Lucy Laney,
Principal Haines Institute, Augusta, Ga.
“In the death of Miss Martha Schofield the Negroes have lost a true friend of long standing, and the cause of the great social uplift here in the South has lost an earnest and effective worker.
“Miss Schofield was my personal friend and adviser for many years. I think she has accomplished a most unselfish life work and very effective.”
Walter S. Buchanan,
President Agricultural & Mechanical College,
Normal, Alabama.
Miss Schofield did a valuable, a useful, a noble work for my race, and I am glad so many of the colored people in Georgia and South Carolina have joined in the general chorus of sorrow and sympathy in consequence of her death. A hundred years from now, when the history of the South shall be written anew, the brightest page in the story will be that on which shall be recorded the lives, labor, and sacrifices of the white men and women from the North who came into the South directly after the war and brought the torch of civilization to a freed race and taught them the way of truth and righteousness.
Prof. S. X. Floyd,
Principal Gwinnett School,
Augusta, Ga.
The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the faculty of the Schofield school, in respect to the memory of Miss Schofield:
“Resolved, That the Schofield School most sorrowfully realizes that in the translation of the spirit of this truly great woman, it has sustained an irreparable loss. In the departure from our midst of this illustrious character, we solemnly obligate ourselves to ever reserve prominent places in our memories for the most worthy example set before us by the founder and friend of the great work. The greatest monument to the life of Miss Schofield is the school which bears her name. This most splendid plant, now in the flower of its prosperity, marks the fruitful result of the untiring zeal and the dauntless courage possessed, and the patient efforts put forth by the Founder who so faithfully labored for and among the freedmen of our community.”
