Edna Belle Abbott was born in Marble City, Pickens County, Georgia, to Paul Lester and Belle Christian Abbott. She was their third child.

She was a sophomore at Tate High School in 1926. The smallest in her class, she was a member of the Joel Chandler Harris Debating Society and belonged to the Natural Music Club. After high school, she attended Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville. She became a teacher and taught in the Pickens and Cherokee Counties school systems.

In 1934, she married Clarence Edward "Ed" Eubanks in Pickens County. They had three children, Sara Elaine, Robert Edward, and Edna Kathleen.

Ed and Edna Belle lived in Tate all of their married life and were lifelong members of Cool Springs Baptist Church. For a number of years, Edna Belle taught a class and played the piano for Sunday School and sang alto in the church choir.

--excerpt from article "PAUL LESTER AND BELLE CHRISTIAN ABBOTT", page 69, Pickens County Georgia Heritage 1853-1998, Walsworth Publishing Company, 2007. Article compiled by Mrs. Sara E. Sperin, Tate, Georgia, and submitted by Michael Winslow Abbott, Cleveland, Georgia.

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EUBANKS

Mrs. Edna Bell Abbott, age 66, of Tate, Georgia, died Wednesday afternoon, May 17, 1978, at a local hospital.

She was survived by her husband, Ed Eubanks of Tate; one son, Robert Eubanks, Augusta, Georgia; two daughters, Mrs. Sara Sperin, Tate, Mrs. Kathleen Hall, Clark Summit, Pennsylvania; one sister, Mrs. Pauline Moss, Atlanta, Georgia; one sister-in-law, Mrs. Hugh Abbott, Watkinsville, Georgia; seven grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held 3 p.m. Friday at Cool Springs Baptist Church; the body lay in state from 2 p.m. until the funeral hour. Rev. Billy Emmett and Rev. Von Hinton officiated; interment was in church cemetery. Cagle Funeral Home, Jasper, Georgia in charge of arrangements.