Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mattie  Slaughter March 4 1907
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The Talbotton New Era, March 14, 1907

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, March 14, 1907
Page 3

The death of Mattie Slaughter, which sad event occurred at the home of her 
father, Mr. Charley Slaughter, Monday evening, March 4, at 9 o’clock, has cast 
a gloom over our entire community.

Mattie was seized with pneumonia about ten days before her death, and all that 
physicians, friends and her family could do for her was of no avail.  From her 
first illness she seemed impressed that she would not recover and so expressed 
herself to her family. She expressed no fear of death but a willingness to 
die.  In her early life she gave her heart to God and became an active member 
of the Methodist church and a faithful Sunday school worker.

Mattie was nineteen years of age – just in the bloom of young womanhood and her 
friends were numbered by her acquaintance.  Truly can it be said of her, “None 
knew her but to love her, none named her but to praise.”

When the announcement of her death was made at school and our teacher spoke of 
her many virtues and entreated us to emulate her examples, many heads were 
bowed in grief, and many times during the morning did our thoughts wander away 
from lessons to the home where the lifeless form of her whom we all loved so 
much.  School was suspended for the afternoon in order that we might attend the 
burial, which occurred at 3 o’clock, Tuesday afternoon at Wesley, Bro. Harrison 
conducting the service.  

While friends loved her and will sadly miss her smiling face and sweet 
presence, the grief in the home is too deep to be pictured by words, for Mattie 
was all that a true daughter and sister should be.  Being the oldest child of 
the family, parents and children alike early learned to look to her for all 
those and comforts which only the true and loving daughter and sister can give 
to a home and she was found ever ready to respond.

In our human blindness it seems strange that one like Mattie should be taken, 
but God in His infinite wisdom knew best when this fair flower was plucked from 
earth to be transplanted in the fields of light above.

Earth to you fond parents and loved ones, is made sadder but Heaven is made 
richer.

Prattsburg School


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