Twiggs County, Ga
In The News 1930 - 1945
1930
January 6, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Bullards. Friends of Miss Frances Myrick will be interested
to learn of her marriage last Sunday in Jeffersonville to Mr. Melton Moore,
of Dry Branch.
January 15, 1930
Macon Telegraph
The burial of George Slappey Sapp who died Sunday,
took place at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at New Haven church in Twiggs
county with Rev. T. J. Collins,
of Macon, officiating. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
January 21, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Willie Fox Phillips, resident of Bullards,
Ga., died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Hinson, at Cross
Keys, at 2:45 o'clock yesterday morning, after an illness of a month. Mrs.
Phillips was born in Kingville, S. C., Jan 9, 1865, and moved to Bullards
when quite young, where she had resided the most of her life.
She was the widow of D. F.
Phillips, and was before her marriage, Miss Willie Fox, daughter
of William and Elizabeth Moody Fox. Surviving are five daughters
and three sons, Miss May Phillips, of Chattanooga, Tenn.
and who was missionary for the Second Baptist church here several years
and later took up the same work in Chattanooga for the Tabernacle Baptist
church; Mrs. Ruby Bush, Mrs. S. H. Ramer, both of Bullards; Mrs.
W. A. Hinson of Cross Keys; Mrs. James W. Brown, of Macon; R.
H. Phillips, of Macon; R. F. Phillips, of Cherokee, Ala.; Ralph
W. Phillips, Macon; nine grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. M. M.
Howell and Mrs. H. L. Richards, of Macon.
The deceased was a member of the
Beech Methodist church of Bullards, where the funeral services will be held
at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. Mr. Chandler of Jeffersonville,
Ga. and Rev. G. M. Spivey, of Cross Keys, will conduct the services.
Interment will be in the family lot, beside her husband's grave.
The funeral cortege will leave the residence
of Mrs. Hinson at Cross Keys today at 12:30 o'clock.
January 31, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Harvey Paul Ham, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Ham,
of Dry Branch, Ga., died at 5 o'clock yesterday morning afer an illness of
several days. Pneumonia was the cause of his death. Besides the parents,
a sister and brother survive. Henry N. and Mary Lou Ham. The funeral and interment tood place in Mt. Zion cemetery in Twiggs county yesterday afternoon.
February 2, 1930
Macon Telegraph
The funeral of M. D. Balkcom was held at the Mountain
Springs church in Twiggs county yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment
was in the church cemetery. Mr. Balkcom died at the home of his niece and
nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kitchens, of Griswoldville, Ga. Besides
Mr. and Mrs. Kitchens several other nices and nephews survive. He was 74
years of age and was a retired farmer. He had been ill several months.
February 10, 1930
Macon Telegraph
W. F. Martin,
74, died at his home in Twiggs county, near Gordon, at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning.
Mr. Martin had been ill for only
two days. He was a farmer and a member of the New Haven Baptist church of
Twiggs county.
He is survived by his wife, who
was Miss Ida Crosby of this city.
Six sons: W. A., of Macon; J.
B., of Macon; L. J., of Atlanta; T. L. of Dublin; S.
B. and Marion Martin of Twiggs county. Three daughters, Mrs. S.
E. Aldridge, of Macon; Mrs Guna Harrison, of Macon, and Mrs.
Della Williams of Milledgeville. One sister, Mrs. Nan Vinson, of
Milledgeville, and three brothers, J. L. of Baldwin county; B. J.,
of Reynolds, and A. S. Martin of Dallas, Texas.
Funeral services and interment
will take place at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon at the New Haven Baptist church
in Twiggs county. Rev. C. W. Stitt, pastor of the East Macon Baptist
church, will conduct the services.
March 13. 1930
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Della Williams, wife of W. T. Williams, of Twiggs county, died yesterday at noon at the residence near Irwinton. Mrs Williams was 38 years old. She was Miss Della Martin before her marriage.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the New Haven Baptist church in Twiggs county. Rev. C. W Stitt, pastor of the East Macon Baptist chuch, conducted the services. Interment followed in the family lot in the church cemetery.
Surviving besides her husband, are a daughter Corine Williams, and her mother, Mrs. W. F. Williams, of Twiggs county.
Two sisters and six brothers also remain: Mrs. S. E. Aldridge, and Mrs. Geneva Harrison, both of Twiggs county, W. E. and J. E. of Macon; T. J. of Atlanta; S. B. and Marion, of Twiggs county and T. L. of Dublin.
March 30, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. J. H, Vaughn, of Jeffersonville, announce,
the marriage of their daughter, Mary
Virginia, to James E. Bryant, of Louisville, the wedding having
taken place March 27 in Phoenix, Ala.
April 16, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Miss R. E. Birdsong were held
yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock from New Haven church, Rev. J. T. Collins
conducted the services and interment was in the New Haven church cemetery.
Miss Birdsong died at a local hospital at 6:10 o'clock Monday afternoon following
an attack of pneumonia. She was only 19 years of age, and was a daughter
of J. M. Birdsong and Lillie Collins Birdsong. the family moved to
Macon but a year ago from Twiggs county. She was a member of the New Haven
Baptist church. Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Birdsong,
two brothers and two sisters, Cohen B. and J. W. Birdson, Annie
Lee, and Elizabeth Birdsong. The following served as pallbearers: Clyde
Meeks, Prentiss Adams, Claxton Newman, Thurston Bentley.
May 12, 1930
Macon Telegraph
The funeral of B.
D. Melton, whose death occured at a private hospital Saturday at noon,
was held at the old Bond home in Twiggs county yesterday afternoon at 3
o'clock. Rev. C. W. Stitt, pastor of the East Side Baptist church,
conducted the services. Interment was in the Melton cemetery. The funeral
cortege left Hart's chapel at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Melton was 73 years of age and had been a resident of
Twiggs county all of his life. He was a member of the Baptist church, and
had never married. He had been ill more than a month, but a week ago his
condition became much worse when he developed pneumonia.
He is survived by a sister, Mrs. G. L. Sims,
of Douglas; two brothers, Iverson Melton, of Macon, and Henry Melton,
of Laurens county; also a number of nephews. He was born in Twiggs county,
Aug. 27, 1856, and was widely known in and around Twiggs and Bibb counties.
July 12, 1930
Macon Telegraph
MRS. J. M. KITCHENS.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Fannie Moore Kitchens, widow of James Melvin Kitchens, who died
at her home at Griswoldville at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, will he held
at noon today from the residence. Rev. Barnum Hawkes, pastore of
the Cross Keys Baptist church, and Rev. Mr. Spivey will conduct the
services. Interment will be in the family cemetery in Twiggs county.
Mrs. Kitchens, a membr of the
Cross Keys church, died following an illness of several months. She was
81 years of age. She was born and reared in Jones county, but moved to her
home in Griswoldville when she married Mr. Kitchens, 47 years ago.
Surviving are three
sons, W. J., O. D., and B. M. Kitchens; two daughters,
Mrs. Cora Moore and Mrs. Mollie Genn; two sisters, Mrs.
Nancy Souther and Mrs. Lula Hall, all of Griswoldville, and one
brother Lum Moore, of Macon.
September 28, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Lawrence
Griffin, of Jeffersonville announce the marriage of their daughter, Elva Agnes, to Mr. Jerome Hartwell
Holmes, also of Jeffersonville, the wedding having taken place Sunday
Sept. 14 in Jeffersonville.
December 5, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Willis Allen,
former Oklahoma ranchman who died in Macon Wednesday, were held at 3:30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon at the Allentown Methodist church, Rev. A. P. Foster officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Allen died at the home of his sister, Mrs. G. O. A. Daughtry,
213 Clisby Place, at the age of 73. He left Georgia at the age of 24, going
to Oklahoma to become a ranchman and truck farmer. He returned to Allentown
eight years ago, and noved to Macon five years later to make his home with
his sister.
Surviving are two brothers James and Wyatt Allen, of Allentown; two sisters, Mrs. Daughtry, of Macon and Mrs. J. J. King, of Allentown; three nieces, Mrs W. E. Grayson. Misses Helen and Jennie Daughtry, of Macon, and a nephew, A. W. Daughtry, of Allentown.
December 7, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Of cordial interest is the announcement
of the marriage of Miss Louise
Williams, of Lexington, Okla., to Mr. Carl Gettys, of Dublin
the wedding having been solemized Thursday, Dec. 4, at 3:30 o'clock at "Hollywood."
the home of the groom's mother, Mrs. W. B. Gettys, near Jeffersonville.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. B. Wingfield, pastor of the
Jeffersonville Baptist church, in the presence of the immediate family.
The bride is a daughter of Mrs.
Charles Williams of Lexington, Okla. She received her education in
schools in Oklahoma and Texas. She was gowned in transparent velvet, with
a close-fitting hat of the same shade with matching accessories.
Mr. Gettys is a son of Mrs.
W. B. Gettys and the late W. B. Gettys of Jeffersonville. He is
a brother of Mr. J. M. Gettys of Dublin and Miss Lois Gettys,
of Jeffersonville. The groom attended Twiggs High school, later entering
Riverside academy at Gainesville and Mercer university, Macon. He is now
prominently connected with the Gettys Lumber company in Dublin.
Immediately after the ceremony the couple
left for Atlanta where they will spend several days, upon their return they
will be at the home of the groom's mother, before they go to Dublin the first
of the year where they will make their home.
December 28, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Miss Maxwell Married to Mr. Emory Linder.
A marriage of interest on Christmas day was that of Miss Sarah Maxwell to Mr. Emory
Linder, both of Danville; who were married in Fitzpatrick at the home
of and by Dr. J. C. Solomon at 5:30 o'clock in the presence of a few
friends and relatives.
The bride is a graduate of Georgia
State College for Women, in Milledgeville, and is at present an instructor
in the Twiggs county High school in Jeffersonville. Mr. Linder after completing
his high schood education at Danville, attended North Georgia college in
Sahlonega. He later graduate from Georgia-Alabama Business college, and is
now connected with the G. T. Pursley company in Macon.
1931
January 4, 1931
Macon Telegraph
Miss
Roxyleen Slappey Married to Mr. Randall. Of cordial interest to friends
is the marrige of Miss Roxyleen Slappey, of Macon, formerly of Jeffersonville,
to Mr. Jerry B. Randall, Jr., of Gadsden, Ala., the marriage having
been solemnized on Dec. 24, at the home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. J.
R. Wimberly, in Jeffersonville.
Mrs. Randall is the attractive
and only daughter of Mrs. R. R. Slappey, Sr., of Macon. The family
made their home in Jeffersonville until they moved to Macon about two years
ago. She is a sister of Mr. R. R. Slappey, of Macon.
Mr. and Mrs. Randall are
making their home in Gadsden, Ala., where Mr. Randall is in business.
January 18. 1931
Macon Telegraph
Miss Lucy Edith Knight of Wilkinson county, was married to Mr. Marion V.
Holliday of Jeffersonville, on Saturday, January 10, at the home of
Judge S. J. Faulk, ordinary. Judge Faulk performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Holliday is a daughter of
the late Mr. Joel Knight and Mrs. Winnie Knight, of Wilkinson
county. Mr. Holliday is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Holliday, of Twiggs
county.
The bride and groom are making
their home with the groom's parents near Jeffersonville.
January 20, 1931
Macon Telegraph
MACON MAN FREED IN DEATH OF NEGRO. A murder charge against Joe Raby, of 760 Winship street, was dismissed at a commitment hearing before Justice of the Peace Chappell in Jeffersonville yesterday. The charge was made by a coroner's jury investigating the death of Charlie Moore, Dry Branch Negro, from injuries received when he was run over by an automobile in which Raby and Alfred Redd, Negro, were riding Jan. 12.
Redd is being held on a murder
charge. The evidence at the inquest showed that the Negro was driving when
Moore was killed, as Raby maintained when he was arrested. It was brought
out at the hearing that Redd wad driving and Raby was "practically asleep"
when the accident happened about four miles south of Dry Branch.
Raby was represented by T. A. Wallace, Macon attorney. He accompanied Mr. Wallace back to Macon after the hearing.
January 22, 1931
Macon Telegraph
Isaac Maxwell, 72, farmer
of near Dry Branch, was found dead at his home yesterday afternoon by Negroes
living nearby. A coroner's jury, empaneled later in the afternoon, decided
that Mr. Maxwell died of natural causes.He had been subject to heart attacks,
it was reported.
Mr. Maxwell had lived all his life on the farm known as the
old Maxwell place. His father was among the pioneer residents of Twiggs county.
He is survived by a cousin, Ed Maxwell, of Danville, and other relatives.
Funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon from Antioch Baptist church, with Rev. Mr. Mosley, pastor of the church, officiating. Burial will be in the chucrhyard.
February 15, 1931
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~ Miss Lois Gettys, daughter of Mrs.
W. B. Gettys, of Jeffersonville became the bride of Mr. Charles Anderson
Duggan, of Macon, at an impressive ceremony taking place at 8:30 o'clock
Friday evening, Feb. 6, at "Hollywood," the home of the bride's mother. Witnessing
the ceremony were a few close friends and members of the families. Rev.
S. B. Wingfield, pastor of the First Baptist church of Jeffersonville,
officiated.........
The bride is the only daughter
of Mrs. W. B. Gettys, of Jeffersonville. She attened grammar school
at Jeffersonville and is a graduate of Fassifern, at Hendersonville, N. C.,
and attended Lucy Cobb at Athens. Her father, the late W. B. Gettys was a
lumberman and landowner of Twiggs county. She is a sister to Mr.
J. M. Gettys and Mr. Carl
Gettys, of Dublins.
Mr. Duggan is a son of Dr. J. H.
Duggan a pioneer citizen of Wilkinson county. He received his high school
education in the schools in Dublin. Mr. Duggan is connected with the Hotel
Lanier in Macon...
March 8, 1931
Macon Telegraph
Johnson-Justice. If interest is the marriage of Mrs. Lena Johnson, of Jeffersonville and Mr. Ivey Justice, of Irwinton, the ceremony having been performed March 1 at 4 o'clock by Rev. J. N. Sarrett, of Gordon at the home of Mrs. Johnson in the presence of a few intimate friends and relatives.
June 20, 1931
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for J. W. Mays. Dry Branch, were held at 10:30 yesterday morning at Antioch church, in Twiggs county, Rev. H. H. Moseley conducted the services and interment followed in the church cemetery.
Mr. Mays was 71 years of age, and had been connected with the
Georgia Kaolin company for 17 years. He died at his home Thursday afternoon.
He had been in declining health for some time.
June 29, 1931
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
Mary Ann Thompson, 72, who died a her home, 360 Fairview avenue, will
be held at New Haven church in Twiggs county at 11 o'clock this morning.
Rev. C. W. Stitt, pastor of the East Side Baptist church, and Rev.
Barnard Brooks, Zebulon, will conduct the services and interment will
be in the family lot in the New Haven church cemetery.
The pallbears will be selected from
the deacons of the church. The young men's quartet, C. B. Parker, Aaron
Trawick, R. T. Jones and Charles Roberts, will sing.
Mrs. Thompson was born in Twiggs
county and came to Macon to live at an early age. She was a member of the
East Side Baptist church for many years.
Before her marriage to Mr. Thompson,
she was Miss Mary
Ann Martin, daughter of the late John and Martha Jessup Martin,
residents of Twiggs. Surviving are five sons and two daughters. J. J.
and L. F. Thompson, Atlanta; W. M., Chattanooga, Tenn; I.
W., Florida; R. H., Indianapolis, Ind.; R. E., Macon;
Mrs George F. Leslie, Macon; Miss Rose Thompson, Tampa, Fla.;
three brothers, B. F. Martin, St. Petersburg, Fla.; James Martin,
Macon; E. H. Martin, Florida, and a large number of grandchildren.
September 1, 1931
Macon Telegraph
FATHER KILLS SON IN TWIGGS WITH SHOTGUN. Wash
West Tells Sheriff Kitchens He Fired Upon Andrew West in Defense. FORMER
IS HELD IN JAIL. Both Men Drinking Whisky When Quarrel Starts, According to
Officers.
Jeffersonville, Ga., Aug.
31. Wash West, about 60 years old, this afternoon shot and
killed his son, Andrew J. West,
28-year-old farmer, in the yard of his home in the West settlement,
about 15 miles east of Macon, where more that 10 years ago, he killed his
brother-in-law, Jim Martin, with the same sawed-off shotgun.
Wash West told Sheriff Sam
Kitchens he shot in self-defense after his son fired at him with a .38
calibre pistol and asked the sheriff to take him away from the settlement,
where "family feeling" was said by officers to be strong.
Sheriff Kitchens placed West in the
county jail here , where he was being held tonight. A coroner's jury this
afternoon returned a verdict that Andrew West came to his death "at the
hands of unknown parties, " but in a statement to Sheriff Kitchens Wash
West said he shot his son three times from close range in the right side
of the neck.
Pistol. Found. Officers said they found a pistol
near the younger man's body. Both men had bring drinking whiskey, Sheriff
Kitchens said, before the gun duel. There were no witnesses to the killing.
Sheriff Kitchens said Wash West
showed him holes in his hat and told him his son shot at him before he returned
fire with the shotgun. The younger man secured the pistol while the two were
arguing over whisky, officers thought. The sheriff said Wash West was under
the infulence of liquor when he was placed under arrest.
Wash West did not attend the inquest.
Instead, Sheriff Kitchens hurried with him to the jail here. No charge had
been place against him tonight but Sheriff Kitchens said he probably will
be accused of murder.
Mr. West was born and reared in Twiggs
county and was a member of Asbury Methodist church. He is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. West, a brother, G. W. West, Jr.,
and four sisters. Funeral arrangements had not been made tonight.
See September 9
September 2, 1931
Macon Telegraph
Thomas
F. Ard, a native of Twiggs county died at his home, 140 Comer Terrace,
at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. He was in ill health about six months and
the past two weeks his condition was critical. He was a member of the Tabernacle
Baptist church, and came to Macon to live 35 years ago. Until he came here
he was engaged in farming.
Surviving are four
daughters and a son: Mrs. Sallie Smith, Mrs. Katie Strickland, Miss Fannie
Ard and W. F. Ard, all of Macon; and Mrs. Ella Eades, of
Chattanooga, Tenn. Mr. Ard was 60 years of age.
Funeral srvices will be held at
the auditorium at Paynes village at 3 o'clock, this afternoon. Rev. A.
C. Baker, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church will conduct the services.
Interment will be in Fort Hill cemetery.
September 5, 1931
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~JONES-TRUSLOW WEDDING IS BEAUTIFUL
CEREMONY. Beautiful in detail was the wedding of Miss Dorothy Carswell Jones,
of Jeffersonville, and Lieut. Alfred Russell Truslow, of Hampton Roads,
Va., formerly of Gainesville, Ga., the son of Mr. A. R. Truslow, Sr.
which was solemnized at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Methodist church
of Jeffersonville, with Rev. C. D. Herrington performing the ceremony
in the presence of a large assemblage of friends and relatives of the young
couple.......
September 9,
1931
Macon Telegraph
JUSTICES REDUCE MURDER CHARGES. Wash West Now
Accused of Shooting at Another. SON KILLED DURING ROW.
Jeffersonville, Ga., Sept.
8. A murder charge against Wash West, about 60, charged with shooting
his 28-year-old son to death at the family home about 15 miles east of her
on Aug. 31, was reduced to a charge of shooting at another in a commitment
hearing concluded here tonight. West admitted killing his son, but declared
he did so as the younger man was advancing on him with a pistol and after
bullets had passed through his hat. A pistol was found beside the dead man,
who was killed with a sawed-off shotgun.
Members of Wash West's immediate family
testified against him, and it was not known here whether he would attempt
to return home after making the $200 bond set by Justices of the Peace W.
T. Chappel, W. S. Slappey and J. R. Newby. Sheriff Sam Kitchens
said shortly after the killing he was warned not to allow the father
to attend his son's funeral.
West, in a statement to Sheriff
Kitchens on the day after the killing, blamed his own "bad living" for the
tragedy. He said both he and his son were drinking and fussing over whisky.
The hearing consumed most of the day.
J. D. Shannon and H. F. Griffin, local attorneys, represented
West, while E. W. Butler, Macon, served as prosecuting attorney.
October 18, 1931
Macon Telegraph
~excerpts~ Of great interest to a wide
circle of friends was the marriage of Miss Iris Jones of Jeffersonville,
to Mr. Eugene Kaiser of Denver, Colo., which was solemnized at the
home of the bride's sister and brother, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Balcom on
Sunday morning, Oct. 11, in the presence of a few relatives.
..wedding march, played
by Mrs. O. T. Chapman,...
......vows which were read by the Rev. C.
D. Herrington, pastor of the Methodist church of Jeffersonville. The
bride was given in marriage by her sister, Mrs. J. H. Balcom.
.....Mrs Balcom was assisted in serving
by Mrs. S. C. Jones, Mrs. W. M. Whitaker, and Mrs. Kathleen Carswell.
Following the breakfast, Mr. and Mrs. Kaiser lefto for an extended
trip to Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak, later returning to Denver where
thy will reside......
October 28, 1931
Macon Telegraph
SKELTON FOUND; CRIME REVEALED. Bones of Twiggs
County Negress Are Discovered. BLIND TWINS LEFT BEHIND.
Danville, Ga., Oct. 27.
The finding of a skelton of a woman near here last Friday evening has developed
a murder case, according to the report of a coroner's jury.
The skelton has been identified as the
body of Bessie King, 35-year-old
Negress, who had been missing since Sept. 8. The identification was made
by Edmund King, Sr., and his wife, Jane, who recognized a
gold tooth in the head of Bessie King. The coroner accepted the identification
as correct.
Discovery of the skelton was made
by two 12-year-old Negro boys who were on an opossum hunt. The skeleton was
on the bank of Shellstone creek, which runs through the farm of Irwin
Fitzpatrick, of Tarversivlle. They ran two and a half miles to tell
Mr. Fitzpatrick of their discovery. He notified the Twiggs county
coroner, E. B. Sauls. Shot to Death.
A coroner's jury investigation
the case found that the Negress had been shot to death with a shotgun. Two
ribs over the heart had been broken by the shot. There were footprints near
the body. A shallow grave was found three yards away.
The parents-in-law of the woman
resided 400 yards from her home. They said that the woman and their son
had been missing since Sept. 8. They recalled that they heard loud talking
at their son's home on the evening of Sept. 8. Two days later in passing
the home they saw a paper tacked on the door reading: "Have gone to Fort
Valley. Cook some bread for the children. The key is under the front steps.
We will be back."
On opening the door the grandparents
said they found the four-year-old blind twins of their son hungry and frightened.
The older child, seven years old, could not be found. The old couple carried
the twins to their home.
A search of the deserted house revealed
a shotgun with powder burns, indiciating it had been recently used.
County officers say that Edmund King,
Jr., has a bad reputation, having previously shot two Negro women. A
warrant has been issued for him as the slayer of his wife. He is believed
to be in Eastman.
December 3, 1931
Macon Telegraph
George
Clarence Asbell, 48, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning at his home
on Steel street, following an illness of several months.
Mr. Asbell was born in Twiggs
county on Feb. 2, 1883, the son of William and Mary Benson Asbell.
Twelve years ago he came to Macon to make his home. He was a member of the
East Side Methodist church.
He is survived by his widow, formerly
Miss Molly Cleveland, of Irvingville, Ga. four sons, Clarence,
Ossie Lee, Robie Lee and Arthur Asbell; mother, Mrs. Mary
Asbell of Eastman; three sisters, Miss Viola Asbell, Miss Anna Mae
Asbell and Mrs. Mary Lizie Taylor, all of Eastman and one brother,
Will Asbell, also of Eastman.
The body will be taken to Eastman at
11 o'clock this morning for funeral and interment this afternoon. Services
will be held in the Parkerson Baptist church and interment will be in the
family lot in the church cemetery.
1932
January 17, 1932
Macon Telegraph
OSCAR HOGAN,
22, SLAIN IN TWIGGS. Ross Alley, 52, Surrenders to Sheriff Kitchens.
SELF-DEFENSE IS CLAIMED.
Jeffersonville,
Ga., Jan. 16. Ross Alley, 52, farmer, residing two and a half miles
north of Adams Park, rapped on the door of Sheriff Sam Kitchens
here this morning,
"I've just killed a man and have come
here to surrender" the sheriff said Alley addressed him.
Alley was admitted to the jail.
Then he told the story of a tragedy that occurred near his home an hour
before, in which Oscar Hogan, 22, was shot to death.
After placing Alley behind the
bars, the sheriff went to the ssceme and confirmed the repot.
An inquest was ordered and the body
was prepared for burial.
Alley's Report. According to Alley's version
of the trouble, he was repairing some broken ditches on the highway in front
of his property when Hogan drove along in his automobile.
"He cursed me and then got out
of the car." said Alley. "he said that I was responsible for a notice for
him to vacate his home on the Irving Fitzpatrick place at once He
said I had been telling tales about him. It was false. I told him so."
Then, the sheriff was told, Hogan grabbed
the hoe that Alley was using after attempting to strike the elder man.
The two wrestled on off, tried to get
away from him." said Alley. "I didn't want any trouble. I walked for a quarter
of a mile or more. Hogan jumped into his car and following me. He continued
to abuse me and right near the house he jumped out of the car and ran toward
me. I drew my pistol and shot him four times at close range."
The sheriff said that four bullets entered
Hogan's breast. Hogan died almost instantly.
Hogan was married and the father
of two small chidlren. He has a large family connection in Twiggs county.
Hogan's wife, a daughter of Oscar
Long, is a niece of Alley.
Coroner Eugene Sauls impanneled
a jury soon after the body of Hogan was discovered. Tonight, it was ascertained,
the jury has not completed its investigation.
January 18, 1932
Macon Telegraph
ALLEY SET FREE IN HOGAN DEATH. Spends Night
in Jail, Waiting For Ride to His Home.
Jeffersonville, Ga, Jan. 17. Coroner
Eugene Sauls today told Sheriff Sam Kitchens a jury under his direction
nad exonerated Ross Alley, 52-year old farmer, in the killing of
Oscar Hogan, 22, yesterday.
Sheriff Kitchens told
Alley, in the county jail here, he could go home. But Alley's home is about
20 miles from here and he didn't feel like walking that far. He spent tonight
in jail and Sheriff Kitchens will drive him home tomorrow, it was said,
unless members of Hogan's family obtain a warrant to hold him.
Alley told the coroner he was
working on the road in front of his property when Hogan approached and threatened
him, accusing him of being responsible for a notice for Hogan to vacate his
home.
Hogan attacked Alley with a hoe,
and the latter shot him four timew with a pistol in slef-defense, he sid.
All the shots took effect.
Funeral services for Hogan were
held this afternoon.
March 16, 1932
Macon Telegraph
Jeffersonville,
Ga., March 15. Funeral services were held at Prospect Methodist church
Monday morning at 11 o'clock for Benny Eugene Holliday, infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Holliday, whose death occurred Sunday morning
after a serious illness of pneumonia. He is survived by his mother and father,
Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Holliday, three brothers, B. T., Robert and
Horace.
June 15, 1932
Macon Telegraph
Allentown, Ga., June 14. Funeral services
were conducted for Mrs.
Henry S. Denson on Monday at 3 p.m. at the Baptist church by Dr. J.
C. Solomon and Rev. J. E. Townsend, with interment in the Ripley cemetery.
The active pallbearers were Norman
Eade, Fulton Wade, Sam Adams, Pat Adams, Bernard Porter and M. D.
Durden. The honorary pallbearers were I. M. Meadows, C. E. Adams,
W. M. Allen, G. M. Toney, A. W. Daughtry and Dr. W. C. Shellnut.
Mrs. Denson was formerly Miss
Florence Rogers and was reared in the Walnut Creek section near here.
She had been ill for two weeks and died Sunday at 1 p.m. Mrs. Denson was
an active church member and was prominent in the Allentwon Baptist Woman's
Missionary society. Mrs. Denson is survived by her husband, Henry S. Denson,
and two brothers, Tillman and Will Rogers, of Montrose.
June 28, 1932
Macon Telegraph
TWIGGS PHYSICIAN DIES AT AGE OF 78. Dr. J. G. Slappey,
active in Twiggs church and political affairs for many years,
died at his home in Jeffersonville at 10:50 o'clock Monday morning after
an illness of several months
He was 78 years old, and was born at the old Slappey home near West
Lake. When he was 21 years old he received a diploma from the Atlanta Medical
school, and began practice. He continued active in the medical profession
until ill health forced his retirement two years ago.
He became a junior steward of Mary Chapel church when he was
9 years old. This church was built by his mother and bore her name. After
moving to Jeffersonville he became a member of the Jeffersonville Methodist
church, and was a senior steward there at the time of his death. He was county
physician for more than 30 years, and was a member of the Masonic order.
He was married twice, first to Miss Annie L. Carter, of Twiggs county, and later to Miss Mary Stephens Coffee, of Hawkinsville.
Surviving are his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Annie Williams, and Mrs. Morgan L. Whitehurst, of Jeffersonville; four sons, Mark Fred Slappey, John G. Slappey, Jr., Joshua Wimberly Slappy, of Jeffersonville, and Robert Coffee Slappey, of Macon; several grandchildren, nieces and nephews, also survive.
Funeral services will be held at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Jeffersonville Methodist church. Rev. C. S. Herrington, pastor, Dr. J. C. Solomon, of Fitzpatrick, and Rev. S. B. Wingfield will conduct the services. The active pallbearers will be J. H.Vaughn, J. D. Shannon, H. V. Jackson, W.N. Marchman, F. E. Wimberly and J. G. Rockmore, of Atlanta. Honorary pallbearers will be O. T. Chapman, J. I. Mercer, D. J. A. Hembree, Dr. H. A. Rogers, Dr. J. W. Sanders and W. M. Whitaker.
July 2, 1932
Macon Telegraph
Mrs.
Roxie Holland, 75, died at her home, 220 Calhoun street, at an early
hour Friday morning. She was born in Twiggs county Nov. 10, 1856, and was
the widow of John Holland. She moved to Macon nine years ago from
Twiggs county, and was a member of New Haven Baptist church in Twiggs county.
Five daughters and two sons survive:
Mrs. J. W. Cannon, Gordon; Mrs. G. F. Cannon, Mrs. S. W.
Williams, Mrs. R. W. Sapp and Mrs. Annie Early all of Macon; W.
F. and J. F. Holland; a sister and brother, Mrs. Mattie Cosby,
Gordon, and M. L. Hammock, Macon; 30 grandchildren and several great
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
at 12 o'clock Saturday morning in the New Haven Baptist church. Rev.
Jim Tom Collins will officiate. The interment will be in the family lot,
in New Haven cemetery.
July 17, 1932
Macon Telegraph
LAVENDER - COLLINS. Mrs. W. H. Lavender
announces the marriage of her daughter, Ruth, to Mr. Paul L. Collins,
the wedding having been solemnized June 8 at Jeffersonville.
August 14, 1932
Macon Telegraph
Thelma Florene Phillips, five-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. F. Phillips, died in a local sanitarium at 2 o'clock Saturday morning after and illness of five days.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Phillips, of Jeffersonville.
She was born in Twiggs county Sept. 7, 1926.
She is survived by her parents, Sallie Mae Lee and J. F. Phillips; one brother and isster, Edward and Ruby, Jeffersonville; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Lee, Danville.
Funeral services were held at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon in Mt. Zion church near Danville. Rev. J. E. Townsend officiated. Interment was in Mt. Zion cemetery.
September 11, 1932
Macon Telegraph
Faulk - McCallum. Mr. and Mrs.
Charles R. Faulk of Danville announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Alice to Mr. Hugh A. McCallum
of Jeffersonville, the marriage to be solemnized in the early fall.
1933
January 8, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Hendry announce
the marriage of their daughter Mrs. Sara Hendry Jones,
to Mr. Edward S. Adkins, of Swift Creek,
on Dec. 28, in Jeffersonville.
January 8, 1933
Macon Telegraph
.Smith-Richardson wedding in Twiggs. The marriage of Miss Erma Smith of Danville, and Mr. Carl Richardson of Louisberg, N. C. was solemnized at high noon Monday, Deember 26, at Jeffersonville, Ordinary S. R. Faulk, of Twiggs county, performing the ceremony in the presence of a few relatives.
The bride wore a gown of red chiffon with matching hat, and accessories of black. She is a daughter of Mr. John Smith and a grandaughter of Elder Jim Smith of Washington county. She is a graduate of Danville high school, and for the past five years has been teaching near Danville.
The groom is the son of Mr. Jim Richardson of Louisberg, N. C. He is a graduate of Bunn high school, Bunn, N. C. and studied at Duke university.
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson will make there home near Danville, where the groom is engaged in farming.
February 13, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Williams Victim of Short Illness. Dry Branch
Citizen Expires at 84; Funeral Today.
Thomas
E. Williams, 84, died at his home near Dry Branch at 5 o'clock Sunday
morning, after an illness of two days.
Mr. Williams was born Dec. 15,
1849, and was a son of the late Joe and Mary Drapper Williams. He
has been a resident of Twiggs ocunty for all his life and was a member of
Antioch Baptist church, Liberty Hill Masonic lodge. He was a veteran of the
War Between the States.
He is survived by his widow, who
before her marriage was Miss Rebecca Birdsong; a son, Jack Williams,
of Jacksonville, Fla., a daughter, Mrs. C. E. Blackshear of Dry Branch,
and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon in the Antioch Baptist church, conducted by
Rev. H. H. Mosely. Interment will be in Antioch cemetery and the committal
service will be in charge of the Liberty Hill Masonic lodge members.
March 5, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Helton,
of Danville announce the marriage of their daughter, Rubye Carolyn, to Mr. J. Gayden
Swann, of Old Fort, N. C. on Sunday, Feb. 26, at Jeffersonville.
May 14, 1933
Macon Telegraph
MISS MARY NORRIS TO WED MR. WILLIAM B. LLOYD. Of interest to many friends in Middle Georgia is the announcement made by Mr. R. B. Norris, of Jeffersonville, of the engagement and approaching marriage of his daughter, Mary Reid, to Mr. William Bross Lloyd, Jr., of Winnetka, Ill., and Yellow Springs, Ohio. The marriage ceremony will be performed late this month.
Miss Norris was graduated from the Jeffersonville High school
and later attended Anderson college, Columbia university, and was graduated
cum laude with the groom-to-be from Antioch college. For the past two years
she has been employed in social welfare work in Detroit, Mich.
Mr. Lloyd has been a member on the staff of the social science
department at Antioch since his graduation. He holds a privae airplance pilot's
license and owns a plane, in which the couple plan to make a trip to Mexico
City this summer for their honeymoon.
On their return to the north, the couple will stop by Jeffersonville
where they will spend some time with the bride's father. They will make their
permanent residence in Chicago..
May 28, 1933
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~ ...marriage of Miss Cumming Urquhart
of Cochran, to Mr. Thomas Ellis DeFore of Jeffersonville, which was brilliant
social affair occurring at twilight, Friday, May 19, at the Methodist church
of Cochran......Her mother was Miss Kathryn Bond of Montezuma...Her father, John Cumming Urquhart....The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. DeFore of Jeffersonville....
Immediately after the ceremony, the bride and groom left for Daytona Beach,
and Miami, Fla., and after June 1 will be at home at Dublin.....
June 8, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Kitchens Releases Negro Suspect Here. Sheriff
Sam Kitchens of Jeffersonville was in Macon yesterday investigating
local angles of a murder case that orginated in Twiggs county Sunday when
a Negro, Mozelle Mims, was shot
to death. He questioned Neadon Rouse, Negro suspect arrested by local
police Tuesday, but later ordered his release when he became convinced that
the suspect was not connected with the crime.
The sheriff said that White
was killed about 12 miles south of Jeffersonville and that Ulyses
Rouse, Negro, is being sought. Oliver Rouse, Negro, brother of
Ulyses, is being held in jail at Jeffersonville. Sheriff Kitchens
said he had been informed that Mims was held by Oliver Rouse while
Ulyses fired the fatal shot.
June 10, 1933
Macon Telegraph
MRS. A.J. CRIBB. Funeral services
for Mrs. Mollie Sanders
Cribb, widow of A. J. Cribb, who died at her home in Dry Branch
Thursday night, will be held in Beech Springs church at Bullards at 4 o'clock
this afternoon. Rev. C. D. Herrington of Jeffersonville will officiate.
Interment will be in the family lot
in Beech Springs cemetery. Pallbearers will be H. G. Atkins, Felix Green;
Grady Kitchens, G. W. Kenyen, W. G. Dyer and Cliff Epps.
Mrs. Cribb was born on Nov. 16, 1880,
in Wilkinson county, the daughter of Dessie Vandiver Sanders and Robert
L. Sanders, who died several years ago. She was married on Dec. 19,
1904 to Andrew J. Cribb, who survives her.
Before coming to Dry Branch 10 years
ago she lived in Bullards for several years. She was a member of the Beech
Springs Methodist church for many years.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by three sons, Robert L. Cribb and A. J. Cribb, Jr., of Dry Branch
and Thomas Olan Cribb of Fort Benning and a brother Will R. Sanders
of Columbus.
July 9, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. J. C. Bozeman, Sr.,
of Danville, announces the marriage of her daughter, Ada Blanche, to Mr. J. Clarence
Burns, of Cochran Sunday, July 2 at the Methodist parsonage in Jeffersonville,
Rev. C. S. Herrington officiating.
August 9, 1933
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~Williams-Slappy Wedding Is
Held. A marriage characterized by simplicity and beauty was that of Miss Genevieve Williams of
Danville to Mr. Simeon D. Slappy of Doles, which was solemnized Sunday
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of the bride's mother. Rev. C. T.
Lawhorn performed the ceremony in the presence of a few friends and relatives.
.......Mrs. Slappy is the only daughter of
Mrs. J. T. Williams of Danville. She is a grauate of Danville High
school and had special training at G.S.C.W. at Milledgeville and Georgia
at Athens. For several years she has taught in the public shools in different
sections of the state.....
Mr. Slappy is the eldest son of
Mr. W. L. Slappy, prominent farmer, of Worth county. He gradauted
from Tifton A. and M. school, while there he was actively engaged in athletics
especially as a football player. ....en route to Doles wehre they will live.
August 13, 1933
Macon Telegraph
WALKER-BRIDGES. Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Walker of Jeffersonville announce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Lee, to Mr. Claude N. Bridges
of Lattimore, N. C., the ceremony having been solemnized Aug. 2 by Rev.
S. B. Wingfield. Mr. and Mrs. Bridges will make their home in Lattimore,
N. C.
September 17, 1933
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~Christian-Wasden Wedding is Pretty.
The marriage of Miss Edna
Christian of Bullards, and Mr. Paul Wasden, of Dublin, and Bullards,
was solemnized at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon at Beech Springs Methodist
church in Bullards, Rev. C. D. Herrington, the pastor, officiating.....
The bride entered with her father, Mr.
G. W. Christian, by whom she was given in marriage...
...home to their friends in Bullards.
October 29, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Muse-Jones. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Muse announce
the marriage of their daughter Edna
Deberry to Mr. Walker P. Jones which was solemnized at Jeffersonville
on Sept. 14.
November 26, 1933
Macon Telegraph
SMITH-YATES. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Smith
announce the marriage of their daughter Margaret Louise, to Mr. Harvie
Roscoe Yates, formerly of Alexander, Ala., the ceremony having been performed
in Jeffersonville Oct. 30. Mr. and Mrs. Yates will make their home in Macon.
December 31, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. J. W. Brown
announces the marriage of her daughter, Joe Thelma, to Mr. James Ollie
Allen of Stevens Pottery. The marriae took place at Jeffersonville
on Dec. 16, the ordinary of Twiggs county officating.
1934
January 7, 1934
Macon Telegraph
Jeffersonville, Ga., Jan.
6. George Jackson, Twiggs
county deputy sheriff, who was fatally injured last night when hit by an
automobile, was buried today.
Mr. Jackson and Clyde Bridges,
Jeffersonville marshal, were watching the road near her for a car reported
stolen, flagging down each approaching motorist. A car driven by William
Gallemore, of Jeffersonville, accidentally hit Mr. Jackson. The injured
man was taken home, where he died shortly afterward.
Mr. Jackson is survived by his
widow, formerly Miss Emmie McNair, a graduate of the Macon hospital
nurses' training school; son, Lawrence Jackson of Cochran; brother,
J. L. Jackson of Macon; three sisters, Mrs. J. G. Moore, Mrs. Mamie
Sessions and Mrs. Louise Kline, all of Macon.
January 17. 1934
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services of Mrs. Mary Mercer, who died early
Sunday morning at her home near Fitzpatrick, Ga., were held at the Liberty
Hill church, yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. J. P. Langlois, pastor
of Jeffersonville Methodist church, and Rev. A. C. Outler, pastor
of the Gordon Methdist church, officiated. Interment was in the family cemetery.
Pallbearers were J. S. Epps, Raymond
Wood, Thomas Murphey, Raymond Curtis, Mercer Burns, Harley Mercer,
Jerome Kennington and Sanders Mercer.
Surviving Mrs.
Mercer are her brother, Dr. A. L. Wood, Fitzpatrick; a sister, Mrs.
E. G. Floyd, Dry Branch; several grandchildren, nieces and nephews,
and the following step-children: W. G., J. I. and C. E. Mercer, of
Gray; J. H. Mercer, of Miami, FLa.; Mrs. H. F. Kennington,
Macon, and Mrs. Emma Vaughn, of Tampa, Fla.
February 4, 1934
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. J. W. Mitchell
of Vidalia announces the marriage of her daughter, Maurine Meadows, to Mr. J. W.
McCallum of Jeffersonville.
March 19, 1934
Macon Telegraph
TWIGGS RESIDENT DIES IN HOSPITAL. Linton Hatcher, Former County Commissioner,
Passes After Short Illness
Linton Hatcher, prominent
Twiggs county farmer and former chairman of the board of county commissioners
there, died in a local hospital early yesterday afternoon of an illness
of several weeks. He was 76 years old.
Mr. Hatcher was active in directing
work at his farm until three weeks ago. He was brought here for treatment
two weeks ago.
As a member of the board of county
commissioners for 12 years and as chairman much of that time, Mr. Hatcher
was active in road improvement in his county and friends said highways in
that section "will stand as a monument to him."
He was one of the most progressive farmers
in the section, having been first to bring to Twiggs county registered stocks
of all kinds.
He had been a deacon in the Baptist
church in Jeffersonville for many years.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. W.
W. Wood; a stepson, J. A. McCallum; and four grandchildren, Linton
Hatcher Wood, Jackson Hatcher, Joseph Hatcher and Miss Hazel Hatcher.
Mr. Hatcher was a native of Wikinson
county, but moved his residence to Twiggs county in this early manhood.
Funeral services will be held
at 5 p.m. today at the Jeffersonville Baptit church, Rev. S. B. Wingfield,
pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the Jeffersonville cemetery.
Pallbearers will be J. W. McCallum,
Dr. A. S. McCallum, L. E. McCallum, H. A. McCallum, Linton Wood Hatcher
and Joseph Hatcher.
April 15, 1934
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Lucy Wall To Be Interred.
Funeral Services Planned Today at Jeffersonvile. Funeral services for Mrs. Lucy Wimberly Wall, 64,
widow of the late J. J. Wall, will be held at 5 p.m. today at the
residence in Jeffersonville. Interment will be in the Wimberly cemetery near
Jeffersonvlle.
Rev. S.B. Wingfield and Rev.
H. P. Langlois will officiate, and active pallbearers will be W.
J. Wall, C. B. Wall, J. R. Wimberly, Jr., George H. Carswell, Jr., J. S.
Shannon, John W. Faulk. Honorary pallbearers will be J. A. McCallum,
B. B. Wimberly, D. S. Faulk, Sr., Dr. J. A. Hembree, Walter Locke, W. W.
Wood, E. T. Wimberly, W. A. Sutton, Jr., W. M. Whitaker, J. H. Balcom and
W. W. Larson.
Mrs. Wall, who died at 11 p.m., Friday,
was born in Twiggs county, Jan. 11, 1870, the daughter of Dr. Josh and
Addie Steely Wimberly, and had made her home in that county all of
her life. She ws a member of the Baptist church and was atively engaged
in the woman's missionary society.
Surviving Mrs. Wimberly are one
daughter, Mrs. George Crisp, Gainesville; one son, J. M. Wall,
Jeffersonville; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; one
brother, Maj. A. C. Wimberly, Washington, D. C., two nieces, Miss
Ellen Carswell, Jeffersonville and Miss Courtney Carswell, Atlanta;
one nephew, George Carswell, Jr., Irwinton..
May 2. 1934
Macon Telegraph
Funeral servies were held today at Cary church for J. T. Long, who died yesterday at his home in Twiggs county.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Georgia Long; two sons, Oscar, Jr. and Teasy Long; granddaughter, Ruby Vaughn; two brothers, O. L. Long and Bob Long; three sisters, Mrs. Mattie Jackson, Mrs. Janie Alley and Mrs. Nannie Edwards, all of Twiggs county.
July 1, 1934
Macon Telegraph
Pulliam-Best. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Pulliam of Lorane, announce the marriage of their daughter, Sara Frances, to Mr. Bernard Lee Best which took place February 24 at Jeffersonville.
September 6, 1934
Macon Telegraph
Mrs Bloodworth Dies of Illness. Body of Dry Branch Resident Interred in Twiggs.
Funeral services for Mrs. Angie Bloodworth,
49, whose death occured at her residence at Dry Branch at 6:30 a.m. yesterday
after an illness of four weeks, were held at Mount Pleasant church in Twiggs
county at 4:30 p.m., yesterday.
Mrs. Bloodworth was born in Fort Valley, Aug. 27, 1885, the daughter of Wesley Howard and Mrs. Martha Bartlett Howard,
and had made her home here for a number of years until she moved to Dry Branch
nine years ago. She was a member of the Mikado Baptist church.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. O. S. Robinson, Dover, Ga.; Mrs. J. W. Simmons, Macon; Miss Leland Inez Bloodworth, Dry Branch; three sons, H. W., James I. and J. A. Bloodworth; two sisters, Mrs. A. C. Farrar and Mrs. J. A. Curtis, Macon; and several grandchildren.
December 30, 1934
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. George R. Snow
of Jeffersonville announce the marriage of their daughter, Daisy Ardelle, to Mr. Grady
Lewis of Sylacauga, Ala., and Las Vegas, Nvada, the ceremony having been
performed in Las Vegas on Dec. 20 by Rev. F. M. Ryan. Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis are at home temporarily in Las Vegas.
1935
March 28, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for J. Frank Cranford, 31, whose lifeless
body was found in a wrecked auto on the Macon-Jeffersonville highway early
Tuesday morning, were held in the Antioch church at 4:30 p.m. yesterday.
Rev. C. W. Stitt, pastor of the East Macon Baptist church, officiated
and interment was in the Antioch cemetery.
Pallbearer were Leonard Williams,
John Simmons, B. E. Lewis, Maynard Martin, G. W. Vandiver and Felix
Green.
Mr. Cranford had been foreman at the
Georgia Kaolin Company's Dry Branch mine for the past six years. He had been
to Macon and was returning to his Dry Branch home at the time of the accident.
April 15, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Jeffersonville, Ga., April 14. John F. DeFore,
59, Twiggs county planter, died at his residence near Jeffersonville at 4:30
a.m. yesterday. He had been in declining health for several years.
Mr. DeFore was born in Twiggs county, February 22, 1876, the son of Hiram DeFore and Mrs. Martha Floyd DeFore,
and had lived there all of his life. He was active in all the affairs of
his community and a member of the Methodist church. He also was a trustee
of the Jeffersonville schools and formerly a tax assessor of Twiggs county.
Surviving Mr. Defore are two daughters, Misses Olenza and Ruby Defore; one son, T. E. DeFore, Dublin; two sisters, Mrs. D. M. Munn, Macon, and Miss Georgia DeFore, Jeffersonville; Mrs. R. J. Wimberly, Jeffersonville; two stepgrandchildren, Evelyn and Robert Fagan, Fort Valley.
Funeral services will be held at the Prospect Methodist church at 11 a.m. today. Rev. H. P. Langlois will officiate, and interment will be in the Prospect cemetery.
Active pallbeaers will be William Harrell, William Munn, David Califf, Charles B. Wall, Hugh A. McCallum and Ezra Rozier. Honorary pallbearers will be E. D. Maxwell, Sr., J. D. Shannon, J. H. Vaughn, D. S. Faulk, Forest Wimberly and J. A. McCallum.
May 6, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
A. B. Hardy, 2281 Second street, who died in a local hospital Saturday
night after an illness of several weeks, will be held in the New Haven Baptist
church in Twiggs county at 3:30 p.m. today.
The funeral cortege will leave Hart's mortuary at 2:30 p.m.
Mrs. Hardy had been in declining health for several years.
Mrs. Hardy, he former Miss Eleanor Crosby Hardy, was
born in Twiggs county, Feb. 3, 1886, and had made her residence in Macon for
33 years. She was a member of the New Haven Baptist church.
June 23, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Gallemore-Wall. Mrs. John Levi Gallemore announces the marriage of her daughter, Clara Ruth, to Mr. Charles Bennett Wall of Jeffersonville, the wedding having been solemnized Saturday afternoon, June. 22.
June 23, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Hunnicutt-Flanders. Mr. and Mrs J. C. Hunnicutt announce the marriage of their daughter, Julia Marie, to Mr. Harry Flanders of Swainsboro, the marriage having taking place on June 2 in Jeffersonville.
August 31, 1935
Macon Telegraph.
Jurnigan Evans Expires in City. Funeral Services
Will Be Conducted Sunday. Jurnigan
Evans, 46, pattern maker formerly with the Massey Gin Works at Mogul,
died at 11:20 p.m. yesterday at the home of his sister Mrs. Ida King, at
1429 Third street.
Mr. Evans had been in ill health
for several years and had been confined to his bed for the past 14 weeks.
He had resided in Macon for the past 27 years.
He was born Jan. 3, 1889, the
son of the late J. D. Evans of Twiggs county. He was a member of
the Cross Keys Baptist church where funeral services will be held tomorrow,
complete plans to be annnounced later. Interment will be in the family lot
in Crosby cemetery in Twiggs county.
Survivors include his wife,
the former Odessa Evans, two sons, Jesse and Howard of Macon;
two daughtrs, Mrs. Zach Schell and Miss Myrtice Evans of Macon,
a brother. T. W. Evans of Girard, Ala., and a sister, Mrs. King
of Macon.
September 22, 1935
Macon Telgraph
Funeral services for John Hugh Jessup, a 90-year old Confederate
veteran who died yesterday of injuries sustained when he was knocked down
by a cow several days ago, will be held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary
at 4 o'clock this afternoon, it was announced yesterday.
Active pallbearers
will be A. E. Kitchens, E. C. Cranford, J. T. O'Neal, Johnie Martin, B.
D. Tharpe and Ozie Crosby.
Honorary pallbearers will be M.
C. Kitchens, S. S. Kitchens, B. S. Fitzpatrick, Dr. A. J. Wood, G. W. Williams,
E. E. Cranford and C. B. Barrentine.
He saw service in practically
all of the major battles of the War Between the States, and spent some time
in a federal prison during the latter days of the war.
He was one of five brothers who
fought in the war. The only other brother who survived was Aaron Jessup,
now dead.
He had continued, active
and mentally alert despite his 90 year until a cow knocked him down in the
road of his Jeffersonville road home last Monday, fracturing his hip.
Mr. Jessup was born in Twiggs
county March 20, 1845, son of Isaiah and Euphany Allen Jessup, on
a farm near Dry Branch. He was a member of the Liberty Hill Lodge, F. and
A.M. of Anotioch Baptist church, and of the R. A. Smith camp, Confederate
veterans.
Mr. Jessup was only 18 years of
age when he marched away to take part in the War Between the States. He
was a recruit in the 4th Georgia regiment, Infantry Volunteers, which was
stationed in Virginia at the time of his enlistment.
He took part in the battle of
Chancellorsville, and was with General Stonewall Jackson when that
Confederate leader was accidentally shot by his own pickets.
Ranked a Sharpshooter. He was later
ranked a sharpshooter for his prowess with a rifle, and was often used with
other sharpshooters as an advance detachment feeling out the country for
the main body of troops following them.
In addition to the Battle of Chancellorsville
and his service with Jackson, Mr. Jessup also action at the Battle of Gettysburg,
and the Battle of the Wilderness at Spottsylvania.
There he was taken prisoner and
was confined in Fort Delaware prison, where many southern prisoners suffered
and died from in adequate food, clothing and shelter.
Three brothers, who died in the
service of the South included William, killed in the Battle of Chickamauga;
Ben F., who died in prison from wounds in battle; and Samuel,
who died in Washington from wounds incurred at Petersbug.
Survivors include a son, J.
E. Jessup, and a daughter, Mrs. W. A. Kitchens, six grandchildren
and four great-grandchildren.
October 13, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Mr and Mrs. J. T. Holliday of Jeffersonville announce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Annie, to Mr. Willie Paul Findlay of Cochran, the wedding having been solemnized Oct. 11, Rev. H. P. Langlois of Jeffersonville officiating. .
October 21, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Rites For Bond Held in Twiggs. Prominent Planter
Died at Residence Saturday Afternoon. Funeral services for Ruffin Bond, 86, prominent planter and
landowner of Twiggs county, whose death occurred at his residence, in which
he had lived for fourscore yers, at 1:30 p.,. Saturday, were held at the
residence at 3:30 p. m. yesterday. Dr. J. Ellis Sammons, pastor of
the Vineville Baptist church, officiated and interment was in the Bond cemetery.
Eight of his great nephews
served as pallbearers: A. W. Bond, T. M. Bond, J. Randolph Bond, J. Calder
Bond, J. W. Bond, Tom Sims, R. C. Johnson and Edgar Nelson.
Mr. Bond was born in Twiggs
county Sept. 3, 1849, the son of John P. Pond and Mrs. Elizabeth
O'Neal Bond, early settlers of that county, who came from Sumter district,
S. C., during the Indian wars. While not in the Civil war, he well remembeed
the march of Sherman through Georgia. He fell about 1o days ago, breaking
his arm, and death resulted from complications developing from this accident.
Surviving Mr. Bond are a
large number of nieces and nephews.
November 7, 1935
Macon Telegraph
NEGRO IS KILLED DEFENDING CROP. Twigs Officer
Slays Man as He Guards His Property Against Distress Warrant.
Jeffersonville, Ga., Nov.
1. Cleveland "Bobo" Randall,
middle-aged Negro farmer who rented a farm near Fitzpatrick station, was
shot down and killed today as he defended his crop against consummation of
a distress warrant.
Tommy Mercer, Twiggs county
deputy sheriff, was forced to shoot the Negro as the latter threatened him
with a shotgun as the crop was being taken from the field, according to Sheriff
Sam Kitchens.
Sheriff Kitchens said he expected
a coroner's jury tonight to exonerate his aide, circumstances indicating
he fired in self-defense.
Randall, about 45 or 50
years old, rented his farm from Calvin Mixon, who swore to the distress
warrant for payment of back rent. As Deputy Mercer was trying to get the crop
out, Randall secured his shotgun and ordered a halt to proceedings, the deputy
firing his own shotgun as the Negro menaced him, Sheriff Kitchens said. The
load struck Randall in the chest, killing him almost instantly.
November 23, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Niblett Expires At Twiggs Home. Illness of Few Weeks Fatal to Dry Branch Farmer.
Stephen Jackson (Jack) Niblett, Twiggs county farmer, died at his residence, Dry Branch, R. F. D., at 1:10 a.m. yesterday after an illness of a few weeks.
Mr. Niblett was born in Jasper countyy, August 12, 1869,
and had made his residence in Twiggs county for 13 years, after having made
his residence in Butts county and Monroe county. He was a member of the New
Hope Methodist church in Jasper county.
Surviving Mr. Niblett are his widow, the former Miss Fannie Kinard; a son, Farris Niblett, and a daughter, Synia Niblett, Dry Branch; two sisters, Mrs. Gip Greer, and Miss Fannie Niblett, Butts county.
Funeral services will be held at the graveside in Andrews cemetery at 3 p. m. today. Rev. C. A. Forester will officiate.
December 22, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs. G. T. Arnold, resident of
411 Jackson street, were held at the Cool Springs church, Twiggs county,
at 3 p.m. yesterday with Rev. Mr. Bryant officiating. Interment was
in the cemetery there.
Pallbearers included Charlie
Fowler, Sam Chambers, Blacton Godfrey, Doc Gray, Emmett Thompson and
C. W. Thomas.
1936
April 8, 1936
Macon Telegraph
Macon Carpenter to Be Buried in Twiggs County.
Funeral services of James N. Etheridge,
carpenter of 274 Willingham street, whose death occurred in a local hospital
at noon yesterday after an illness of several weeks, will be held at the
Liberty Hill church in Twiggs county at noon today and interment will be
in the Liberty Hill cemetery.
Mr. Etheridge was born in Wilkinson
county, Nov. 7, 1866, the son of Thomas Etheridge and Mrs. Elizabeth
Criswell Etheridge and had lived in Macon for about 10 years. He was
engaged in railroad work for 30 years, 24 of which were spent with the M.
D. and S. railway. for the past several years he had been engaged as a carpenter.
He was a member of the Baptist church.
Surviving are his widow, the former
Miss Sarah J. Cass of Wilkinson county, a niece, Mrs. T. H. Barrentine,
Macon; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Warren, Macon; four brothers, Charles
Etheridge, Macon; Fluker and William Etheridge, Wilkinson county;
and Levi Etheridge of Alabama.
May 25, 1936
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. B. S. Fitzpatrick,
wife of the superintendent of Twiggs county schools, died in a local hospital
at 3:35 p.m. yesterday after an illness of four days.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick, the former Miss Fleta Butler,
was born in Irwinton, Dec. 15, 1850, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Butler, prominent pioneer citizens of Wilkinson county, and had made
her home at Fitzpatrick for 55 years, since her marriage to Prof. B. S.
Fitzpatrick. She was a charter member of the Rosebud Methodist church,
in the founding of which she and her husband were principal participants.
Professor Fitzpatrick has been superintendent of Twiggs schools for 40 yeas.
Surviving are her husband;
four daughters, Mrs. Bessie Jones, Jeffersonville; Mrs. A. C. Ross,
Miss Fleta Fitzpatrick and Mrs. J. Wilbur Harwell, of Fitzpatrick;
two sons, George Fitzpatrick, of Fitzpatrick; B. S. Fitzpatrick.
Jr., Macon; four brothers, J. E. Butler, Rufus Butler, Willie Butler
and Raymond Butler, Irwinton; seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
at the Rosebud Methodist church at Fitzpatrick at 4 p.m. today. Rev.
J. E. Buchanan and Dr. J. C. Solomon will officiate and interment
will be in the Fitzpatrick cemetery.
Active pallbearers are to be Claude
E. Mercer, W. E. Jones, H. H. Vaughn, D. S. McGee, J. D. Shannon, H. V.
Jackson.
Honorary pallbearers are to be
H. L. D. Hughes, W. G. Spears, B. D. Tharpe, W. C. Hartley, W. H. Lamb,
S.J. Faulk, O. T. Chapman, J. H. Whitehurst, R. A. Harrison and Dr.
A. J. Wood.
November 9, 1936
Macon Telegraph
Retired Bibb Worker, 97, Was Native of Twiggs.Mrs. Dollie Ard Jones died at
her residence, 13 Bibb avenue, at an early hour yesterday morning.
Mrs. Ard was born in Twiggs county
97 years ago, the daughter of Hector Ard and Mrs. Jane Anderson
Ard, and had made her home in Macon since she was a young woman. She
was a member of the Methodist church. She was associated with Bibb Manufacturing
Company for many years, retiring from active service nine years ago.
Surviving are a brother, Andrew
Ard, Forsyth; several nephews, among them being Reubin Ard, Macon,
with whom she made her home; Charles Ard, Jim Ard, and Andrew
Ard, Forsyth; and Tully Ard, Macon.
Funeral services will be held
in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 11 a.m. today. Rev. T. M. Bailey
will officiate and interment will be in Cedar Ridge cemetery.
November 22, 1936
Macon Telegraph
Of interest to their many friends
is the announcement made today by Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ketterbaugh,
Sr., of Dry Branch, of the engagement of their daughter, Agnes Virginia, to Mr.
John Ashley White of San Diego, Calif.
Miss Ketterbaugh is the youngest
daughter of her parents. After graduating from Twiggs High school she attended
G. S. C. W. at Milledgeville for a short time. Miss Ketterbaugh takes an
active part in school and other affairs of her community and at present is
doing work in the new library at Smith High school at Dry Branch.
Mr. White is formerly of Macon.
He left here several yeas ago and since that time he has been with the United
States navy. After their wedding the latter part of December the couple are
planning to make their home in San Diego where Mr. White is now stationed.
November 30, 1936
Macon Telegraph
MISS BETTY EPPS. Gordon, Ga., Nov 29 - Funeral
services were held today for Miss
Betty Epps, 65, who died at her home near here Saturday after a long
illness. Rev. T. T. Collins officiated and interment was in New Haven cemetery.
Miss Epps was born and reared
in Twiggs county, and was a member of New Haven Baptist church. She was
the daughter of the late James and Harriet Clance Epps.
Survivors include two brothers,
R. D. Epps and G. W. Epps of Gordon; a sister, Miss Etta Epps
of Gordon, several nieces and nephews and a grand niece.
December 10, 1936
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Wood Floyd, widow
of E. G. Floyd of Dry Branch, will be held at 3 p.m. today at the
Rosebud Methodist church, Fitzpatrick, with Rev. J. E. Buchanan in
charge. Interment will be in the Wood family cemetery.
Mrs. Floyd died yesterday
morning at her home following an illness of a few days with peumonia. She
was a native of Twiggs county and was a daughter of Green B. Wood
and Mrs. Catherine Waters Wood.
Survivors include four daughters,
Mrs. S. R. Cordon, Washington, N. C.; Mrs. J. H. Carr, Morgantown,
N. C.; Mrs. Homer Jones, Amsterdam, Ga.; and Mrs. John S. Epps,
Dry Branch; and one brother, Dr. A. J. Wood, Fitzpatrick. She had
16 grandchildren.
1937
January 31, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Twiggs Resident to Be Paid Tribute at Antioch
Church. Jeffersonville, Ga., Jan. 20. Funeral services for Charles Felton Kitchens, 24,
will be held at Antioch church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock with interment
at the Kitchens cemetery, Rev. Mr. Moseley officiating.
Mr. Kitchens was stricken with
pneumonia Monday night and died Saturday morning at his home here.
He was connected with the road department of Twiggs county.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Miss Lena Pearl Woodward, one son, Charles Felton Kitchens,
Jr., his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. Tulley Kitchens of
Dry Branch; four brothers, including M. C. Kitchens of McIntyre and
O'Daniel and Virgil Kitchens of Dry Branch and one half sister, Miss
Mabel Kitchens.
April 17, 1937
Macon Telegraph
WEST ACQUITTED BY TWIGGS JURY.
Pleas of Self-Defense Wins Freedom of Defendant in Slaying of Richard Crosby.
Jeffersonville, Ga.,
April 16. A. Twiggs superior court jury returned a verdict of not guilty
today in the case of George West, indicted for the murder Jan. 9, of Richard Crosby. The jury deliberated
24 hours.
Testimony in the case was that
the slaying occurred at Charlie Sapp's store, near Dry Branch.
Mr. Sapp, only witness for the defendant,
testified several young men had been in his store playing setback and drinking
beer. He testified Crosby and West were among the group and both had been
drinking beer. He said he knew of no disagreement between the two.
Mr. Sapp testified West went out of
the store and Crosby followed shortly. He said he heard four pistol shots,
one after another.
"I rushed out of the store and
was first one on the scene, : he testified. "Crosby was on on top of West
in a kneeling position. West was on his back. Crosby had a knife in his hand."
The defendant's testimony included the
statement he left the store intending to go home.
"I was cut in the back by Crosby.
I got out my pistol and shot four times. I missed the first two and hit
the last two." He showed several scars.
Representing West were J. D.
Shannon of Jeffersonville and Earle R. Camp of Dublin.
Prosecutors were Solicitor J. Roy
Rowland and H. F. Griffin and R. A. Harrison, Jeffersonville.
February 22, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Johnson
of Dry Branch announce the marrriage of their daughter, Myrtle Irene, to Mr. Herbert
Arthur Irvin, of White Plains, N.Y. the wedding having been solemnized
Feb. 5 at 8 o'clock in the evening at Hyde Park, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin
will make their home in New York.
June 20, 1937
Macon Telegraph
J.J. FITZPATRICK IN SERIOUS STATE. Twiggs
County Man Is Suffering From Injuries Inflicted by Prisoner.
J. J. Fitzpatrick,
77, Jeffersonville, is in serious condition at a local private hospital
from injuries received when a Negro prisioner in the Twiggs county jail
attacked him.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, father of Mrs. Kitchens,
wife of the Twiggs county sheriff, lost his left eye and suffered a fracture
of the left check bone along with other injuries.
The attack occurred Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Kitchens was ill at her home on the first floor of the jail and Sheriff
Kitchens was away at the time.
Sheriff Kitchens said Henry
Wilmore, Negro, who was committed to the state hospital in Milledgeville
Friday, attacked Mr. Fitzpatrick.
Sheriff Kitchens said the Negro
called to Mr. Fitzpatrick who walked upstairs to see what the prisoner wanted.
Hit Him With Bottle. The Negro
picked up a soda bottle and struck the elderly man, the sheriff said
Mrs. Kitchens called the
Bibb county sheriff's office for help. Deputies from here subdued the Negro
with tear gas.
Mr. Fitzpatrick was brought to
the Clinic, where doctors later decidd to remove his left eye. They said
yesterday they believe Mr. Fitzpatrick will recover.
Wilmore had been arrested with
two other Negroes charged with burning a barn on the Tom Lattimore
plantation May 1.
June 28, 1937
Macon Telegraph
FITZPATRICK DIES OF BOTTLE WOUND. Father of
Mrs. Sam Kitchens, Hit on Head by Negro, Succumbs in Hospital Here. J. J. Fitzpatrick, 77, Jeffersonville,
died in a local hospital at 6:35 p.m. yesterday of injuries suffered when
hit in the head with a bottle June 14.
A Negro prisoner in the Jeffersonville
jail who allegedly threw the bottle has been transferred to the state hospital
at Milledgeville.
The bottle-throwing episode
was the beginning of a one-man riot which was not quelled until Bibb county
officers, carrying tear gas, arrived on the scene and subdued the Negro.
Mr. Fitzpatrick was born in Fitzgerald,
Oct. 4, 1859, and was a road contractor in Georgia and Florida for many
years.
Retired Years Ago. He retired 19 years
ago, spending five years in Griffin and the remaining years in Jeffersonville.
His wife died in 1934.
Survivors include four daughters,
Mrs. J. F. Carter and Miss Annie Fitzpatrick, Macon; Mrs.
S. G. Bailey, Griffin, and Mrs. Sam G. Kitchens, wife of Twiggs
county Sheriff Sam Kitchens, Jeffersonville; one brother, B. S.
Fitzpatrick, Jeffersonville; one sister, Mrs. Eugenia Miller, Albany,
and several grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
The body is being held at Hart's mortuary
pending completion of funeral arrangements.
July 30, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for William Faulk Shannon, manager
of Collins Bakery, who died in Abbeville, Ala., Saturday, from injuries received
in an automobile accident, were held in the Jeffersonville Baptist church
at 11 a.m. yesterday. Dr. J. E. Sammons and the Rev. D. M. Smith
officiated and burial was in the Jeffersonville cemetery.
Pallbearers were J. M.
Elrod, A. A. Brown, J. M. Johnston, Nelson Fowler, H. A. Jones and Joe Tucker.
Honorary pallbearers were Louis
Collins, Harry Collins, A. L. Miller, H. G. Roquemore, D. S. Faulk, John
Vaghn, C. B. Wall, W. H. Harrell, D. Y. Califf, H. L. D. Hughes and H.
R. Faulk.
September 12, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. E. T. Alexander announces the marriage of her daughter Lois to Lewis Eugene Stripling, the wedding having been solemnized July 12 in Twiggs county. Mr. and Mrs. Stripling are making their home in Atlanta.
September 12, 1937
Macon Telegraph
McNeal-Martin. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. McNeal, of Dublin, formerly of Macon, announce the marriage of their daughter, Willa Mae McNeal, to Aaron Clifton Martin of Macon, at Jeffersonville, Ga. September 4.
October 24, 1937
MaconTelegraph
Freeman - Gray. Mrs. Robert Carr announces the marriage of her daughter, Audrey Freeman to George Gray of Danville, the wedding having taken place Friday afternoon,
Oct. 22.
November 7, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Dublin, Ga., Nov. 6. Funeral
services for Willie Tucker,
50, who died at his home near here Thursday, were held from Cool Springs
church, Danville, Friday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. R. Elder Bryant.
Mr. Tucker was a native
of this county, but was reared in Oconee county.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Miss Claudie Bell Nobles, and seven children, George, Sam, John
Wesley, Robert, Thomas, Elizabeth and Joe Willis.
December 5, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for G. H. Wimberly, Twiggs county
farmer whp died at his residence near Dry Branch Friday afternoon after a
long illness, were held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 4 p.m. yesterday.
The Rev. T. M. Bailey officiated and burial was in the Andrews cemetery.
Pallbearers were Hugh Faulk, Lamar Cullen, W.A. DeFore, Zeke Wimberly, Howard Wimberly and M. T. DeFore.
Mr. Wimberly was a native of Jeffersonville and had been
engaged in farming in that county all his life. He was a member of the Stone
Creek Baptist church.
December 24, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs. Leila B. Cranford,
who died at her home at Cross Keys early Wednesday after an illness of several
weeks, were held at the New Haven church at 2 p.m. yesterday. The Rev. Theo Pharr officiated and burial was in the New Haven cemetery.
Pallbearers were O. W. Woodard, R. E. Thompson, Olin Hamock, James Addleton, Otha Addleton and John Addleton.
Mrs. Cranford was born in Twiggs county and had made her home
in Macon for 10 months. She was a member of the New Haven church.
December 28, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for W. H. Kitchens, 92, the last surviving
veteran of Twiggs county, who died at his residence on Route 4 at 9 p.m.
Wednesday after an illness of three months, were held at the residence at
3 p.m. yeserday, and burial was in the family cemetery.
Mr. Kitchens was born in Jones county,
the son of Uriah Kitchens and Mrs. Sarah Johnson Kitchens, and had
resided in Twiggs county for 65 years. He was a member of the Antioch Baptist
church.
Surviving are two sons, A. C. Kitchens,
Route 4, and H. A. Kitchens, Cochran; four daughters, Mrs. Ada
Birdsong and Mrs. J. A. Bryant, Macon; Mrs. J. A. Amerson,
Danville, and Mrs. Van Gardner, Columbus, Ohio, and 16 grandchildren.
1938
January 10, 1938
Macon Telegraph
VETERAN OF GRAY DIES AT HIS HOME. Stephen Cranford
Had Been in Declining Health Since Injuring His Hip. Stephen Cranford, Confederate veteran,
died at his residence, 129 Rutherford avenue, at 12:30 p.m. yesterday. About
two years ago he fell and injured his hip and had been in declining health
since. He was seriously ill for two weeks.
Mr. Cranford, was born in
Twiggs county Dec. 27, 1843, the son of John Cranford and Mrs. Harriet
Pettis Cranford. During the War Between the States he was a member of
Company C, Fourth Georgia Regiment. He served in the armies in Virginia
under Gen. Robert E. Lee. After the war he returned to the farm and
was engaged in farming as long as his health permitted. He was a member of
the Richland Baptist church.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Pauline Love, Macon; Mrs. T. J. Stone, Jeffersonville; four
sons, A. M. Cranford, Cross Keys; Frank Cranford, Cross Keys;
John Cranford, Bullards; Howard Cranford, Red Jacket, W.
Va.; 40 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren;
a sister, Mrs. Nancy Clance, Dry Branch and a brother, Short Cranford,
Montrose.
Funeral services will be
held at the graveside in the Pettis cemetery, at 4 p.m. The Rev. T. B.
Sanford, pastor of the Second Street Methodist church, will officiate.
Six grandsons will serve as pallbearers..
January 24, 1938
Macon Telegraph
DOVE SMITH. Funeral services for Dove Smith, candymaker who died at his residence, 319 Clinton street, early Friday, were held at the residence at 3 p.m. yesterday. Dr. A. C. Baker, pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, officiated and burial was in the Pearson cemetery.
Mr. Smith was born in Twiggs county and had made his home in Macon for 30 years.
February 9, 1938
Macon Telegraph
Jeffersonville, Ga, Feb 8. Funeral rites for Jesse Jewell Richardson,
44, of Atlanta were held on Sunday afternoon with burial in the Oak Grove
cemetery in Atlanta. Mr. Richardson died Friday in the Veterans hospital
following an operation. Before moving to Atlanta, 17 yeas ago, he lived
in Twiggs county. He was a World War veteran .
Survivors are his wife, the former
Miss Bessie Thomas of Eastman; two children, Joe and Helen Richardson
of Atlanta; his mother, Mrs. C. R. Richardson of Bleckley county;
five sisters, Mrs. W. T. Daley of Detroit, Mrs. H. J. Purser and
Mrs. W. H. Barrs of Bleckley ocunty and Mrs. J. N. Collins and
Mrs. W. G. Spears of Twiggs county; five brothers, J. L. and G.
H. Richardson of Atlanta; and D. L. Richardson of Commerce and
R. W. and F. C. Richardson of Bleckley county.
March 6, 1938
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~ Announcement is made
today of the wedding of Miss
Marie Birdsong of Gordon to Edward Hall of Gordon, the wedding
having been solemnized at 8 o'clock Saturday evening, Feb. 26, in Jeffersonville....
Mrs. Hall is the second daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Birdsong of Gordon and studied at the public schools
of Twiggs county and Gordon High school. Her father is prominent in business
circles in Twiggs county.
Mr. Hall is the only son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Hall and also studied at Gordon High school.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall will make their home
with the groom's parents near Gordon.
September 20, 1938
Macon Telegraph
Miss Wimberly Is Mr. Sanders
Bride. Jeffersonville, Sept. 19. The wedding of Miss Sue Wimberly to Frank Sanders
on Sunday was performed by the Rev. J. E. Buchanan of Dudley.
Mrs. Sanders is the only daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wimberly and a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Bob
DeFore with whom she spent much of her time. She was gradauted from
Twiggs High school and attended Middle Georgia College at Cochran last year.
Mr. Sanders is a native of Twiggs county
and is a son of Hoyt Sanders and Mrs. Sanders.
November 3, 1938
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Lamar Hall,
912 Walnut street, died in a local hospital at 2:30 p.m. yesterday after
a brief illness.
Mrs. Hall, the former Miss Estelle Rozier, was born
at Danville, Ga., Dec. 3, 1911, and had made her home in Macon for several
years. She was a member of the Lucy Chapel Methodist church.
Surviving are her husband; two
sons, Harrold and Charles, Macon; two sisters, Mrs. Beatrice Smith,
Mrs. Clifford Bozeman, Danville; two brothers, Alvin Rozier, Danville;
Charles Rozier, Chicago: her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Rozier
and her grandfather, C. G. Arnold, Danville.
The body will remain in the parlors
of Hart's mortuary pending completion of funeral arrangments.
November 5, 1938
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs. Lamar
Hall of 912 Walnut street, who died in a local hospital Wednesday, were
held in the Cool Springs church at 3 p.m. yesterday. Elder Josh Chance,
Elder Ozie Bryant and Elder Will Green officiated and burial was
in the Cool Springs cemetery.
Pallbearers were Morgan Sanders,
James Hamlin, Thomas Allen, Louis Smith, Clinton Hall and Irvin Lucas.
December 18, 1938
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Mary E. Hasty of Doerun announces the engagement of her daughter, Willa, to Henry Howard Wimberly of Jeffersonville. The ceremony will be performed on Dec. 25 at Doerun Baptist church.
December 1. 1938
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sapp announce the marriage of their daughter, Thelma Lois, to Eldon Lagrant Carter, the marriage having been solemnized on April 21 in Jeffersonville..
December 22, 1938
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Will Rouse, 447 Virgin lane, will be conducted
today at 11 o'clock at First Baptist church, Jeffersonville. Rev. J. G.
Thomas will officiate. Interment wil be held in church cemetery. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ola Rouse; son, Oliver Rouse,
one sister, Mrs. Ollie McGirt; one brother, R. L. Glover, Chicago,
Ill., and a host of relatives and friends. Central City funeral home is
in charge.
1939
January 15, 1939
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Titshaw
announce the marriage of their daughter Miriam Elizabeth, to William
Frank Cook of Macon and Savannah. The marriage was solemnized on Nov.
27, 1938 in Jeffersonville.
March 13, 1939
Macon Telegraph
NATIVE OF TWIGGS DIES IN LOUISIANA/ Ernest Harry Methvin, World war Veteran, Stricken While on Fishing Trip.
Jeffersonville, March 12. Ernest Harry Methvin,
46-year-old World War veteran and former Jeffersonville resident, died unexpectedly
in Minden, La., Saturday morning, relatives here were informed.
Mr. Methvin was on a fishing trip with friends when he complainned
of feeling ill, accoding to word here. He died before reaching a hospital.
Mr. Methvin was born and reared in Twiggs county, son of the Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Methvin.
During the war he served as member of a flying corps
a San Antonia, Tex. He returned to Jeffersonville after he was discharged
from the service. Later he went to Oklahoma,
then located at Minden, La., where he had been living for the past several years.
Survivors include four brothers, T. E. Methvin and G. W. Methvin of Jeffersonville; M. E. Methvin of Senoia and L. S. Methvin of Fort Pierce, Fla.; one sister, Mrs. J. S. Baker of near Macon.
The body is expected to reach here Monday or Tuesday for burial at a time to be set later.
-
March 20, 1939
Macon Telegraph
WILLIAM DYER ILLNESS IS FATAL. Final Rite forMeat Cutter Scheduled Monday.
William Gilbert Dyer, 63, meat cutter, died at his residence, 122 First street, at 3 p.m. yesterday after an illness of two weeks.
Mr. Dyer was born in Twiggs county April 17, 1875, the son of William Dyer and Mrs. Lucinda Lyles,
and had made his home in Macon since 1912. He had been associated with the
Mulberry market for a number of years and had been a member of the New
Haven church, in Twiggs county, for 50 years.
Surviving are two sons, W. G. Dyer, Jr., Dry Branch; L. J. Dyer, McIntyre: four daughters, Mrs. Homer Ward and Mrs. W. J. Hammock, Macon; Mrs. W. C. King, Dry Branch and Mrs. Rufus Upshaw; Williston, Fla.
Funeral services will be held at the New Haven church at 2:30 p.m. Monday. Dr. A. C. Baker, pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, will officiate and brial will be in the New Haven cemetery.
May 7, 1939
Macon Telegraph
B. S. Fitzpatrick of Fitzpatrick
announces the marriage of his granddaughter, Juliet Agnes Ross, to Wycliffe
J. Herrington. The marriage was solemnized May 3 in Perry.
June 4, 1939
Macon Telegraph
MRS. LYLES, 102, TAKEN BY DEATH. Macon Woman
Was Widow of Confederate Soldier in War Between States.
Mrs. Louisa K. Lyles, who worked on a farm
in the '50s while the men of the family fought in the war, died early yesterday
at her home on Jackson street. She was 102 years old, relatives said.
Funeral services will be held
at the Ard family cemetery in Twiggs county at 10 a.m. tomorrow with
the Rev. Harry Northington in charge.
Mrs. Lyles was born in Twiggs
county June 22, 1837, the daughter of Daniel and Lousia Ard.
Her husband, John Lyles, was
a member of the Company G, 48th Georgia regiment, in the War between the
States.
She and her husband moved to Bibb county
about 40 years go. The husband died about five years afterwards and later
Mrs. Lyles moved to Macon. She had been living for some time with a daughter,
Mrs. C. H. Brickle.
Eleven children were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Lyles but only three are living.
Survivors include Mrs. Brickle,
and two sons, John and Stewart Lyles of Macon; five grandchildren,
including Mrs. Rosabelle Allen and Billy John Lyles, of Macon;
nine great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.
June 25, 1939
Macon Telegraph
Miss Almeta Thompson and Curtis Elkin Green were married June 11 in Jeffersonville. They are now at home with the bride's mother, Mrs. W. A. Thompson at 156 New street.
Mr. Green is a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Green of Dames Ferry. His father is a Central of Georgia operator.
August 15, 1939
Macon Telegraph
Feud Brings Death For Twiggs Farmer. Sheriff
Kitchens Reports Dan Floyd Shot by Uncle, Morgan Floyd, 50.
Dan Floyd,
about 25, Twiggs county farmer, was shot to death by his uncle shortly
before noon yesterday, climaxing a long family feud, Sheriff Sam Kitchens
reported.
The Twiggs officer said he arrested
Morgan Floyd, about 50, also a farmer, on a charge of murder.
Coroner E. B. Sauls ordered
Floyd held on the murder charge at a preliminary inquest yesterday afternoon.
The coroner's hearing will continue at Jeffersonville at 8 a.m. today.
The elder Floyd fired a 12-guage
shotgun at close range into the face and neck of his nephew as the two were
standing quarreling on the back porch of the uncle's home 12 miles south
of Jeffersonville, Sheriff Kitchens said.
The officer said there had been
ill feeling between the two families following an altercation between their
Negro farm hands six or seven years ago.
The dead youth was acquitted several
years ago of a charge of murdering a white companion.
Morgan Floyd's 16-year-old son, Holbert,
an eyewitness to yesterday's tragedy, said his father and cousin had been
cursing and quarreling in the house for some time before the shooting occurred,
Sheriff Kitchens said.
After he shot the young man, Morgan
Floyd rode a mule to the dead youth's residence, about a mile away, and told
members of the family to come get the body, the officers reported.
The sheriff said Floyd then came back
to his house and sat down inside, where he was arrested by the officer a
short time later.
Slaying Described. In describing the slaying
to Sheriff Kitchens, young Holbert Floyd said he fund the two men quarreling
in his home when he came back from tending cows in the pasture.
"I asked them what they were fussing
about, " the youth told the officer, "and tried to make them stop. I told
them nobody ever got anywhere quarreling."
"Dan got up about that time and got
the gun, telling dad to 'go ahead and shoot me, why don't you'?" Holbert
continued. "But dad said he didn't want to kill anybody and laid the gun
against the wall."
The nephew then walked out on
the back porch and continued cursing his uncle, who remained in the house,
the boy said.
"I went out in the back
yard and started to run away." Holber stated. "but dad called me back and
said there was going to be no trouble."
Came Out With Gun. The boy said his father
came out on the porch with the gun, brought it down as though he was going
to strike his nephew with the barrel, then fired.
When the elder Floyd left the house
on his mule, his son ran to friends who drove him to his mother, Mrs.
Addie Floyd of Walnut street in Macon, Sheriff Kitchens reported.
Survivors of the victim include his
father, J. C. Floyd, Twiggs county; four brothers, Sam Floyd,
Harry Floyd and J. C. Floyd, Jr., all of Twiggs county and Pet Floyd
of San Antonio, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Pansy Scoville of Twiggs
county and Mrs. Green Lindberg of Macon.
Funeral services and burial
will be held in Burns cemetery, Twiggs county at 3 p.m. (EST) tomorrow. The
Rev. Morris Smith of Jeffersonville will officiate.
October 25, 1939
Macon Telegraph
JUDGE W. T. CHAPPELL Funeral services for Judge W. T. Chappell,
who died at his residence at Jeffersonville Sunday evening, were held at
the Jeffersonville Baptist church at 3:30 p.m. yeserday. The Rev. D. Morris Smith and Dr. J. C. Solomon officiated and burial was in the Jeffersonville cemetery.
Active pallbearers were H. A. McCallum, Turner Wimberly, K. H. Kizer, W. W. Wood, Zeke Wimberly and G. W. Methvin. Honorary pallbearers were Carey Shannon, Willie Jones, J. H, Whitehurst, J. J. Balcom and James Shannon.
November 18, 1939
Macon Telegraph
FLOYD CLEARED IN DEATH CASE. Twigs County Jury
Returns Innocent Verdict. Jeffersonville, Nov. 17. A verdict of innocent
was returned today by a Twiggs county superior court jury which tried Morgan
Floyd, 50-year-old farmer, on a charge of murder in the shotgun death
of his nephew, Dan Floyd.
After deliberating 34 hours, the
jury returned a verdict at 10 a.m. The case went to the jury at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
In an unsworn statement allowed
under Georgia law, Floyd denied shooting his nephew last Aug. 14 when his
body was found at Morgan Floyd's home. Holbert Floyd, son of the
defendant, testified he heard a shot at the house but did not see who held
the gun. He added that three other men had been at the house about half an
hour before the shooting.
Defense attorneys call several
witnesses to the stand to testify that Morgan Floyd suffered from hallucinations.
December 15, 1939
Macon Telegraph
The body of Hubie Thorpe, late of West Palm Beach,
Fla., arrived in the city Wednesday afternoon. The body will be take to Jeffersonville
early Friday morning for funeral and interment. Mr. Thorpe is survived by
his mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. David Hollins, Macon; three
aunts, Miss Rillan Thorpe, Macon; Mrs. Hattie Anderson and
Gertrude Harris, both of Jeffersonville; two uncles Sye Thorpe
of Jeffersonville and Robert Thorpe of Chester, Ga., and other
relatives. Hutchings' service.
December 24, 1939
Macon Telegraph
Pender - Tucker. Oscar Pender announces the marriage of his daughter Annie Ruth to Harris Freddie Tucker, both of Macon, the ceremony solemnized Dec. 16 in Jeffersonville.
December 27, 1939
Macon Telegraph
HUGH BROWN. Funeral services for Hugh Brown,
21, who died at his residence on Route 4 Sunday afternoon, were held at the
Cross Keys Baptist church, at 11:30 a.m. yesterday. The Rev. Norman Shands, pastor, officiated, and burial was in James.
Mr. Brown was born at Jeffersonville
and had made his home near Macon most of his life. He was a member of the
Cross Keys Baptist church and was a graduate of the Lanier High School for
Boys.
1940
March 31, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Bryant announce the marriage of their daughter, Janie Mae, to John L. Chambliss, the wedding having been solemnized March 17 in Jeffersonville.
April 9, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Jones Faulk, widow
of Judge W. C. Faulk, who died at her residence at Jeffersonville at noon
Sunday, were held at Jeffersonville Baptist church at 3:30 p.m., Monday,
Dr. J. C. Solomon and the Rev. D. Morris Smith officiated and
burial was in Jeffersonville cemetery.
Active pallbearers were W.
C. Faulk, W. F. Worsham, Don Faulk, Tom Worsham, Bill Faulk and H.
A. McCallum. Honorary pallbearers were W. E. Jones, D. H. Shannon,
J. D. Shannon, C. B. Wall, S. S. Jones and Louis Faulk.
Mrs. Faulk was a life-long
resident of Twiggs county, born there May 4, 1850. She was a member of Jeffersonville
Baptist church.
April 14, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Former Twiggs Woman Expires. Rites For Mrs.
Williams To Be Held Monday. Mrs. Rebecca Williams,
76, who moved to Bibb county two years ago from Twiggs, died at 11:14 p.m.
yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Blackshear, on Jeffersonville
road. She had been ill two months.
She was the widow of T. E.
Williams of Twiggs county and was the daughter of the late Robert
Birdsong and Mrs. Angeline Hickson Birdsong. She was a member of Antioch
Baptist church in Twiggs county.
In addition to the Bibb
daughter, she is survived by four grandchildren Mrs. F. L. Cannon
and J. T. Blackshear of Macon, Mrs. W. L. Barrentine of Dry
Branch and
E. C. Blackshear of San Francisco, and
two great-grandchildren, Dorlis Cannon and Glenda Ann Blackshear
of Macon.
Funeral services will be held
at Antioch church at 3:30 p. m. Monday..
April 26, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Dudley-Funeral services for K. G. Manning, 84, farmer of the Dudley section of Laurens county who died Tuesday, were held Wednesday.
A native of Twiggs county, Mr. Manning had moved here 18 years ago.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. J. L. Waters, Tampa, Fla.; and three sons, J. M. Manning, T. E. Manning and K. G. Manning, Jr., all of Dudley, and 12 grandchildren.
April 28, 1940
Macon Telegraph
JURY TO PROBE AUTO SLAYING. Case Is Outcome
Of Shooting By Sheriff Kitchens. A grand jury investigation
of the slaying of Forrest
Wimberly, Jeffersonville and the wounding of Clyde Bridges, also
of Jeffersonville, is scheduled for Tuesday, it was learn yesterday.
Sheriff Sam Kitchens of Twiggs
county, who admitted firing the shots, said he was acting in self defense.
The three men were in a car on Mulberry street when the shots were fired.
Bridges was a deputy sheriff working for Kitchens.
A coroner's jury freed Sheriff
Kitchens but later a warrant was issued in the Wimberly case and the sheriff
furnished bond..
June 16, 1940
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~Maxwell -Carroll Rites In Danville. Mrs. Harvey Hill Maxwell of Danville announces the marriage of her daughter, Annie, to Hembree Randall Carroll,
also of Danville, the wedding having been solemnized at home in the presence
of the two families on Tuesday afternoon June 11 with Dr. J. C. Solomon officiating............
The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Leila Williams Maxwell and the late Harvey Hill Maxwell. She is a graduate of the Danville High school and Georgia State College for Women, Milledgeville
Mr. Carroll is the son of Mrs. Millie Railey Carroll and the late Robert Elisha Carroll,
both of Twiggs county. He is a graduate of Danville High school and Middle
Georgia, College, Cochran, completed his business education in Macon. He
is now connected with the Allentown Warehouse company, and following a wedding
trip, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll will live in Allentown.
Felatives from out of town attending the wedding included Mrs. Willis Adams and daughter, Mary Anne of Atlanta, Mrs. E. E. Hearn and daughters Mary Frances and Carolyn, and Mrs. J. B. Franklin of Dublin.
July 7, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Land announce the marriage of their daughter, Bertha Mae, to Leon Preston Word which was solemized Sunday, June 30, in Jeffersonville.
July 21, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Connor-Raymond. Mr. and Mrs. Saxon Anderson Connor announce the marriage of their daughter, Nannie Katherine, to Wesley N. Raymond Jr. which was solemnized June 25 in Jeffersonville..
July 21, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs, A. T. Copeland
announce the marriage of their daughter, Era Ellen, to Henry Faulk Harrison
of Jeffersonville, which took place on June 12.
July 21, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Mr. amd Mrs J. T. Jones announce the marriage of their daughter, Laura Lena, to William Wesley Clance of Gordon which took place June 12 in Jeffersonville.
August 11, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Bridges of
Tarversville announce the marriage of their daughter, Doris Elizabeth, to Josh
R. Wimberly of Dry Branch, which was solemnized on July 20 in Macon at
the home of the Rev. F. E. Singleton, who officiated. A few relatives
and friends of the couple were present.
The bride wore a dress of white sheer,
with navy accessories. She is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
G. Bridges and a graduate of Bullards High school.
Mr. Wimberly is the only son of Mrs.
G. H. Wimberly and the late G. W. Wimberly of Dry Branch.
Mr. and Mrs. Wimberly are at home with
the groom's mother.
August 18, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Hugh D.
Paul, 64, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Wesley Pool,
356 New street, early Saturday morning after n illness of about two weeks.
Funeral services will be held at the
chapel of Burghard-Connally at 4 p.m. Sunday and burial will be in Riverside
cemetery, Dr. Ed F. Cook and the Rev. Maurice Trimmer will
officiate.
Mr. Paul was born in Twiggs county
Aug. 24, 1876. He lived here until abut eight years ago when he went to Camak
for the Weston Brooker Company, but returned here the first of the year.
He was a member of the Camak Baptist
chuch.
Surviving besides Mrs. Pool are
one son, Robert Hugh Paul, Las Vegas, Nev.; one brother, Cleveland
Paul, Dry Branch; two sisters, Mrs. H. L. Solomon, Jeffersonville
and Mrs. Alice Pearce, Miami, Fla., and several nices and nephews.
Pallbearers will be J. B. McClure,
George Paul, Milton Bateman, CLifford Pearce, W. D. Pool and Madison
DeFore.
September 1, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Mrs.
Fannie Bell of Bullards, died in the Macon hospital early yesterday morning.
Mrs. Bell is survived by her husband, Will Bell; a daughter, Mrs.
Lucile Little of Bullards; a sister, Mrs. Estella Stevens of
Jeffersonville; an aunt Mrs. Mattie Tharpe of Jeffersonville; and
a son-in-law, CLaude Little of Bullards. Funeral services will be
held at noon Monday at the Bethlehem Baptist church in Twiggs county. Interment
will take place in Jeffersonville. Hutchings' service.
September 3, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Jimmie
Glover, son of Ola Mae Glover of Twiggs county, died at a local
hospital Saturday of injuries received in an automobile accident. Independent
Funeral Homes is in charge.
Geneva
Glover, daughter of Ola Mae Glover of Twiggs county died at a
local hospital Sunday of injuries received in an auto accident. Independent
Funeral Homes is in charge.
September 4, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Join funeral services for Jimmie
and Geneva Glover, daughter and son of Mrs. Ola M. Dean Glover
of Twiggs county, were held at 2:30 p.m. yesterday at Chance Hill church
in Twiggs county. The Rev. E. E. Riley officiated and burial was
held in the church cemetery. Independent funeral home was in charge.
December 7, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Danville, Dec. 6. Funeral services
forJohn C. Chance, 86, were conducted
at Mount Zion church Friday by Rev. J. E. Townsend, with interment
in the Mount Zion cemetery.
Chance, retired farmer of
Twiggs county, died Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joe Arnold.
He fractured his hip a month ago in a fall and had been critically ill since
his return from the hospital in Dublin.
Chance was born and reared in
Twiggs county, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Chance. His wife, who
died 10 years ago, was the former Miss Margie Reynolds of Twiggs county.
He is survived by the following children: Mrs. Minnie Arnold and Mrs.
Genie Fowler of Danville; Mrs. Lou Ham of Dry Branch, Mr.
Will Chance of Cochran, and a larger number of grandchildren.
1941
March 2, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Miss DeFore Dies in Twiggs. Miss Georgia DeFore, 78, died
at her residence, Jeffersonville, Route 1, at 5 p.m Saturday, after an illness
of three weeks.
Miss DeFore was born in Twiggs
county, Nov. 3, 1862, the daughter of Hiram Thomas DeFore and Mrs. Martha
Floyd DeFore and had lived there all of her life. She was a member of
the Prospect Methodist church.
Surviving are two brothers, J.
R. DeFore, Jeffersonville; H. T. DeFore, Cochran; a sister,
Mrs. D. M. Munn, Macon; several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be
held at the Prospect Methodist church at 2 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. J. Frederick
Wilson, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in the Prspect cemetery.
Pallbearers are to be T.
E. DeFore, Roger J. Smith, Bill Munn, Earl Williams, Frank Stokes and Sidney
Jordan.
April 6, 1941
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~ Danville, April 5. Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Bone of Danville announce the marriage of their daughter, Kathryn, to Edward Hill of
Dalton, the marriage having been solenized in Chatsworth on Sunday, Feb.
23, at 8 o'clock with the Rev. J. W. Dooly officiating........
Mrs. Hill is a graduate of the Danville
High school and is now employed by Hatcher-Mathis Company. Her sisters
are Misses Mary Lou, Alice and Joline Bone of Danville and her brothers
are Willard, Edsel and J. E. Jr. of Danville.
Mr. Hill is the son of Mrs.
E. E. Hill and the late Mr. Hill of Dalton. He is a graduate of
the Dalton High school and is now employed by Bates Chenille Spread Company.
The groom has one brother, King Hill, of Dalton.
Mr. and Mrs. Hill will make
their home in Dalton.
April 20, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Negro Killer Given Death. Dublin, April
19. Frank Cornelius, Jeffersonville Negro, today became the first
person ever to receive the death sentence in Twiggs county, when he was convicted
by a superior court jury at Jeffersonville for the murder of his father.
The father, Huriah Cornelius, was shot by mistake
when he sought to intervene in an argument between his son and another Negro;
testimony showed.
Judge R. Earl Camp set May 30
as the date of execution.
Defense attorneys immediately filed
motion for a new trial.
June 24, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Convict Wins Back Health Only to Face Electrocution.
by John Couric.
A 21-year-old Negro, convicted
of the murder of his father, is winning his battle for life at Macon hospital,
although death by the electric chair, penalty for the crime, awaits him.
Guarded at night aby a special Twiggs
county deputy and by hospital orderlies during the day, Frank Cornelius
conviced of shooting his father as he attempted to keep the son from
killing another man probably will leave the hospital bed shortly.
The husky six-foot Negro is recuperating
from an illness whick threated the electric chair temporarily.
Scheduled for electrocution
May 29, Cornelius received a stay of execution when he became critically
ill.
When he leaves the hospital, he
will return to his cell to await a court hearing for a new trial, which
now is pending.
Cornelius stated during his trial that
he killed his father by accident while shooting at another Negro with whom
he had had and argument in a dice game.
The other Negro also was shot, but he
escaped serious injury.
Cornelius' father was warning the intended
victim of his danger when he was killed, the trial brought out.
Special Deputy Robert B. Rogers
of Twiggs county is in charge of the prisoner.
(Note: He was sentenced to life and paroled
in 1961.)
August 16, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Polio Fatal To Former Macon Girl. Miss Edith Wood, 23, former resident
of Macon, stricken by infantile paralysis Tuesday, died yesterday morning
in an Atlanta hospital.
She lived at the Methodist home
here until four years ago, when she went to Toledo, Ohio, to make her home.
She was stricken while on a visit to her brother, H. W. Wood,
in Atlanta.
Miss Wood was born at Fitzpatrick,
Nov. 24, 1917, the daughter of G. B. Wood and Ida Day Wood.
Surviving, besides her brother
in Atlanta, are three other brothers, A. S. Wood, Erie, Mich.; O.
B. Wood, Spartanburg, S. C.; R. L. Wood, Greenville, S. C.; three
sisters, Mrs. T. E. Kitchens, Macon; Mrs. Edna Compton, Macon;
Mrs. J. Vann Johnson, Fort Valley; and her grandmother, Mrs. J.
T. Day, Jeffersonville.
Funeral services will be
held at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Burghard-Connally with Dr. Ed F. Cook
officiating. Burial will be in the family cemetery at Fitzpatrick.
August 20, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Solomon Rites Today in Twiggs
Jeffersonville, Aug. 19. Mrs. Josie Whitehurst Solomon, widow of John Fitzpatrick Solomon, for 52 years a resident of Jeffersonville, died at her home here Tuesday, following an illness of several months.
The daughter of Morgan Whitehurst and Mary Walters Whitehurst,
Mrs Solomon was born near Cochran on April 10, 1859. Since her residence
at Jeffersonville she had been an active member of the Baptist church here
and was always actively interested in civic and community work. She attended
Wesleyan college. She was widely known for her talent in china painting.
Surviving are five daughters, Miss Louise Solomon, for many years with Chapman's Pharmacy, Macon, Mrs. W. G. Huff, Mrs. J. W. McWilliams and Miss Pearl Solomon, Jeffersonville; two brothers W. M.Whitehurst and J. H. Whitehurst, Jeffersonville and a half-sister, Mrs. Baird, Jeffersonville.
Services will be held Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Baptist
church atJeffersonville with the Rev. E. M. Smith pastor of the church and
the Rev. J.F. Wilson officiating. Burial will be in the family lot in the
church cemetery.
Pallbearers will be: Harold S. Shipps, John Vaughn, Pat Adams, George Methvin. Jim Balcom and H. V. Jackson.
August 22, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for John Arthur "Tobe" Lyles, farmer,
who died at his residence at Dry Branch early Wednesday, after an illness
of two weeks, were held at the Stone Creek Baptist chcurch at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
The Rev. Paul Mosely and the Rev. J. L. Brown officiated, and
burial was in the Stone Creek cemetery.
Pallbearers were E. E. Lyles, T.
E. Kitchens, CLiff Epps, Walter Epps, L. A. Bostick and W. G. Dyer.
October 17, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Mrs.
Rebecca Anderson died at her home on Cochran Short route Wednesday,
after a brief illness.
Funeral sevices will be held at
2 p.m. Sunday from the Shiloh Baptist church, Adams Park, Ga. The Rev.
P. W. Williams will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Surviving are a husband, Christopher
Anderson; sister, Mrs. Julia Thomas, Macon; two bothers, Charlie
Booze Macon; Robert Booze, Dry Branch; one son, Christopher,
Jr; four daughters, Mrs. Bertha L. Clemons, Mrs. Bessie Floyd,Mrs.
Addie Howard, Dry Branch; Mrs. Hallie Daniels, Chattanooga,
Tenn; 28 grandchildren; four nieces, Mrs. Louise Smith, Jacksonville,
Fla., Mrs. Ruth Williams, Miami, Fla; Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Macon;
Mrs. Corene Buckholt, Macon;
Mrs Bertha Whitby, Macon : five nephews,
Gilford Thomas, Jacksonville; Rev. P. L. Thomas, Monticello,
Ga; Andrew L. Thomas, Chattanooga; Charlie K. Thomas, Jacksonville,
and four brothers-in-law, Green Anderson, Wilder Anderson, Jim and
Isa iah Anderson of Atlanta. East Side funeral home.
December 27, 1941
Macon Telegraph
E. G. FINNEY DIES IN MACON. Funeral services
for Eugene Gray Finney,
retired soldier and merchant of Fitzpatrick, who died in a local hospital
at 4 p.,. Thursday, after a brief illness, will be held in the chapel of
Hart's mortuary at 11 a.m. Saturday.
The Rev. J. Frederick Wilson
and Dr. J. C. Solomon will officiate and burial will be in Rose
Hill cemetery.
Pallbearers are to be G.
F. Benjamin, S. S. Jones, J. H. Balkcom, George W. Methvin, D. N. Shannon
and D. Y. Califf.
Surviving are two sisters,
Mrs. W. A. Lanier, Macon; Miss Bessie Finney, Fitzpatrick;
a brother, C. C. Finney, Fitzpatrick; several nieces and nephews:
Mrs. F. A. Brewton, Savannah; R. H. Finney, Jacksonville;
R. B. Finney, Nashville, Tenn; Mrs. Thomas Broughton, Raleigh,
N. C.; Mrs. W. G. Cannon and Mrs. B. M. Kitchens, Jeffersonville;
Mrs. C. T. Rooks,Mrs. W. T. Christian and W. A. Lanier, Macon;
an uncle, Hon. B. S. Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick, and an aunt, Mrs.
Finney, Akron, Ohio.
1942
January 11, 1942
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~ Miss Addie Wimberly and E.
Juette Brown were married Dec. 21 at the parsonage of the Baptist church
in Jeffersonville with the pastor, the Rev. D. Maurice Smith, officiating
in the presence of members of the immediate families.....
After her graduation from
Twiggs county High school, she attended GSCW, Milledgeville, and for several
years she has taught in the Twiggs county public schools.
..Mr. Brown is the eldest son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Brown of Pooler.
The couple will live in Pooler,
where Mr. Brown is manager of Pichler's Dairy.
January 11, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Rites at Brinson Unite Couple. Jeffersonville,
Jan. 10. The marriage of Miss
Aileen Lee of near Bluffton and A. Turner Wimberly of Jeffersonville
took place Christmas day. The couple motored to Brinson, where the Rev.
D. M. Smith, who was visiting there, performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Wimberly is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. H. Lee. She received her education at the University of
Georgia and is a teacher at Morgan.
Mr. Wimberly is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. T. Wimberly of Twiggs County. He was educated at Twiggs
County High and Mercer University. He is bookkeeper for Danville Lumber
Company.
February 11, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Elder Nobles Funeral Today. Jeffersonville, Feb 10. The funeral of Elder J. J. Nobles,
36, who died at his home in the Cool Springs community of Twiggs county Tuesday
morning, will be held at the Cool Springs Primitive Baptist church at 3 p.m.
Wednesday.
Elder E. D. Brown will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Nobles is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sally Ham Nobles; son, Thanuel Nobels; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nobles; three brothers, Bernard, Claude, and Terrell Nobles, all of Macon; three sisters, Mrs. Freeman Darity and Mrs. Minnie Arnold, both of Macon, and Mrs. Ruby Pope of Jackson, Ga. Mr. Nobles was ill a year prior to his death.
March 9, 1942
Macon Telegraph
DOCK PARKER. Funeral services
of Dock Parker will be held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at Stone Creek Baptist church. Rev. King officiating.
Burial in Parker cemetery, Dry Branch, Ga. Central City funeral home.
May 17, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Jeffersonville, May 16. The engagement
of Miss Lois Wall McCrory
of Atlanta and Jeffersonville and Cpl. Joseph James Scafuti of Fort
McClellan, Ala. and Pittsburg, Pa., is announced today, the marriage to be
an event of June.
The bride-elect is the only child
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McCrory of Jeffersonville, publishers
of the Twiggs County New Era. Her mother is the former Miss Lois
Wall of Ellaville. Her father is the oldest son of Mrs. Charles R.
McCrory and the late Mr. McCrory, former state senator and representative
of Schley county.
Miss McCrory received her elementary
and high school education in the Sanford, Fla. and Jeffersonville schools.
She received her A. B. Degree at the Georgia State College for Women, Milledgeville,
where she was a member of number of extra-curricula activities, among which
was the election into the Theta Beta chapter of the Alpha Psi Omega, national
dramatic fraternity. She is a member of the faculity of Kirkwood Elementary
school in Atlanta.
The bridegroom-elect is
the son of Mrs. Anthony Scafuti, and the late Mr. Scafuti,
of Pittsburg, Pa. Entering the U. S. army last year, he spent eight months
at Camp Wheeler, after which he has been stationed at Fort McClelland, Ala.
Cpl. Scafuti received his education
in the Westinghouse and Buniss High schools of Pittsburgh, and later attended
the University of Pittsburgh. In civilian life he is a member of the United
States postal department in the railway mail service.
May 31, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Miss Ora Rodgers Weds Maconite. Jeffersonville,
May 30. Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Ora Kate Rodgers of Jeffersonville
and Columbus to John F. Burke of near Jeffersonville, the ceremony
taking place on December 6 at Aiken, S. C. Present for the occasion were
mother of the groom, Mrs. A. N. Burke, and his sister, Mrs. J. K.
Boland, and Mr. Boland.
Since April, 1941, Mrs. Burke
has served Twiggs county as home demonstration agent. She received her degree
at the University of Georgia.
Mrs. Burke is the daughter of
O. L. Rodgers and the late Mrs. Rodgers of Columbus. She is
the sister of Mrs. M. W. Jennings of Macon; Mrs. M. A. Hornsby
of Ocoee, Tenn.; and Mrs. H. W. Pouncy of Columbus; J. M.
Rodgers of Columbus.,
The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. N. Burke of near Jeffersonville. He attended Middle Georgia
College, Cochran. He ow holds a position at Cochran Field. His sisters are
Miss Ellen Burke of Atlanta; Mrs. J. P. Mercer of Irwinton;
and Mrs. Shines Faulk Jr. of Twiggs county; brothers, A. N. Burke
Jr., Nim Burke and Lee Burke of near Jeffersonville and R. D.
Burke of Irwinton.
Mrs. Burke has resigned her position
in Twiggs county and after June 1 will live in Macon.
June 22, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Miss Annie V. Daughtry Dies at Allentown. Allentown, June 21. Miss Annie Virginia Daughtry died Sunday at the residence of her nephew, Allen W. Daughtry,
with whom she has lived for the past 12 years. She has been in failing health
for several years but death came as the result of a stroke suffered three
weeks ago.
She was born in Memphis, Tenn., during the War Between the States, the daughter of Solomon P. Daughtry and Salina Daughtry,
formerly of Nansemond county, Va. After the war the family moved back to
Virginia, where she lived until 25 years ago when she came to Georgia and
made her home with the family of her brother, the late George O. A. Daughtry of Allentown.
Surviving are two nephews, Allen W. Daughtry, Allentown; Col. George O. A. Daughtry, U. S. Army, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and four nieces, Miss Helen Daughtry, Moultrie; Miss Jennie Daughtry, Allentown; Mrs. D. D. Smith, Bainbridge and Mrs. J. W. Wallace, Macon.
Funeral services will be at the residence on Monday at 6 p.m.
July 1,1942
Macon Telegraph
Beaten Body of Twiggs Worker Found in
Swamp. Jeffersonville, June 30. Search for Smith Lee, Twiggs county sawmill worker
last seen following a "jook joint" affray Saturday night, ended when his wife,
sister and Sheriff W. E. Hamrick stumbled upon his beaten body in
a swamp a half mile from his home.
Dr. Orman Daniel, who examined
the body, said that Lee evidently died between 11 p.m. and 12 midnight Saturday.
He had broken jaw bone, skull fracture and probably other head injuries,
the physician added.
Coroner E. B. Sauls conducted
an inquest at noon at which time a verdict was rendered that Lee came to
his death by a stick in the hands of J. S. Lucas and that it was justifiable
homicide on Lucas' part.
Lucas and a Negro, Tom White,
who had been in custody after the body was found, were released after the
inquest,
Sheriff Hamrick yesterday pieced together
the story of the fight which cost the Shady Grove community mill worker his
life. He said Lee was in the tavern operated by Lucas, "drinking and
cursing."
Lucas ordered him out. Lee left but
returned a little later, apologized and paid a small bill. However, a few
moments later the argument broke out again. Sheriff Hamrick said, and Lee
advanced on Lucas.
The operator picked up a pick
handle and hit Lee on the head. The mill worker left the place and was last
seen by the Negro, White, as he crossed a cornfield near the tavern.
On Tuesday morning Lee's wife and sister
asked Sheriff Hamrick to help them hunt for the missing man. They traced
his path from Lucas' place across the field and into the swamp in the direction
of his home.
Lee had been employed by the Hamrick
Saw Mill Company of Jeffersonville. He is survived by his wile, one young
child, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jule Lee: one brother, Robert
Lee, three sisters, Gladys, Mrs. Albert Floyd and Mrs. Gene
Phillips, all of Twiggs county.
Funeral services were conducted
at the grave in Mount Zion cemetery Tuesday afternoon.
July 5, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Key Ryle
of Macon announce the marriage of their daughter, Martha Camille, to Arthur Joel
Land of Dry Branch. The ceremony was performed quietly in the presence
of close friends at the home of the Rev. W. W. Wood in Jeffersonville
on March 20.
The brides is the youngest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ryle. Her only sister is Dorothy Ryle of Macon. Her
mother is the former Miss Ethelyn Peddy.
Mr. and Mrs. Land are making their home
with the groom's parents at Dry Branch.
August 15, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Lucille McCrary Thornton, of Jeffersonville,
died in a local hospital at 5:30 p.m.
Mrs. Thornton, widow of J.
J. Thornton, was born in Jeffersonville, Feb. 25, 1885, the daughter
of Homer McCrary and Mrs. Martha Jane Chapman McCrary, and
had lived in Jeffersonville all of her life except seven years in Tallapoosa
and three years in Macon. She was proprietor of the Jefferson hotel at Jeffersonville
and was a member of the Jeffersonville Methodist church.
Surviving are a sister,
Mrs. M. M. Scarborough, Macon; a number of nieces and nephews, among
them being Mrs. H. E. Gilleland, Macon; Misses Martha Nell
and Mary Yancey McCrary, Jeffersonville; Homer and Walter Scarborough,
Fort Jackson and Walter McCrary, McIntyre.
Funeral services will be held
at the Jeffersonville Methodist church at 5 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. I.
L. Bishop, pastor, will officiate and burial will be in the Jeffersonville
cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Lawrence
Norris, Walter McCrary, Homer Scarborough, Harry Gilleland and W.
M. Marchman.
October 4, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. James Howell Whitehurst
of Jeffersonville announce the engagment of their daughter, Katye Frances, to William
Chamberlain, sergeant U. S. Army, Camp Wheeler and Knoxville, Tenn.,
the wedding to take place November 14 at the Jeffersonville Baptist church.
October 11, 1942
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~Dublin, Oct. 10. Mr. and Mrs. H.
G. Johnson of Allenton announce the marriage of their daughter, Angelyn, to Otis Leaston Chivers,
Jr., of Dublin, the marriage having been solemnized on Aug. 20.
1943
February 7, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Miss Churchwell, Herbert Carroll Are Married.
Danville, Feb. 6 - The marriage ofMiss
Vera Churchwell and Herbert L. Carroll took place on Tuesday,
Jan. 26, at the home of the Rev. Eizie Bryant, who performed the
ceremony in the presence of the bride's cousin, Miss Marie Phillips,
and the Rev. Bryant's family.
The bride wore a navy dress. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Churchwell of Cochran.
Mr. Carroll is the son of Mrs.
R. E. Carroll of Danville.
After the ceremony the young couple
left for their home in Danville.
February 8, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Henrietta West
of Twiggs county, near Myrick's Mill, died in a local hospital at 7 p.m. Sunday,
after a brief illness.
Mrs. West, the former Miss Henrietta Fountain, was born
in Twiggs county, the daughter of John Fountain and Mrs. Jane Johnson Fountain,
and had lived there all of her life. She was a member of Asbury Methodist
church.
Surviving are her husband, J. H. West; four daughters,
Mrs. J. F. Brown and Mrs. Will Stokes, of Gordon; Mrs. C.
E. Stokes, Laverne, Ala.; Mrs. Lizzie McCain, Cochran; two sons,
C. H. West, Holmes, and F. M. West, Gordon; a sister, Mrs.
Martha L. Johnson, Forsyth.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Hart's mortuary.
March 7, 1943
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~ Jeffersonville, March 6. The marriage
of Miss Melba Lucas, daughter
of Mrs. N. L. Lucas of Danville, and Pfc. Marvin Roscoe Hamrick
of the Army Air Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hamrick of Jeffersonville,
was solemnized Sunday evening, Feb. 28, at the home of the bride's sister,
Mrs. James Hamrick, in Jeffersonville. The Rev. I. L. Bishop
officiated.
The bride.....has been residing in Macon
for the past six months, where she is doing defense work. The groom is now
stationed at Waycross......
March 16, 1943
Macon Telegraph
JOHN WESLEY GRIMSLEY. Danville, March, 15.
Funeral services for John
Wesley Grimsley, 28, were conducted at Prospect church on Monday afternoon
at 3:30 by the Rev. J. E. Townsend and the Rev. M. J. Bennett.
Burial was in the Prospect cemetery.
Mr. Grimsley died at the hospital
in Macon Saturday afternoon, having been injured when thrown from a truck
at Dry Branch when traveling with friends from Macon to Danville. He sustained
a fractured skull and died an hour later.
Mr. Grimsley is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wesley Grimsley, by two brothers: Emory
B. and Marvin, and by two sisters: Misses Muriel and Julie Grimsley,
of Danville.
March 28, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. G.
R. Hamrick, Sr., of Jeffersonville announce the marriage of their daughter, Grace Madalyn, to Charles
Leverett Hodges of Macon, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hodges of Savannah
on Saturday, March 27, in Macon.
April 23, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Charlie Lee Cannon, farmer and
sawmiller of Jeffersonville, who died in a local hospital at 2 a.m. Thursday,
after an illness of several weeks, will be held at the Jeffersonville Baptist
church at 4 p.m. Friday. The Rev. D. M. Smith and the Rev. I. L.
Bishop will officiate and burial will be in the Prospect cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be James
Hamrick, Earl Hamrick, Howard Wimberly, Curry Fountain, Zeke Wimberly
and T. S. Gay. Honorable pallbearers will be
W. W. Wood, George Willie Methvin, J. C.
Shannon, W. L. Hall, W. G. Spears, Herbert Martin, Hugh McCallum, John McElrath,
W. J. Gallemore, R. H. Hamrick, Rush Hamrick, Zack Floyd, Alton White,
J. H. Vaughn, J. D. Shannon, D. Y. Califf, Claude Hamrick, Pat Adams, Mark
Jackson and R. E. Methvin.
Mr. Cannon was born in North
Carolina and had lived in Jeffersonville for 27 years. He was a member and
a deacon of the Baptist church there.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Miss Annie Lentz; a son, O. C. Cannon, Jr.; two daughters, Mrs.
Osgood Fountain and Mrs. Brady Floyd, of Jeffersonville; four grandsons;
and his mother, Mrs. H. H. Lewis, Rutherfordton, N. C.
May 2, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence V. Norris
of Jeffersonville announce the engagement of their daughter, Martha Nell McCrary of Jeffersonville
and Marietta to James F. Lanier of Marietta, the wedding to take place
in June.
May 2, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Miss Josephine E. Hunnicutt daughter of Mrs
and Mrs. I. M. Hunnicutt of Macon became the bride of C.F. Hamrick
Jr. of Jeffersonville, the ceremony having taken place on April 25 at
the Assembly of God church with the Rev. Earl Crawford officiating.
Miss Azillee Hunnicutt
was the bride's only attendant. She wore a two-piece dress of light blue
with white accessories.
The bride who was given in marriage
by her faterh wore a two-piece navy dress with white and blue accessories.
Everett Hamrick, brother
of the groom, was best man. After a short wedding trip the couple will make
their home in Macon.
May 3, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Dublin, Ga. May 3 - Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Eliza Moore, 79, who died at her home Friday, were held at the Allentown Methodist church with the Rev. W. R. Woodall officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Moore was a native of Twiggs county and a member of the Methodist church.
Surviving are a son, James Moore of Dublin; a daughter, Mrs. W. H. Maddox of Danville; a brother, Elbert Moore, of Chester, nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren..
August 18, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Mrs.
Harvey Kitchens died at her residence, Macon, Route 4, at 2 p.m. Tuesday,
after a brief illness.
Mrs. Kitchens was
born in Jones couty, the daughter of J. M. and Mrs. Mattie Brown Kitchens,
and had lived there all of her life. She was a member of the Antioch Baptist
church.
Surviving are her
husband, Macon; five daughters, Mrs. Getrude Howell, Cochran;
Miss Lois Kitchens, Mrs. L. M. Bush, Mrs. Dollie Cofer and Miss
Pauline Kitchens, of Macon; four sons, Carry, Paul and J. B. Kitchens,
Macon, and Corp. Roy Lee Kitchens, U. S. Army, Camp Maxey, Texas;
seven grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Phronie Tidwell, Danville.
Funeral services will be
held at the residence of Bill Kitchens, near Dry Branch, at 11 a.m.
Wednesday. The Rev. J. F. McCluney will officiate and burial will
be in the Kitchens cemetery near Dry Branch.
Pallbearers will be Carry
Kitchens, J. B. Kitchens, Roy Lee Kitchens, Paul Kitchens, L. M. Bush and
Charles Sofer.
October 6, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Corporal
Grady E. Ard, Dry Branch, Route 1, who received fatal injuries at Doakes
Crossroads, Tenn, Saturday will be held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at
3 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Fail Andrews will officate and burial will
be in Andrews cemetery.
Pallbearers will be E. C. Dixon,
Henry Alton DeFore, Carl D. Curry, E. C. Bowden, M. F. DeFore and S.
T. Bass.
Mr. Ard was born in Twiggs county and had lived there until
he was inducted into the U. S. Army. He was on maneuvers in Tennessee at the
time of his accident.
Surving are a sister, Mrs. Jesse Mae Dixon, Dry
Branch; two brothers, Arnold, Macon, Route 4; R. J. Ard, U.
S. Army in Panama; a niece, Miss Eleanor Dixon, Dry Branch, Route 1.
November 6, 1943
Macon Telegraph
William H. Clance Funeral Held Here. Funeral services for William H. Clance, who died at his residence, 270 Main street, early Thursday, were held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 4 p.m. Friday. Elder W. H. Hancock and the Rev. C. W. Stitt officiated and burial was in Fort Hill cemetery.
Mr. Clance was born in Twiggs county and had lived in
Macon for 20 years. He had been associated with the Massey Gin Works and
was a member of the Elizabeth Primitive Baptist church..
November 28, 1943
Macon Telegraph
GROVER
C. BELL. Funeral services for Grover, age two years, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Bell of Dry Branch will be held at the Old Marion Baptist
church in Twiggs county today (Sunday) at noon. Burial will take place in
the church cemetery. Hutchings' service.
December 25, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Thomas J. Faulk Dies In Jeffersonville. Funeral services for Thomas J. Faulk of Jeffersonville who died Thursday night, will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Jeffersonville Baptist church. The Rev. S. Morris Smith will officiate and burial will be at Jeffersonville.
Mr. Faulk was born in Twiggs county, the son of the late W. C. Faulk and Alice Jones Faulk. He was a member of the Jeffersonville Baptist church.
Mr. Faulk, a farmer, was county commissioner of Twiggs county.
He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Frances Burch; a son, Thomas J. Faulk, Jr.; a sister, Mrs. H. L. Worsham, Jeffersonville; two brothers, Charlie Faulk, Danville, and William Faulk, Macon; and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be J. D. Shannon, D. H. Shannon, R. E. Methvin, W. E. Kpmes. Herbert Martin and Earl Hamrick.
January 21, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Wilkins Maberry Whitehurst,
who was for 20 years mayor of Jeffersonville, were held in the Jeffersonville
Methodist church at 3 p.m. Thursday. The Rev. I. L. Bishop and the
Rev. D. M. Smith officiated and burial was in the churchyard there.
Pallbearers were A. M. Gates, L.
V. Norris, W. Earl Hambrick, George W. Methvin, W. H. Hambrick, E. E. Rozier,
O. T. Chapman and R. H. Hambrick.
An honorary escort consisted of
the city officials of Jeffersonville: May pro tem, E. L. Self, Council
men, James Hambrick, D. Y. Califf, D. C. Adams, Mrs. C. W. Jackson
and Mark Jackson, the city clerk, Mrs. Johnnie Sanders; and
the marshall, G. R. Hambrick.
February 1, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Bayne Funeral Rites to Be Today. Funeral services for Mrs. Miller Bayne, of Dry Branch, whose death occurred Sunday evening, will be held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. The Rev. A. C. Baker will officiate and burial will be in the Gum Log cemetery at 1:30 p.m.
Pallbearers will be R. L. Clarke, C. S. Baldwin, S. T. Hammock, A. L. Jennings, Albert W. Balkcom, Lewis Chapman and W. L. Brogden.
Mrs. Bayne, the former Miss Annie Pearl Carraway,
was born at Vidalia and had lived here for four years. She was a member of
the First Baptist church at Vidalia and attended the Baptist Tabernacle
here.
Surviving are her mother, Mrs. J. B. Thomaston, Macon; three sisters, Mrs. Thelma Gladin, Mrs. G. R. Anderson, and Mrs. C. E. Jones, of Macon; two brothers, Frank Morris and D. L. Carraway of Macon.
March 12, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Macon Girl wed To Army Man. Announcement was made yesterday of the marriage of Miss Ruby Wylene NeSmith to Sgt. Kenneth Lyal, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Augusta, which took place Jan. 6 at Jeffersonville in the presence of a few friends.
The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. NeSmith, wore a Navy
blue two-piece dress with Navy accessories. She is employed at Herbert Smart
Field. Sg. Lyl is the only son of Lewis Lyal of Brooklin.
Mrs. Lyal is making her home with her paents at 506 Giles
street, but plans to join her husband in Augusta in the near future.
,
April 2, 1944
Macon Telegraph
LAMB - SEATON. Mr. and Mrs. W. Richmond
Lamb of Danville, announce the engagement of their daughter Hazel, to George Seaton of Colhutta,
Ga., the marriage to be solemnized at 4 o'clock on Wednesday, April 12, at
the Baptist church in Danville.
April 27, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for John Carden, World War veteran, of Danville,
who died in the Veterans hospital in Atlanta early Monday, will be in the
Cool Springs cemetery.
Pallbearers are to be Tom Lee,
Elliott Sanders, Homer Chance, Frank Collins, Will Little and Joe
Chance.
Mr. Carden was born in Twiggs
county and had lived in Danville most of his life. He had operated a grist
mill there until his health failed.
April 27, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Father of Macon Men Buried at Cool Springs.
Montrose, Ga., April 26. Funeral services for John T. Arnold, who died at the home
of his grandson, Woodrow Dairty, were held at Cool Springs Primitive
Baptist church, near here April 17. Mr. Arnold, a native of Twiggs county,
was 91 years of age. He made his home at Danville many years.
Survivors include two sons,
George and DeWitt Arnold, both of Macon; four daughters, Mrs. S. M.
Fowler and Mrs. T. M. Dairty of Danville, Mrs. E. H. Horne
of Montrose and Mrs. C. T. Barlow of Macon; two brothers, C.
A. and Joe Arnold of Danville; two sisters, Mrs. Dollie Davis
and Mrs. Sophie Barrons of Cochran; 24 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren
and three great-great-grandchildren.
August 20, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. J. B. Pope announces
the marriage of her daughter, Edna
Reunette to Pfc. Juston P. Ball, who has returned after 21 month
service overseas with the air forces.
The marriage took place in Jefersonville
Saturday, Aug. 12, in the presence of a few friends. The bride wore
a light blue suit with white accessories and corsage of gardenias.
Mr. Ball completed high school in Macon.
He received the Purple Heart while overseas. Mrs. Ball attended high school
in Danville.
Mr. and Mrs. Ball will leave in
a few days for Miami, Fla., where Mr. Ball is to report to the Army hospital.
October 15, 1944
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~Danville, Oct. 14. Mr.
T. B. Williams of Danville announce the marriage of his daughter, Velma, to Leslie Wohlford of Macon,
the wedding having been solemnized in the Snyder Memorial Methodist church
in Jacksonville, Fla., on September 9 with the Rev. E. D. Norton, pastor
of the church, officiating.
.....Mrs Wohlford was educated at GSCW
in Milledgeville, and for seven years taught int he Danville High school
at Danville. Her mother was the late Mrs. Pearl Webb Williams, formerly
of Macon. Her sisters are Mrs. P. C. Fouch of Jesup, Ga. Misses
Marjorie and Dorothy Williams of Macon, Ga. and her only brother is First
Lt. James E. Williams, now in France.
Mr. Wohlford was educated at Cornell
University and is now connected with the Interstate Life Insurance Company
of Macon. His parents are the Rev. L. L. Wohlford and Mrs. Jane Bixler
Wohlford of Hampton, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Wohlford are at home
at 536 College street, Macon.
October 29, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Twiggs Countain Marries Soldier At Gray Church. Gray, Oct. 28. The m.arriage of Mrs. Nell Johnston Zachary, to S-Sgt. George W. Patterson,
Cochran Field and Walla Walla, Wash., was performed at 5 o'clock Friday,
Oct. 20, at the home of the Rev. L. S. Baugh, pastor of the Gray Methodist
church, in the presence of the family and a few friends.
The brides is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Johnston
of Bullards, Twiggs county. For the past five years she has been employed
by Sears Roebuck and Company, making her home with her sister, Mrs. John W. Burch, at Gray. She has two daughters, Zoe and Gail Zachary.
Sergeant Patterson is athletic director at Cochran Field,
and prior to entering military service, was connected with the educational
work of Washington.
The bride wore a gold wool suit, fur trimmed with brown accessories.
Her flowers were gardenias, sprayed with tube roses.
Following the ceremony, the couple left for a trip to Florida.
Upon their return they will make their home in Gray.
December 1, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs. J. D. Cranford,
resident of Dry Branch, who died at a local hospital Tuesday after an illness
of two weeks will be held at 11 o'clock today at Antioch church. Rev. Woodrow Wilcher will officiate and burial will be at Antioch.
Pallbearers will be Hoyt Cannon, Maynard Martin, James Jessup, Leon Martin, Bernice Leslie and Hardy Lee Kitchens.
Mrs. Cranford was born in Twiggs county, the daughter of George W. Williams and Mrs Elizabeth Holland Williams. She was a member of Antioch Baptist church.
December 31, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Miss Howell Is Bride Of Maconite. Mr. and
Mrs. Mitch Howell of Danville announce the marriage of their daughter, Audrey to Thea Souther of Macon.
The double ring ceremony was performed
in Jeffersonville on Dec. 23 in the presence of relatives and close friends.
The bride's only attendants were
her sister, Miss Sara Howell, and Miss Marie Davis of Knoxville,
Tenn. The bride wore a blue suit with black accessories.
She attended Cary Junior High and Cochran
High School and later held a position at Camp Wheeler.
The bride and groom will make their
home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Souther, in Macon.
January 12, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Miss Mae Ola Stephens of
Dry Branch, Ga., died Saturda morning in the Macon Hospital after a brief
illness. Funeral services will be held today at 2:30 o'clock from Swift Creek
Baptist church, Rev. J. G. Thomas officiatiang. Burial in church cemetery. Central City Funeral Home.
January 30, 1945
Macon Telegraph
C. Ernest
Lyles, carpenter foreman for the Georgia Kaolin company of Dry Branch,
died in a local hospital at 4:30 p.m. Monday after an illness of a few hours.
He was stricken while on the job shortly afternoon.
Mr. Lyles was born at Gordon and had
lived at Dry Branch for 16 years.
Surviving are his wife; two sons,
James Samuel Lyles, U. S. Navy; Albert Lyles, Dry Branch; a
brother, J. E. Lyles, Gordon; three sisters, Mrs. Hattie Hardy,Mrs.
C. C. Lavender and Mrs. William Valentine of Gordon.
Funeral arrangments will be announced
later by Hart's Mortuary.
(Note: Buried Leslie Cemetery)
February 3, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Charles Griffin Arnold, 85,
farmer, from Danville, who died in a local hospital Wednesday afternoon,
were held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 3 p.m. Friday. The Rev. A.
L. Phillips officiated and burial was in Evergreen cemetery.
Pallbearers were Dobert Arnold,
Dock Lucas, Alvin Rozier, James Hamrick, Paul Boden and Charles Hill.
Honorary pallbearers were J. C. Holloway, H. D. Clark, O. C. Stallworth,
L. P. Slaton, G. H. Smith, R. L. Lane, S. E. Clark, T. M. Fellers and A.
F. Robinson.
Mr. Arnold was a lifelong resident of
Danville.
February 9, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Mary
Elizabeth Simmons, age five months, died at the residence of her mother,
Mrs. Ida Mae Land Simmons, at Cross Keys, at 2 p.m. Thursday. Funeral
services will be held at the graveside in the Hinson cemetery at 2 p.m. Friday.
The Rev. A. C. Baker will officiate.
Surviving are her mother;
three sisters, Pauline, Magnolia and Hazel Mae Simmons; and four
brothers, Ernest, D. J., Jr., Robert and McArthur Simmons, of Macon.
February 11, 1945
Macon Telegraph
COLEY-SHORES. Mrs. W. R. Williams of Danville announces the marriage of her daughter, Mrs. Mary W. Coley of Macon, to John M. Shores of Macon, the marriage having taken place on Jan. 18 at the Mulberry Methodist Church with the Rev. Silas Johnson officiating. They will make their home on Forest Hill road.
February 14, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mr. Fred Guyton,
late of 120 Tindall Ave., will be held in the Mt. Calvary Church in Twiggs
county this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Mr. Guyton is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Guyton, four brothers, Messrs Eunes, Johnnie and Leteon Guyton, all of Macon; and Pfc. Willie Guyton of the U. S. Army; three sisters, Mrs. Lillie B. Sanders, Mrs. Carrie Bond and Mrs. Mittle Brides, and several other relatives.
February 24, 1945
Macon Telegraph
DOCK ARNOLD. Funeral services for Dock Arnold
, night watchman, who died at his residence, No. 3 Union avenue, at 6:30
a.m. Friday, from a sudden heart attack, will be held in the chapel of Hart's
mortuary at 3 p.m. Saturday. The Rev. Ralph D. Hughes, pastor of the Eastside Baptist church, will officiate and burial will be in Fort Hill cemetery.
Mr. Arnold was born in Twiggs county, Feb. 8, 1877, the son of Dock Arnold and Mrs. Catherine Smith Arnold and had lived in Macon since childhood. He was a member of the Free Methodist church.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Catherine Bennett, Macon; Mrs. Minnie Johnson, Gordon; two sisters, Mrs. Bedia Heath and Mrs. Mattie Dicks, ofMacon; seven grandchildren
March 1, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Lillie Belle Finney, aunt of Rev. W. D. Lewis
died in Cincinnati Monday night. The remains will be brought to Macon for
funeral and interment. Funeral services will be held at St. Luke Baptist
church Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. Burial will be at Higgsville Baptist
church, near Jeffersonville. Mrs. Finney was a member of the Blooming Light
of Love Lodge. Hutchings' Service.
April 10, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Jennie Day West Dies in Twiggs County. Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Day West,
life-long resident of Twiggs county, who died yesterday morning, will be
held at 11 a.m. today at the Asbury Methodist church. The Rev. Harvey Roughton, pastor of the church, will conduct the services and burial will be in the family lot in the church cemetery.
Mrs. West, who was 68 years old, was born near Gordon, the daughter of Thomas and Jensie Elizabeth Day of Twiggs county. She was a member of the Asbury Methodist church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. J. D. Wood and Mrs. C. E. Sapp of Gordon, Miss Lillie Mae West and Mrs. Jennie C. West of Mcon; one son, George West, Gordon, and on sister, Mrs. Tobe Lyles, Macon. Pallbearers will be John Allen, Harvey Fountain, J. C. Fountain, Walter Myrick, Claude Kitchens and Homer Sapp.
April 15, 1945
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~Pennsylvanian, Dublin Man Wed. Dublin, April 14. Mr. and Mrs.
R. E. Clegg, of Phoenixville, Pa., accounce the marriage of their
daughter, Doris, to James C. Hester,
of Dublin which was solemnized at the Jeffersonville Methodist church on
Saturday evening, April 7, the Rev. Vernon Edwarads officiating.
...she is one of three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Clegg, her sisters being
Misses Frances and Joe Ann Clegg...
....Mr. Hester, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hester, of Dublin is the
brother of Mrs. Vernon Edwards, of Jeffersonville, Miss Eunice
Hester, of Dublin, Mrs. Ira Hammock and Mrs. Willie Goss,
of Soperton, T. B. Hester, of Tiifton, and H. O. Hester of
he U. S. Navy. He has a medical discharge from the Army after having served
for three years. He was wounded in action and spent 18 months in Army hospital.
While receiving treatment at the Phoenixville hospital he met his bride.
The couple will make their home in Dublin where he is connected
with and insurance company.
May 13, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Miss Sarah Caroline Wall, grandaughter of
Mrs. W. H. Califf, of Jeffersonville, and Harold S. Pittman,
MM 2-clUSN, of Gordon, were married April 27 by the Rev. James M.
Teresi in Milledgeville.
The bride is the daughter of the
late Sarah Califf and William J. Wall and sister of Mrs. Warren
B. Dykes and Mrs. J. E. Beck, of Gordon, and Miss Lily Helen
Wall, of Jeffersonville. A student at North Georgia College, Dahlonega,
she has resumed her studies there and is to graduate in June.
The groom, son of the Rev. J. L.
Pittman, of Stockbridge, and the late Irene Andrews Pittman,
of Deepstep, has returned to his ship. He is a brother of Mrs. Tyrus
Hardie, of Gordon; Lee Pittman, CN 1-c, USN, and Sgt. James Pittman,
USMC.
July 22, 1945
Macon Telegraph
KITCHENS-SCOVEN. Mrs. R. L. Kitchens Sr. of Dry Branch announces the marriage of her daughter, Jewel, to E. G. Scoven of Macon on July 1 at the home of the
Rev. D. Maurice Smith of Jeffersonville.
August 24, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Mrs.
Sarah Bivins of 154 Bay Street died at her home early yesterday morning.
Mrs. Bivins is survived by her husband, Mr. C. J. Bivins, two daughters,
Gussie and Lousiria Bivins, one son Willie T. McClendon,
her mother Mrs. Callie Martin, all of Macon; her father Harvey
Miller of Dade City, Fla. and her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Rice
of Danville, Ga. The remains of Mrs. Bivins will be taken to Danville, Ga.
Saturday morning. Funeral services will be held in the Higginsville Baptist
Church in Danville Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Hutchings' Service.
August 29, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Mrs.Celie
Kitchens of 210 Lee Street, died at her late residence early yesterday
morning. Funeral will be held today at 2:30 p.m. at the Seventh Day Adventist
Church. Burial, Mt. Olive Cemetery, Jeffersonville, Ga. Hutchings Service.
October 14, 1945
Macon Telegraph
HARRIS-LEMMEL. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Johnson announce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Virginia Harris to S. Sgt. Donald F. Lemmel of Camp Wheeler, formerly of Winlow, Washingon, the marriage having taken place on Oct. 6 at Jeffersonville.
October 23, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Mrs Nutting Dies at Home. Mrs. Leila Jones Nutting, 83, died at her residence, 585 Hillyer Avenue, at 410 p.m. Monday, after a lingering illness.
Mrs. Nutting, widow of C. M. Nutting, was born in Twiggs County, the daughter of Elias Jones and Mrs. Mary Ricks Denson Jones, and lived in Macon snce 1900. She was a member of the Cherokee Heights Methodist Church.
Surviving are three daughters, Miss Annie Nutting, Miss Jennie Nutting and Mrs. Dixie Barton, of Macon; three sons, C. A. Nutting, Charlestown, Ind; George G. Nutting and John B. Nutting. prominent Macon florists; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren, one brother, Elias Jones, Birmingham, Ala.
Funeral servies will be held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Reese Griffin and the Rev. W. M. Haywood will officiate and burial will be in Rose Hill cemetery.
Pallbearers are to be J. C. Cauthrn, Edwin Speer, Albert Jackson, Dr. W. W. Chrisman, W. J. Loyn, R. Russell Berry, M. A. Michael and Alvin Lyon.
November 8, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Miss
Lillie Maude Hill died at the home of relatives on the Miller Field
Road early Monday night. Miss Hill is survived by her parents, Mrs. Pearlie
and Mr. William Hill, five sisters, Mesdames Fannie Washington, Ella
Pearl Moore, Beatrice Norwood, Mamie Bland, and Mattie Faulk all
of Macon; one brother Eddie Hill of Macon; three aunts, seven uncles
and other relatives. Funeral services will be held int he Antioch Church
in Twiggs County Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Burial in the church cemetery.
Hutchings' Service.
November 25, 1945
Macon Telegraph
JENKINS-BELL. W. J. Jenkins announces
the marriage of his daughter, Frances Randolph, to John
Bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Farris Bell of Irwinton, the marriage
having taken place on Nov. 16 in Jeffersonville. They are making their
home at 357 First Street.
December 16, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. S. S. Kitchens Funeral Set Today. Funeral services for Mrs. Samuel Stewart Kitchens who
died at her residence on Macon, Rt. 4, at 6 a.m. Saturday. After an illness
of several months, will be held at the New Haven Baptist Church at 3 p.m.
today. The Rev. J. F. McCluney will officiate and burial will be in the New Haven Cemetery.
Pallbearers are to be Leanoy Williams, Mansel Williams, Holland Williams, O. W. Woodward, Dan Shines Kitchens and John Crosby
Mrs. Kitchens, the former Miss Leila Mae Williams, was born in Twiggs county, the daughter of Joe Williams and Mrs. Mary Evans Williams, and had lived near Macon all of her life. She was a member of the New Haven Church.
Surviving are her husband; seven sons, H. L., R. S., J. L., Virgil, Joe and Bobby Kitchens, all of Macon; T-Sgt. A. C. Kitchens, U. S. Army in Germany; four daughters, Mrs. E. R. Moye,, Savannah; Mrs. Joe Bell and Miss Ann Kitchens, Atlanta; Mrs. F. C. Hurst, Macon; seven grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. W. Melton, Mrs. Johnnie Jessup and Mrs. Avie Crosby, of Macon; Mrs Chalie Ives, Jeffersonville; three brothers, George, W. T. and Andrew Williams, of Macon.
The body will lie in state at the New Haven Church from 2 until 3 p.m..
December 26, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Miss Luria Martin
Dies in Twiggs Home. Miss Luria Martin died at her residence, Gordon Rt.
1 at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, from a sudden heart attack.
She was a lifelong resident of Twiggs County, and was the daughter of George Martin and Mrs. Nannie Martin.
Surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Lucy Leslie, Mrs. N. C. Crosby and Mrs. Jennie Day, Gordon; Mrs. Charles Cranford and Mrs. Lena Crosby of Pitts, Ga., a brother John Martin, Gordon.
Funeral services will be held at the New Haven Baptist Church at noon Thursday. Burial will be in the New Haven Cemetery.
December 26, 1945
Macon Telegraph
William Barton Jones, textile worker, died at his residence, 30 Taylor Street, at 11:15 p.m. Monday, after an illness of several weks.
Mr. Jones was born in Twiggs County, the son of John Jones and Mrs. Rilla Bridges Jones
and had lived in Macon since 1927. He was associated with the Bibb Manufacturing
Company and was a member of the Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Mary C. Parker; five daughters, Mrs. B. E. Adams, Mrs. L. L. Cheeks, Mrs. B. F. Grier, Mrs. George R. Bartow and Miss Cordelia Jones, all of Macon; a son, John William Jones, Macon; a sister, Mrs. H. F. Hinson, Twiggs County.
Funeral services will be held at the Liberty Hill church at noon Thursday. The Rev. S. J. Wheeler and the Rev. B. F. Rodgers will officiate and burial will be in the Liberty Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers are to be Robert Smith, George Adams, Bud Lominick, Harry Findlay, R. A. Hood and John Morrison.
December 28, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Dick
Fitzpatrick of Dry Branch, Ga., died early Tuesday morning after a brief
illness. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Fitzpatrick, daughter,
Mrs. Mattie Calhoun, five sons, George, Benny Lee, Tom, Willie
B. and Johnnie L. Fitzpatrick, three sisters, Mrs. Ida Hammock,
Mrs. Julia Thorpe, and Mrs. Ella Collins, step-mother, Mrs.
Ada Fitzpatrick, two brothers-in-law, Robert Hammock, Thad Thorpe,
two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Mae and Mrs. Pinkey Fitzpatrick,
and other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon
at 2:00 o'clock at Antioch Baptist Church. Rev. B. G. Stallworth officiating.
Burial in church cemetery. Central City Funeral Home.
December 30, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Doerun Wedding Is Solemnized. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Champion of Jeffersonville announce the marriage of their sister, Miss Lois Champion of Doerun, to J. T. Brewer of Doerun.
The marriave took place on Dec. 20 in the Doerun Baptist church
with the Rev. T. H. Wilder officiating. The bride wore a poweder blue suit
with black accessories and a corsage of white carnations.
Mr. and Mrs. Brewer left on a trip to Florida after which they will be at home in Doerun.
website copyright Eileen Babb McAdams 2004