UPSON COUNTY  GA  OBITS  Miss Bessie Starling

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A VERY SAD DEATH
[May 20, 1916]

A very sad death occurred in the Hendricks community
Tuesday when Miss Bessie Starling passed away. She had
been sick for a week or ten days with fever and
everything done possible for her but to no avail.

The funeral and burial occurred Tuesday afternoon at
Hendrix, the service being conducted by Rev. Bowden of
McDonough, assisted by Rev. R.E. Rutland. The exercises
were attended by a large number of sorrowing friends and
relatives.

Miss Starling was just entering into young womanhood
being about twenty years of age. She was a bright
Christian character and was a consistent member and great
worker in the Methodist church and Sunday school.

The deceased was one of the most valued members of the
county's teaching force having had charge of the Long
Branch school. Miss Starling was formerly a pupil in R.E.
Lee and was well known in Thomaston and highly esteemed.

The sorrowing relatives have the sympathy of the people
of the county in their great bereavement.

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In Loving Memory of Bessie Starling

On the early morn of May 22, 1914 while friends
and loved ones were anxiously watching,
the death angels visited the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Starling and claimed a rare pearl.

  At the age of Ten, she united with the Methodist church
and lived a consistent member, until called to
join the church on High.

  She attended school at R. E. Lee Institute, 
her work being her highest order. She began teaching in Pleasant Valley. Nov. 1914 .

  Bessie had been with us only 20 summers, 
and to view her life from a human standpoint,
we would say it was incomplete, but no life is 
so incomplete, but that it so consecrated
to God as was hers.

  She leaves parents, Grand-parents, 
six sisters and three brothers, besides a 
countless number or relatives and friends to 
mourn for her, but heaven seems nearer since 
the spirit of our darling is gone.

  The funeral services were conducted by 
Revs. L. G. Bowden and R. E. Rutland, 
after which the remains were laid to rest
in the Hendricks Cemetery, to await the final resurrection.

                   Written by her devoted sister, Penelope



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NOTE:
1900 Upson Co GA Census
Reeves District #1336
family # 230
STARLING, John w/m age 35; born Mar 1865; farmer
            , Mary w/f age 30; wife; born Jan 1870; married 12 yrs; 6 children
            , Hesikiah w/m age 11; son; born Nov 1888
            , Avis w/f age 9; daughter; born Sep 1890
            , Tina w/f age 7; daughter; born Apr 1893
            , Bessie w/f age 5; daughter; born July 1894
            , Pennie w/f age 3; daughter; born June 1896
            , Matilda w/f age 1; daughter; born Apr 1899 

This Bessie Lee Starling was my aunt, although she died long before I was
born.  She died on May 20, 1916 shortly before her 22nd birthday.  She was
the daughter of John David Starling and Mary Hannah McDaniel Starling of
Upson County.
Mike Day
day317@charter.net