Oconee-Oglethorpe County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hutcheson, Bell September 23, 1916
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Oconee Enterprise, Friday, September 29, 1916
Miss Bell Hutcheson Died Saturday Night
   Miss Bell Hutcheson, aged sixty-one , died at the home of her sister, Mrs.
T.H. Dozier, in Athens, Saturday night about 8:30, after an illness extending
over a period of two years or more, the past six weeks being practically
confined to her room and bed all the while.
   She was a daughter of the late T.D. Hutcheson and was born and reared in
Oglethorpe county.  Some twenty-odd years ago she moved to Watkinsville with her
brother, Mr. James Hutcheson, recently deceased, and had mad her home here since
that time.  She was a sister of Mrs. T.H. Dozier and an aunt of Mrs. A. W.
Dozier, both of Athens.  A brother, Mr. Edward Hutcheson, died a few weeks ago
in Atlanta; and a niece, Miss Bessie Hutches, daughter of Mr. Edward Hutcheson,
died only a few days ago.  Another brother, Mr. James Hutcheson, and his wife,
Mr. Mamie Nichols Hutcheson, only a few short months ago passed away at their
home here.
   A nobler Christian character than “Miss Belle” never breathed God’s sunshine;
kind, gentle, loving, sympathetic, she went about her daily duties exhaling an
atmosphere purifying in its nature, exerting to the utmost an influence for the
good and pure in life, and lifting every man, woman and child coming within its
charmed radius to a higher play.  The earthy tabernacle that encased her noble
soul will shortly revert to dust, but the example of her unselfish life, her
devotion to loved ones, her purity of thought and deeds will live forever, yea
“till the stars are old and the leaves of the judgment book unfold”. 
   She was brave and cheerful to the last.  Though she knew the insidious nature
of her ailment far numbered her days on earth, that the final summons might come
any day or hour, with the fortitude of a true Christian soldier she calmly faced
the inevitable with a smile of resignation beautiful to behold and was ready to
respond to the command of her Lord and Master when it so pleased Him to
enunciate the magic, healing worlds “come up higher.”
   As she lived, so she died – a true, brave, tender, loyal, Christian woman,
the noblest handiwork of all creation’s wonder, a living, vivid testimonial of
the absolute fact that thru service to mankind, following the example of the
lowly Nazarene, we are lifted to heights sublime and in the final hour of life’s
fitful dream, on angel wings, transported to the glory land as a reward eternal
for faithful service here performed.
   Sunday afternoon, at 4 o’clock, in the beautiful Winterville cemetery, loving
hands tenderly lowed the tenement of clay of this good woman to its final
resting place beside loved ones already there, the grave ceremony being
conducted by a cousin of the deceased, Rev. Luke Johnson, of Grace M.E. church,
Atlanta, assisted by Rev. J.C. Morris, of the First Methodist church, Athens. 
There under a spreading magnolia, her earthly couch bordered with the evergreen,
“Miss Belle” rests from her labors, while in the hearts of all who knew her she
lives, and like the evergreen, the example of her life will continue to live and
exhale a kindly influence for life’s better things through all the years to come.
   Our hearts tenderest sympathy is extended to all who grieve over the
departure of their loved one.



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