Avery County NcArchives Obituaries.....Bowman, Mattie N. Leigh  March 8, 1928
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The Avery Advocate March 15, 1928
Mrs. Mattie N. Leigh Bowman was born Dec 22, 1861 and died March 8, 1928 at the 
age of sixty-six years, two months and seventeen days.  On July 7, 1887 she was 
united in marriage to Dr. G. M. Bowman with whom she shared forty-one years of 
a happy life which was all spent n Avery county with the exception of four 
years spent at Milligan College, Tennessee while their children were being 
educated.  The deceased was a native of Avery county and deserves the universal 
respect given as a good citizen.  She was a true wife and a lovable mother of 
six children two of whom survive her, Marlow Jones, of LeMesa, Texas, and 
George M., of Elk Park. She joined the Baptist church in her younger years and 
afterwards entered the Methodist church of which she has been a member for 
thirty-six years or more.
Mrs. Bowman had been in ill health for a number of years and had secretely 
prepared her own burying clothes which were supposed to have been made about 
six years ago.  She chose white and was laid to rest in a white casket.  A few 
hours before she died she called her husband to her bedside and asked him to 
make her a promise which of course was granted and it was that she wanted him 
to see that she was properly put away in these special garments which she had 
secretely prepared and told him where to find them in a little box a top of her 
trunk.  She gave up the spirit at about 6:30 in the evening and her dying words 
were, repeated three times, “The Lord will help me through.”
Besides a husband and two sons to mourn her departure  she leaves four grand 
children, two sisters, Mrs. John F. McKinney, of Powder Mill, and Mrs. Annie 
Ingram, of Mortimer and a host of friends.
Funeral services were conducted at the home Saturday afternoon by Rev. E. Roy 
Gentry, of Johnson City, and Rev. M.A. Lewis, of the local charge after which 
her body was laid to rest in the Banner Cemetery.


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