Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Caroline Mitchell Stegall 1927
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Caroline Mitchell Stegall
 
Thomasville Times-Enterprise
February 24, 1927
 
MRS CAROLINE MITCHELL STEGALL PASSES AWAY IN MONTGOMERY
 
Last of Surviving Member of Pioneer Thomas County Family Died Yesterday.
Body Will Be Brought Here For Internment, 
Dr. W. M. Harris Officiating at Funeral Service.
 
A telegram to relatives here announced the death of Mrs. Caroline Mitchell Stegall 
in Montgomery, yesterday at death was not expected. Mrs. Stegall was the last 
of children of Elizabeth Alston and Thomas Goodwin Mitchell pioneer citizens of 
Thomas county. She was born in Thomas county January 20th 1836 and had just passed 
her ninety first birthday. 
She was married when quite young to Dr. Calvin W. Stegall and lived in Thomasville 
until 1896, some years after her husband's death. Since that time she has resided 
with her daughters and her two sons in Montgomery, Ala. 
A member of the Baptist church from her early youth, her old friends, very few of 
whom remain, will remember her constant and devoted work in all the activities of 
her church here in its early days. She was a woman of unusual mental and physical 
ability, and retained these characterisitcs even into extreme old age. Inspiration 
and sympathy she gave unconsciously the tenderness of her home ties were her constant 
care, and nothing so possessed her soul as the teachings of the Christ she had loved 
and served through all her long life.
Her body will arrive tomorrow at two thirty o'clock and she will be laid to rest 
beside her husband and son in the old home town, she has ever remembered with such 
love and interest all through her long absence.
She is survived by three children, William D., Charles W., and Carrie Mitchell Stegall. 
She was a sister of the late Mrs. DR. R. J. Bruce and Mrs. W. J. Heard the mother of 
Mrs. Cadar Parker, of this city. 
The pallbearers will be the following gentleman:
Dr. W. B. Cochran, F. H. Smith, J. W. H. Mitchell, Ralph Neel, George Cochran, C. S. Parker, 
The casket will be taken from the train to the cemetery, Dr. W. M. Harris officiating.