UPSON COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Mrs. Alice C. McKenney

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OBITUARY FROM
THE GOSPEL MESSENGER
Williamston, N. C., October, 1897, Vol. 19 No. 10

Mrs. Alice C. McKenney, wife of B. G. McKenney, Jr.,
and daughter of J. W. and M. A. Snelson, of Upson
County, Ga., was born March 6, 1862, and died April
18, 1897, aged 35 years, 1 month, and 12 days. She
was married to B. G. McKenney, Jr., December 18,
1888, and joined the Primitive Baptist Church at
Emmaus, August 27, 1892. She was truly a model
daughter, a true and faithful wife, a devoted
mother, and a most devout and consecrated
Christian.She is the only child of a family of
eleven children who has gone to her last rest, her
father having preceded her fourteen years ago. But
now the circle is broken; a loved voice is stilled;
homes of loved ones are sad, and one chair in the
happy family reunion is conspicuously vacant. Two
little ones ask for Mama with no response. The
hearts of a fond husband, mother, brothers, and
sisters call in vain for the dear form. 

On that lovely Easter morn, before the absent
members of the family even knew that she was
suffering unusual pain, the summons came, and just
as the happy birds were awakening the sleeping
lilies and the bright beams kissed dry their golden
cups, her sweet soul took flight. But would we have
her back in the pain and suffering here? Like a pure
lily blighted by the storm was her life blighted by
disease. But like the short life of the flower that
spoke purity and scattered its perfume over the
surrounding air, hers was not in vain, but left
behind the lingering sweetness of patience, self-
sacrifice, love, and pure Christian faith. What more
priceless inheritance could she leave to her little
ones, and what sweeter memory and more shinning
example to her dear ones and friends? The crucible
of suffering only made brighter the gold and fixed
more firmly the eyes upon Him under whose rod she
bent and murmured not. And while she is happy in the
enjoyment, she sometimes felt the too long delayed
bliss of His presence; the fruition of that short
sweet life is being realized here on earth. Like a
bright halo it lingers around the dear husband,
soothing and uplifting him, and like a sweet-faced
picture it lives in the memory of her little ones.
Her relatives and friends hold it as something
sacred, and always turn from memory of her to
thoughts of God and all things pure.
	Monroe, Ga.     Annie Snelson Caldwell

Reprinted in the September, 1997 TAYLOR COUNTY TRACER