MISS
ADA M. SPRAGUE.
Another
of our faithful workers has finished her work and gone to her rest. On
the 23d of November Miss Ada M. Sprague, assistant in the normal
department of the Ballard School at Macon, Ga., breathed her last after
a brief illness of two weeks. She leaves a widowed mother and twin
sister. She has gone in the prime of her young womanhood and in the
midst of her usefulness. .But she has left behind the example of a
consecrated life which will endure.
Miss
Sprague was born in Keene, Ohio, November 15, 1863. She was of New
England ancestry. Her first experience in teaching was in a country
school near her home, where she was very successful. She afterward went
to college in Wooster, Ohio, but before she completed her course her
father died and she was obliged to give up her studies and find some
employment. For the following three or four years she worked in the
Pension Office at Columbus, Ohio. Then, offering her services to the
American Missionary Association, she was appointed to a position in Tillotson
College at Austin, Texas, where she labored faithfully for four
years. In October of this year she went to Macon, Ga., where she did her
work thoroughly up to within two weeks of her death. She will be sadly
missed by the mother, whose main dependence she was, and by the many
friends she had made wherever she had lived and labored.