Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Battle, Mary Elizabeth Wilson Hilliard October 4, 1958
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"The Camilla Enterprise" dated 10 Oct 1958
Obituary of Mary Elizabeth Wilson Hilliard Battle as written on page 7 of The 
Camilla Enterprise dated 10 Oct 1958.  Camilla, Georgia.  
Funeral services for Mrs. Charles Henry Battle, eighty-six year old pioneer 
resident of Mitchell County, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. E. 
Crow, early Saturday evening, October 4th, were held on Monday morning at 
eleven o'clock at the residence on South Harney Street.  The Rev. Louis M. 
Spivey, pastor of Camilla Methodist Church, officiated and was assisted by Rev. 
N. H. Williams, retired.  Interment was in Oakview Cemetery.  Bramlett Funeral 
Home of Camilla had charge of funeral arrangements.  Pallbearers were Frederick 
Wilson, Raymond Miller, Pledger Parker, Lewis Rivers, Ed Hilliard, and J. B. 
Chism, Jr.  Mrs. Battle was the former Miss Mary Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of 
the late James M. and Emily Bradford Wilson.  She was born in the Bethany 
community on January 23, 1872, moving later to Camilla.  She was first married 
to Ambrose Hilliard who died a few years after their only child, Nina, was 
born.  This daughter later married J. B. Sasser of Atlanta and died back in 
1923.  Several years after her first husband, Mr. Hilliard, died the deceased 
was married to Charles Henry Battle.  He died in 1902, leaving Mrs. Battle with 
a group of small children, all under the age of five.  To rear her family Mrs. 
Battle then took over operation of a boarding house, located on the corner of 
Broad and South Harney Street, where the Lewis Rivers Service Station is now 
located.  Mrs. Battle ran the boarding house for a number of years.  She also 
worked up town, clerking in the old H. H. Perry Company and later at I. Macey 
store.  After she left the boarding house she lived with her parents and took 
care of them until they died.  Thirty-five years ago when her daughter, Mary 
Lucy, was married to A. E. Crow she went to live with them and it was here that 
she spent the remaining years of her life.  Mrs. Battle was a member of the 
Camilla Methodist Church, taught Sunday School there, and was active in church 
work until ill health force retirement.  Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. 
Crow and Mrs. Walter Jackson of Baconton; a son, Charlie H. Battle of Miami, 
Fla.; three sisters, Mrs. J. C. Rivers and Mrs. Ed Hilliard of Camilla and Mrs. 
George Parker Sr., of Cordele; a brother, the Rev. J. H. Wilson of Dublin; six 
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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