UPSON COUNTY, GA - OBITS Mrs. Alice C. McKenney Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: John Adams traceradams@cox.net Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm 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