Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Davis, Madge Ivey July 1933
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The Camilla Enterprise July 24, 1933

Mrs. Ivey C. Davis Dies Very Suddenly

Causing widespread sorrow throughout the county Tuesday afternoon, July 24, 
1933, was the news that Mrs. Madge Ivey Davis, wife of Mr. Ivey C. Davis, of 
Hopeful, one of the most generally loved women of the county, had passed away 
at noon Tuesday at the 
Alford Hospital in Bainbridge.  News of Mrs. Davis’ death was a grievous shock 
to many as her illness was not generally known.  Mrs. Davis had been in bad 
health for some time and went to the hospital last week, where she underwent 
surgery about the middle of the week and seemed to be getting along all right.  
Early this week her condition took a backward turn and she continued to grow 
worse until  the end came Tuesday.

The body was brought to the home of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Burson, the old Ivey 
home, where Mrs. Davis was born and reared, and the funeral took place there 
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the presence of hundreds of sorrowing 
friends from Hopeful, Camilla, and many other sections of the county, where the 
deceased was known and loved.  The services were conducted by the Rev. J.I.D. 
Miller, who was assisted by Rev. Carswell.  Loved old hymns of Christian faith 
were sung by the chior.  The floral offerings, unusually numerous and 
beautiful, attested mutely to the love and sympathy of friends for the stricken 
family.  After services at the home, the body was carried to Oakview Cemetery 
and laid to rest in the Ivey family lot.

The pallbearers were Messrs. Roy Stripling, R. S. Rice, H. V. Davis, Geo. A. 
Burson, Ralph Davis, and F. C. Davis.

A large number of friends and relatives from a distance attended the funeral.  
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Rice and family and others from Arlington, Mrs. C. C. 
Willis, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Conger and others from Bainbridge, a large number 
from Newton and friends from other places.  From Hopeful, Mrs. Davis’ home 
community, where she is much loved, almost everyone was present, a number of 
colored people going to show their love for “Miss” Madge.

Mrs. Davis was 42 years of age when death cut short a worthy and useful career 
of fine womanhood.  She was Miss Madge Ivey, youngest daughter of Mrs. Ida 
Taylor Ivey and the late Mr. Lynn Ivey.  She was happily married to Mr. Ivey C. 
Davis of Hopeful, where she spent her entire married life.  Happy and sunshiny 
of nature, she loved everyone and took a keen delight in working in the 
interest of others.  She fell easily into community leadership with the women 
and served her church, the school, and community affairs with a joyous 
devotion.  She was always ready to join in any enterprise of pleasure and 
benefit to others.  The price of such a good woman can never be measured.  Her 
influence will live in the years to come in the lives and hearts of those she 
has touched with her happy love and service.  Mrs. Davis had been a member of 
the Baptist Church since girlhood and loved the church and all of its 
institutions deeply, giving to it her true and loyal service as long as she 
lived.   She was a devoted wife and mother, a chum with her children, and a 
friend to her every acquaintance.  Relatives and numerous friends are 
disconsolate in the loss of such a friend, but are richer for having known her.

Surviving Mrs. Davis are her husband and five children, the eldest Miss Martha 
Davis, a young girl of seventeen, and four little boys.  She also leaves her 
mother, Mrs. Ida T. Ivey, three brothers, Cecil T. Ivey, Camilla, Reed Ivey and 
Gordon Ivey, Homestead, Florida, and three sisters, Mrs. R. S. Rice, Arlington, 
Mrs. George A. Burson, Camilla, and Mrs. W. M. Bradley of Homestead, Florida


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