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Miss Amanda Catherine Durham
The Courant American
Cartersville, Georgia
March 21, 1889, page 1
Transcribed by:
Laurel Baty
Adairsville.
The sudden
deaths which have occurred in an intelligent community lately
makes a reflection on the uncertainties of life. At the
hospitable home of her brother-in-law, Mr. Thomas Johnson,
Miss Amanda C. Durham died suddenly at nine and a half o’clock
Saturday night. This good woman had not been feeling well for
some time, the decline of life was having its effects and
leaving its marks, noticing this she was met with all the
attention and tender solicitude that sister and nearer
relatives could bestow. Miss Amanda went visiting Saturday
evening and on returning home displayed no feelings of
sickness and was apparently in her usual health, on Mr.
Johnson returning home from his drug store and while seated
beside his table reading the morning paper, this lady came in
the room and while passing him at the table made some remark,
not understanding this, he asks for a repetition. Mr. Johnson
had hardly done this when he heard her fall, and on going to
the rescue found that life was fast ebbing away. Calling on
Rev. Mr. Taylor who was a guest in the house, who responded
quickly, and in their presence Miss Amanda Catherine Durham,
breathed her last, death caused from a disease of the heart
which she suffered from. Adairsville mourns the loss of a good
and honored citizen, the church a devoted Christian. Her
goodness of heart was not manifested by leadership in active
enterprise, but in following the even tenor of her way she
exemplified a Christian spirit. Funeral services were
conducted at her home by Revs. Tatum and Buford in an
impressive and feeling manner at 2 o’clock, the remains were
carried to Bowdoins cemetery for burial, followed by a large
procession of friends relatives and acquaintances. We extend
our sympathies to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson in this absence from
the household of their good and devoted sister. |
