Newton-Dekalb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Miss Mary Frances Anderson March 31 1907
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The Enterprise, April 5, 1907
Death of Miss Anderson
  Died in LaGrange, Ga., March 31, 1907, after an illness of about three months,
Miss Mary Frances Anderson, youngest daughter of Col. Joseph Anderson, one of
the pioneer citizens of Covington, a man of sterling worth and who during a 
long and useful life, was prominently identified, with this city. The subject
of this sketch, "Dollie" as she was familiarly called by those who loved her,
was a sister of Mrs. Lucy Harris, and a half sister of W. P. (Gen. Tige) and
J. B. Anderson, and Mrs. Henry T. Henry, and an aunt of Mrs. G. D. Butler, of
our city. Though frail in body, she was endowed with an unusally bright mind,
and rare gifts and graces that endeared her to a host of friends. All her life
she was a close student, with a capacity to receive, analyse, and retain
knowledge, and I doubt if there was a more highly cultured woman in the south,
and yet, there was nothing priggish about her, she was a modest, unaffected, and
unassuming as a child. She early gave her heart to God and her life to His
service, and for long years (she was sixty three when she died) had been a 
member of the Methodist church. When quite young she entered upon her life
work, that of teaching, for which she was so well qualified, both by nature
and education. She taught first in Covington, then for more than twenty years
in Decatur, where she went to make her home after the death of her father. She
was a most excellent teacher, possessing the rare gift of imparting knowledge,
winning the lasting love and confidence of her scholars inspiring them with a 
love for noble, the beautiful, and the true, and patiently and lovingly training
their minds and hearts for right living.
  Possessed of indomitable energy and perserverance, she held on to her work
until the frail suffering body could do no more than hoping that rest and 
treatment would restore her health, she entered the sanitarium at LaGrange.
  Her request was to be buried at Covington to sleep at the feet of her sister.
Her remains were interred here Monday.

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