I microblogged this on Twitter several days ago. Apologies if you've seen it before, but hopefully, there are some elaborations that are new. Mary Annie Gartrell, born in Cobb County, Georgia between 1861 and 1863, was a daughter of lawyer John O. Gartrell and Mary W. Randle. She grew up on a plantation near Kennesaw Mountain. By 1900, three Gartrell daughters were teachers: Mary A., Lucy, and Ina. Annie died in Atlanta, Georgia 9 May 1906 after battling pneumonia for several weeks. An obituary in the Atlanta Constitution described her as "an earnest church worker in the Presbyterian church." It also noted she was survived by her father, three sisters, and a brother. Burial was in the Marietta City Cemetery (also known as Citizens Cemetery). The towering monument was "erected by [Annie's] devoted sister Lucy A. Gartrell." A portion of the epitaph reads -- She was the pride of her Father and Mother, the idol of her Sisters and Brothers. A dutiful, affection...
Telling the Tales of Tombstones