Obituary Mattie Lanier

Mrs. Mattie Lanier, near Saulsbury, died January 4, 1910. She was the mother of ten children, four of whom are still living. She has four sisters living and four dead. She was 60 years of age, and leaves and aged husband. She professed faith in Christ when quite young and joined the Missionary Baptist church and has been a faithful worker for the Lord, and the church has lost a faithful member, as well as the family. She was a good mother, but the Lord knew best and has taken her to bloom in the paradise of God.

Alma West

Source: original newspaper clipping in scrapbook created by Ada Clark Stroup of Saulsbury