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Name:               Anna Berry Edwards

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Anna Berry Edwards, 1862-1941. In September 1866 Rev. John F. Berry, Ellaville 
Methodist Church, was killed when he was struck by lightning while sitting in 
his study in the church parsonage. He and his family had just come from a 
revival at the Baptist Church and he was sitting with his Daughter, Anna, at 
his feet when the lightning came through the window. Years later, the 
daughter, Mrs. Anna Berry Edwards, donated 3 pulpit chairs to the Church in 
memory of her father. These chairs still grace the pulpit.


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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, Nov. 28, 1941  No. 21
MRS. EDWARDS, 79, BELOVED ELLAVILLE WOMAN, IS CALLED
Mrs. R.W. Edwards, 79, beloved Ellaville woman and a leader in religious and 
temperance activities, died at her home here Sunday morning at 3:15 o'clock 
after an illness of three years.  Funeral services were held at the flower-
banked residence Monday morning at 10 o'clock with the Rev. Roy J. Bond, the 
Rev. Hugh Dozier and the Rev. A.B. Wall officiating.  Her body was sent Monday 
afternoon to Louisville, Kentucky, where a service was conducted at Cralee 
Funeral Home at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.  She was buried in Cave Hill 
cemetery, there, beside her husband, who passed away April 14, 1922.  Mrs. 
Edwards was the former Anna Berry, daughter of the Rev. John F. Berry and 
Susie Sherman Berry, and was a native of Atlanta.  She attended Montgomery 
Female College in Christianburg, Virginia.  Mr. Edwards arrived in Ellaville 
for their wedding on the first train ever to come here--October 1, 1884, and 
the couple left for their wedding trip on the first train ever to leave this 
town.  They spent most of their married life in Louisville, Kentucky, where 
Mr. Edwards was a prominent business man.  After his retirement they moved to 
Ellaville.  A member of the Methodist church, Mrs. Edwards was active in the 
Women's Christian Temperance Union.  Deeply interested in education and youth, 
she assisted many young persons in attending college.  Generous, gracious and 
friendly, Mrs. Edwards held the admiration of all who knew her, and added much 
to this esteem by her patience and bravery through her long illness.  Two 
sisters, Mrs. C.R. McCrory and Mrs. Addie S. Munro, survive, besides seven 
nieces, Mrs. I.E. McKellar and Mrs. D.G. Mitchell, Macon; Mrs. B.H. Hampton, 
Ervin, Tenn.; Mrs. E.C. Mauldin, Mrs. T.W. Wilson, Mrs. W.A. Murray, all of 
Ellaville; Mrs. L.S. Lightner, Jacksonville; five nephews, Harold S. McCrory, 
Berwyn, Ill.; E.L. McCrory, Atlanta; C.C. McCrory, Jeffersonville, Ga.; 
Clarence McCrory, Ellaville; Henry Smith Munro, Dacula, Ga.; 10 great nieces 
and nephews and four great grandnieces and great grandnephews.  Pallbearers 
were W.B. Tye,  S.A. Manning, M.J. Arrington, Harry F. Dixon, T.H. Stevens, 
C.C. Wall, Sr., H.Willis Hogg and C.C. Williamson.


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