Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Haygood, Miss Laura 1900
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The Georgia Enterprise, May 4, 1900
The Well Known Missionary Succumbs to the Inevitable at Her Post in China.
     Miss Laura Haygood is dead. She died in Shanghai, China, early Sunday 
morning after an illness of several weeks.
     The news of Miss Haygood’s death will be learned with wide-spread sorrow 
by thousands of devoted friends throughout the South who have anxiously awaited 
news of her condition since it was announced some weeks ago that she was ill.
     For the past year Miss Haygood had been in rapidly declining health, but 
she remained at her post performing the labors that she had devoted her life 
to. Some months ago her condition rapidly grew worse and since that time her 
death has been expected, although everything possible was done to prolong her 
life.
     Miss Laura Haygood was a remarkable woman. Possessed of a strong religious 
faith and decided convictions, she was attracted to the missionary field and 
devoted the best years of her life to the noble work of uplifting and bettering 
the condition of the women of China. Her labors were crowned with remarkable 
success and her death will cause sorrow throughout the entire Chinese empire. 
The women and children of China revered her name and during her missionary 
experience she received many testimonials of the love in which she was held.
     Miss Haygood was born October 14, 1849, and was fifty-one years old, 
therefore, at the time of her death. When the Girl’s High School of Atlanta was 
established she was one of the first teachers. Two years later she was made 
principal. She was remarkably well adapted to educational work and was largely 
instrumental in bringing the school into prominence as one of the leading 
institutions of the kind in the South.
     In 1884 the missionary field in China attracted her attention. She felt 
that her sphere of usefulness among the ignorant women of China would be 
greatly enlarged and asked that she be allowed to go. She was made a missionary 
by the Methodist Episcopal Church South and since that time had devoted herself 
to field work in China, being stationed at Shanghai.
     She mastered the exceedingly difficult language. Studied the needs of the 
people and adopted practical methods in arriving at desired results. It was at 
her suggestion that the McTyiere Home was founded, and institution that has 
proved a potent factor in uplifting the women of China. At the time of her 
death she had had for some time entire charge of Women’s work for the Methodist 
Church in China.
     Miss Haygood was a sister of the late Bishop Atticus G. Haygood, one of 
the most scholarly men in the Methodist Church, whose death some four years ago 
caused profound sorrow. She is survived by a brother and sister, W. A. Haygood 
and Mrs. Myra Boynton, both of Atlanta.
     The funeral took place in Shanghai, and the body was laid to rest in the 
cemetery of that city.

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The Georgia Enterprise, February 2, 1900
SICK IN CHINA
Miss Laura Haygood is critically ill at her home.
     New is received from China, that Miss Laura Haygood, so well known in this 
county, is critically ill and there is very little hope for her recovery. For a 
year, Miss Haygood has been in failing health, but her buoyant and cheerful 
Christian spirit inspired her to work on, and although her friends and sister 
associates in China and her relatives here urged her to return to America that 
she might rest and regain her health, she hoped that a change for the better 
might come and that she might not be forced to give up her work.
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