Rev. Booth, of Geneva.  After 
the funeral her remains were carried to Columbus on the 2 o’clock train and 
interred in Riverdale cemetery to await the Master’s call.

We would say to the husband, “hope on.  Ere long you will meet where there will 
be not parting.”  To her children, “follow in the footsteps of your mother, and 
ask God’s help that you will be prepared to join her.”

And we ask God’s help to enable us to bear the burden that has been cast on us 
so suddenly, and we especially ask Him to be with grandpa, in this his hour of 
affliction and to bless the friends that so willingly helped us to comfort her 
in her last hours of sickness, is the prayer of her granddaughter. 

Helen Harris



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