Dora Florence Elliott

Dora Florence Gunter Elliott, Henry County, 1913 Great Grandmother of Jim W. Latimer, M.D. Excerpt from letter to her daughter Georgia away at college:

"I'm glad our days are divided into seconds, and we live them one at a time. It's easier to get over these tiny little intervals of time, don't you see, than to take on the whole day, as soon as we are conscious of the morning. When I'm feeling badly, in soul, just ready to give up, this comes to me, "Not yet." I know I can hold out another second, and another, and another. They pass so quickly, and each one strengthens me, so that the day is soon passed, and I have found much to be thankful for, and joy and comfort sufficient to balance life's scales. More and more I realize, the importance of filling this present moment with its own work, joys and sorrows. If we crowd into it the burdens of the next, we have all burden and no joy, or rest. Learn this philosophy of life while young, dear, and happiness will surely come your way."

Dora Florence Gunter Elliott, Henry County, April 8, 1915 Excerpt from letter to her daughters Georgia and Hattie away at college: ". . .there is so much that I want to say to you, but glancing up at the clock that is ticking away the flying moments, I know that I haven't time, and daughter, I am going to have to take the medicine I have been giving you to keep from being discouraged. This is how it is: I can never put all I want to in anything, because something ahead is calling me, and I get tired, and discouraged, flitting from one thing to another, dissatisfied with all because I feel that it is unfinished, or imperfectly done. I understand so perfectly, the swelling and ebbing of the tide of life, and read over and often on the sign board at every mile post, the words, "Move on." I know that it ever shall be so, and this is why, I send you in almost every letter, a little prescription. Remember dears, that while I am preparing it for you, I am taking it myself and I know that it is good. Then as we must continually "Move on," let us gather the sweets as we go. Never let your ambition or your hopes for the future, cloud the present. We have this, it is ours to enjoy, and we have no promise of that. . ."

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