Mittie McAfee
Nov 2, 1890 - Apr 19, 1911

Obituary.

Mittie McAfee, the eighth child of A. C. McAfee and wife, was born in Corsicana, Texas, November 2, 1890, and passed to her reward April 19, 1911. She was converted in one of Abe Mulkey's meetings and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, when a small girl. Miss Mittie was attractive, beautiful and helpful to all those with whom she came in contact. She was a Christian girl, and always did with a willing mind, heart and hand any service for her Lord. She was preparing for (as we all thought) a long and useful life. She was a graduate from the High school in May, and she looked to that day with much delight, thinking then she would enter upon a fuller life; but the more blessed and higher life came before we were looking for it. God claimed her as his own to be with him. She was beautiful here, but she will be more beautiful over there. Oh, dear Mittie, we will miss you so much. We will be so lonesome without you, but we will know where to find you, darling child. We can't call you back, but we can go to you. The music you made by your beautiful life and voice as you sang and performed at the instrument in the home and at church was so attractive to us all. But we are sure you are today singing in the chorus in the paradise of God with the angels. Oh, we long to see you glorified with your Savior. Her sickness was of just a few days. She was taken sick on Sunday, and fell asleep in Jesus on Wednesday morning. When the sad news of her illness spread, her host of friends came like a stream, and at the funeral the large attendance, with the presence of her High School teachers and classmates, and so many beautiful flowers brought by the many, spoke in louder tones than the voice of an angel could speak of her attractiveness. The large and sorrowing family was all there but one, her brother, Almer McAfee, who was at college and could not get home. "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken; blessed be the name of the Lord." She lived the life of the righteous, and died as she had lived. Dear family, she is still a member of the family. "There is one family in heaven and on earth." She was laid to rest in the Oakwood cemetery to await God's call. May her beautiful life bring heaven closer to you all, and help unite the family in paradise.

W. VINSANT, P.C.

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To Mittie.

We looked in the snow white casket,
While the breeze gently stirred the white lace,
Which covered the pulseless young bosom,
Sleeping there in its beauty and grace,
Like a beautiful white Easter lily,
Which has suddenly been rent from its stem.
How lonely looks the garden without her;
All nature seems singing a hymn.
The Reaper came clothed in brightest array;
Yes, clad in the garments
To gather this flower in glad Easter hours,
To adorn the bright throne of the King.
_MAM.

The Corsicana Daily Sun - Wednesday, May 17, 1911 - Submitted by Diane Richards



Mittie McAfee
Nov 2, 1890 - Apr 19, 1911

Was Buried This Afternoon

The remains of the late Miss Mittie McAfee were laid to rest in Oakwood this afternoon, the funeral taking place at 4 o’clock from the family home one mile north of town, and a large procession of sorrowing friends followed the remains to their last resting place. Rev. Wallace Vinsant, former pastor of Zion’s Rest church, officiated, and eight young men, members of the classes of the deceased in the high school, were active pallbearers, and eight young ladies of the same classes were honorary pall-bearers, while members of the High School Glee Club rendered appropriate music.

At the conclusion of the services at the grave the mound was a mass of beautiful flowers typical of the pure and beautiful life of the one above whose bier they were blooming, and of the still purer and more beautiful life she now lives beyond the reach of mortal eyes, for

“There is no death! What seems
So is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life clysian,
Whose portal we call death.”

The Corsicana Daily Sun - Thursday, April 20, 1911 - Submitted by Diane Richards




SUDDEN DEATH OF YOUNG LADY

Miss Mittie McAfee, aged 20 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. McAfee, died at the family home in Zion’s Rest community, after only four days illness.

The deceased was an unusually bright and attractive girl and was greatly loved by her associates. She was a member of the graduating class of our high school for this term, and this fact, coupled with her youth and personal popularity, makes her death an unusually sad one to all, and especially heart-rending to those who were nearest and dearest to her.

Funeral arrangements have not been made but interment will take place tomorrow afternoon in Oakwood cemetery.

LATER---Funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4 o’clock from the residence.
Notes:
Submitted by Diane Richards


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Name: Mittie Mcafee
Death date: 19 Apr 1911
Death place: Maenard City, Navarro, Texas
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document): W
Age at death: 20 years 5 months 17 days
Estimated birth year:
Birth date: 02 Nov 1890
Birth place: Texas
Marital status: Single
Spouse name:
Father name: A.C. Mcafee
Father birth place: Mississippi
Mother name: Margrette Mcafee
Mother birth place: Mississippi
Occupation:
Residence:
Cemetery name: Oakwood
Burial place:
Burial date: 20 Apr 1911
Additional relatives:
Film number: 2050485
Digital GS number: 4165844
Image number: 00002163
Reference number: v X cn 9132
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976