The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-03-14
MRS. MAMIE G. GUY.

Ii is with feelings of more than ordinary sadness
ard sorrow, that we announce the death OF Mrs.
Mamie G Guy, who was for many years connected
with the Augusta Female Seminary as a pupil,
and afterwards for a short time as teacher
Many will sorrow with Us when they learn that
this lovely woman has passed away from the earth
" scenes which her many and rare virtues were so
well fitted to adorn; that she is gone from the
home of which she was the light and Joy, TO the
Fathers house of many mansions.
Hers was q character of extraordinary loneliness
and symmetry, and to her We might truthfuIy sp
DIV the eloquent tribute to womanly worth given
by Solomon 10 the 3lst chapter Of Proverbs. ITO
know her, was to love her" Ia the year 1868
while the war was still 10 progress, Mamie Irwin
Gooch then only twelve years Old, was entered as
q boarding pupil in the Augusta Female Seminary.
A brighter, more attractive, or more intelligent
pupil could not have been found, and all hearts
opened to receive and welcome the little stranger
Two years after her entrance into the school, her
mother died, and from that day until she entered
her husband house, the Seminary was regarded
AS one of her homes. Such was Der natural re 6ue-
ment, that she seemed to have no afioity for the
temptations incident to school life. She created
around her an atmosphere Of purity and modesty,
so that al who came within the reach Of her il au-
euce felt Its power For SIX years it was the prvi
eOe of her teachers to train and develop talents of
DO common order, and with such facility did she
ACQUIRE knowledge, that the danger seemed to be
that the amount Of application required might not
prove sufficient to develop all her powers. Con-
soieutiOus as she was IN dischsrging every duty,
and irreproaohable in character and manner she
vet did not manifest any special interest In spirit
nal things until few months before her gradua-
ton. The school had been blessed with gracious
outpouring Of Gods Spirit, and she bad been made
the subject OF special prayer and effort, which re
suited 10 the conservation of her life to Christ ear
" in the year 1853 conservation, the sincerity
of which was eyinoed every day of her after life.
When the highest honors Of the institution we're
conferred upon her. at the close of the session of
lS67-6S every one felt that they were richly de-
served and that she was fully prepared to sdorn
spy position in life to which she might be called
After thus graduating with highest distinction,
she decided to spend yet another year in the Semi
nary in order to perfect herself in some additional
accomplishments and to pursue regular course
Of reading. She applied herself to the discharge
of these selfimposed duties with the same earn
estness and fsthfulness that had always character
lied her. The next year Of her life was spent with
her relatives in ministering to their comfort snC
Frightening their home. She then accepted the
position Of governess in q southern family, snC
during the two years for which this engagement
was made, she won the esteem and admiration o
81 who had any opportunity of observing her rsr
fidelity and conscientious devotion to duty. Tn
following year she returned to the Seminary, AM
was numbered among its faithful teachers, At th
close Of the session she became the wife Of Mr, J