Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....McIntosh, Mary Agnes November 1924
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The Atlanta Constitution, November 30, 1924
The Atlanta Constitution
Sunday, November 30, 1924
Page Two K

Noted Georgia Club Woman Is Dead

Mary Agnes McIntosh, age 74, widow of Daniel A. McIntosh, was buried at 
Molena, Ga., November 24 after a long illness.  She was a woman who, despite 
her years, was keenly interested in the church and club work.  She was a 
remarkably brilliant woman, her poems being gems of beauty.  She composed the 
county song for the Pike County Federation.  Her patrician face will be missed 
at the club gatherings which she so enjoyed.  Only a few weeks before she died 
she composed the following poem:

In my Father’s house are many mansions. 
And faces with the freshness of youth.
With no sneers to deride, no scorning or pride,
And the treasure of friendship and truth.
Mercy will follow me all of my days;
I will dwell in His mansions so fair;
I will rest in green pastures, and walk in the ways
Which He has prepared for me there.
There is a home in the valley of peace, 
Away from all anger and strife,
Where songs are not hushed, nor hearts ever crushed,
Beside the still waters of life.
There is a home that is close to Him,
And I know that all sorrow and pain
His love will allay, His hand smooth away,
And clouds will be sunlit again.

Mrs. McIntosh is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Julian C. Wilkes, president of 
Pike County Federation of Women’s Clubs; seven grandchildren, one brother, 
R.M. Baker, of Decatur, a sister, Mrs. L.V. Breedlove, of Fort McPherson. 

She has been a striking figure in this section and her strong personality has 
been felt by all with whom she has come in contact.  She was the widow of D.A. 
McIntosh, a Confederate veteran, and when a young girl had been in the path of 
Sherman’s army twice, in Jacksonville, Fla., and Morgan County.

Mrs. Alonzo Richardson, director for Georgia in the general federation, saw 
Mrs. McIntosh in Molena, Ga., several days before her death and she told her 
that “she was glad to have lived to see the Georgia club women come to the 
front and take their rightful and influential place in the life of today.”


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