Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mary Susan Bagby August 9 1902
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The Georgia Enterprise, Sept. 5, 1902

In Memorium
"Twas at thy door, O friend! and not at mine.
The angel with the amaranthine wreath,
Pausing, descended and with voice divine.
Whispered a word that had the sound of Death.
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom.
A shadow on those features thin and fair;
And softly from that bushed and darkened room.
Two angels issued, where but one went in."
  Indeed were these words made forcible with the death of Miss Mary
Susan Bagby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bagby, was announced.
  She was born in Newton County wherein she has lived until two years
ago, then moving with her people to Atlanta.
  She died on Tuesday morning, August 9, 1902, at ten o'clock, being
twenty-eight years of age.
   On Saturday she came down from Atlanta to visit her brother, Mr.
Flem Bagby, for a few weeks, apparently in good health. On Sunday night
she was taken suddenly ill; a physician was called and on Monday
she appeared considerably better; talked with friends and even left her
bed at intervals. But at midnight she grew rapidly worse, yet it was
only at the last those administering to her wants realized that she
must succumb to the bidding of the Almighty, giver of life. Thus it
was her death came as a sudden shock to her people and friends.
  She had been a consistent member of Mt. Pleasant Methodist church
for several years, living a life of pure example and evidencing in
her affliction an assurance of peace and joy to the great beyond to which 
she was called.
  She leaves to mourn her death a father and mother, three sisters and 
six brothers. Her remains were carried to Atlanta, where they were 
interred on Thursday at West View cemetery.
"In the cold moist earth we laid her when,
  the forest cast the leaf.
And we wept that one so lovely should
  have a life so brief,
Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that,
  young friend of ours.
So gentle and so beautiful, should perish
  with the flowers." 
-----A Friend
Mansfield, Ga., Sept. 1st, 1902

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