Mitchell-Dooly County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wingate, Martha Ann Shiver (Mrs. Rosier Wingate) 1925
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The Camilla Enterprise October 1925
The Camilla Enterprise
Camilla, Georgia

October 1925

MRS. ROSIER WINGATE IS CALLED TO REWARD


Beloved woman passes away Wednesday Morning at age of Ninety-One


Numbers of friends and relatives throughout the county were saddened by the 
news of the death of Mrs. Martha Ann Wingate, widow of the late Mr. Rosier 
Wingate, which took place at the home of Mrs. Wingate’s son, Mr. L. G. Wingate, 
Wednesday morning, September 30, 1925 at 8:30 o’clock after a long illness.  On 
July 16, Mrs. Wingate was stricken with paralysis while visiting at the home of 
her daughter, Mrs. Rosella Cutts, in Hopeful Community.  After three or four 
weeks she improved and was able to be carried to the home of her son, but a 
change for the worse came soon afterward and she gradually grew weaker.  She 
had been in a dying condition for several days before the end came and it was 
not unexpected.

Funeral services were held yesterday morning at the Baptist Church, of which 
the husband of the deceased had been a deacon for a number of years before his 
death.  Services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. G. Graham, and attended 
by a large concourse of relatives and friends of the deceased.  Interment was 
in the family lot in Oakview Cemetery.

Mrs. Wingate had received the biblical  blessing of “length of days” in her 
lifetime, a promise to the faithful, and she was ninety one years of age when 
her long and worthy life came to an end.  She was born in old Dooly County and 
was Miss Martha Ann Shiver.  She was married to Mr. Rosier Wingate and spent 
part of her early married life in Alabama, coming to Mitchell County in the 
early days of the county, with her husband and two small children.  The family 
settled here and remained, becoming a real part in the building of the county.  
Mr. and Mrs. Wingate raised a family of eight children.  Mrs. Wingate had been 
a member of the Baptist Church almost an entire lifetime.  She was a woman of 
strong Christian character and the brave and loyal spirit of the pioneer woman, 
trained to endure the hardships of the early days with beautiful womanly 
fortitude that knew no shrinking and demonstrating in her life and the training 
of her children and contact with neighbors and friends, the power of the quiet 
life of a good Christian woman.

Mrs. Wingate is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Rosella Cutts, of near Hopeful, 
and two sons, Mr. L. G. Wingate, of Camilla, and Mr. R. B. Wingate of 
Arlington.  There are thirty nine grandchildren, one hundred and twenty great 
grandchildren, and fifteen great great grandchildren, making in all one hundred 
and seventy four descendants.  As many of these as possible were notified of 
Mrs. Wingate’s death, and many were expected to be here yesterday to attend the 
funeral.  

The entire county mourns the loss of possibly its oldest resident and a most 
estimable woman, and the sympathy of a large number of friends goes out to the 
family in the sadness of their loss.


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