She died after giving birth to her third child, May Fields Wagner who is buried next to her.
Swainsboro Forest Blade; 19 September 1912
Mrs. Henry S. Fields, of Modoc, Ga., passed away Augusta 24, 1912, after a brief illness, leaving a husband and three small children. May Delaney was born October 2, 1891. In 1902, she joined the Methodist church, and on September 6, 1908, was married to Henry S. Fields, a playmate of her childhood days. Her own mother died when she was quite small, and she was raised by her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Faircloth. The writer remembers May Delaney as a little six-year old school girl, picking violets for her teacher, as she walked alone from from Uncle John's to the little school house near-by; and her little life was then, and remained ever as pure as the dew drops on the violets she gathered. Even in earliest childhood, she was loyal and true to her friends, both young and old; and characteristic virtue increased as she grew to young womanhood, and reached its crowning glory in her beautiful Christian life. After school days were over, and the writer had gone to other fields of endeavor, he would frequently get a nice letter from his pupil and friend; and he can well afford to say, that of the many little children he learned to know, and love, none ever surpassed littleMay Delaney in the sincerity of her devotion, and the abiding qualities of her friendship. She lived as a flower that blooms in the morning hours, only to wilt and die beneath the burning rays of the morning sun; but in her short life she enshrined herself in the highest esteem of her many friend; and let us believe that in the silence of the receding world, she heard the great waves breaking on a farther shore, and felt already the breath of the eternal morning. Let us think that her dying eyes read a mystic meaning, which only a rapt and parting soul may know, as it looks out upon the serene and shining pathway of the stars. May Delaney (Mrs. Henry S. Fields) is gone, but not forgotten. Her body has been tenderly laid to rest, and is now sleeping in the longueless dust, but she still truly lives in the hearts of those she left behind. Geo. Kirkland, Jr.
Swainsboro Forest Blade; 19 September 1912
Mrs. Henry S. Fields, of Modoc, Ga., passed away Augusta 24, 1912, after a brief illness, leaving a husband and three small children. May Delaney was born October 2, 1891. In 1902, she joined the Methodist church, and on September 6, 1908, was married to Henry S. Fields, a playmate of her childhood days. Her own mother died when she was quite small, and she was raised by her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Faircloth. The writer remembers May Delaney as a little six-year old school girl, picking violets for her teacher, as she walked alone from from Uncle John's to the little school house near-by; and her little life was then, and remained ever as pure as the dew drops on the violets she gathered. Even in earliest childhood, she was loyal and true to her friends, both young and old; and characteristic virtue increased as she grew to young womanhood, and reached its crowning glory in her beautiful Christian life. After school days were over, and the writer had gone to other fields of endeavor, he would frequently get a nice letter from his pupil and friend; and he can well afford to say, that of the many little children he learned to know, and love, none ever surpassed littleMay Delaney in the sincerity of her devotion, and the abiding qualities of her friendship. She lived as a flower that blooms in the morning hours, only to wilt and die beneath the burning rays of the morning sun; but in her short life she enshrined herself in the highest esteem of her many friend; and let us believe that in the silence of the receding world, she heard the great waves breaking on a farther shore, and felt already the breath of the eternal morning. Let us think that her dying eyes read a mystic meaning, which only a rapt and parting soul may know, as it looks out upon the serene and shining pathway of the stars. May Delaney (Mrs. Henry S. Fields) is gone, but not forgotten. Her body has been tenderly laid to rest, and is now sleeping in the longueless dust, but she still truly lives in the hearts of those she left behind. Geo. Kirkland, Jr.
She died after giving birth to her third child, May Fields Wagner who is buried next to her.
Swainsboro Forest Blade; 19 September 1912
Mrs. Henry S. Fields, of Modoc, Ga., passed away Augusta 24, 1912, after a brief illness, leaving a husband and three small children. May Delaney was born October 2, 1891. In 1902, she joined the Methodist church, and on September 6, 1908, was married to Henry S. Fields, a playmate of her childhood days. Her own mother died when she was quite small, and she was raised by her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Faircloth. The writer remembers May Delaney as a little six-year old school girl, picking violets for her teacher, as she walked alone from from Uncle John's to the little school house near-by; and her little life was then, and remained ever as pure as the dew drops on the violets she gathered. Even in earliest childhood, she was loyal and true to her friends, both young and old; and characteristic virtue increased as she grew to young womanhood, and reached its crowning glory in her beautiful Christian life. After school days were over, and the writer had gone to other fields of endeavor, he would frequently get a nice letter from his pupil and friend; and he can well afford to say, that of the many little children he learned to know, and love, none ever surpassed littleMay Delaney in the sincerity of her devotion, and the abiding qualities of her friendship. She lived as a flower that blooms in the morning hours, only to wilt and die beneath the burning rays of the morning sun; but in her short life she enshrined herself in the highest esteem of her many friend; and let us believe that in the silence of the receding world, she heard the great waves breaking on a farther shore, and felt already the breath of the eternal morning. Let us think that her dying eyes read a mystic meaning, which only a rapt and parting soul may know, as it looks out upon the serene and shining pathway of the stars. May Delaney (Mrs. Henry S. Fields) is gone, but not forgotten. Her body has been tenderly laid to rest, and is now sleeping in the longueless dust, but she still truly lives in the hearts of those she left behind. Geo. Kirkland, Jr.
Swainsboro Forest Blade; 19 September 1912
Mrs. Henry S. Fields, of Modoc, Ga., passed away Augusta 24, 1912, after a brief illness, leaving a husband and three small children. May Delaney was born October 2, 1891. In 1902, she joined the Methodist church, and on September 6, 1908, was married to Henry S. Fields, a playmate of her childhood days. Her own mother died when she was quite small, and she was raised by her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Faircloth. The writer remembers May Delaney as a little six-year old school girl, picking violets for her teacher, as she walked alone from from Uncle John's to the little school house near-by; and her little life was then, and remained ever as pure as the dew drops on the violets she gathered. Even in earliest childhood, she was loyal and true to her friends, both young and old; and characteristic virtue increased as she grew to young womanhood, and reached its crowning glory in her beautiful Christian life. After school days were over, and the writer had gone to other fields of endeavor, he would frequently get a nice letter from his pupil and friend; and he can well afford to say, that of the many little children he learned to know, and love, none ever surpassed littleMay Delaney in the sincerity of her devotion, and the abiding qualities of her friendship. She lived as a flower that blooms in the morning hours, only to wilt and die beneath the burning rays of the morning sun; but in her short life she enshrined herself in the highest esteem of her many friend; and let us believe that in the silence of the receding world, she heard the great waves breaking on a farther shore, and felt already the breath of the eternal morning. Let us think that her dying eyes read a mystic meaning, which only a rapt and parting soul may know, as it looks out upon the serene and shining pathway of the stars. May Delaney (Mrs. Henry S. Fields) is gone, but not forgotten. Her body has been tenderly laid to rest, and is now sleeping in the longueless dust, but she still truly lives in the hearts of those she left behind. Geo. Kirkland, Jr.
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