Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Annie Slaton Bennett July 1909
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The Talbotton New Era, August 5, 1909

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, August 5, 1909
Page 2

Memories of Mrs. Annie Slaton Bennett

The announcement of the passing of Mrs. Bennett at her home in Barnesville last 
week carried genuine sorrow to many hearts.

Were I an artist I would paint her as the ideal modern Madonna.  The beautiful 
mother-love shone throughout her life in Talbotton is worthy of a place in 
painting, song and story.  My first recollection of the gentle little lady was 
a picture Raphael might well have coveted.

The tender mother-eyes, the soft, sweet lullabies, the manifold ministries and 
rare surprises, the happy little stories were messages that found their way 
into other hearts and others homes besides that of her own.  She gathered about 
her a garland of joyous children and:

“Led them away to a beautiful land
Where moonlight, and starlight are streaming
And the flowers and the birds are filling the air
With the fragrance and music of dreaming.”

She peopled their minds with bright thoughts and fair fancies and opened their 
hearts to the sweetest and best of life’s treasures.

For years she taught the infant class at the Methodist Sunday School and the 
baby forms leaned upon her trustingly and their flower faces looked up to her 
confidingly.  Many can recall this pretty scene as Sabbath after Sabbath they 
gathered in a double circle.

She acted her part in every sphere of life bravely, grandly, nobly.  Always and 
ever she was “Looking unto Jesus”.  Religion was her stay and in every 
undertaking prayer was her refuge.

The sympathies of a wide circle of friends go out to Mr. Bennett and the fair 
and gifted daughter – for their loved one now has gone.

“Away through the mist to the beautiful land
The Dreamland that’s waiting out yonder.”


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