Pike-Spalding-Monroe County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mary E. Gardner  June 17 1903
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Pike County Times Zebulon, Ga. Friday, September 11, 1903

Obituary

Miss Mary Gardner, daughter of F.M. and P.L. Gardner, was born in Monroe 
county, October 1, 1882, and died in great peace in Griffin, Ga., June 17, 1903.

Miss Mary came of a noble ancestry. Her parents removed from Monroe to Pike 
county and settled near Lifsey, Ga., 1883. Fourteen years later they moved to 
Griffin. Here she grew up and developed into a rarely beautiful character. Her 
death was a home-going, a passing sweetly away from earthly joys and sufferings 
to her heavenly reward. The life history of this estimable Christian woman is 
brief but beautiful. Never of apparently vigorous habit of body, she was during 
her latter years the subject of much physical affliction and suffering. By 
reason of this affliction she was deprived of the privilege of the house of 
God, and shut into the sacred and loving surroundings of home. Here she 
maintained a patient and cheerful spirit and enjoyed the company of visiting 
friends, and received the watchful and tender ministries of her loving parents. 
With a cultured mind and a heart developed by social advantage of high order, 
she was well equipped for life.

Thinking perhaps a visit to the country would improve her health, she and her 
mother went to visit her uncle near Liberty Hill, Ga., but alas! this beautiful 
life, full of promise came to a sudden close.

Patient, uncomplaining, resigned and hopeful, she waited at the margin of the 
last river. She repeatedly testified that she was ready for the change. “I am 
not afraid to die,: she said to her Mother. Then smiling she fell on sleep.

“Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep.”

May the good influence of her life abide with her loved ones forever, and may 
they all meet in heaven.

G.W. Farr
Griffin, Ga., August 27, 1903

[Transcribed 5/29/03 Lynn Cunningham]

Additional Comments:
Note:
At Oak Hill Cemetery, Spalding County, Georgia:
Mary E. Gardner, b. 1 Oct 1882, d. 17 June 1903
Mary was the daughter of Fredrick M. and Perlina English Gardner

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