Taylor County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mitchell, Miss Van July 7, 1916
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The Butler Herald, July 13, 1916
The Butler Herald
Thursday, July 13, 1916, #34
Page Six

Miss Van Mitchell Passed Away Friday

Gone to her reward in the home and Heaven of the good can truthfully be said of
Miss Van Mitchell, who was born in Taylor County, the daughter of Mr. Van
Mitchell and Mrs. Jose Colbert Mitchell, and quietly fell asleep at the
residence of Hon. A.H. Riley in this city last Friday evening.

It can truthfully be said that Butler has had no one who was better known or
more greatly loved than Miss Van Mitchell.

She came of fine parentage physically, mentally and morally, and being born with
a strong mentality, the acquisition of knowledge was easily attained, so that in
early life she was eminently qualified for the high calling which she chose,
that of teaching, and we use the word teaching, advisedly for she was not merely
a hearer of lessons, she was a teacher, an uplifter of the pupil educationally,
socially and morally.  And no pupil went out from under her instructions but who
felt the gracious contact of a high and noble life, and many are the boys and
girls who have gone out into the world and who will yet go out to fight life’s
battles carrying with them the inspiration and aspiration to high ideals and
lofty ambitions, coupled with the refining influence eminating from her daily life.

Butler is not the only town in which rich fruitage has been and will be borne
from her life’s work, but Buena Vista, Bainbridge, Lithonia and other towns bear
trophies of her life’s work.

She was as modest and pure as the rosebud bursting into the sunlight of it’s
beauty and fragrance and as courageous to her convictions as the lioness
defending her young.  Unfaulteringly and unwaveringly she lived up to her
concept of her duty to God and to humanity.

In early childhood she joined the Presbyterian church and gave herself to God
and the cause of Christ in bringing the children of men nearer to God the
Father.  “She did her best,” and no brighter or richer epitaph can be carved in
marble or bronzed in brass than that, which can be truthfully paid to her. 
Though dead, she yet speaketh and will continue to speak in the heart and life
of hundreds who came under the sweet influence eminating from this consecrated
life.

She came to the end of life’s journey conscious of its nearness and with every
faculty of her mind fully alert, giving minute direction as to the distribution
of her property and patiently waited for the end to come and when the messenger
of death knocked at the door of her earthly tabernacle she closed her eyes and
the sweet spirit went home to God.  Her remains were interred in the Butler
Baptist cemetery Saturday afternoon, Rev. J.H. Stanford conducting the funeral
service, witnessed by a large concourse of loved friends.

Those present from a distance were, her brother, Hon. J.N. Mitchell and wife, of
Tifton; Mrs. Mattie Belle Pope Mitchell, of New York; Mr. and Mrs. L.F.
Montfort, Miss Pink Montfort, of Reynolds; Mrs. Nora Woodward, of Mountville;
Mrs. Louise Montfort Kilpatrick, of Macon.


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