The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-02-12
GATHERING HOME

! Dear journal anu OOuTIpE.
| thank you for your kind notice
of our funeral occasion in Marietta
on Tuesday Gath January. | was ar
ranging to write a notice for you
when you entered our sad home with
your account. Please allow me space
for a few notes additional.
l have been visiting Marietta at
longer and shorter intervals since
1910, my father being at that time
preacher in charge of the Marietta
circuit with his parsonage at Warsaw
on the Chattahoochee river and hav
! ing Jackson Graham and the How
| ellis of Marietta and Atlanta in later
times for neighbors.
/ The Lowreys and Owens and Grit
fiths OF Marietta being my kinsmen
was there several times, on visits,
in my boyhood.
In the close of 1859, on my way
10 an annual conference at our
church, at Rome, Ga, spent a night
with a brother minister, at the hos
pitable home Of Mr.. James S. Morris
Next morning after breakfast,
walked into the sitting room, where
met two beautiful young ladies'
Miss Mary Boyce Morris, and her
cousin, Miss Jane Anderson, the first
sixteen years old, and her cousin
about the same age.
AS the girlish, open, unaffected
face Of Mary Boyce smiled into mine,
inviting me to seat with them, d
purpose, as if begotten by inspira-
ton, was formed to make her, if pos
sible, my wife, which purpose was
most joyously consummated, at the
old plantation home, six miles out
on the Canton road, on the first of
September 1868. The fascination of
that morning in 1859, in the sitting
room of her elegant Marietta home.
will follow me through eternity.
l was impressed first at the break
fast table by her queenly mother
the most lovely woman l had ever
seen presiding at table. aunt
Julia" How sweetly it sounds to
the ear of memory. Was ever rela-
tive more dearly beloved by her kin
dred? And what group of lovely
daughters she reared. Annie F., low
ingly called Sissy, passed away at
eighteen, and leaving the city and all
of her acquaintance, shrouded in
grief. She is still remembered as
having never been surpassed, in her
home city for beauty and lovableness.
A book of poems, Golden Rod and
Cypress fresh from the press, by
Mrs. Loula Kendall Representatives
OF the sweetest Song Birds of the
South-has a beautiful poem, an
Memory of my Young School Mate,
Annie Morris, of Marietta, Georgia"
| hope all of dear Armies relatives
and friends will see this surpassing-
ly beautiful tribute. The authoress
and Annie went to School together at
willow Brook" to Thomas Way
land, Armies uncle by marriage.
Mary Boyce. in the family success
sion, came next, Annie: Martha Cath
crime, born three years later, and
becoming, in 1878, the second wife
of Mr.. J. F. Nutting, of Atlanta;
Elizabeth N. two years younger than
Cattle, and the angel of helpful
ness and undying comfort, and sweet
support in all seasons of affIiction to
the rest of the family as long as she
lived; Harriet Wayland, three years
younger than Lizzie ("Diddie") as
she was sweetly called by her neph-
ews and nieces, and married to II. A.
| Dunwoody, of Marietta, in 1869; fol
lowing Hattie" lovely little Julia S.,
dying in girlhood, and remembered
by the Methodist preachers as the
girl whose mother would send her to
the pulpit after preaching to invite
them to go home with them to dinner