MISS ANNIE SHERRON DIES WEDNESDAY
Friday Services Held For Teacher Beloved By Many

	Miss Rose Anna Sherron, thought to have been the oldest resident
In Fulton County, died at her home in Hickman Wednesday night Sept. 14th. 
Funeral services were held Friday at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church. 
Father Clarence Pettit conducted the Requiem High Mass and burial took 
place in City Cemetery.
	Taught by Priests - Daughter of John and Catherine Swift Sherron, 
"Miss Annie" was born in Hickman during the period just preceding the War 
Between the States, when schools were few and seldom free. She was taught 
by priests who served the parish and attended the private school of Mrs. 
Roulac. At sixteen, she passed examination for a teacher's certificate with near 
perfect grades. She later attended college in Hamilton, Ohio and Rochester, 
New York, beginning her teaching career in Hickman College when it was built 
where she remained on the faculty until May 1942.
	Her Character Recalled - Many generations of children had the privilege 
of her teaching and it was said she knew instinctively how to reach each boy and 
girl, find the best in that child's character and develop it. To those who knew
her as a teacher, her patience was without limit and along with the three R's,
she taught honesty. Many a wrong-headed youngster was brought up sharply when
his conduct was unbecoming, yet to those who have been in her classrooms she 
is recalled as a perfect disciplinarian.
	In a tribute to "Miss Annie" who was a devout Catholic and known for her 
devotion to former pupils, Mrs. Lillian Holland noted: "All the beauty, wit,
charm and love for others was in this gracious personage-" Just one generation
removed from Kells, Meath County, 10 miles from Dublin, Ireland as she was wont
to say." Continuing the tribute to her former teacher, Mrs. Holland remarked,
"There was a bit of the 'aud sod' in the character of this wonderful cultured
lady."
	Miss Sherron leaves her foster sister, devoted companion, Miss Maggie 
O'Hearn, who resided with her. Mrs. E. D. Johnson, Sr. and family; Miss Maymie 
Hudson; Walter Hudson and  Mrs. Julia Govannotiu of Memphis, Tenn., cousins 
and a number of cousins in Hickman. "Miss Annie" was preceded in death by her 
parents, an infant sister, two brothers in the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 and 
another sister, Sister Amelda of the Charity Order.
	Pallbearers were Paul Choate, Charles A. Lattus, Claudie Holland, Will E.
Caldwell, James Amberg and E. D. Johnson, Jr.

Hickman City Cemetery
3 July 1859 - 14 Sept.1955