The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1899-04-16
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
Mississippi State Teachers AsSOcla-
tiOn's Tribute to Mrs. Annie
Coleman PeytOn.

of this session of the State Teach
ers' Association, it is fitting that
we pause for a few moments to
note the absence of one of its
most devoted and best beloved
members, and to place on record
a brief expression of our sincere
regret that henceforth we are to
be deprived of her presence and
her counsel. Mrs. Annie Cole
man Peyton was called to her
eternal home on Friday night,
November -, 1898. Goods fin
ger touched her, and she slept"
On the first Sabbath morning af-
ter the opening of the present
session of the Industrial Institute
and College the faculty and stu
dents and the entire population
of Columbus were in mourning.
The tributes to her beautiful life
and noble character, by the pas
tors of all the churches on that
morning, showed the exalted
place she occupied in the esteem
and love of all classes Of the COM
munity.
Before the close of the month
in which she died, the Presbytery
of central Mississippi held its
semi-annual meeting in the
church at Hazlehurst, of which
she was for many years a mem
Der; and so keenly did that body
realize the loss to the church in
her death, that the unusual thing
of noting the death of one not a
member of the body, was done,
and made a matter of Presbyter-
ian record. And this association
copies to heartily endorse the
tribute thus paid to her:
"Mrs. Peyton was a woman of
rare gifts and many attainments.
She was educated il the schools
of her native state. Graduating
at Whitworth College, she became
a teacher in the same institution
wherein she laid the foundations
of an intelligent and practical life.
She honOred every sphere of life
in which she moved. Gifted as
she was, she could have been en-
inent in literature or in public as
semblies, but she loved her home.
1t was her sanctuary. She felt
| that God had called her to train
her children and live for them.
Her heart went out in earnest
longings for the education and
elevation of the girls of her native
state. She used her pen vigor-
ously, and her personal efforts,
to have a school established by
the state for great work. After
the death of her husband she was
called in the providence of God
to be a teacher in the institution
for the establishment of which she
had labored and prayed so ear
nestly."
"To this work she gave her
most assiduous and earnest eff
forts. For seven years she put
forth her best energies for the
| Intellectual, social, moral and
spiritual development of the girls
in the college. She LIVED for it.
The girls loved her. Her influ-
ence over them was wonderful.
But we are not able to form a
proper estimate of her great and
good work. Eternity alone can
reveal the abundant results of
her earnest labors. There will be
many stars in her crown Her
end was peace. Conscious to the
very last, surrounded by all the
children, her quivering voice
Joined theirs in the beautiful
hymn, Saved by Grace, and as
the last echo died away she fell
asleep.
1--WE thank God for her con-
secrated and eminently useful
| life-that He gave to the home,
the church aid the state such a
true, loyal and devoted woman.
| She realized in a beautiful way
the ideal woman as set forth by
the words of King Lemuel in the