Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dixon, Mary George July 15, 1909
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The Schley County News  Friday July 16, 1909
MRS DIXON DEAD 
Our little town on Thursday afternoon was deeply saddened when it was 
announced that death had claimed Mrs. Mary George Dixon, for all who had
known her so long, realized that a true, good woman had gone.  Mrs. Dixon had 
been in declining health for more than a year past, but more recently her
condition became serious and owing to her advanced age, none felt that she 
would ever recover again.  She died in her seventy-seventh year, and while her
life has been a long one, she leaves a record of honesty of purpose and true 
southern womanhood that is unspotted, which shall ever be appreciated by the
people of Ellaville and Schley county, among whom she had lived since her 
childhood.  Mrs. Dixon had far more than a half century been a member of the
Methodist church of this place.  In her church life she exercised the same 
spirit of conscientious purpose and conservatism that she exemplified in her
every day life, thus gaining and holding the unshaken confidence of all.  In 
fact, she was a woman that lived and looked above the petty sins to which 
human nature is often so prone to indulge in.  As we think of her life, we 
feel that we can safely say, that she was one that we have known who lived
even more than she professed and we know that her chief ambition was to always 
do the right.


She is survived by three sons, namely, Mr. L.W. Dixon, of LaCrosse, Mr. Olin 
Dixon, of Americus, and Mr. Claude Dixon, of Ellaville;  all of whom shall
receive the entire sympathy of the people of our county in this, the sad loss 
of a good mother.


The funeral services were conducted from the home this afternoon, conducted by 
her pastor, Rev. C.A.Norton, and the high and touching tribute paid by him to 
the life well spent, was unstintingly verified by the hundreds of friends 
present.  The services were concluded at the grave in the Ellaviile cemetery, 
the remains being laid to rest by the side of her husband whose death occured 
more than two years ago.



Additional Comments:
Per the History of Schley County, Mary George Dixon was born Mary George Askew 
on Dec. 22, 1832.  She married Pleasant Freeman Dixon in Sumter Co., on Dec. 
11, 1850.

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