Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mattie Norris Hopkins February 1 1906
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The Talbotton New Era, August 9, 1906

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, August 9, 1906
Page 7

In Memoriam

Mrs. Mattie Norris Hopkins, daughter of Cornelius A. and Laura A. Norris, 
deceased, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. W.B. Pye, at Pleasant Hill, 
Talbot County, Ga., Monday, Feb. 1, 1906.

She was born in Upson County, near Thomaston, where she lived until her 
father’s death, after which she resided with her sister, Mrs. J.C. Pye, at 
Pleasant Hill, until her marriage to Dr. S. Clark Hopkins in Dec. 1901.  Her 
home has since been at Conyers, Ga.

It is seldom the task of an obituary writer to chronicle the death of one so 
truly sad as that of the dear sister mentioned above.  Every circumstance 
connected with her sickness and death, tend to make it a peculiarly touching 
and pathetic one.  But a few short years ago she was a happy bride, with every 
promise of a bright and useful future, but alas how vain are human hopes!  How 
frail!  How delusive!  

In July 1905, while on a visit to her sister, Mrs. W.A. Andrews, in Roanoke, 
Val., she was stricken with fever, which after a few weeks developed into that 
fatal malady Millinay Tuberculosis.  All that medical skill could avail and the 
unremitting attention of loving sisters, relatives and friends was bestowed 
freely, but nothing could stay the hand of death or alleviate her sufferings, 
which were great.

She joined the Pilgrim Baptist Church in 1901, and lived a worthy, true and 
faithful member.  Her disposition was of that lovely type that caused all who 
knew her intimately to love her dearly.  Her devotion as a wife and mother were 
indeed unexceptionable.  Never was a mother more careful of or more devoted to 
her little one than was she to little Martha Clark.

The burial services were conducted by Elders J.F. Almond and S.F. Bentley in 
Thomaston, where her remains were laid to rest.

In addition to her husband and little daughter, she leaves five sisters, four 
brothers and a large number of relatives and friends to mourn her departure.

Estelle







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