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Dougherty-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Oliver, Nancy 1886
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Various Newspapers
Americus, Georgia
June 6, 1886

A Sudden Death
In our Sunday issue we printed a short item stating that Mrs. Oliver was
reported to be dying. She was taken sick Friday morning, with pneumonia, her
physician said, and grew worse during the night and Saturday morning until she
was reported dying in the afternoon. By her friends it was hoped that she would
prove strong enough to withstand the ordeal, and recover, but fate had decreed
that she must leave for the better
home above, and at eight o'clock Saturday night she quietly breathed her last.
Mrs. Nancy B. Oliver was
one of the oldest marks of Christianity in this section. She was seventy-four
years old, and sixty years of that time had been passed as a devout member of
the Presbyterian church. She was born and raised in Baldwin County Ga., and
spent a number of years of her life in Macon. For over twenty years she bas been
a resident of this city, one of her sons, P. H. Oliver, being the first Mayor
of this city. In July, l825, she was married to Mr. John Oliver, who died in
1844. Seven children were born to them. Two of' whom survive, Mr. R. L. Oliver.
of this city, and Mrs. T. M. Carter, of Albany, who, with two grand children,
Miss Ellie Oliver, of this city, and Mrs. Hattie Steel, of Albany, followed her
remains to their last resting place. She was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery
Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, as the declining rays of' the sun threw their
last glimpses over the graves, going to rest, as it was, with a long and useful
life. Her life was one full of usefulness and good, and her 'death is mourned
by many. May she rest in peace.

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Americus, Georgia
Date: June 6 1886


Death of an Aged Lady
Mrs. Nancy B. Oliver died at her home in this city, at 8 o'clock Saturday
night, at the advanced age of 74 years. For sixty years as a member of the
Presbyterian church, she has labored. in the Master's vineyard, and now at the
end, of a long and useful life she has heard the voices of her loved ones gone
before, calling from the other side and has but gone to meet them and rest
under the trees in a land of bliss.
She was born and raised in Baldwin county, this state, and was married to Mr.
John Oliver in 1825. Her husband died in 1844 and she remained true to his
memory and remained a widow. She came with her family to Americus many years
ago, and one of her son was the first Mayor of the city. The mother of seven
children, two only survive her Mr. R. L. Oliver of this city, and Mrs. T. M.
Carter, of Albany. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon from the
Presbyterian church, the exercises being conducted by Rev. T. M. Lowry, of
Eufaula. The remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of
sorrowing friends and relatives, and in the solemn hush of the quiet city of
the dead were Iaid away in the family burying ground in Oak Grove Cemetery. The
following acting as pall bearers: Dr. E. J. Eldridge, W. H. Dudley, M. Speer,
Calvin Carter, N. G. Prince aand J. J. W. Ford.

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Albany, Georgia
A telegram reached here yesterday, from Americus, announcing the dangerous
illness of Mrs. Oliver, the mother of Mrs. T. M. Carter, of this place. For a
nurnber of years Mrs. Oliver was a resident of Albany, and she has many friends
among our older citizens, who will be saddened by this news.

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Albany, Georgia
Mrs. Oliver, whose illness was mentioned in the last issue of the MEDIUM,
died in Americus Saturday night. She was the mother of Mrs. T. M. Carter, and
the grandmother of Mrs. Harry Steele of this place, both of whom were with her
when she died.


Additional Comments:
This poem was on the page in the album from Grandmother D's scrap book.

One Year Ago
What stars have faded from our sky,
What hope unfolded but to die!
What dreams, so fondly pondered o'er,
Forever lost the hues they wore!
How like a death bell, sad and slow,
Tolls through the soul, "One year ago!"

Where is the. fac@ we I~ved to greet.
The form that graces the firoside seat,
The gentle smile. the winning way,
That bles'd onr life-path day by day?
Where fled those accents, soft and low.
That thrilled our hearts "One year ago?"

Ah! vacant is the firside chair,
The smile that won, no longer there;
From door and hall, from porch and lawn,
The echo of that voice is gone;
And we who linger only know
How much we lost "One year ago!"

But why repine? A few more years
A few more broken sighs and tears,
And we, enlisted with the dead,
Shall follow where her steps have led;
To that far world rejoicing go,
To which she passed "0ne year ago."


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