Emily Isabella Burt grew up in an area known as Pleasant Hill near Talbotton, Georgia. Although her name is mentioned in several books as being known as the "Georgia Werewolf", it is important to note that those stories are pure fiction.
Emily Isabella Burt was not mentally ill. She did not suffer from the mental disease known as lycanthropy.
She lived and learned from her Mother, who was a great and kind person and extraordinary businesswoman.
At the time of her death Emily Isabella Burt owned a 300 acre estate in Talbot County, partial ownership of a warehouse in Talbot County, a house and land in Bullochville (Meriweather County), and a house and land in Columbus, Georgia.
Her obituary reads:
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, June 29, 1911
Page Six
Miss Emily Burt, of Midland, Ga., died at the home of Mrs. Benson in Marietta, Ga., Sunday June 18, 1911. Her remains were brought to Woodland for burial Tuesday, June 20, 1911. A more extended notice of her death will appear in these columns next week.
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, July 20, 1911
Page Three
Death of Miss Emmie Burt
Miss Emmie Burt was born and reared in this county midway between Bellview and Pleasant Hill at the Burt Homestead. For more than half a century this dear old home was the seat of hospitality and neighborly cheer.
A few years ago she made her home with her widowed sister, Mrs. Mildred Butts. About a year ago the two sisters removed to Marietta, Ga. to live with Mrs. Butts daughter, Mrs. Luther Benson, where Miss Burt died on June 18th after several years of failing health. Everything that devoted love could suggest or best medical skill could accomplish was done to prolong the life of this dear one but all in vain.
Death though inevitable is always sad, but when it takes from us one who has grown dearer with each passing year of a lifetime it is doubly distressing.
The death of Miss Emmie Burt brings sorrow to many hearts here in Talbot county where she lived so many years and where her name is a synonym of Christian greatness and grace. Her ministering hands have brought comfort and
cheer to many sick beds and her unfailing sympathy hope to the sorrowing and afflicted. Wherever she went her noble unselfish nature was a proverb among her friends.
God bless her precious memory and consecrate it to the eternal good to those who love her and bring peace to the stricken hearts of her only sister and other near and dear ones who consider her loss irreparable.
She was buried by the side of her father and mother in the family cemetery near Woodland.
One Who Loved Her
Emily Isabella Burt was not mentally ill. She did not suffer from the mental disease known as lycanthropy.
She lived and learned from her Mother, who was a great and kind person and extraordinary businesswoman.
At the time of her death Emily Isabella Burt owned a 300 acre estate in Talbot County, partial ownership of a warehouse in Talbot County, a house and land in Bullochville (Meriweather County), and a house and land in Columbus, Georgia.
Her obituary reads:
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, June 29, 1911
Page Six
Miss Emily Burt, of Midland, Ga., died at the home of Mrs. Benson in Marietta, Ga., Sunday June 18, 1911. Her remains were brought to Woodland for burial Tuesday, June 20, 1911. A more extended notice of her death will appear in these columns next week.
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, July 20, 1911
Page Three
Death of Miss Emmie Burt
Miss Emmie Burt was born and reared in this county midway between Bellview and Pleasant Hill at the Burt Homestead. For more than half a century this dear old home was the seat of hospitality and neighborly cheer.
A few years ago she made her home with her widowed sister, Mrs. Mildred Butts. About a year ago the two sisters removed to Marietta, Ga. to live with Mrs. Butts daughter, Mrs. Luther Benson, where Miss Burt died on June 18th after several years of failing health. Everything that devoted love could suggest or best medical skill could accomplish was done to prolong the life of this dear one but all in vain.
Death though inevitable is always sad, but when it takes from us one who has grown dearer with each passing year of a lifetime it is doubly distressing.
The death of Miss Emmie Burt brings sorrow to many hearts here in Talbot county where she lived so many years and where her name is a synonym of Christian greatness and grace. Her ministering hands have brought comfort and
cheer to many sick beds and her unfailing sympathy hope to the sorrowing and afflicted. Wherever she went her noble unselfish nature was a proverb among her friends.
God bless her precious memory and consecrate it to the eternal good to those who love her and bring peace to the stricken hearts of her only sister and other near and dear ones who consider her loss irreparable.
She was buried by the side of her father and mother in the family cemetery near Woodland.
One Who Loved Her
Emily Isabella Burt grew up in an area known as Pleasant Hill near Talbotton, Georgia. Although her name is mentioned in several books as being known as the "Georgia Werewolf", it is important to note that those stories are pure fiction.
Emily Isabella Burt was not mentally ill. She did not suffer from the mental disease known as lycanthropy.
She lived and learned from her Mother, who was a great and kind person and extraordinary businesswoman.
At the time of her death Emily Isabella Burt owned a 300 acre estate in Talbot County, partial ownership of a warehouse in Talbot County, a house and land in Bullochville (Meriweather County), and a house and land in Columbus, Georgia.
Her obituary reads:
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, June 29, 1911
Page Six
Miss Emily Burt, of Midland, Ga., died at the home of Mrs. Benson in Marietta, Ga., Sunday June 18, 1911. Her remains were brought to Woodland for burial Tuesday, June 20, 1911. A more extended notice of her death will appear in these columns next week.
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, July 20, 1911
Page Three
Death of Miss Emmie Burt
Miss Emmie Burt was born and reared in this county midway between Bellview and Pleasant Hill at the Burt Homestead. For more than half a century this dear old home was the seat of hospitality and neighborly cheer.
A few years ago she made her home with her widowed sister, Mrs. Mildred Butts. About a year ago the two sisters removed to Marietta, Ga. to live with Mrs. Butts daughter, Mrs. Luther Benson, where Miss Burt died on June 18th after several years of failing health. Everything that devoted love could suggest or best medical skill could accomplish was done to prolong the life of this dear one but all in vain.
Death though inevitable is always sad, but when it takes from us one who has grown dearer with each passing year of a lifetime it is doubly distressing.
The death of Miss Emmie Burt brings sorrow to many hearts here in Talbot county where she lived so many years and where her name is a synonym of Christian greatness and grace. Her ministering hands have brought comfort and
cheer to many sick beds and her unfailing sympathy hope to the sorrowing and afflicted. Wherever she went her noble unselfish nature was a proverb among her friends.
God bless her precious memory and consecrate it to the eternal good to those who love her and bring peace to the stricken hearts of her only sister and other near and dear ones who consider her loss irreparable.
She was buried by the side of her father and mother in the family cemetery near Woodland.
One Who Loved Her
Emily Isabella Burt was not mentally ill. She did not suffer from the mental disease known as lycanthropy.
She lived and learned from her Mother, who was a great and kind person and extraordinary businesswoman.
At the time of her death Emily Isabella Burt owned a 300 acre estate in Talbot County, partial ownership of a warehouse in Talbot County, a house and land in Bullochville (Meriweather County), and a house and land in Columbus, Georgia.
Her obituary reads:
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, June 29, 1911
Page Six
Miss Emily Burt, of Midland, Ga., died at the home of Mrs. Benson in Marietta, Ga., Sunday June 18, 1911. Her remains were brought to Woodland for burial Tuesday, June 20, 1911. A more extended notice of her death will appear in these columns next week.
The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, July 20, 1911
Page Three
Death of Miss Emmie Burt
Miss Emmie Burt was born and reared in this county midway between Bellview and Pleasant Hill at the Burt Homestead. For more than half a century this dear old home was the seat of hospitality and neighborly cheer.
A few years ago she made her home with her widowed sister, Mrs. Mildred Butts. About a year ago the two sisters removed to Marietta, Ga. to live with Mrs. Butts daughter, Mrs. Luther Benson, where Miss Burt died on June 18th after several years of failing health. Everything that devoted love could suggest or best medical skill could accomplish was done to prolong the life of this dear one but all in vain.
Death though inevitable is always sad, but when it takes from us one who has grown dearer with each passing year of a lifetime it is doubly distressing.
The death of Miss Emmie Burt brings sorrow to many hearts here in Talbot county where she lived so many years and where her name is a synonym of Christian greatness and grace. Her ministering hands have brought comfort and
cheer to many sick beds and her unfailing sympathy hope to the sorrowing and afflicted. Wherever she went her noble unselfish nature was a proverb among her friends.
God bless her precious memory and consecrate it to the eternal good to those who love her and bring peace to the stricken hearts of her only sister and other near and dear ones who consider her loss irreparable.
She was buried by the side of her father and mother in the family cemetery near Woodland.
One Who Loved Her
Inscription
Thy form alone is all, thank God, That to the grave is given; For we know thy soul the better part, Is safe, yes safe, in heaven.
Gravesite Details
Headstone was chosen by her niece - Mrs. Jesse Butts Benson
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