Taylor County GaArchives Obituaries.....Waters, Mary Chapman August 7 1893
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The Butler Herald, August 22, 1893
The Butler Herald
Tuesday, August 22, 1893
Page Three

At Rest

A noble Christian lady has gone from among us and earth is poorer for her 
loss!  Truly death loves a shining mark.  Could a large and noble heart and 
unaffected piety -; Could the devoted love of family and friends interposed a 
shield, she whom we now lament would be yet among us.

Mrs. Mary Waters nee Chapman, was born March 7th, 1834 and died 7th of August, 
1893, aged 59 years and five months.  She was married to Mr. E.B. Waters on 
July 7th, 1850, and with whom she lived happily up to the time of her death.  
Mrs. Waters early in life united herself with the Missionary Baptist Church , 
in which she lived a consistent Christian life up to the time of her death.  
The writer knew Mrs. Waters for more than a quarter of a century of her life.  
For a large part of that time he was well acquainted with her every day life.  
During this time he had learned to love her for her unaffected Christian life; 
her generous traits and noble impulses of heart.  The needy and worthy poor 
always found in her an open handed friend.  Her charities to the deserving were 
untiring and many a heart will mourn the death of the friend of whom they never 
asked in vain!

The writer can truthfully say that during his long and close acquaintance with 
her, he never knew her to do or say a thing which he thought unbecoming a 
Christian lady.  And this, too, notwithstanding the fact that she was in poor 
health for the three or four last years of her life and part of this time she 
was confined to her bed; yet in all her sufferings not an unchristian murmur or 
expression escaped her lips!  It seemed to the writer that Mrs. Waters had 
lived the life of a Christian so long, it was easier for her to do right than 
wrong.  She lived right without an effort while the writer believes it would 
have required an effort for her to have done wrong.  Those who knew her best 
loved her most.  Of course living as we have said, she passed from earth in the 
full triumph of a living faith, and gently fell asleep in the arms of a Saviour 
she had so long loved and faithfully served.

She leaves a husband and five children to mourn her loss; a loss irreparable to 
them.  To them we offer the sincere sympathy of many friends.  In addition to 
husband and children she leaves loving relatives who mourn her only less than 
they.  Her friends were all who knew her; and they will cherish her memory in 
loving recollection and emblem in sorrowing hearts her noble life and treasure 
up in recollection while life shall last the noble heart that has caused so 
many saddened hearts to leap with joy!  May the sod rest lightly o’er her!

R.


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