The beautiful little old woman who sat in an invalid’s chair at the Pasquotank County Poor Home for 10 long years and who had a smile and a loving greeting for all who saw her, died last Friday morning in the 70th year of her age. She died loving and trusting in God; not less than sublime than her faith in God was her love for and faith in humanity. Neither God nor humanity never did very much for her here, but she found consolation in the thought that everything would be straightened out in a glorious and endless hereafter.
Miss Maggie Brothers was one of the sweetest and loveliest characters ever to have sought shelter in old age at the County’s home for the poor. She was a refined and gentle little woman of excellent family, but she had to make her own way in the world from early girlhood. She lived in other people’s homes and worked for them for years. Years ago a little child, its clothing in flames, ran to Miss Maggie for help. Miss Maggie beat out the flames with her own hands and saved the life of the child, but her own hands were disfigured for life and she never had the same use of them any more.
About 20 years ago she suffered an illness and took much calomel. The mercury of the calomel poisoned her and left her an invalid. Her relatives were poor. She felt that she was in everybody’s way. And a heroic little woman who had toiled all her life for others finally found her way to the County Home. But she never complained about it. Visitors to the County Home observed her sweetness and gentility and went away and talked about it. There was much sadness in the County Home when the beautiful soul of miss Maggie took flight last Friday.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, July 9, 1926
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