1910
January 27, 1910
Atlanta Constitution
VETERAN FOUND DEAD IN BED. Malachi Sanders, Who Lived Alone on Farm in Twiggs County
Brown House, Macon, Ga. January 26. (Special)
   Malachi Sanders, called Captain Sanders out of respect of his age and war record, was found dead by his bed at his little farmhouse in Twiggs county near Bond yesterday by friends, who called to ascertain why he had not been seen about his place for several days. Some illness, the character of which was not ascertained, brought him to a feeble state, and evidences about his room seemed to indicate that in a half attired form he had made an effort to build a fire when death came.
      He was a veteran with a splendid war record, lived all alone on a snug little place, and had $55 in cash savings with him at death. For two days Ordinary C.M. Wiley had wondered why Captain Sanders had not appeared for his pension money,, $60 in cash, that waited for him. During the anxious inquiries, friends found him dead at home. Coroner Young held an inquest, and the jury decided that death was due to exposure to the cold.
     He had several children, who live far away. They have been notified by telegraph, and will come to take charge of the remains. The funeral arrangements were made for this afternoon.

January 28, 1910
Milledgeville News
     A marriage of exceptional interest in Baldwin and Wilkinson counties was that of Miss Mamie F. Fountain and Mr. Joseph J. Hall, which was solemized last Sunday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Fountain in Wilkinson county.
  As Miss Fountain the bride was regarded as one of the most beautiful and popular young landies of Wilkinson county while Mr. Hall is a Baldwin county man and has many friends in Milledgeville and throughout the county. Best wishes are extended the young couple by their many friends for a long and happy life.

January 28, 1910
Union Recorder
Mrs. Mary Lou Stevens Died at Gordon Monday.
  After only a few days of patient suffering with Pneumonia the sweet spirit of Mrs. Mary Lou Stevens, passed into the great beyond last Monday.
  Mrs. Stevens spent her childhood days in, and around Milledgeville, but her residence for some time past has been at Gordon, Ga.,  where she died.
  Her death came as a surprise to her many friends the fatal disease acting so rapidly. Before her marriage she was Miss Chambers, born June 3rd 1852. She was 57 years and 22 days old. At the age of 20 she married Mr. J. R, Stevens, seven children blessed their union, four who now mourn her death, three having passed away. Those living are Gazelle, Euodis, Marion, who now live in Milledgeville, and Lizzie who is in Gordon. Bright and cheerful in disposition, her home could be no otherwise than happy, a devoted wife, a loving mother, loyal church member and ready for any service. She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
  The funeral services were conducted at Gordon Tuesday evening at three o'clock, conducted by (?) of the Methodist church, of which he is pastor at the place.

January 29, 1910
The Macon Daily Telegraph
BURKE. The many friends of Mr. J. N. Burke will learn with deep regret of his death, which occurred yesterday at 1 o'clock at his residence in Allentown. Mr. Burke was fifty years of age and is survived by a son, Mr. H. A. Burke, and one daughter, Miss Fannie Burke, both of Allentown The funeral will take place at 11 o'clock this morning at the Concord burial grounds.

January 31, 1910
Atlanta Constitution
Mrs. Ann Stevens, Gordon
Gordon, Ga., January 30 (Special) Mrs. Ann Stevens, wife of J F. Stevens, who for forty years was connected with the Central railroad, died today at 1 o'clock, after a brief illness with pneumonia. Age 61 years. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. A. M. Byington, of this place.
(buried Gordon City Cemetery)

February 8, 1910
Tifton Gazette
    In Memory of Mrs. Lemanda Goodman. Miss Lemanda Dean, who was born in Wilkinson county, Ga., July 2nd, 1833, received a common school education and was married to James F. Goodman, Oct. 18th, 1849, and departed this life Jan. 24th, 1910, at 10:35 p.m.
    In early life she was a Methodist, but later joined the Missionary Baptist church and lived a consistent member of the same until the heavenly Father said it was enough "Come up Higher."
  She was the mother of ten children, six boys and four girls: Dr. I. J. and Dr. R. J., both died in Sparks, Ga., and W. T. in Sheridan, Ark. Prof. G. W. and Dr. O. P. and A. S., of the boys, and Mrs. P. I. Simpson, Mrs. Carrie McKinnon, Mrs. Mattie Tyson and Mrs. Dr. Lovett, all survive her, with the widow of Dr. I. J. and the widow of W.T. and John, the step-son.
  Sensitive and refined in her nature,  she was a careful and painstaking housekeeper.
    She has a sister living at Nashville, Ga., Mrs. Nancy Goodman, mother of Dr. W. B. Goodman, Jas. F. and Bob Goodman, as they were commonly called, married sisters, the Misses Dean.
  She leaves quite a host of relatives and friends scattered from Wilkinson county to Valdosta, Ga., and quite a number in Arkansas; two sisters, Mrs. Seaborn Rease and Mrs. Jackson Stucky and a son, W. T. moving out to Arkansas in early life. My recollection is that both sisters and the son have passed over the river but they left large families, so she leaves quite a number of relatives in Arkansas.
    "Aunt Manda," as she was commonly called, was loved by all her acquaintances and she often said that John had never given her a saucy word. She seemed to want all the children to be present when she died. She said just before she died that "the way grew brighter and brighter." J. G.

March 28, 1910
The Macon Daily Telegraph
   Mr. J. W. McCook, one of the best know residents of Ivy Station, Ga., died at the family residence there at an early hour yesterday morning. He had been ill about four months when the end came. Mr. McCook was 52 years of age.
     The deceased is survived by four sons and one daughter. The funeral services will take place at the residence this morning at 10 o'clock. The interment will follow in the Hickman cemetery near that place.

April 1, 1910
Union Recorder
Two Deaths Occurring Recently in Baldwin County,
  Mr. James W. McCook, 83 years of age, died last Saturday night near Stevens Pottery and the funeral occurred Sunday afternoon near Gordon. He leaves a wife and several children,
  Mr. Joe Dan Day died near Byington Mills at the age of about 35 years of age, leaving a wife and three young children, to whom the sympathy of many friends is extended.

May 3, 1910
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Sarah Asbell, mother of R. A. Asbell of this city, died at the residence  of her son, Mr. C. F. Asbell, at Gordon, Ga. yesterday morning. Mrs. Asbell has been in declining health for sevearl months past and the end was not unexpected. Funeral services will be held at the family burial lot, Andrews cenetery, ten miles from Macon, about noon today.

Macon Telegraph
  The body of Harry W. Taylor was laid to rest in the family burial grounds at McIntyre, the former home of the deceased, yesterday afternoon. The funeral was held at Burghard's mortuary chapel at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and the body was carried to McIntyre, on the Central road, at 11:30.
   Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers attended the funeral in a body and escorted the corpse to the depot. Rev. J. G. Harrison, of Mercer, conducted the funeral.

May 6, 1910
The Atlanta Constitution
NAPIER KILLED IN GUN BATTLE
Will Deason Exonerated  by Coroner's Jury. Prominent Wilkerson County Planter Shot to Death Following Attack Upon Merchant
With a Winchester-Deason and His Brother Wounded
Milledgeville, Ga.. May 4 - (Special) As a result of a shooting scrape at sun-up this morning, Ed Napier, one of the most progressive farmers of Wilkinson county, was killed and Will Deason received a dangerous rifle wound through the abdomen and Andrew Deason was shot through the arm.
    It seems that there has been some feeling for some time, Napier claiming that his oats and corn were stolen by hands on his place, and traded by them to Deason at the latter's store.
  The shooting occurred at Deason's store about 1 1/2 miles from Napier's home n the famous Black Lake plantation, which was formerly the property of Dr. George Crawford and then going to his daughter, who is now the widow of Napier.
  Cause of Tragedy
    It is reported that Napier went to Deason's place this morning to get the negro, who he believed stole his oats, and who he claimed was being harboured and concealed by Deason, and as a result of this trip the shooting resulted.
   Will Deason, the wounded man, made this statement: About sun-up he and others were between the store and mill when Napier came up and began cursing them about the oats and that Napier had a Winchester rifle in his hands. The Deasons moved toward the store and house and Napier dropped back to the mill house and fired at Deason as he was opening the store. It is 57 yards from the mill to the store and Deason claims he fired two shots with a shot gun at Napier, without effect. He then retreated into the store and shut the door. Napier advanced and fired one shot into Andrew Deason's arm, the latter claiming that he was trying to stop the row. Napier kicked opened the store door, shooting Will Deason through the bowels from left to right, but Deason was close enough to Napier to strike him over the head twice and he claims that the blows from the pistol barrel turned Napier and that he then emptied his pistol into his back.
   All the wounds on Napier were in the back and on the back of the head. he was found thirteen steps from the store door, face down.
  Mr. Napier has several brothers in Macon and his brother-in-law is Mr. George Crawford, of Birmingham. The verdict of the coroner's jury was justifiable homicide. Will Deason will probably die.
(Note: Will Deason died from complications of the shooting. Derek Veal )

May 6, 1910
The Atlanta Constitution
Funeral of Edward Napier
Macon, Ga., May 6 (Special) The funeral of Edward Napier who was shot and killed by William Deason at his plantation 12 miles from Milledgeville yesterday morning, was held at the Napier home on Holt avenue this afternoon. A large gathering of friends and relatives attended the services, which were conducted by Rev. Mr. Newsome, pastor of Tattnall Square Presbyterian church. The remains were buried in Rose Hill cemetery.

May 7, 1910
The Atlanta Constitution
BIDS WANTED. Bids will be received by the Irwinton Railway Company until May 20, 1910, 2 o'clock for the grading and laying of railroad from McIntyre to Irwinton, distance three and half miles.
  For full information, write George H. Carswell, Secretary, Irwinton.

May  10, 1910
Union Recorder
Killed by Central Train. Mr. Jack Hall, an aged citizen of Wilkinson County, was killed by the early passenger train on the Central of Georgia Railroad, between Ivey and Gordon, last Friday morning. We learn that he was sitting on a trestle fishing, when he was struck by the train. He was knocked into the creek and lived only a few seconds after being taken out by the train crew. He was eighty-six years of age.

May 26, 1910
Macon Weekly Telegraph
WILKINSON'S CENTENARIAN. From the Dublin Courier-Dispatch
  Today at Big Sandy church, in Wilkinson county, Mrs. Betsy Billue will celebrate her hundredth birthday.
  There will be special exercises at the church and a special sermon by Rev. O. O. Williams of Soperton. The occasion will be celebrated at the church, which is just a short distance from Mrs. Billue's home, if she is in sufficiently good health to go to the church, but if the weather is not favorable or Mrs. Billue does not feel able to leave her home the exercises will be held at her home.
  Mrs. Billue is one of the oldest and best known ladies in the immediate section of the State. She is related to a large number of people in this and Wilkinson counties. Mrs. Martha Rawls of this city, mother of R. H., J. R., Robert, N. B. and O. H. P. Rawls of this city, is a sister. Mr. Zenus Fordham of this county is a brother. She is also the aunt of W. T. Dupree of this city. Her family connections are spread all over the counties of Laurens and Wilkinson and are very numerous. In one section of Wilkinson county she is related to almost every family in the community.
  Mrs. Billue was the second eldest child in  a large family of children. With but one or two exceptions they all lived to a ripe old age. One of the family died at the early age of a little over 50 and another between the years of 60 and 70. All of the rest of them died at varying ages from 75 to 90 years. Mrs. Billue, Mrs. Rawls and Mr. Fordham are the only survivors of the original family. Mrs. Rawls is now 82 and Mr. Fordham is 90 years of age.
    Although she has lived many years longer than the allotted time of life, Mrs. Billue's health has been remarkably good up to about he first of the present year, at which time she had the misfortune to fall and sustain some rather severe injuries from which she has never entirely recovered and her health is not as good as it was some month since, but still she enjoys remarkably good health for one of her age. Her mind is remarkably clear and she is most pleasant and affable and takes great delight in meeting her friends and relatives.

August 13, 1910
The Atlanta Constitution
K. H. Walker, Dublin.
Dublin, Ga., August 12 (Special) K. H. Walker, a prominent citizen of Dublin, died at his home in this city this morning after an illness of several months. He was 65 years of age, a native of Wilkerson (sic) county, and served in the Civil war. He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Mrs. J.M. Outler, of this city
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August 23, 1910
The Atlanta Constitution
Mrs. John F. Gordon, Americus '    Americus, Ga., August 22 - Mrs. John Gordon died this morning at her home here, after a protracted illness of nearly six months. She was a resident of Savannah prior to removal here. Her husband and daughter survive her. The funeral will be at Gordon, Ga. tomorrow. (buried Gordon City Cemetery)

September 13, 1910
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Miss Julia Brown and John Bloodworth Wed
  On last Saturday afternoon at ? o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown, at Boundary street, Miss Julia Kent Brown and John Bloodworth were married.
  Dr. A. M. and L. T. Brown, bothers of  the bride, played the wedding march before and during the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. W. T. Smith. "Answer" was softly rendered by piano and violin.
  Congratulations were then extended the happy couple, after which cake, fruit and punch were served the wedding party and guests.
  The bride received many useful and handsome gifts from friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Bloodworth left at 5 o'clock for their home at Lewiston.

September 27, 1910
Montgomery Advertiser
  Miss Naomi Wright, of Dublin, Ga., and Mr. J. F. Raines, of Montgomery, were united in marriage Tuesday morning at 8:30 o'clock, at the home of the bride's grandparnets, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Brooks. Miss Wright has made her home in Dublin for the past few years and has many friends here and elsewhere who are interested in her marriage.
  Mr. Raines is a prominent business man of Montgomery. They left immediatley for Montgomery, where they will reside. - Atlanta Journal.

October 6, 1910
Macon Daily Telegraph
Fragments of Brick and Boiler Over Town of Toomsboro, Many Injured and Several Were Scalded.
Large Tank Overturned; Cause Unknown
Irwinton, Ga., Oct 5 - A boiler exploded at the gin of William R. Fossett in Toomsboro Monday morning about 7:30 o'clock.
     The gin was completely wrecked and fragments of the boiler and brick were scattered all over town.
     Mr. Fossett received a painful wound on the head. Mrs. Fossett, his wife, who happened to be near at the time of the explosion, was probably seriously injured, her thigh being broken. Two negroes were badly hurt, one fatally, and three others badly scalded. Mrs. B. H. Jackson, who was on her front porch, was hit by flying brick, her foot being painfully hurt.
    Dr. Rawlings, with three trained nurses from Sandersville, went through the country to the scene of the accident.
   The walls of a garage near the explosion were shattered, but no machines were damaged.
   One part of the boiler was thrown over the station depot, 150 feet, and another went over five different fences, landing in a part of a negro house. The middle of the boiler went over the gin house and landed in Mr. Fossett's chicken yard.
  A tank holding 3,000 gallons of cold water just over the boiler was upset, spraying water upon the victims, thus preventing scalding.
    The cause of the explosion is not known.

October 7, 1910
Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs Fossett Victim of Boiler Explosion. May Not Recover, According to Late Report-Mrs. Jackson is Bettery - Yesterday's Account Confirmed.
Mrs. Fossett Has Many Macon Relatives.
Toomsboro, Ga. Oct 6 - Mrs. W. R. Fossett, who was so badly hurt in the boiler explosion in Toomsboro on the 3rd instant is dangerously low, and her death is momentarily expected, despite all the medical skill and trained nurses' efforts to save her life.
     It seems miraculous that she can be alive as she was standing within four feet of the 50-horse power boiler when it exploded, covering her with heavy girders, bent boiler flues and scalding water. Though cut to the skull, thigh broken, fearfully scalded and covered with deep gashes, she was found conscious and displayed unusual courage and coolness but yesterday she sank into unconsciousness.
    Her husband, who was in the well near her, repairing a pipe, at the time of the explosion, swam to the surface of the water, which has gushed in on him from the boiler. He will live.
    Mrs. B. H. Jackson, who suffered a painful blow by a flying brick on her porch, will recover.
    Gene Varner, colored, fireman, has slight chance for recovery.
    Henry Mathis, the fifth victim, will recover.
    But for the water tank falling fifty feet directly on the scene, and emptying its thousands of gallons of water, all would have been scalded to death.
    It seems miraculous that a great many people were not killed, though the early hour of the accident saved many lives.
    Half of the boiler was seen to go 300 feet high and landed 300 yards from the scene. Brick have been found a half mile away.
(Mrs. Fossett died October 10 and is buried at Jackson Family Cemetery)

October 8, 1910
The Macon Daily Telegraph
IN SEVENTIETH YEAR MRS. MCDANIEL DIES.
Irwinton, Ga., Oct. 7 - Mrs. Elizabeth McDaniel, of near Gordon, died Wednesday and was buried in the Gordon cemetery. She was among Wilkinson county's pioneer settlers, and highly respected and greatly loved by all, dying at the age of 70.

October 21, 1910
The Macon Daily Telegraph
WELL-KNOWN RAILROAD MAN DIED YESTERDAY
Ira D. Todd Expires After Illness of One Month at His Home on Rembert Avenue-Was Conductor Many Years. GAVE UP RAILROAD WORK ONE YEAR AGO.
Ira D. Todd, aged 52 years, and one of the best known railroad men of the city, died yesterday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock at his home, 125 Rembert avenue, following an illness of one month. It was only last Sunday that Mr. Todd was compelled to take to his bed.
  As a railroad man Mr. Todd was widely known, having been a conductor for many years. He worked for three different roads, the Central of Georgia, the M. D. & S., and the Macon and Northern. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors, the Odd Fellows and was prominently identified with the First Methodist church.
  Besides his wife, Mrs. Ida Todd, Mr. Todd is survived by one son, J. D. Todd. He also leaves two brothers, B. D. Todd of Cochran, and John Todd, of Malone, and five sisters, Miss Ella Todd, of Milledgeville; Mrs. Jim Bagwell, of Forsyth, Mrs. B. F. Asbell, of Cochran, and Mrs. H. R. Jackson, of Baltimore.
  Mr. Todd retired from his railroad work about a year ago. He had lived in Macon for twenty-seven years, but was born and raised in Wilkinson county.
  The funeral will be held from the residence this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, Rev. T. H. Thompson, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating. Franklin Lodge, I. O.O. F., of which Mr. Todd was a member, will act as an escort and will hold a service at the grave. The interment will be made in Wilkinson cemetery.
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October 25, 1910
The Union-Recorder
Next Sunday October 30 Father Hamilton will hold services in Wilkinson county at ten o'clock at Claymont, the nearest station to the Central of Georgia Railroad.

November 9, 1910
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Claudia Hawthorne, the three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Hawthorne, died at the home of his parents in Gordon, Ga., at an early hour Tuesday morning, after an illness of nearly a month. Besides his parents, little Claudia is survived by one brother. The funeral services will be held this morning at Gordon, and the interment will be made in the family burial grounds.

November 20, 1910
The Atlanta Constitution
DEATH OF AGED WOMAN BREAKS REMARKABLE TRIO
Dublin, Ga., November 29 (Special) - Mrs.Martha Rawls died at the home of her son, J. R. Rawls, in this city, Sunday afternoon, after a short illness. Mrs. Rawls was 82 years of age, and was one of a remarkable family of people. She was born in Wilkinson county, and surviving her is a sister, Mrs. Betsy Billue, who celebrated her one-hundredth birthday last May, and a brother, James Zenus Fordham, who is 91 years of age and as hale and hearty as he was fifty years ago.
   Her son, at whose home Mrs. Rawls died, is a veteran of the civil war, and to her motherly love and determination is due the fact that he is living today. Just before Sherman and his army swept down from Macon to Savannah, a train on the Central railroad, carrying a large number of sick Confederate soldiers, among whom was young J.R. Rawls, passed McIntyre on their way to a hospital. In some way Mrs. Rawls got aboard, put her son on the floor and covered him with her dress, so that the officers could not see him. At the first stop she got off and carried her solider son home and nursed him to health.
  Among her surviving children are B.H., N.B. and O.H. P. Rawls, of Dublin. The interment will be at the old Fordham cemetery in Wilkinson county.

December 11, 1910
The Atlanta Constitution
SPEER'S DECISION UPHELD BY U. S. COURT OF APPEALS
McCooks Are Restrained From Using the Black Lake Plantation.
  Macon, Ga., December 10 (Special) The mandate of the United States circuit court for the southern district of Georgia reaching Macon today, restrains F. M. McCook, F. M. McCook, Jr., Watson and Iverson Cook (McCook) from using timber and agricultural interests of 5,000 acres of land known as the Black Lake plantation, in Wilkinson county, and in possession of George Gordon Crawford.
  The fight was first won by Crawford, and then taken up by the McCooks.

December 13, 1910
Union Recorder
  Mr. John Temples died at the home of Mr. H. A. Taylor, in the north-eastern part of the county, Monday morning at two o'clock. He was 76 years of age, and served in the Confederate army in the war between the States. He never married. He came to this county from Wilkinson six years ago. His remains were buried Monday afternoon at three o'clock in the family burial ground. 

January 13, 1911
Bainbridge Search Light
  In Memoriam. Died at the age of 97 years and 8 months.
Mrs. Susan Greer Williams was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina May the Fourth 1813.
   She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Greer who moved to Irwinton, Wilkinson county, Georgia, when she was quite young.
  At the age of seventeen she was married to Mr. Newton Williams who died at Andersonville, Georgia on may the 3rd 1861. She came to Decatur county near Chattahoochee, Fla., about three years ago to live with her daughter, Mrs. James T. Pugh, where she died December 14, 1810.
   She was an invalid fourteen years. She suffered with dislocated hips. She bore her affliction well.
 

January 20, 1911
Milledgeville News
  Mrs. E. A Perkins received a telegraph from Lockhart, Texas, stating that her aunt, Mrs. M. C. Whitaker, had died and was buried there. Mrs. Whitaker lived here nearly all of her life and leaves a host of friends at this place.

  Mr. James Pace and Miss Gwen Jackson, of Ivey, were married the 18th, Rev. P. T. Holliway of this place officiating.

January 24, 1911
Union Recorder
  Married at the home of the bride Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 11:45 a.m., Miss M. Gwendolin Jackson of this place and Mr. James Pace of Savannah, Ga.
  The marriage was a great social event and witnessed only by relatives and a few intimate friends.
   The ceremony was beautifully and impressively performed by Rev. P. Y. Holloway.
  The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Jackson and is a charming and attractive young lady. She has made great success in a social and business life.
   Mr. Pace is a young man of good qualities and has been employed by the Central of Ga. R. R. for quite awhile. The couple left on the noon train for Savannah which will be their future home.

February 10, 1911
Milledgeville News
GORDON NEWS OF INTEREST
  Capt. Thos. Hampton and Col. Ed N. Hopewell, of Washington, D. C., in company with Prof. H. Ries of Cornell University were the guests of the Gordon Hotel last week. These gentlemen we understand are working in the interest of Bauxite Mining Co., of New York. Col. Hopewell who was making his first visit to this section of the south says he has never visited any part of America that he was more favorably impressed with.
  We are sorry to state our obliging Post Master, Mr. M. C. Nelson, is still confined to his bed with Rheumatism and sincerely hope that he will be able to resume his duties again in a few days.
   Mrs. P. T. Reddick and little daughter are on a visit to relatives in Savannah this week. Mr. Reddick says it brings back to his mind former days of Batchelorhood, even more so when his appetite calls him to face the Cook Stove.
  Bro. P. T. Holloway filled his regular appointment at Griffin's Chapel last Sunday and was blessed with a beautiful day and a large congregation.
  Mrs. Watt Lee, of Macon, and Mrs. W. A. Massey, of Milledgeville, spent last Sunday with their mother, Mrs. Z. T. Miller, of North Avenue.
  Chief W. B. Ryles, of the Gordon Police force, has nearly completed his nice residence on College Street. Much credit may be given the contractors for their excellent work.
  Mr. W. Vaughan is building a nice cottage on North Avenue and hopes to have it completed by March first.
  Mr. W. A. Deidrick, of Macon, Ga., who was painfully hurt while superintending the unloading of some Bridge timber at Oconee River Bridge las week has been under the care of Dr. R. E. Evans of Gordon, we learn is much improved and will be able to resume work next week.

February 14, 1911
Macon Daily Telegraph
J. T. McAdams, aged 42, died at his home in Gordon, Ga., yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock after an illness of several months. He is survived by his wife, four sons and one daughter.
  The funeral services will be held at the residence this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and the interment will be made in the family burial grounds.

February 17, 1911
Macon Daily Telegraph
~excerpt Danville, Ga. Feb 16. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. John Lee Rutherford died eating canned blackberries which developed into ptomaine poisoning.  One boy, 7 yrs old near death, girl 14 seriously sick. Passed away yesterday and last night: Alvine, 11; Charley, 9; Geneveve, 2

February 25, 1911
Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs. John Smith, aged 74, died at her home in Gordon, Ga., yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, after a short illness.
   She was a devoted member of the Methodist Church, and had a host of friends. Mrs. Smith is survived by her husband, three sons and three daughters.
   The funeral services will be held at the family residence this (Saturday) afternoon at 3 o'clock. The interment will be made in the Gordon Cemetery.

Febuary 28, 1911
Macon Weekly Telegraph
REV. W. K. METHVIS (METHVIN), DUBLIN.
Dublin, Ga, Feb. 27 - Rev. W. K. Methvis died at midnight last night at his home in this city, after an illness of several weeks.
  Mr. Methvis was seventy-two years of age at the time of his death, which was caused by general debility.
  He was a native of Wilkinson county, but has been a resident of Laurens for the past eighteen years. For a long time he resided at Dudley, moving to Dublin some months ago.
  He was twice married. His last wife was a Mrs. Hall, mother of Mr. S. T. Hall, County Treasurer of Laurens County, Editor Claud M. Methvis, of the Eastman Times-Journal, is a son. His others sons are T. C. Methvis, of Dexter, O. R. Methvis, of Hawkinsville, and  Grover Methvis of this city, J. S. Johnson, Forsyth, Mrs. R. A. Williams, of Summit, Mrs. T. A. Brown, of Graymont and Misses Julia and Willie Methvis, of this city are daughters.
   Mr. Methvis is also survived by one brother, J. J. Methvis, of Oklahoma, and one sister, Miss Gertrude Methvis, of Jeffersonville.
  The remains of Mr. Methvis were interred this afternoon in Northview Cemetery. The funeral services were conducted from the home of Mr. Hall by Dr. A. M. Williams, pastor of the Dublin Methodist Church.
  Mr. Methvis was a man of bright intellect, deep Christian piety, and was beloved by all who knew him. Many friends were present this afternoon at the funeral services.

March 28, 1911
Macon Daily Telegraph
JUDGE J.G. PEARSON PASSES AWAY AT GORDON.
Gordon, Ga., March 28 - Judge J. G. Pearson, for twenty years a justice of the peace of this district, and one of the foremost figures of this town and county, died at 11:30 o'clock last night of heart disease.
  Mr. Pearson was a member of the Baptist church here, a deacon for twenty-five years and was superintendent of the Sunday school for fifteen years. His third wife was Mrs. Pauline Maxwell, of this county, who survives him. He leaves one brother in Texas and two half-sisters near here.

April 14, 1911
Milledgeville News
~excerpts~ In Memory of James Hogue.
  God in his infinite Wisdom has seem fit to remove from our midst, our friend Mr. James Frances Hogue, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Nathaniel Hogue, who was born in Baldwin county, Georgia, Dec. 13, 1885. For two years prior to his death he was mill superintendent for the Kaolin Mining Co., at Claymont, Ga. He met his death while performing his duties at the mill, being seriously injured Saturday, April 1, 19911, and dying the same day. He leaves a wife, father and mother, three sisters and four brothers, besides a host of friends and relatives to mourn his death....
  He was married to Miss Bessie Stevens, November 6th, 1910....
  On Sunday at the Branan cemetery, by the Odd Fellows Lodge where the birds carol to him their sweetest songs our friend was laid.

April 29, 1911
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Capt. H. K. Byington, formerly of this city, died yesterday at 1 o'clock at his home at Whiteside, Ga., after a few days illness. Captain Byington was 78 years of age, and is survived by four sons and one daughter, namely: W. C. Byington, of Mississippi; C. G. and H. A. Byington, of Macon, and Gus Byington, of Florida; Mrs. Tim Bloodworth, of Milledgeville
   In the death of Captain Byington a large circle of relatives and friends has sustained a severe loss as he was regarded by all who knew him as one of Georgia's noblest and best citizens. A devoted husband, kind father and unselfish friend, is the eulogy paid to him by those who knew him best.
  The remains will be carried to Coopersville, Ga., this morning at 11:40, by the way of the Central of Georgia, where the funeral will take place at Camp Creek Church, Mr. J. T. Heard officiating.

May 2, 1911
Daily Times Enterprise
~excerpt~Beloved Thomasville Citizen Died Suddenly Yesterday and Will Be Buried This Afternoon At Laurel Hill Cemetery.
     Thomasville and Thomas County learned with great sorrow yesterday afternoon of the sudden death of Mr. Milton A. Fleetwood. Mr. Fleetwood was suddenly stricken yesterday at twelve o'clock, while attending his usual duties at the Court House. He was carried home and given all possible medical aid, passing away without having regain his full consciousness, at ten minutes of five. Paralysis caused his death.
   Mr. Fleetwood was born in Wilkinson county, February eight, 1842, moving to Thomasville some time later..He was married to Miss Lizzie McMath, and one son,
Mr. R. G. Fleetwood survives....three brothers, Messrs. A. D. and O. C. Fleetwood, of this city and Dr. Newton Fleetwood, of Albany, and two sisters, Mrs. M. E. Pinson, of this city, and Mrs. J. G. Lewis of Albany.
   Mr. Fleetwood "Doc", as the Veterans who served with him in the sixties call him saw much active life in the Confederate army. He was with Longstreet's Corps in Virginia during the war and was wounded and captured at Gettysburg. ...fifteen years book-keeper for The Times-Enterprise, which was then conducted and controlled by Captain Triplett. ..Secretary of the Thomasville lodge of Masons..member of the W. D. Mitchell Camp of Confederate Veterans........
   The funeral will be conducted this afternoon at three thirty from the residence on Crawford Street. Rev. L. T. Mays officiating. The Masons of this city will have charge of the funeral service and will attend in a body....

May 5, 1911
Milledgeville News
Mrs. J. H. Bloodworth Died Monday Evening. Mother of Mr. J. O. Bloodworth of This City Passes Away After Spell of Typhoid Fever.
    Mrs. J. H. Bloodworth, mother of Mr. J. O. Bloodworth, of this city, died at her home in Wilkinson county Monday evening, and the heralding of this news will be received with genuine regret to the many friends of the members of the family.
   Mrs. Bloodworth was in her 68th year of age, having been born and reared in Wilkinson county where she remained her entire years of her life. She was before her marriage Miss Mary McCook and married J. H. Bloodworth in the year of 1868. Mrs. Bloodworth leaves her husband and seven children to mourn her death as follows: Mrs. C. H. Pearson, of Dublin, Mrs. B. H. Huff, of Ashburn, Mrs. J. E. Wheeler, of Baxley, Mrs. H. E. Eady, Messrs. Gus and George Bloodworth of Wilkinson county and Mr. J. O. Bloodworth, of this city.

May 7, 1911
Macon Daily Telegraph
Milledgeville, Ga. May 6 - Three veterans have died since Memorial Day, April 26. They were Capt. H. K. Byington, William C. Patterson and James Saunders.

May 12, 1911
Milledgeville News
  Mr. J. I. Bailey Has Entered Long Rest
  After many years of service at the state sanitarium and at last suffering several months from illness Mr. J. I. Bailey, formerly of Wilkinson county, died last Friday morning. His remains were carried to the old home where the funeral occurred.
  Mr. Bailey was well known here and in Midway. He was a member of the B. O. U. H. and also of the I. O. O. F. His death caused much sorrow among his friends, but it brought relief to a patient sufferer.

May 14, 1911
Macon Telegraph
PROMINENT FARMER IS CALLED TO REWARD. Erasmus Bullock Aged 77 Expired Last Night at cross Keys Home.
  Eeasmus Bullock, one of the best known and most influential farmers in Central Georia, died at his home near Cross Keys, early last night, after an illness of about two weeks.
   Mr. Bullock was 77 years old and had been in feeble health for several years, though not confined to his bed. He was born in Wilkinson County, and moved with his family to Butler, when he was a young boy. About 20 years ago he moved to Bibb County.

May 25, 1911
The Macon Daily Telegraph
TODD - CASON.  Toomsboro Ga. May 24 - Married on Sunday, May 21, 1911, at the home of the bridge, MissSarah Elizabeth Cason, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Cason, to A. A. Todd, of McIntyre, Ga. No cards were issued.

May 29, 1911
Macon Daily Telegraph
Issac T. Raines, aged 65 years, died suddenly at his home, 708 Elm street. Mr. Raines had been in poor health for some time, but was up and around Sunday morning, when he was seized with a congestive chill and his death followed a short time later.
  Mr. Raines was a member of the Baptist Church, and besides his wife is survived by one son, D.D. Raines, and one daughter, Mrs. J. T. Whitaker.
  The body will be taken to McIntyre this morning at 11:40 o'clock, via the Central of Georgia, and the funeral and interment will be held there this afternoon.

June 8, 1911
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Gordon, Ga., June 7 - At the home of Prof. D. J. Lee, yesterday morning at 11:30 , were celebrated the nuptials of Mr. W. S. Fishburn, of Lancaster, S. C., and Miss Carolyn Lee. Many relatives and friends from various sections of the state were present, including Miss Susan Myrick, Milledgeville; Ga, Miss Nannette Rozar, Milledgeville, Ga.; Miss Nan Whitehurst, Dublin, Ga.; Dr. W. G. Lee, Macon, Ga.; Mrs. J. L. Lee, Pinehurst, Ga.; Mr. Julian Bloodworth, Lewiston, Ga., Dr. W. W. Lee and family, and Mr. G. C. Henry and family, of Cordele, Ga., besides numerous local relatives and friends.
  Lunch was served at 12.
  The bride and groom left at 12:40 p.m. for Savannah, on their way to their future home in Lancaster, S.C.
  The parlor of the Lee residence was beautifully decorated for the occasion. The bride was attired in a traveling gown of tan cloth.
  Many handsome presents were received from all sections of the South. Misses Jewel Henry and Lois Denwood were flower girls.

June 9, 1911
Milledgeville News
Gordon News. Mrs. M. E. Howard an aged and highly respected lady died here June 2nd and was buried near Eatonton Saturday.
  Mr. W. S. Elam and Sister Miss Tomie Elam attended Mrs. Howard's burial near Eatonton Saturday.

June 14, 1911
The Macon Daily Telegraph
 The funeral of Kathleen, the 10-months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Smallwood, who died Monday afternoon, was held at the residence of her parents, in East Macon, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Hixon, pastor of the East Macon Methodist Church, officiating. The body was carried to Gordon, for interment.
 

June 25, 1911
The Atlanta Constitution
James L. Byington, representative from Wilkinson county, is about 40 years old, and a native of the county which he represents. He was sheriff of the county for six years, being elected twice to that office without opposition. He was nominated and elected representative without opposition, which is the first time in the history of the county that any man has been so honored. Mr. Byington has been in the lumber business nearly all of his life, and his honesty and integrity have made him friends with all whom he came in contact. Mr. Byington has been dangerously ill and he will hardly be able to attend the session of the legislature this summer.
(buried Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, GA)

June 25, 1911
The Atlanta Constitution
GORDON, GA.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hawkins, of Guyton, after a vist to Miss Tommie Elam, left today for Monticello to visit friends and relatives.
Mrs. Sallie Bridges, of Macon, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. M. Barfield.
Mrs. Z. T. Miller visited Mrs. A. C. Boyd this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Burke will go to Millen Sunday to visit Mr. Burke's parents. His sister, Miss Reba, will return with them.
Mrs. R. S. Nelson, of Macon, has been on a short visit to her cousin, Miss Patile Edwards.
Miss Mattie Evans, of Flemingsburg, Ky., is visiting her brother, Dr. R. E. Evans.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hooks, are spending the week in Savannah.
Mrs. Joe Stripling is visiting her mother. Mrs. Hattie Dennard.
Mrs. Holliway, of Macon, spent the week-end with Rev. and Mrs. P. F. Holliway.
Hazell Powell entertained Wednesday evening for the visiting young ladies.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Carswell are visiting their son, Mr. E. L. Carswell, in Americus.
Mrs. R. M. Butts entertained informally Monday evening for Miss Ruth Brisendine, Miss Susie Shepard and Miss Hazelle Powell who has recently returned from Bessie Tift. After music and games refreshments were served by Misses Pauline Pyle (Ryle) and Annie Lawrence Butts.

July 18, 1911
Union Recorder
Mrs. W. L. Janes (Jeans) died at her home on the State Prison Farm last Friday morning at one o'clock, after a long illness. Her remains were carried to Ivey Station for burial.

August 25, 1911
Macon Weekly Telegraph
WILKINSON COUNTY HAS BIG INDUSTRIAL BOOM
Central of Georgia Official Tells of Awakening, PAPER MILL IS COMPLETE. New Railroad Connects Irwinton County Seat, With McIntyre-Kaolin and Bauxite Mines are Making Good Showing.
  Flattering reports of a substantial boom that seems to be built on a solid foundation come from Wilkinson county. One of the officials of the Central of Georgia Railway, who spent the first part of the week in that locality, has returned to Macon bringing with him the story of the awakening of several new enterprises and a general industrial boon.
  A  large part of the kaolin that is shipped out of Georgia for the paper mills of the north comes from this county, and the mines there are improving their facilities and spreading out rapidly, says the railroad man.
  The new $100,000 paper pulp mill at Gordon is almost completed and will be ready to start shipments in the course of a week or ten days The mills are a splendid property, up to date in every way and will be a big asset in the business of the county. There is considerable Macon capital interested in this factory.
  Beside this, the last few rails and ties of the Irwinton Railway are now being laid which will connect Irwinton, the county seat of McIntyre, three miles distant. McIntyre is on the Central of Georgia Railway, but heretofore Irwinton has had no railway connection and the new road, although short, will be a greatly needed improvement and is expected to prove a fine investment.
  The kaolin mines referred to above are situated at Claymont, Dedrich and Edgar, about thirty miles south of Macon, on the Savannah division of the Central of Georgia Railway. These mines are practically in their infancy now, having been in operation only a little over a year, but they are now showing an output of about 1,000 tones of kaolin per month.
  In the same county are the bauxite mines.
  The mines have put out several tons of ore since March, when the first started to ship in large quantities. The Macon railroad man says that the local business men of the county are much interested in these industries and that ll the indications seem to point to a gradual and healthy boom in the county.

September 17, 1911
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
J. S. TAYLOR'S FATHER DEAD
COL. T. C. TAYLOR DIES AT HAWKINSVILLE AFTER LONG ILLNESS - WELL KNOWN AND PROMINENT LAWYER
   Mr. Joseph S. Taylor of this city, has returned from Hawkinsville, Ga., where he was called to attend the funeral of his father, Col. Tho. Coleman Taylor, an account of which is given by a Hawkinsville paper as follows:
Col. Thomas Coleman Taylor died at his home in Wawkinsville Saturday morning at seven o'clock after a lingering illness from Bright's disease.
  Col. Taylor was born and reared in Houston county, and was fifty-four years old at the time of his death. He came to Hawkinsville thirty-two years ago, when quite a young man and just after graduating from the University of Kentucky, since time he has been engaged in the practice of law.
   Col. Taylor was twice married. His first wife was Miss Seaton Crystell Smith, of Wilkinson county, by whom two children were born to him, Mrs. I. W. Purdon of Sparta, Ga., and Mr. Joe S. Taylor of Columbus, Ga. His second wife was Mrs. Ida Barclay of Abbeville, Ga., and his was blessed with two children by this union, Mr. Jelks Taylor and Miss Hattie Taylor, of this city, all of whom survive him.
  The funeral was conducted from the house Sunday afternoon at three o'clock by his pastor, Dr. J. O. A. Cook, of the Methodist church, and the interment was in Orange Hill cemetery.

October 7, 1911
Macon Daily Telegraph
Greensboro, October 6. Recently there appeared in the  daily press in the state an article stating that one hundred residents of Wilkinson county are heirs to an estate of $5,000,000 left by Benjamin Jackson, who died in New York, recently, at the age of ninty-two. The story was to the effect that Jackson's wife and only child died many years ago, and his nearest kin, are the children of his brothers and sisters, nearly all of whom live in Wilkinson.
  Further, it says that Benjamin had four brothers and a sister, and was himself the son of Absalom Jackson, who fought in the American revolution. One of his brothers was the late Colonel James Jackson, of McIntyre, Wilkinson county. Following the death of his wife and child, Benjamin Jackson went to New York, engaged in the mercantile business and accumulated a fortune.
  Through reliable sources it has been learned that nearer and more direct relatives of Jackson than the claimants residing in Wilkinson county are living. These are Mrs. Susie A. Neal, of Thomson, McDufffie county; and W. Andrew Jackson, of Houston, Texas, who are granddaughter and grandson respectively, of the late millionaire.
   A thorough investigation is now being carried on by these heirs and information has been gained from them to the effect that Benjamin Jackson was born in Greene county, Ga., at Fort Creek, in that section of the county which was later cut off to form the county of Hancock.
  The claimants have in their possession a letter written by Benjamin Jackson from New York to his children by his first wife, Nancy Atkins.
  The children were Absalom Jackson, Daniel Washington Jackson and Lazareth Jackson, Martha Jackson and Andrew Jackson. The latter practiced law at Warrenton and died in 1856.
  After the death of Jackson's first wife he married Mrs. Rebecca Burchelle Chamberlain, the couple having by this marriage two children, Florence and Rebecca Clarke Jackson, both of whom are now dead.
  Jackson, with his second wife and children, moved to New York and resided on Liberty street. The claimants have a Bible originally belonging to Daniel Atkins, father of Nancy Atkins, Jackson's first wife. This Bible gives the birth of Nancy Atkings, and also birth of Benjamin Jackson as 1796 in Greene county.
    The heirs who are trying to establish claim to the fortune are: Mrs. Susie A. Neal, of Thomason, Ga.; W. Andrew Jackson, Houston, Texas; these two being children of youngest son of Benjamin Jackson; J. D. Lazrnby, Mrs. David Adams, Mrs. David Brown, Mrs. John Hardaway, Mrs. T. J. Hardaway, all of McDuffie county; Mrs. Belle Denton, of Jefferson county, and James Ricketson, of LaGrange.

October 11, 1911
The Macon Daily Telegraph
BAD NEGRO IS HANGED. White Woman's Assailant Is Strung Up Near Irwinton
Forty Masked Men in Wilkinson County Overpower Deputy and Take His Prisoner - Bullet - Riddled Body Left Hanging Two Days.
Dublin, Oct. 10 - Advices received today states that Andrew Chapman, a negro, was taken from Bailiff W. T. Cowen and lynched by a mob of forty masked men Saturday night near Irwinton, Wilkinson county. The negro had just been bound over to the grand jury on a charge of assaulting a well-known young white woman of Wilkinson county, who, it is stated, is prostrated as a result of the shock.
  Deputy Cowen was escorting the negro to the county jail when the mob overpowered him and took the prisoner. Dragging him to a pine tree near Butler's Bridge, the infuriated men strung him up with a rope and riddled his body with bullets. The body remained hanging to the tree until Monday afternoon, when the sheriff ordered it removed.
  It is stated that the negro admitted his guilt and expressed no regret for the alleged crime.

October 29, 1911
The Macon Daily Telegraph
  The body of Mrs. Dollie Winters, who died at her residence in East Macon, Friday afternoon at 6:10 o'clock, after a short illness, was taken to Ivey yesterday morning at 11:45 o'clock, where the funeral and interment was held yesterday afternoon. she was the wife of R. L. Winters and had lived in East Macon for several years.

November 3, 1911
Union Recorder
Four Score Years Old, Notable Woman Passes To Her Final Rest. Mrs. M. E. Smith Leaves Five Children, 44 Grandchildren and 48 Great Grandchildren.
  Leaving five children, forty-four grandchildren and forty-eight great-with a record probably unsurpassed in the history of this section of Georgia, Mrs. M. E. Smith died Monday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. M. Patterson, near Cooperville, at the age of 79 years. Her life story was one filled with all the tragedies and romance connected with the south, and through it all she maintained herself well.
  She was the daughter of Capt. Buck Ryles of Wilkinson county, and in 1849 was married to Elijah Pettis, who was killed in the civil war, leaving his widow with six children. Struggling through that dark period with her loved ones, she continued to operate the home farm until 1870, when she married Levi Smith and he, too, soon died, leaving her again a widow. She then went to the state sanitarium, where she kept up her work for thirty years.
  The funeral occurred Tuesday from the family home and the interment was at Mt. Pleasant church, Rev. T. E. Farmer conducting the last ceremonies. To the family a host of friends extend sympathy in the loss of this truly wonderful woman, who eall "Did what she could," and did it well.

November 10, 1911
Milledgeville News
~excerpt~  IN MEMORY OF MRS. J. M. FOUNTAIN. On Sunday, August 27, 1911, God, in His infinite wisdom, saw fit to send the angel of death into our home and bear away the spirit of our precious mother....
   ...just as she had finished her dinner, she was stricken with that fatal disease apoplexy, and lived only a few hours....
   ..She was preceded to the great beyond by her daughter only a little over five months. she leaves a husband, two daughters and a son, viz: Mrs. W. R. Hardie, Mrs. R. L. Wynn and Mr. F. M. Fountain, all of Wilkinson county; three sisters and a host of friends to mourn her death.
    ...Uniting with the church when she was a child, she lived a faithful and consistent Christian life.
   ...The funeral service was conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. B. Costly of Atlanta and here remains  were interred at Snow Hill cemetery...LOVING CHILDREN.

November 16, 1911
Macon Telegraph
F. BARTOW STUBBS DIES ON EVE OF BIRTHDAY. End Came Suddenly to Well-Known Business Man. LAST DAY OF ACTIVE LIVE.
Today He Would Have Been Fifty Years Old and Would Have Relinquished All Business Cares - Had Large Holdings in State.
F. Bartow Stubbs, heavily interest in Macon business projects, besides many large interests in south Georgia and Florida, died suddenly at his home, Vineville and Pierce avenues, at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the eve of his fiftieth birthday, and one day before he was to have retired from active business operations.
   Although he had been in feeble health from an affliction of the heart and a complication of diseases for the past two years, he was only confined to his bed since Monday morning and his death was unexpected. Saturday he was mingling with his friends and at that time appeared even in better health than in several months. Monday morning he was seized with the second attack of pneumonia of the lungs which hastened his death. He died surrounded by his family.
   During several months past his health had been on a steady decline, his condition perhaps being hidden from his family and friends by the cheerful bearing which always dominated his deportment, and which was manifest even in the face of adversity and sorrow.
   Bartow Stubbs was known all over Georgia. He had lived honorably and accumulated a fortune. Born on a farm in Wilkinson county, where his early boyhood days were spent, he branched out into the world seeking the fortune which he found by hard work and square dealings. He soon became a big lumber and turpentine operator. This was a business which no man in Georgia knew better.
   Besides large real estate holdings in Macon at the time of his death, he had large holdings in lumber and turpentine in south Georgia, especially near Hawkinsville and Empire. He was a large stockholder in the corporation which controls the Nevarro apartment houses and was proprietor of the big Hotel Tybee at Savannah and the Pulaski house at the same place. He was prominent in the organization of the Central Georgia Power Co.
    A sad feature of his death was the announcement that preceded ti a few days, that he expected to retire from active business life on his fiftieth birthday which, had he lived, would have been today.
   Though public spirited to such and extent that he never failed to respond to a call in the interest of the city he had learned to love since coming here fourteen years ago, his acts of charity and generous manifestations of civic prides were covered by a marked modesty. His right hand knew naught of his left hand's doing. Bartow Stubbs was respected and loved as a man of sterling character and unusual generosity. He will be missed in Georgia.
   He was born in Wilkinson county, near Toomsboro, and worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years. He left home at that age going to Eastman, where he engaged in the turpentine business. His turpentine interests developed with the section, in which he lived and soon his business holdings in the industry which brought south Georgia into the eyes of the world, were very extensive. He came to Macon fourteen years ago from Chauncey, and had been proprietor of the Brown House for several years. He was one of the best known Masons in the state, being a member of Al Sihah temple, Mystic Shriners, St. Omar Commandery No. 2, Constantine Chapter No. 4 and Mabel Lodge NO. 255. He will be buried with Masonic honors.
   Besides his wife, Mary R. Stubbs, he is survived by two sons, Claude M. and Joseph B. Stubbs, of Macon; two daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Maude Stubbs of Macon; one sister, Mrs. Wheeler, Milledgeville; three brothers, S. J. Stubbs, of Douglas; R. L. Stubbs of Toomsboro and R. A. Stubbs of Dublin.
   The funeral will be held at his late residence Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The last rites will be performed by Rev. J. T. Ryder, pastor of Vineville Methodist church. The funeral will be attended by an escort from the Masonic lodges of Macon. (buried Riverside Cemetery, Macon)

November 17, 1911
Macon Daily Telegraph
WEDS ON ANNIVERSARY OF PARENTS' MARRIAGE
Miss Carrie Brooks, of Gordon, and Clarence Smith, Central of Georgia Engineer, Spring a Surprise.
   Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brooks, of Gordon, not only had the pleasure of celebrating the fortieth anniversary of their married life yesterday, but also witnessed the marriage of their daughter, Miss Carrie Brooks, to Clarence Smith, a well-known engineer on the Central road.
   Mr. and Mrs. Brooks and their daughter came to Macon yesterday morning and the parents were not aware of their daughter's intentions until after they had reached this city.
   The marriage took place at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Walter McWilliams, 557 New street, and the ceremony was performed by Rev. E. C. Darwin, pastor of the First Baptist church.
    The happy couple have hundreds of friends who wish them much success.

November 17, 1911
Macon Daily Telegraph
 Webb - Willams. Mary E. Webb annnounces the engagement of her daughter, Pearl, to Tully B. Williams of Allentown. The wedding to take place at the home of the bride's mother, December 27.

November 26, 1911
Macon Telegraph
HUGHES-TROUTMAN. The marriage of Miss Lillie Mae Hughes, of Toomsboro, to Dr. W. C. Troutman, of Tennille, was solemnized Wednesday in Toomsboro, Rev. E. J. Smith officiating. They went dwon to Tennille Wednesday afternoon and are at home to their friends at the residence of Mrs. J. C. Hamilton.

November 26, 1911
The Atlanta Constitution
HATFIELD - TYSON. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Hatfield, of Irwinton, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jimmie, and Rev. Wm. A. Tyson, of Bullard, Ga., the wedding taking place December 27, at home. No cards.

December 5, 1911
Atlanta Constitution
LAWYER DEFENDS COMRADE'S SON TO PAY A WAR-TIME DEBT
   Macon, Ga., December 5. (Special) At the first battle of Manassas, Frank Chambers, a soldier in the Third Georgia regiment, in making a charge, fell seriously wounded. At the risk of his life, Hiram Hartley, a comrade, whose home was also in Twiggs (Wilkinson) county, defied a rain of bullets and rescued his fallen friend carrying him off the field on his back. When he recovered, Mr. Chambers vowed that if the time ever came he would repay this heroic savior. Today he is defending the son of Hiram Hartley, who is on trial for his life in the superior court on a charge of murder. Judge Chambers and the aged father, both gray-haired, occupy adjoining seats, and are making  determined effort to save young John Hartley from the gallows.
    John H. Hartley, a blacksmith, formerly of Twiggs county, is being tried in the superior court for the murder of John V. Russell, a mechanic, a man with whom he was unacquainted.
  He shot Russell six times. Hartley claims self-defense, and says that the  trouble between him and the deceased was primarily due to the fact that Russell had alienated Mrs. Hartley's affections.
      The latter, who is now keeping a boarding house in Atlanta, is suing for divorce in the Bibb superior court, and has already obtained one verdict. There are more than fifty witnesses, and the trail will not be concluded before tomorrow afternoon. The plaintiff has seven lawyers, one of them being Pension Commissioner J. W. Lindsey.

December 17, 1911
Macon Telegraph
 ROBERTSON - PAGETTE
  The wedding of Miss Daisy Robertson and W. B. Pagette occurred Wednesday morning at the home of the bride's parents in Gordon, Rev. J. L. Jackson officiating.
  The house was decorated in palms and ferns. The maid of honor was Miss Nettie Robertson who was in white satin. The bride wore a gray coat suit with a large black picture hat, her bouquet being bride's roses.
  Robert Lockhart was the best man.
  After a wedding reception, Mr. and Mrs. Pagette left for Dexter, where they will reside in the future.

January 10, 1912
Atlanta Constitution
Mrs. Dora McCallum Dies
Macon, Ga., January 9 (Special) Mrs. Dora McCallum, of McIntyre, Ga., 38 years of age, and a widow, died last night at the Macon hospital, following a long illness. She leaves a son and a daughter. The funeral was held this afternoon from Hart's chapel. Interment was in Rose Hill cemetery.

January 10, 1912
Macon Daily Telegraph
  News was received in Macon yesterday of the death ofW. J. Player, who passed away at his home in Irwinton. His death was attributed to an affection of the heart, for which he was treated a short while ago at Williams' Sanitarium in this city.
  Until four weeks ago Mr. Player enjoyed excellent health and the illness which caused his death was the first in forty years.
   He was the father of Sam T. Player, who is connected with the Waxelbaum Company, and a brother of Mrs. Thad Bennett, both of Macon. He also leaves a wife, three other sons, and a daughter, all living in Irwinton.
  At his death, Mr. Player was the sheriff of Wilkinson county and an extensive planter.
   The funeral and interment will be held in Irwinton.

January 16, 1912
Union Recorder
  Mrs. C. L. Ivey has the sympathy of friends in the death of her sister, Mrs. Gracie Lingo, which occurred on the 11th, inst., at her home near Irwinton, Ga., after an illness of several weeks.

  The remains of Mr. J. L. Byington were brought to this city Monday afternoon, January 15th, from Irwinton and buried in the city cemetery. The remains were accompanied to the city by the family and relatives of the deceased and a number of Masons from Wilkinson county. They were met at the depot by members of the Milledgeville Lodge of Masons, and accompanied to the cemetery, where they were laid to rest with the impressive ceremonies of the order.
  Mr. Byington had a cancer to appear on his face several years ago, and although he received treatment from the most skilled physicians in the country it finally causes his death.
James L. Byington was born in Wilkinson county, April 1st, 1870, and grew to manhood there. He had the tact as a boy of making and holding friends and when he grew to manhood he was one of the most popular citizens of Wilkinson county.
  He served that county six years as sheriff, and gave up that ofice to become a candidate for representative, to which office he was elected, and held at the time of his death. He was a big hearted, clever and genial man, and was held in the greatest respect by his fellow men. He is survived by Mrs. Byington, who before her marriage was Miss Ella Gilmore, and two sons and one daughter, five sisters and one brother. They have the deepest sympathy of their friends and acquaintances.
 

February 6, 1912
Union Recorder
Mrs. J. E.  Council died at her home in Wilkinson county last Thursday, and her remains were buried Friday.
  Mrs. Council before her marriage was Miss Byington. She is survived by a number of relatives, who have the sympathy of their many friends.

February 27, 1912
Union Recorder
  Mr. Mansfield Hubbard, one of Baldwin county's oldest citizens, died at his home at Midway, the 17th inst., after an illness of only a few days.
   His remains were buried the following day, at Snow Hill Cemetery, in Wilkinson county.
   Mr. Hubbard was a native of Baldwin, and his long life was spent on his farm between this city and Stevens Pottery, with the exception of only a few years. Mr. Hubbard enlisted under the Confederate flag, soon after the was between the States commenced and served during the four years. His record was one of bravery and devotion to the cause.
 He was an industrious, quiet citizen, and was eighty two years old at the time of his death.
  He is survived by his aged wife, and several sons and daughters.

March 5, 1912
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Fills Father's Shoes As County's Sheriff. Leon P. Player Elected in Wilkinson County to Fill Unexpired Term Caused By His Father's Death.
Irwinton, March 4 - At the election held here Friday Leon P. Player was elected sheriff of Wilkinson county to fill the unexpired term caused by the death of his father, the late W. J. Player. This makes Mr. Player one of the youngest sheriffs, in not the youngest, in the state, he having just passed his twenty-sixth year. He had been filling the office temporarily since the death of his father sixty days ago.
  John T. Dupree easily won over his opponents for the unexpired term of representative, caused by the death of the late J. L. Byington. Mr. Dupree was opposed by John T. Hatfield, Jr., Andrew Chambers and W. W. Lee. The vote stood: John T. Dupree, 176; W.W. Lee 153; Andrew Chambers, 107; John T. Hatfield, 26. Leon P. Player, for sheriff, received 475 votes.

April 9, 1912
Union Recorder
~excerpts~ On Monday, March 25th, 1912, the Death Angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Day and claimed for its victim their beloved little son. Only three months and eight days old, yet in this short time he had gained the love of all who knew him by his sweet disposition and patience.
   He was sick only a few days with whooping cough and pneumonia. All was done for him that loving parents, kind friends and a physician could do but none could stay the hand of death.
  ..The remains were laid to rest in the Snow Hill cemetery, March 2nd.

April 13, 1912
Atlanta Constitution
Mrs. E. J. Coates, Macon
Macon, Ga., April 12 (Special)Mrs. E. J. Coates, widow of the late Rev. E. J. Coates, one of the best known ministers in Georgia at the time of he death, died last night at 9:30 o'clock at the home of her son, John T. Coates, 360 Orange street, following an illness of four weeks.
   Mrs. Coates was born in Twiggs county October 23, 1843, but had been a resident of Macon many years. She was a life-long member of the Baptist church and an active religious worker.
   She leaves six sons, three sisters, a brother and four grandchildren, the latter being the children of her only daughter, the late Mrs. E. N. Jelks, who died here several years ago.
    The sons are: E.H. Coates, of New York;  J.T., C. B., F. B. and J. R. Coates of Macon, and H.E. Coates, of Hawkinsville. One son, George W. Coates, was killed in an automobile accident in Atlanta about a year ago.
  The sisters are Mrs. Frank Chambers, Macon; Mrs. T.E. McCrea, Cochran; Mrs. Hennie Rise, Texas, and Mrs. Ellen Balkcom, Jeffersonville. Hayward Hughes, the surviving brother, resides in Toombsboro.
     The funeral arrangements await the arrival of E.H. Coates, a son, who is now in California.

June 24, 1912
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Y.M.C.A. OFFICIALS VISITHIKERS' CAMPS. "Gypsies" Camping Near Gordon Having Big Time - Driven Out of Toombsboro By Water - Home Friday.
   A party of Y. M. C. A. officials spent yesterday with the sixty odd young boys who, constituting the Y.M.C.A. Gypsy Hikers' clubs, have been for the past week camping near Gordon.  The visiting part was composed of George S. Jones, Hardeman Jomes, J. M. Tyson, physical director, and D. G. Irons, general secretary of the association.
  The boys are camping on the banks of a lake (just outside of Gordon and about 20 miles from Macon.) They left Macon last Tuesday morning under the leadership of H. Doughtery, director of the boys' work of the Y.M.C.A., and after spending two days and nights at Gordon, they marched to Toomsboro, 13 miles further on, but the high water of the Oconee river forced them to return to the lake.
  Those who visited the camp yesterday stated that the boys declared they were having the best times of their lives, bathing, fishing, rowing and baseball being the most popular sports. No accidents have occurred and no sickness has been in the camp. The gypsies will return to Macon Friday.

Dodge County Times-Journal,
Thursday, June 27, 1912
DEATH CAME AT AGE 102 YEARS
Mrs. Betsy Billue of Wilkinson County died at her home in that county June 1st last at the age of 102 years.  She had been in feeble health for several weeks.

Mrs. Billue was the sister of Zenus Fordham of this county and also the late Mrs. Martha Rawls, who preceded her to the grave a little over a year.  All of her brothers and sisters, who have preceded her, lived past the age of eighty years, and Mr. Fordham is at this time 93 years of age.  She was the aunt of Mr. W. T. Dupree of this city also, and had a great host of relatives in this and Wilkinson County, it being said that one entire section of Wilkinson County was at one time related to her almost without exception.

She was a native of North Carolina and came to Georgia with her parents at the age of two years.  She, therefore, had been a resident of this state an even 100 years.  She was the second eldest child in a large family of children, and all of them with a few exceptions lived until a ripe old age.  On the 24th of May, which was her 102nd anniversary of her birth, she held a reunion at her home in Wilkinson County and seemed in splendid health for one of her age, although a little more feeble than usual.

The remains of Mrs. Billue were interred in the old Fordham burying ground in Wilkinson County, Rev. O. O. Williams of Soperton conducting the funeral ceremonies.  She was a woman of high character and had lived a long and useful life.  She had a great many friends in this county and Wilkinson County who will regret very much to hear of her death, and extend to her loved ones their most sincere sympathy. -- Dublin Courier-Dispatch.

NOTE:  Mrs. Billue’s grave marker gives her name as Elizabeth Fordham Billue and her dates of birth and death as Apr 24, 1810, and May 31, 1912.   She married James Richmond Billue, who was born Sep 16, 1809, and died Oct 8, 1883.  He was a member of Co. D. 8th Ga. Militia, CSA.
submitted by Algernon Cannon

July 21, 1912
Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs. A. E. Butler. News reached Macon yesterday of the death of Mrs. A. E. Butler, which occurred at her home at Irwinton, shortly after midnight Friday night. Mrs. Butler was the mother of W. T. Butler, who was formerly connected with the Dannberg Company, of Macon. The funeral will be held this morning from the residence, Rev. J. M. Kelley, of Marshallville, officiating. Interment will follow in the family burying ground near Irwinton. Mrs. Butler was 78 years of age at the time of her death, and for many years was a faithful and consistent member of the Providence Baptist church of Irwinton, Wilkinson county. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. B. S. Fitzpatrick, of Fitzgerald, and Mrs. J. H. Mullis, of Cochran. She is also survived by five sons, Judge J. E. Butler, R. H. and C. R. Butler, all of Wilkinson county; G. R. and W. T. Butler, of Savannah.

August 10, 1912
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Files His Way Out of Wilkinson Jail
Norman Davidson, Charged With Murder, Makes His Getaway During Night, Lines Out for Capture.
Irwinton, Aug. 9  - By the aid of a file, smuggled into him by outside friends,  Norman Davidson, a young, white man, held on a charge of murder in Wilkinson county jail, last night gain his liberty. Player has been throwing out his lines to recapture the fugitive but to no avail.
  Davidson is about 22 years of age, five feet ten inches in height, weight 180 pounds. He has black hair and black eyes.
  Sheriffs and police chiefs all over the state have been notified to be on the watch for him.

October 6, 1912
The Atlanta Constitution
ALBEA-CHAMBERS
Mrs. T. H. Albea announces the engagement of her daughter Florence Lamar, to Mr. Frank Chambers, of Toomsboro, the marriage to take place Wednesday, November 20, at the Methodist church.

October 11, 1912
Milledgeville News
Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbard, widow of the late Mansfield Hubbard, died at the home of her daughter Miss Lucy Hubbard, in Midway, Thursday morning after a lingering illness. She was 80 years of age and one of the best known and highly respected ladies of the county, living a useful life a consistent Methodist, kind and devoted mother, rearing a family of four sons and five daughters surviving her.
  The funeral services will be conducted at the residence this Friday morning and the interment will be at Snow Hill Cemetery in Wilkinson county, where her husband was buried a few months ago. The many friends of the family extend sympathy.

October 20, 1912
The Atlanta Constitution
WOOD - RAGAN
    Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Wood, of Irwinton announce the engagement of their daughter, Annie Graybill, to James J. Ragan, the wedding to take place the evening of November 26, at 8:30 o'clock.

October 20, 1912
The Atlanta Constitution
JOHN M'ARTHUR, AGED PIONEER PASSES AWAY AT CORDELE
     In the death ofJohn McArthur, which occurred at the residence of his son, Dr. T. J. McArthur, in Cordele, Ga., October 5, his many friends and relatives have lost a loving friend and counselor.
  He joined the Primitive Baptist church in June, 1837, and was baptized by the Rev. William Cooper, pastor of Ramah. He was then 31 years old and then years later was ordained a deacon.
       In November, 1850, he married Miss Winniefred Rivers and to them were born eleven children.
    On July 9, 1861, he joined the Fourteenth Georgia regiment, company B., serving for two years, then receiving a disability discharge, having been wounded. He returned to his home in Wilkinson county and was elected tax collector of that county, in which capacity he served throughout the war. He was one of the first county commissioners of roads and revenue of Wilkinson county, serving a number of years.
       In 1902, he, with this wife and son, Charles A., moved to Cordele, Ga., where his two sons, Drs. T.J. and A.L. McArthur, reside, making his home with them. While there he beheld Hailey's comet for the second time. At the age of 9 years he saw this wonderful visitor in the fall of 1835 while at a corn shucking. His wife was born in 1835, at the time this comet shone brightest to the earth's inhabitants.
        At the time of his death he was 86 years old and had been in ill-health for several years, finally succumbing to the combined effects of old age and dropsy.
    The funeral services were conducted at the home of his son, Dr. T. J. McArthur, at 3:30 p.m., October 5, 1912 by Rev. W. S. Harden. Mrs. George Ballenger having charge of the song service, two of his favorite hymns being sung, "Nearer, My God to Thee" and "Asleep in Jesus."
   Interment was at Sunnyside cemetery immediately after funeral services, the following gentlemen acting as pallbearers: Dr. M. R. Smith, Dr. W. E. Edwards, C.M. McKenzie, Colonel W. H. Dorris, E. B. Mann and Mr. Mayo.
    Besides his wife and children, Charles A., John Joel, James, Lewis R., Drs. T. J. and A. L. McArthur, Mrs. J. W. Robinson and Mrs. William Robinson, he is survived by about fifty grandchildren and thirty-four great grandchildren, besides a host of friends who will mourn his loss.

October 25, 1912
Bainbridge Search Light
   A Sad Death. One of the saddest deaths West Bainbridge has had in a long time was that of Mrs. Cornelia Blackburn, which occured at her home Sunday afternoon, October 20, 2923. She was stricken with fever and suffered for some time until death relieved her suffering.
    Mrs. Blackburn was born at Toombsboro, Ga; April 16, 1869 and was 43 years of age at the time of her death. She is survived by her son, aged 12 years; also by her mother, Mrs. M. E. Martin, of Diffee, Ga.; and two brothers, Messrs. I. J. Martin of Diffee, Ga., and J. W. Martin, of Cedar Springs, Ga.
  Mrs. Martin was a member of the First Baptist chuch of Bainbridge and had a hots of friends wo are saddened at her untimely death.
  The funeral service was conducted from the home of Dr. Carl W. Minor, her pastor. The remains were carried to Miller county Monday and interred in the cemetery at Cedar Creek church.

November 6, 1912
The Macon Daily Telegraph
84 BUSHELS CORN IS WINNER IN WILKINSON. Although Second Prize Winner is 98 Bushels, CLUB FOR NEXT YEAR Has for Organizer, J. H. Hoover, the County School Superintendent, Who Expects to Get All the School Boys to Join in 1913.
   Irwinton, Nov. 5 - The Wilkinson County Boy's Corn Club contest was held here yesterday. The contest was held under the rules of the United State department of agriculture and the state college of agriculture.
  The following is a list of the boys who won prizes and the yield per acre: Willie Helton, first prize, 84.73 bushels;  J. P. Hardy, second prize, 98.24 bushels; Charlie Price, third prize, 78.35 bushels; Clarence Jackson, fourth prize, 75 bushels; John C. Lindsey, fifth prize, 41.50 bushels; Jamie L. Davidson, sixth prize 28 bushels.
   C. M. James, district agent boys' corn clubs, was present and acted as one of the judges.
   J. U. Parker, president of the Wilkinson County Club, congratulated the boys on the fine showing they made and urged them to beat this showing in 1913. J. H. Hoover, county school superintendent, is organizer of the 1913 club. Mr. Hoover stated that he expected to get every boy of the public school age to enter the new club.
  The ten-ear exhibits and the written accounts were turned over to Mr. James and will be placed on exhibit at the Georgia-Alabama Fair at Columbus.

November 7, 1912
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs. S. A. E. Ryles, a citizen of Macon for twenty-five years, died yesterday  afternoon at 5:15 o'clock at her residence at 801 Main street, East Macon. She is the widow of the late B. J. Ryles. She leaves seven sons, W.B. of Jacksonville; B.F., of Savannah; G.T., J.J., J.G., S.G., and L.B., all of Macon, and one daughter, Mrs. L.F. Brown, of  Macon.
  Mrs. Ryles came here twenty-five years ago from her former home in Wilkinson county, where her remains will be taken for burial Friday.

November 22, 1912
Milledgeville News
    ~extract~ Mrs. M. E. Wheeler of Ivey, Ga., died at Rawlings' Sanitarium, Sandersville, on Nov. 3, 1912. This message came as a distinct shock to a large number of friends and relatives in this city a few days ago. Mrs. Wheeler having lived in Milledgeville for some time and being greatly beloved throughout Baldwin and Wilkinson counties.
  Lillian Clifford Stubbs, oldest daughter of Seaborn and Elizabeth Ivey Stubbs was born in Wilkinson county near McIntyre, Ga., on July 13, 1859. She was married in 1874 to Daniel Newnan Smith who at his death in 1888, was a member of the Georgia Senate, representing the 21st Senatorial district, a man whose loss was deeply felt throughout the entire section. Mrs. Smith was later married to Mr. M. E. Wheeler, of Ivey, Ga., who with several children survives her, - those of her first marriage being Mr. Edgar B. Smith, of Chauncey, Ga., Mrs. Lizzie Branan, Miss Laurie M. Smith, and Mrs. F. W. Hendrickson of Scottsboro, and those of the second: Misses Ruth and Eva Wheeler, Mr. S. B. Wheeler, of Milan, Ga., and two younger sons Otis and Joe. Besides her husband and children, Mrs. Wheeler is survived by four brothers: Messrs, R. L., B. H. and I. C. Stubbs, of Wilkinson county and Mr. Sydney J. Stubbs, of Douglas.

November 22, 1912
Macon Daily Telegraph
On Nov. 16, 1912,Allen Keen and Willie Brown left their home at Gordon, Ga. Allen Keen is about 16 years old, ordinary height, heavy set, very dark complexion, dark eyes and eyebrows; scar on back of his neck; work old gray suit, club stitched soft hat and low quarter shoes. Willie Brown is about 16 years old, ordinary size, blue eyes, dark hair, freckles; wore blue suit with pin stripes; gray hat and tan slippers. Will pay $5 reward if returned in or whereabouts are made known to A. A. Cobb, Gordon, Ga.

November 24, 1912
Macon Telegraph
LINDSEY - PRICE. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lindsey announce the engagement of their daughter, Ana Florence to Ephrian Langston Price. The wedding will take place at the bride's home, Irvington (Irwinton), December 18, 1912.  

November 24, 1912
Macon Daily Telegraph
The body ofJames K. Patterson, whose death occurred Friday night at the Macon hospital as a result of injuries received one week ago, will be carried this morning at 5:45 o'clock over the Central of Georgia Railway to Ivey, Ga., where the funeral and interment will occur this afternoon.

December 1, 1912
Atlanta Constitution
WOOD-RAGAN Irwinton, Ga. November 30 (Special) The old colonial home of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Wood was thrown open to their friends on the evening of November 26, from 8 to 11 o'clock, the occasion being the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the wedding of their son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.George H. Carswell, and the marriage of their daughter, MissAnnie Graybill to Mr. John  J. Ragan.
     The entire old home was artistically decorated with cut flowers, stately ferns and palms and southern similax. The color scheme was pink and white, pink and white candles made the light for the occasion. Mesdames E. C. Momand, R. F. Buchanan, H. B. Joiner and F. C. Manson composed the receiving line. Punch was served by Misses Mary Player and Eloise Hatfield, Miss Hatfield being dressed in pink and Miss Player in white. The wedding march, played by Miss Allen Pritchard, niece of the brides, was begun promptly at 8:30 o'clock. Little Claire and Ellen Carswell came first to the beautiful and improvised altar, drawing pink and white ribbons, which formed an aisle for the bridal party. Next came Mrs. G. H. Carswell, matron of honor, and Miss Myrtle Everett, maid of honor. The bridegroom came in with the best man Dr. W. G. Hitchcock, and stopped midway the aisle, where they waited for the bride, who came with and was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr. G. H. Carswell. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Marvin Williams. At the time for the usual prayer the words, which were original with Mr. Williams, was sweetly sung by Mrs. Robert Buchanan. The bride was gowned in a handsome white satin dress, trimmed in real lace and with pearls.
   The bride is one of Irwinton's most lovable and popular young ladies. The groom is a fine business man, cashier of Irwinton bank. Host of friends wish them much happiness and joy through their married life.

December 22, 1912
Macon Telegraph
    SMITH-KEENE. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Cox announce the marriage of Miss Lucy Smith to Rufus Keene, December 25, 10:30 a.m. At home.
Toomsboro, Ga. No cards.

December 22, 1912
Atlanta Constitution
SANTA CLAUS LETTERS
Dear Santa Clause:
     I am a little girl 12 years old and live in the country. I want you to bring me a bracelet with my initials on it. B.R. P. You can find it at Patrick & Thompson's, 18 West Mitchell street. And, Santa, please bring me a doll with black curly hair. I will go to bed soon and put out the fire, so you will not get burned. I am your friend,
BULAH R. PENNINGTON
Irwinton, Ga. Route 2

December 22, 1912
Macon Telegraph
   This morning at 8:30 o'clock, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. McCart, Machen, Ga., Miss Edna Grace McCart was united in marriage to W. C. Hogue, a popular employee of the Central railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Hogue will visit Florida points on their bridal trip. The bridal party were delightfully entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Finney, South Macon, before the bride and groom's departure for the land of flowers. After their return to Macon they will be home to their friends at 912 Orange street.
  Mr. Hogue is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hogue, of McIntyre, Ga., one of the leading families of that prosperous little city. The groom is popular with a large circle of friends, and shares generously the confidence of both employees and employers on the road.
  Mrs. Hogue is very popular in her home town, where are friends are legion.

January 14, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Notice of Sale by Trustees of William Bales' Estate
  By virtue of an order granted December 20, 1912, by the Hon. Alexander Proudfit, referee in bankruptcy, will be sold before the courthouse door at Irwinton, Wilkinson county, Georgia, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest and best bidder for cash, on Tuesday, February 11, 1913, the following described property, to-wit:
65½ acres of land in the Third land district of Wilkinson county, Georgia, bounded as follows: North by H. B. Freeman, east by A. G. Bailey; south by James T. Wright, and west by A. G. Bailey and James T. Wright.
   Also462 acres of land in the First land district of Wilkinson county, Georgia, bounded north by lands of A. G. Bailey and D. B. F. Miller; east by waters of the Oconee river; south by A. G. Bailey; west by Winford Bailey old place.
  Also99 acres in second land district of Wilkinson county Georgia, bounded north by lands of the estate of William Bales, bankrupt; east by waters of the Oconee river; and south and west by lands of A. G. Bailey.
     Also 1,104 acres, more or less, of land in said state and county, being lands deeded by A. G. Bailey to William Bales on February 26, 1907; and being composed of the following tracts of land, to-wit: 450 acres in the Second land district and known as the upper part of Brinson land; also one tract of 115 acres, being 57 acres of  lot No. 337 and 55 acres of lot no. 338 in said land district of said county, and known as theBall's Ferry Place, being bounded north by lands of the estate of William Bales; east by waters of the Oconee river; south by lands of J. E. Thompson and west by land of D. H. F. Miller; also 250 ¼ acres, more or less, lying and being in the Second land district of said county, being designated as Nos. 324, 323, 326, 325 and bounded north by lands of James T. Wright and waters of the Oconee river, east by Waters on the Oconee river; south by lands of B. Wynn and west by lands of James T. Wright and waters of the Oconee river; also 15 acres, being the northwest side of lot No. 281 in the Third land district of said county, and bounded north by lands of James T. Wright; east by lands of James D. Thompson; south by lands of F. M. Watkins, the public road being the one, and west by the estate of G. W. Lord deceased; also 202½ acres, more or less, in the Third land district of said county and being lot No. 289, and bounded north by lands of James T. Wright; east by lands of D. B. F. Miller; south by lands of estate of the said William Bales, and west by lands of the estate of William Bales; the whole of several tracts amounting to two thousand three hundred twenty (2,320) acres, more or less, and being subject only to timber lease of the Southland Veneer and Lumber Company.
    Also two certain lots of land situated, lying and being in said county of Wilkinson, designated as lotsNos. 209 and 210, aggregating 405 acres; same being bounded north by Flynn and Simmons, formerly James T. Wright; east by lands of estate of said William Bales; south by other lands of the estate of William Bales and L. E. Thompson; west by lands of Flynn and Simmons and Mrs. Newton Neesmith; and also
  One certain track, lot or parcel of land situate, lying, and being in said county, containing 180 acres more or less, and bounded north by lands of H. P. Freeman; east by Flynn and Simmons and Mrs. Newton Neesmith; west by lands of H. P. Freeman.
  All of said lands herein before describe aggregating two thousand nine hundred and five (2,905) acre, more or less, and being sold as the estate of William Bales, bankrupt, and to be sold free from all liens thereon, except lease above stated.,
  The successful bidder, or bidders, will be required to deposit with the undersigned trustee 10 per cent of the amount to be paid upon said property to be held subject to the confirmation of sale by the referee, and in the event of no confirmation of sale, said deposit to be returned to the bidder without reduction. M. E. Burts, Trustee

February 9, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
 Following a brief illness, Mrs.Lucinda Patterson, 69 years of age, and widow of the late J. K. Patterson, died yesterday morning at 4:30 o'clock at her home, 2302 Broadway. She is survived by three sons, J. R., J. B. and W. N. Patterson, all residents of Macon. Her husband J. K. Patterson, died last November at the Macon hospital as a result of injuries sustained when he was run over by a dray on Broadway. With her husband she conducted for several years a grocery establishment on Broadway. Many friends deplore her death.
  The body will be taken this morning to Ivey, where the funeral and interment will occur at her native home. The three sons and friends will accompany the body.

February 16, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
An Old Soldier's Memories. I have just visited Gordon, Ga., which was my nearest railroad station in the 60's. Gordon at present is a small but beautiful town, with many progressive men in business there.
  I looked with awe and sadness upon the spot where the train would stop and where I saw so many noble hearted young men board the train, en route to join the Confederate army. Only a small number returned. I saw two of them hobbling over town on crutches, with one leg off. The scene brought fresh in mind R. W. Folsom, who was killed as colonel of the Twelfth Georgia regiment. Wash Solomon, who was first lieutenant of Company B of the same regiment, fell in battle. Henry Solomon was elected to fill the vacancy made by the death of his brother, and was also killed in battle. Although higher in rank, their lives were no sweeter than those of private soldiers who died on the field of battle with gun in hand, aiming at the enemy.
  I was informed of the death of many of my friends who had grown up after the war. It sends a thrill of horror to my heart to realize that so many of my dearest and best friends are declining in life and must soon answer our Master's call.
  Conveyance was furnished me and I took a short trip into the country. The old red hills were all that looked natural. The buildings, occupied by prosperous farmers at that time, have gone to run; the farms now occupied by negro tenants. I have been so accustomed to a level country for some time and the country appeared to be nothing but hills and dales, and reminded me of an old slave-holder's long row of potato hills. I visited my father's place where I was reared; it presents only a picture of wreck and ruin. Broom sedge and pine saplings are on the land where I dug with hoe and toiled with the plow in my youthful days. I went south from there to where the country is more level and occupied by progressive farmers, who are doing well.
  I met two dear old soldier friends - Henry Stinson and Jim Sanders - who granted me a welcome long to be remembered.
  I was glad to learn of those old men who are living pious, and Christian lives and how important for I see their heads are blossoming for the grave. May God's blessings attend one and all, and help us to obey our Maser's will and meet each other in heaven, is my prayer. J. W. Jessup, Gordon, Feb. 15, 1913.
(Note J. W. Jessup died in Eastman, Ga. 2/24/1923, age 80)

February 21, 1913
Milledgeville News
   Mr. E. C. Lindsay of Irwinton, treasurer of Wilkinson county and father of Mrs. H. A. Smith of this city, died at his home suddenly last Saturday, the funeral being held Sunday.
  Mrs. Smith was called and went down promptly to be with the grief-stricken family. Expressions of sympathy have been extended by many friends.
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March 13, 1913
The Macon  Daily Telegraph
  After a protracted illness, Mrs. M. J. McCullar, 62 years of age, died last night at 10:30 o'clock at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Patterson, 114 Cole street. She had made her home in Macon about two years and leaves many friends who will be grieved to learn of her death.
    Three daughters and three sons survive her. The daughters are Mrs. J. R. Patterson, of Macon; Mrs. J. F. Jones,Eastman; Mrs. B. F. Pate, Irwington (sic). Her sons are Dr. R. E. McCullar, of Glenwood; G. T. McCullar, Hawkinsville, and W. C. McCullar, of Macon.
  A short funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10:45 o'clock from the residence, after which the body will be taken over the Central of Georgia railway at 11:40 o'clock to Irwington, where interment will take place.

March 17, 1913
The Macon Daily Telegraph
SHUNNED BY YOUNG SWEETHEART, DESPONDENT LOVER SENDS BOTH TO ETERNITY IN FATAL SUNDAY TRAGEDY
When Miss Annie Hall Refused to Wed W. P. Mize, Latter Pulls Pistol, Shoots Her Four Times and Then Sends Three Bullets Into His Own Body - Tragedy Occurs at Cherry Street Boarding House Where Girl Lived. In Quarrel on Cherry Street Last Friday, Mize Took the Engagement Ring From Miss Hall's Finger and in Frenzy  Threw It Into the Street - Girl Then Denounced Him and Returned Love Letters He Had Written.
  Shunned by the girl he loved, and who had once promised to marry him, W. P. Mize, a young man 24 years of age, and recently employed at Sylvester, as a telegraph operator for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, sent two lives into eternity, when he shot and killed Miss Annie Hall, his 17-year-old sweetheart, and then turned the weapon on himself.
  The tragedy occurred yesterday morning about 9 o'clock at the boarding house run by Mrs. W. M. Worsley, 715 Cherry street, where Miss Hall bad been stopping recently. Four shots entered the girl's body, and she died a few hours later at the Macon hospital. Mize's death came fifteen minutes after he had placed three bullets in his own body. Two of the bullets passed through his heart and another through his left shoulder.
  After shooting himself Mize crawled from the position where he had fallen to the side of the girl. He pressed his lips against her forehead, kissing her twice.
  "Forgive me, dear," he was heard to murmur.
  The dying young woman in her sub-conscious condition then seemed to repulse him. Her lips twitched as if in an effort to speak. A groan was all that was audible to those who had timidly approached.
  Mize then sank helplessly beside the body of his victim.
Lovers Had Quarreled.
  The tragedy was the culmination of a lover's quarrel, which caused the girl to denounce the man she had once promised to wed. The denunciation came last Friday on Cherry street, when Mize met the girl and demanded of her if she was ready to go and marry him. The girl refused. Mize clutched her by the arm and from her finger he jerked the engagement ring which he had placed there months before. In a frenzy he threw the ring into the street and then came the denunciation from Miss Hall, in which she swore that never again would she have anything to do with Mize.
  After the occurrence of Friday the man had tried in effect a reconciliation, it is thought, for he is known to have sent candy and flowers, all of which was returned to him. He also wrote several letters, which Miss Hall sent back without answering. One one of these letters the girl had written: "Under the circumstances I cannot answer this letter and I would appreciate it very much if you would never speak to me again."
  Since Friday Mize had been despondent, and had been drinking heavily. Saturday night at the Exchange hotel, where he had been a guest, he told his troubles to George Raymond, a piano salesman, and a much older man that himself. At that time Mize emptied his troubled soul into Raymond's listening ears, and the latter appealed to him to cheer up and forget his troubles.
Burns Love Letters
  While telling Raymond how he had become obsessed with the idea of marrying the girl, Mize took from his pocket a packet of fifty or sixty letters, which he said were letters he had written to his sweetheart, and which had been returned to him. Mize threw the letters into the hotel stove one by one and stood watching them as they flared into flame and quickly disappeared in the blaze.
  From that time he lingered about the hotel until shortly before 9 o'clock Sunday morning, when he called a hack and told Proprietor Holt, of the Exchange, that he was going to see Miss Hall and settle "our little affair once and for all." He had previously called Miss Hall over the telephone and told her that he had some of her love letters that she should have and the girl gave her consent for him to return them.
His Final Rebuke
  When Mize reached the board house breakfast had just been finished and when he asked to see Miss Hall, she was not long in coming. Rudely, Mize demanded of Miss Hall if she was ready to go with him and marry him, in which she replied, "I've had enough of you, and go and let me alone."
  In a rage Mize then pulled his pistol from his pocket and before the girl could utter a scream or protect herself he shot her. Two bullets passed through the abdomen, one through the index finger of the left hand and another through the heart.
  The girl fell to the floor without  uttering a cry, and then Mize turned the muzzle of the smoking pistol on himself. Two bullets he planted through the region of his heart and other through the left shoulder.
  He fell to the floor, but in a moment he seemed to regain control of himself and with the aid of his right arm pulled his body up close to that of the prostrate girl. She seemed to struggle a little, but reaching over her Mize planted two kisses on her forehead saying, "Forgive me, dear," and then fell over by her side.
   By that time other borders in the house, who had rushed out when the firing began, returned. They picked up the limp form of the girl and, as they started to bear her upstairs, she murmured:
  "Don't let me see him again. I never want to lay eyes on him anymore."
  Ambulances were called and the two were rushed to the hospital. The girl lapsed into unconsciousness and did not speak again. Mize spoke once, but only to ask "Where are we going."
  Mize died just as he was being taken into the operating room, bu the girl lingered until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the final flame of life left her body.
Tells Raymond His Troubles.
  "I never saw the man before in my life until Saturday." said Raymond in telling of his talk with Mize. "He seemed to feel "blue" and I dropped a remark that got him to talking.
  "I've to a right  to feel downcast." Raymond says Mize told him. One word led to another and then Raymond says Mize took him late his confidence and unfolded to him the story of his love affair, that ended with the double tragedy.
  "We remained up all night," said Raymond. "I was afraid that if I left that man he would destroy his life. I tried to cheer him up, suggested to him that he pass it by and leave the town and try to forget the rest. During the night he tore up the letters that he had obtained from Miss Hall, also some that she had written him and from some of these he read excerpts which showed the love that she had for him only a few months ago.
  "After reading one of these in particular that was addressed to a particular endearing form, he kissed the letter and tore it in two, saying: "She's a good girl and I'll get her yet."
  "I suppose that he meant that he would try to win back her affection for him, but I realized from his demeanor that if he did not succeed he was bent upon destroying his life. Little did I realize that he a thought of killing her. I don't thing that thought came into his mind after we had breakfast and he started away, shaking hands and saying: 'Good bye Raymond, you have helped cheer me up.'
Thought She Loved Another.
  "No sir, I don't think that man ever intended to kill that girl when he went up to the home. I do thing, though, just that he mistrusted that Miss Hall was in love with another man, that he expected the other man to be at the house when he called and that be possibly intended to shoot that man. It is mere supposition on my part. He didn't say so, but I could see that he was jealous of a rival, whoever that may have been.
  He didn't find another man  at the house. He found the poor girl there alone, as you might say, with some other  girls, and I believe that the man had worried over his affair so much that he was out of his right mind. Why, he had brooded over it all night without closing his eyes. I don't know how many other nights he had brooded over the same trouble. He didn't throw any light on that subject, but one could see that he had lost sleep.
  "It didn't surprise me a bit when I learned that he had shot himself. I was shocked when I learned that he had killed the girl, too. I believed that I had talked him out of self-destruction."
Worked at Sylvester
  A message to The Macon Telegraph last night from Sylvester stated that Mize had worked in that town for six weeks as a telegraph operator. Nothing was known of his past life in Sylvester.
  Raymond stated to a representative of The Telegraph that Mize told him that he resided in Springfield, near Jamaica, Long Island, which is not far from the heart of New York city.
  "He told me," said Raymond, "that he was  fruit buyer at one time and met Miss Hall while at a party at Gordon a year ago. I understood him to say he was there a that time buying peaches."
Met at Party at Gordon
  It was a community party at Gordon, where Miss Hall's father and mother resided, that the two met twelve months ago and it is said to have been a case of love at first sight. From that time until yesterday the couple had been in constant communication with each other, writing almost daily letters.
  Recently Mize had been employed as a telegraph operator for the Atlantic Coat Line a Sylvester, though he had resided in Georgia about two years, coming here from his native town, Springfield, Long Island. He claimed to be a traveling man during the two or three days that he had been registered at the Exchange hotel, though he never did state for what company he was traveling. Since the tragedy it has been learned that he left Sylvester, where he was employed as a telegraph operator, only a few days ago, coming direct to Macon. From an application bland found in his suitcase at the hotel, which he had filled out with the apparent intention of applying for a position, Mize stated that his nearest relative was an uncle, Thomas Terrell, of Gastonia, N. C. This uncle has been notified of the tragedy, but up to a late hour last night had not replied.
  A long distance telephone message to Gordon brought the mother of the Hall girl to Macon yesterday afternoon. She was deeply grieved over the tragic death of her daughter. Mrs. Hall states Annie was her only daughter and practically the only support of herself and invalid husband. She said the girl's industriousness had kept the family from want for  a long time. In Macon Miss Hall had been employed by the Dannenburg company for four weeks.
  The body of the girl will be taken to Gordon this morning for funeral and interment.
 Coroner Holds Inquest
  Coroner Young held an inquest yesterday over the body of Mize, but did not do so over the girl's body. The inquest was held at Burghard's undertaking establishment at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and brought a verdict that Mize had come to his death by his own hand.
  The tragedy divided public interest yesterday with the flood and there was a large crowd at the inquest.
 

March 25, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
   Following a brief illness, Mrs.Dora Smallwood, 45 years of age, died yesterday at an early hour at the Macon Hospital. She is survived by her husband, Charles S. Smallwood, and two small children, a son and daughter. The body will be take to Lewiston, where the funeral and interment will take place. Many friends are grieved over her death.

March 25, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
  In the District Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Georgia. In the matter of the McIntyre Kaolin Company, Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy.
  Under and by virtue if an order passed by the Honorable Alexander Proudfit, referee in bankruptcy, dated January 15, 1913 and amendment thereto dated March 3, 1913, the undersigned, as trustee in bankruptcy of the McIntyre Kaolin Company, will expose for sale at public outcry before the courthouse door at Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Georgia, on the second Tuesday, that being the 8th day of April 1913 between the hours of ten a.m. and 4 p.m., all the following described realty and personalty of the above named bankrupt, to-wit:
  All that tract or parcel of land containing eighty-four (84) acres, more or less, in lot seventy (70) of the Fourth Land district of Wilkinson county, Georgia, being a part of the one hundred and forty-five and one third (145 1-3) acres given to W. G. Brundage in the division of the lands of A. R. Brundage in 1888, and being all the lands so give to W. G. Brundage which lies south of the right away of the Central of Georgia railway; also a right of way across the portion of the one hundred and forty five and one-third (145 1-3) acres above referred to which lies north of the right of way of the Central of Georgia railway__ which is still owned by Mrs. Dolly E. Hatfield, said right of way being of sufficient width to permit the laying of two lines of pipe as described in deed from Mrs. Dollie E. Hatfield to J. F. Hanson, recorded in Book 13, folio 136, 137, clerk's office Wilkinson County Superior Court.
   Also one hundred and forty-one and seventy-two one hundredths (141.72) acres of land in Wilkinson county, Georgia, adjoining the lands above described, and being a portion of the estate of A. R. Brundage, which went to Mrs. J. C. Gibbs, Miss Mamie Beall Brundage, and Mrs. L. E. Coley in the division of the lands of said estate as shown by the records in the clerk's office of Wilkinson County Superior Court. Said one hundred and forty-one and seventy-two one hundredths (141.72) acres of land being shown by plat attached to bond for titles from Mrs. J. C. Gibbes, et al, to McIntyre Kaolin Company, recorded in clerk's office Wilkinson County Superior Court in Record Book 13, folios 577-578.
  Also one hundred and thirty-seven and sixty-two one hundredths (137.62) acres of land in Wilkinson County, Georgia, also adjoining lands of McIntyre Kaolin Company and being a portion of the estate of A. R. Brundage which went to Ellen Brundage on division of the lands of said estate, as shown by the records in the clerk's office of the Superior Court of Wilkinson County, Georgia. Said one hundred and thirty-seven and sixty-two one hundredths (137.62) acres of land being show by plat attached to bond for the title from Ellen Brundage to the McIntyre Kaolin Company, recorded in clerk's office Wilkinson Superior Court in Record Book 14, folios 578 and 579.
   Also one complete kaolin plant suitable for the mining and shipping of clay, said plant and buildings connected therewith being situated on the tract of land first above described, and on the line of the Central of Georgia railway at Deitrich in said Wilkinson County.
  The above described property to be sold free of all liens and titles, and all liens thereon to attach to the proceeds of said sale.
  The bidder or bidders at said sale whose bid or bids are submitted to the court for confirmation will be required to deposit with the undersigned a certified check for at lest ten per cent of their bid, the same to be returned to the bidder in the event bid is not accepted.
  Sale to be made subject to confirmation by the court.
 WM. E. MARTIN, JR. Trustee in Bankruptcy for McIntyre Kaolin Company, Bankrupt

May 16, 1913
Milledgeville News
  Mr. John Lord died at his home in Wilkinson county about four miles from Ivey last Thursday after an illness of several weeks.
  Mr. Lord was 84 years of age and leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss. Interment was held at Snow's school house cemetery Friday afternoon.

May 16, 1913
Milledgeville News
  Mr. R. K. Rambaut, age 70 and for a number of years a resident of Baldwin county, died at his home about six miles from Gordon after an illness of several months Tuesday.
  Mr. Rambaut leaves a wife and brother, Mr. Thos. Rambaut, of New York, and one sister, Mrs. Anna Tamor, of New Orleans. The remains were  interred in Union Hill cemetery in the county Wednesday.

May 18, 1913
The Macon Daily Telegraph
A. W. BOATWRIGHT WEDS MRS. LAURA BULLOCK.   At the home of W. H. O'Pry, near Walnut creek, two miles from Macon, A. W. Boatwright, of Gordon, and Mrs. Laura Bullock, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. H. D. Lumsden, were united in marriage last night about 8 o'clock, Rev. T. S. Hubert, pastor of the East Macon Baptist church officiating.
  The couple had not intended to wed until today, but changed their plans. They will make their future home in Gordon.

May 19, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Mrs. M. J. Wood Dies Sunday At James Home. Was Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hatfield, of Irwinton - Funeral This Afternoon at Residenec, at James.
  Mrs. Jessie Hatfield Wood, wife of M. J. Wood, died last night at 7:15 o'clock, at her home at James, Jones county.
    Mrs. Wood had been ill for five weeks and her death was not entirely unexpected. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hatfield, of Irwinton and ten years ago married M. J. Wood.  Two little sons, Arthur and Elmore, with their father, survive.
  Seven sisters and one brother are also left to mourn the loss of Mrs. Wood. They are Mrs. Brown Burkett, of Dry Branch; Mrs. Ira Burkett, of Macon; Mrs. Nina Perry,of Birmingham, Ala; Mrs. Clem James, of James; Miss Lola Hatfield and Miss Ina Hatfield, of Irwinton; Mrs. William Tyson, of Barnesville, and Andrew Hatfield, of the United States army. Mrs. Wood was also a niece of Judge F. Chambers, of Macon.
  They funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence at James and the interment will be made in the family burying ground in Jones county.

June 8, 1913
Macon Telegraph
SMITH-SHEPHERD.    At the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Smith, of Sandersville, on Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, the marriage ceremony of Miss Rosa Lou Smith and Chas. Minor Shepherd, of Toomsboro, was performed by the pastor of the Baptist church of that city, Rev. A. D. Woodle. The Smith home, at Ferncrest, was beautifully arranged for the occasion, sweet pea blossoms were used in great profusion. Miss Florie Winn Duggan presided at the piano, and as a wedding march played Mendelsohn's, the bridal party entered the parlor, the groom and his best man, Dr. Helton, of Deepstep; the bride with her maid of honor, Miss Smith, of Ivey. Quite becoming to the beauty of the bride was the champagne silk gown and accessories. Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Minor Shepherd left by automobile for Tennille, where they took the Central of Georgia railway for their future home in Bauxite. Prominent among the guests present were the classmates of Miss Smith. Many beautiful bridal gifts were bestowed upon the bride, which is a favorite with all who know her.

June 10, 1913
The Macon  Daily Telegraph
  Funeral services over the body of Mrs. J. P. Brooks were held Sunday, June 8, at the Clear Creek Baptist church, and the interment was made in the Clear Creek cemetery.
  Mrs. Brooks was just recovering from a long spell of sickness and was apparently well Friday evening, but after retiring she died suddenly. She was a faithful member of the Clear Creek Baptist church and leaves a large number of friends to mourn her death.

June 22, 1913
The Augusta Chronicle
  Down in Wilkinson County-both of these farms in the Augusta district - Mrs. Edward A. Napier operates a farm of some 7,700 acres, and I had the pleasure of spending the day there recently. She manages the plantation herself and believes in cotton farming as a source of profit, but she grows immensely fine crops of oats, corn and cowpeas. She is planting over 100 acres in cowpeas and I saw over 750 acres of corn on the place -over 100 acres in a field that looks like fifty bushels per acre-and there is profit on every acre of it. This kind of  farming is going to pay and pay big when the cotton belt wakes up to it.

June 14, 1913
The Macon Telegraph
Apoplexy Resulted In W. E. Byington's Death.
W. E. Byington, who for seven years had resided near Cross Keys, died last night at 10:15 o'clock as a result of a stroke of apoplexy. He was taken suddenly ill about 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon and gradually sank until the end last night.
   Mr.  Byington was 41 years of age and previous in coming to this county, made his home in Wilkinson county. Besides his widow he leaves two sons and two daughters. They are Carletonand J. W. Byington and Myrtle and Lucile Byington.
  Four sisters also survive. They are Mrs. H. G. W. Bloodworth, of Statesboro; Mrs. A. J. Wood, of Stevens' Pottery; Mrs. J. R. Langford, of Arcola; and Mrs. Z. P. Jackson, of Ivy.
  The body will be taken to Milledgeville at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon over the Georgia road, and the funeral will be held Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at the home of Morgan Beck Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. The interment will be made in the family burying ground.
Note: Buried Memory Hill, Milledgeville

July 7, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
  Following an illness of several months J. D. Minor, Sr., well known in Macon and father of J. D. Minor, Jr., of this city, died yesterday morning at 11:30 o'clock at his home in Toomsboro. He is survived by two sons, J. D. Minor, Jr., and W. M. Minor, both of Macon; two daughters, Mrs. George Hamilton and Mrs. Inez Allen, of Macon.
  For many years and up to the time of his death, Mr. Minor was a member of the Toomsboro Baptist church and was well known and liked in his community, where his death is deplored by a host of friends.
  The body will be brought to Macon this morning at 9:30 o'clock over the Central of Georgia railway and taken immediately to Riverside cemetery, where the funeral and interment will take place. The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Fred C. Market, assistant pastor of the First Baptist church of Macon.

July 16, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
  Following a protracted illness of several months, Mrs. M. E. Flemister, 85 years of age, died yesterday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Clements, 403 Forest avenue. She had been here in Macon only a short time, having removed here from her old home at Gordon.
  Mrs. Flemister was for more than 70 years a faithful member of the Methodist church, and since coming to Macon made many friends who are grieved because of her death.
  A short funeral service will be held this morning at 10:30 o'clock from Mrs. Clements' residence on Forest avenue. The services will be conducted by Rev. Harmon C. Jones, pastor of the First Street Methodist church, and Rev. J. T. Ryder, pastor of the Vineville Methodist church. The body will be taken at 11:40 o'clock over the Central of Georgia railway to Gordon, where interment will take place at the family burying ground.

July 18, 1918
Milledgeville News
  Monday afternoon James Daniel, a negro boy 12 years old, shot and killed his sister, Louise, 6 years old, using a rifle for the purpose. The killing occurred on the Napier plantations, just over in Wilkinson county, and according to the best information obtainable, the deed was intentional. The boy's stepfather, Alonzo Robinson, had to pursue the boy through a long stretch of woods before he was captured.

July 20, 1913
Macon Telegraph
J. J. Brewer, a veteran of the Civil war, died yesterday afternoon at 1:20 at his home, 220 Clinton street, at the age of 77 yers. Mr. Brewer passed his entire life in central Georgia, living in Gordon and Macon. He was a prominent soldier in the wrd, and received wounds in three different engagements.
   Mr. Brewer is survivied by three daughters, Mrs. Annie Hooks, Mrs. Joe Cain, and Miss Maggie Brewer, and a son, J. J. Brewer, Jr., all of this city.
  The funeral will take place this (Sunday) morning at 10 o'clock from the residence of the deceased on Clinton street, the Rev. C. B. Currie officiating. The remains will be sent to Gordon on the 11:40 train for interment.
  All Confederate veterans are requested to meet at Tharpe's store, in East Macon, immediately preceding the services, to march in a body to the house.
 

July 25, 1913
Milledgeville News
  After a long illness Mrs. C. L. Ivey departed this life at her home in South Baldwin on July 17 at 7:30 o'clock p.m. Her remains were laid to rest in Camp Creek cemetery on the following day. She was a member of the Primitive Baptist church, a good, noble woman, a faithful wife and a devoted mother. She was Miss Lamanda Branan of Wilkinson county before her marriage in May 1862, having lived with her companion, who survives her, over fifty-one years. She leaves three children, Mrs. F. P. Ivey of Fort Valley, Mr. C. B. Ivey and Miss Mary Ivey of Pancras.

August 17, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
PORTER - KITCHENS.   The marriage of Miss Julia Porter, of Danville, and C. C. Kitchens, of Dublin, took place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Porter, near Danville Tuesday afternoon, in the presence of a number of friends and relatives of the two young people. The wedding was a simple but pretty home affair. Rev. T. Bright performed the ceremony, just a few minutes before 3 o'clock. The home was tastily and prettily decorated in quantities of smilax, golden rod, ferns and plants. The smilax was hung in profusion in the hallway and parlor and parlor and on the broad verandah, while in the parlor, where the ceremony was performed banks of green plants mixed with goldenrod. The bridal party stood before a large bank of ferns and palmettos in one corner, while smilax was twined over and around the windows and doorway. The party filled into the parlor to the wedding march played by Mrs. J. C. Chanler, of Swainsboro. First came the matron of honor, Mrs. E. E. Smith, of Birmingham, Ala., gowned in a pale shade of green voile trimmed in ribbon and lace. She carried a lovely bouquet of white roses with white streamers. Following her came little Miss Melissa Porter, niece of the bride, ringbearer, gowned in white and carrying the ring in the heart of a large white rose.  And then followed the bride and groom together. The bride wore a simple, but pretty, gown of white crepe meteor and carried a beautiful bouquet of white bride's roses showered with lilies of the valley and tied with long white streamers of tulle. The ring service was used in uniting the pair, it being carried out most impressively. Immediately after the ceremony a delicious luncheon was served to the guests. Miss Ruth Porter served punch on the verandah both before and after the ceremony. There were a large number of guests, relatives and friends, present at the ceremony, including several from Dublin, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Freeman, Miss Minnie May Green,Messrs. Alex Burch, Ernest Freeman, P. C. Lord, T. A. Curry, S. V. Conyers and H. Floyd. The bride and groom left Danville on the 5:15 train for a bridal trip through the mountains of North Carolina. They will be absent some time, and at their return will make their home in Dublin, where they have apartments at the resident of R. D. Flynt. The bride is one of the sweetest and most charming young ladies of Danville and community, and was formerly connected with the Dublin public schools as one of the teachers. She has a large circle of friends both in Dublin and at home, who admire her for her high  character, amiable disposition and many personal charms. Mr. Kitchens is one of the  prominent young business men of Dublin, manager of the White Hall store, and a young man of high character and splendid ability. He also has a large host of friends in Dublin, who join in extending to him and his bride their most hearty congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy married life.

September 7, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Jeffersonville, Sept. 16 - Dr. Ezekiel McNair, one of the city's oldest citizens, passed away today about 12 o'clock. His death was due to paralysis, this being the third stroke. His age was 66 years.
  As a practicing physician he made a long trip the day before his death. He was stricken last night about 3 o'clock.
  When a young man he studied medicine at the University of Virginia in school with Dr. J. Harris Chappell, late president of Georgia Normal and Industrial college, at Milledgeville. He finished in medicine at the medical in Augusta. He was also a student of Gov. Allan D. Candler at Jonesboro.
  He was born in Wilkinson county and lived there until about thirty years ago, when he moved here. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Josephine Pope, of Clinton, and two sons, Prof. Idus L. and Andy Wiley, of Macon; one daughter, Miss Emily McNair, of Jeffersonville.
  He will be buried in Jeffersonville cemetery at 2 o'clock Wednesday.

October 29, 1913
Macon Daily Telegraph
McIntyre, Oct. 28 - Following an illness of several weeks, J. A. Eady, aged 63 years and a well known and highly respected citizen, died at his home at 1 o'clock yesterday. His relatives were summoned to his bedside when it was seen his condition was hopeless.
  Mr. Eady was one of the best known men of Wilkinson county, and was held in high esteem by scores of friends. For a number of years he was a devoted member of Macedonia Baptist church and was an earnest worker.
 Besides his widow he is survived by four sons, Frank, Mang, Mason and Emanuel, and three daughters, Mrs. E. Etheridge, Mrs. T. P. Deason and Miss Louise Eady, all of this place.
  The funeral was held from the residence, Rev. E. J. Bales officiating. Interment was made in the family burying ground at Nunnan (sic Nunn and) Wheeler.

November 9, 1913
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Miss Cora Bateman Dies At Milledgeville. Death of Former Instructor at Georgia Industrial Home Brings Sorrow To Many Children Who Know Her There.
    Friends in Macon and the children at the Georgia Industrial Home were grieved yesterday to learn of the death early yesterday morning of Miss Cora Bateman, 31 years of age, at the home of her father, W. T. Bateman, near Milledgeville. She is survived by her father, three sisters and three brothers. Her sisters are Mrs. L. L. Parker and Mrs. Hattie Herring, of Columbus, and Miss Anna Bateman, of Milledgeville. Her brothers are G. C. Bateman, of Macon; J. H. Bateman of Stilmore, and P.. A. Bateman, of Alabama.
  Mis Bateman was formerly an instructor at the Georgia Industrial Home, of Macon, and was beloved by the children and the officers of the home, besides having many friends throughout Macon.
    The funeral will be held this morning at 9 o'clock from the family residence, near Milledgeville, Rev. Harold Major, pastor of the First Baptist church, of Milledgevile, officiating. Interment will follow at the family burying ground, near Ivy station.

November 13, 1913
Macon Daily Telegraph
H. B. Johnson, 31 years of age, died last night at 10 o'clock at his home on Dunlap Hill, beyond East Macon, following an illness of several weeks. Pneumonia is given as the cause of his death. He is survived by his widow, five children and his father.
  The body will be taken this afternoon at 4:40 o'clock over the Macon, Dublin and Savannah railroad to Jeffersonville, where the funeral and interment will take place tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at his former home.
(Buried Asbury Church Cemetery)

November 19, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
  Mrs. Lilla Califf, Mrs. Ellen Pearce and Frank Cannon have returned from Wilkinson county, where they went to attend the funeral of their uncle, J. S. Spence.

November 23, 1913
The Macon Daily Telegraph
FUNERAL OF NORMAN POWELL
  The funeral of Mr. Norman Powell, whose death occurred in Atlanta yesterday, was conducted at his home at Gordon this afternoon by Rev. C. W. Jordan. The many beautiful floral offerings which came from different parts of the state attested the high esteem in which he was held by his numerous friends. He leaves a mother and two sisters, Miss Ethel Powell, of Macon, and Miss
Hazel Powell, of Quitman. His death comes a distinct shock to his friends here as elsewhere and hey extend their heartfelt sympathy to his loved ones.

November 28, 1913
Macon Weekly Telegraph
 Following a brief illness, Mrs. Mary E. Minor, widow of the J. D. Minor, Sr., whose death occurred three months ago, died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of her son, J. D. Minor, Jr., 768 Oak street.
  Mrs. Minor is survived by two sons, J. D. Minor, Jr., of Macon; and Walter M. Minor, of Savannah; by two daughters, Mrs. George E. Hamilton, of Thomson, and Mrs. Inez M. Allen, of Brunswick. She is also survived by five brothers and two sisters.
  Born and reared in Hancock county, Mrs. Minor, who was before her marriage Miss Williams, later removed to Toomsboro, where she resided until the death of her husband a few months ago. She then came to Macon to make her home with her son here.
  The funeral will be held this morning at 11 o'clock from her son's home on Oak street. Dr. E. C. Dargan, pastor of the First Baptist church, officiating. Interment will follow at Riverside cemetery.

December 6, 1913
Macon Telegraph
   W. E. P. and J. W. Hooker, of Macon, returned last night from Wilkinson county, where they attended the funeral of their mother, Mrs. J. H. Hooker, whose death occurred at her late home in Fort Valley on Thursday. Mrs. Hooker is survived by her husband, her two sons in Macon and one son, J. C. Hooker, of Fort Valley. She is also survived by one daughter, Mrs. J. C. Simpson,
of Everett City.
  Mrs. Hooker had many friends in Macon, having visited here a number of times, and her death will be deplored.

December 7, 1913
Macon Telegraph
  The funeral of Mrs. J. H. Hooker, whose death occurred at her late home in Fort Valley Thursday, was held Friday afternoon at Wriley, Wilkinson county, following which interment was made in the family burying ground there. The body was taken through Macon Friday.
  Mrs. Hooker was born and reared in Macon and before her marriage was Miss Bettie Rammage. She was for a long time member of Centenary Methodist church and had many friends here.

December 13, 1913
The Atlanta Constitution
With 125 of His Descendants He Celebrates 94th Birthday
Dublin, Ga., December 11. (Special) Surrounded by 125 of his descendants at a strictly Georgia products dinner, Zenus Fordham, of this county, celebrated on Friday the rounding out of his 94th year at the home of his daughter, Mrs. T. J. Perry, near Dublin.
  Mr. Fordham, who is one of the best-known citizens of this county, has been having a dinner of this kind for the past several years, gathering his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren for a family reunion and a big dinner in celebration of his birthday. He has nine children living, all of whom were present ay the dinner, together with over one hundred other descendants. His children are: Mrs. Nancy Perry, Irwinton, Route 1; W. J. Fordham, Dublin, route 1; J. Z. Fordham, Statesboro, route 8; Mrs. Z. T. Thomas, Dudley, route 2; Mrs. T. J. Perry, Dublin, route 5; J. W. Fordham, Toomsboro, route 2; Mrs. H. G. Miller, Toomsboro, route 2; W. H. Fordham,Irwinton, route 1.
  Mr. Fordham has nine children, eighty-four grandchildren, fifty-four great-grandchildren, fourteen great-great-grandchildren, 142 direct descendants. He comes of a family of long-lived people, and had a sister, Mrs. Betsy Billue, of Wilkinson county, who lived to be 102 years of age, and only of his brothers or sisters died under 80 years old. Some of his children are over 70 years of age, and all are hale and hearty, with an expectancy of a life as long as that of their father. Mr. Fordham is himself in splendid physical condition, his health is good, he talks interestingly of days gone by, reads the newspapers regularly, and takes a lively interest in current affairs.

December 17, 1913
Columbus Daily Enquirer
DEATH CLAIMS THOS. R. BUSH. End Came to Long Life of Veteran Citizen Yesterday Afternoon-Funeral Today.
   Thomas R. Bush died yesterday afternoon at 5:25 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. A. Gordy at 903 Second avenue, after an illness of about two weeks.
    Mr. Bush had lived in Columbus for over 50 years, coming here from his home in Wilkinson county, where he was born 84 years ago. Up until a few years ago he had been a prominent cotton buyer of this city, but retired to attend to his farming interests in his home county.
    When the call for volunteers was issued in '61 Mr. Bush responded and during the four years of strife he served inthe Jacques battallion, Georgia Volunteers, and during the war he never missed a day from duty, and when the Southern army was muster out in '65 he had not been so much as scratched by the enemy's attacks.
    Up until the time of his illness he was aman of remarkable energy for his age, and was constantly active in his pursuits. During his sickness his strength lasted well and not until Monday afternoon died he show signs of weakening. His death was due to old age.
    During his sickness members of his family were all at his bedside, where they remained until the end came late yesterday afternoon.
   He is survived by one brother, Jeff Bush, of Atlanta, and two children, Mrs. S. A. Gordy and T. R. Bush, Jr, both of this city.
   The funeral will take place this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. S. A. Gordy, at 802 Second avenue. Dr. L. R. Christie will conduct the services. The interment will be in Linwood cemetery.
    The following lifelong friends of the  deceased will act as pallbearers: John S. Williams, George Burrus, John S. Matthews, Garnett Shackelford, A. B. Daniel and W. G. Smith.
    During the many years he had lived in this city Mr. Bush had made a large number of friends who are grieved to learn of his death. As the news spread over the city last evening the friends at once began expressing sympathy with many beautiful floral offerings.
   Mr. Bush was an active and consisted member of the First Baptist church and of Camp Benning United Confederate veterans. 

December 19, 1913
The Macon Daily Telegraph
BRANAN-MASSINGILL. Mrs. Columbus M. Branan announces the marriage of her daughter, Lillian Agnes, to William Walker Massingill at the home of the bride on Thursday afternoon, December the eighteenth, at  four-thirty o'clock. The wedding was very quiet and beautiful in its simplicity, only the immediate family being present. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Hammond C. Jones, an intimate friend of the family. Mr. and Mrs. Massingill left immediately for their future home in McIntyre, Georgia, where Mr. Massingill is prominent in both social and business circles.

December 28, 1913
Macon Telegraph
SLAUGHTER-LEE.  The marriage of Dr. Lott W. Lee, a prominent dentist of Milledgeville, and Miss Elizabeth Slaughter, of Tallapoosa, was celebrated in the Baptist pastorium at Rochelle, Christmas night, December 25, at 8:30 p.m.,  Dr. Walter M. Lee officiating.  G. C. Henry accompanied the bridal party. The bride was attired in a traveling gown of plain charmeuse with velvet hat and coat to match. She is the daughter of Mrs. W. E. Slaughter, of Tallapoosa. Dr. Lott W. Lee, the groom , is a prominent dentist of Milledgeville.  His parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Lee live in Gordon. A wedding dinner was served after the ceremony. The hapy couple left for Atlanta, Tallapoosa and Cordele to spend the holidays. They will be at home in Milledgeville, Ga., after January 1.

March 11, 1914
The Macon Daily Telegraph
  After an illness of two months, Mrs. A. A. Lutz died yesterday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock at her home on Enterprise street. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Misses Laura and Helen Lutz, by two brothers and one sister. The body will be taken this morning at 11:40 o'clock to McIntyre, where the funeral and interment will take place at her old home.

April 4, 1914
The Macon Daily Telegraph
BUILDING BOOM IS ON AT GORDON AT PRESENT
Yesterday Clean Up Day by Ladies of the Town and All Premises Put in Fine Shape.
Gordon, April 1. - This place has a building boon on now. Recently a big electric lighting plant was installed. A Masonic temple is in course of construction. The local pulp and paper mill is making extensive improvements.
  Today was "clean up" day for the ladies of the town. A wash stand set was offered by the mayor for the cleanest premises, and it was hard to select the winner. The gown generally is being beautified, as is the cemetery.
  Following is a report made to the Improvement society, formed by the women of the town, by the judges who inspected the town after it was thoroughly cleaned:
To the Honored President and Ladies of the Civic League of Gordon:
  We, your committee, appointed to inspect the yards and premises of your various homes, are pleased to make the following report:
  We visited each home and made a careful survey of the surrounds, and were agreeably suprized to find them all thoroughly clean and in a most sanitary condition. We feel safe in saying that not own can boast of so clean and wholesome condition as exists in Gordon. It was difficult for your committee to decide which one of a large number of your citizens was entitled to the prize for the cleanest and best-kept premises. There were more than a dozen places with which no fault could be found either from an aesthetic or sanitary standpoint, hence your committee was compelled to take into consideration minute details. We were sorry that there were not at least ten or twelve prizes instead of one. We wish to compliment especially the school grounds. These were clean, neat and present a most pleasing appearance, which bespeaks for the teachers a high standard of training and for the pupils a hearty cooperation, in physical conditions which add so much to mental and moral development. We found that public grounds around your churches, cemetery and your thoroughfares clean and well kept. It is remarkable the wonderful results that have been achieve by your
organization is so short a time.
   The homes of your negro families were as clean and as sanitary as it was possible for them to be made. We noticed the liberal use of lime in a great many places, and we wish to commend this practice for we have no better disinfectant for outdoor use. We wish to compliment each and every home in your town, including the homes of negroes for their cleanliness and tasty arrangements.
  The prize for the best kept premises award for the white families, your committee gives to Mrs. Fox Byington. The prize for the best kept premises awarded to the negro families, your committee divides between the two homes, one occupied by Mollie Railey, and the other occupied by three families, namely, Robert Solomon, Dude Scott and John Hagan.
   In closing this report, we wish to commend the united efforts and helpful spirits of all the citizenship of Gordon in carrying forward the work of civic league. In towns that are dependent on dug wells for their supply of drinking water, it is absolutely necessary to good health that the water does not become polluted from unclean and unsanitary surrounds. With the exception of a few hog pens within the city limits, we pronounce your town in a wholesome and sanitary condition. Respectful yours, Thomas N. Baker, Dudley Williams, William Joseph Willis, Committee

April 14, 1914
The Atlanta Constitution
OLDEST RESIDENT OF LAURENS COUNTY DIES AT AGE OF 103
 Dublin, Ga., April 13 (Special) James Barlow, of this county, is dead at the age of 103 years. Death came Friday night last at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.L. Ussery, near Dexter, this county, and his remains were carried to Stuckey, Montgomery county, for interment, Saturday.
     He was the oldest resident of Laurens county, but was a native of Washington county. Many years ago, while  a boy, he moved to Wilkinson county, where he spent the greater portion of his life. For the past several years, however, he has lived in Laurens county, and since the death of his wife, made his home with Mrs. Ussery, his daughter. His wife died several years ago at the age of 87 years, after they had lived together for more that fifty years. Mr. Barlow is survived by four children, Mrs. G. B. Ward, of Wilkinson county; Mrs. Mary Ann Ward, of Washington county; A. W. Barlow, of Montgomery county, and Mrs. J. L. Ussery, of Laurens county. He was a Confederate veteran.

May 15, 1914
Milledgeville News
   After being in ill health for some time, Dr. J. F. Lingo, formerly of Wilkinson county, but for the past three years resident of Milledgeville, died at his home last Sunday night.
  The funeral services were held from the residence Tuesday morning. Rev. S. Dimon conducting the last rites.

May 31, 1914
Macon Telegraph
  Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Bradley, of Bradley, announce the marriage of their daughter, Martha Clara, to John Floyd Porter, Jr., of Danville. The marriage having taking place at the Episcopal church in Macon, May 23, Rev. Bunting officiating.

June 21, 1914
The Atlanta Constitution
Dublin, Ga. June 20. -(Special)Thomas Allen, a negro, 114 years of age, is dead at the home of his son, Willis Allen, in this county, near Dexter, on the plantation of Dr. W. H. Taylor, representative of the assembly from Laurens.
   Allen was a native of Wilkinson county, and belonged during slavery times to the Jiles family of that county. He was the father of only three children and death was due to a complete collapse from his old age.
    Dr. Taylor, who has know the negro for years, states that there is little, if any, doubt as to the correctness of his age.

July 17, 1914
Milledgeville News
TWO WOMEN KILLED BY LIGHTNING. MRS. NAOMI LANKSFORD AND DAUGHTER, MRS. BRYANT PIERCE MEET TRAGIC DEATH IN WILKINSON COUNTY.
   Seeking shelter after having been caught in an electrical hail and windstorm Mrs. Naomi Lanford (Langford)  and her daughters, Mrs. Bryant Pierce, were killed by lightning Saturday afternoon near their home between Milledgeville and McIntyre, in Wilkinson county.
    Mrs. Lankford and Mrs. Pierce were walking along the roadside at the time they were approached by the storm and as they had entered the gate of their neighbors they were shocked to death by a bolt of lightning which was attracted by a wire fence surrounding the house which they expected to enter.
    Both women were killed instantly and found dead before any on knew of the tragedy.  

July 17, 1914
Milledgeville News
LINDSEY-RILEY
   Mr. Sam Riley and Miss Ethel Lindsey were married Sunday, at Irwinton, Rev. J. L. Lawrence officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Riley  returned to Eatonton Monday where they will make their home and they are being cordially welcomed by their friends there, along with usual felicitations and hearty congratulations.
  Mr. Riley is a Baldwin county boy and lived in Milledgeville until a few months ago when he left here to go to Eatonton to accept a position with the E. A. Dennis Grocery Company, and already he has many friends there, as well as Milledgeville, to extend hearty good wishes for his future welfare and happiness.
  Mrs. Riley is an attractive young woman, a relative of Pension Commissoner Lindsey, and numbers a wide circle of friends in her home community.

July 26, 1914
Macon Telegraph
   Quite a surprise to her friends was the marriage of Miss Hattie Ruth Sanders, of Gordon, to Mr. Henry T. Aiken, of Watkinsville, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Cranford, of Griswoldville, on July 18. Miss Sanders resigned her school on the 17th to be married on the next day. The ceremony was perform by the Rev. McMichael, of Gordon, in the presence of only a few friends and relatives of the bride.  Mr. and Mrs. Aiken left immediately for Watkinsville, where they will make their future home, much to the regret of their many friends here.

July 29, 1914
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Macon Woman Takes Her Life With Gun. Mrs. Lettie Hammock, Despondent Because of Ill Health, Commits Suicide in Wilkinson  County.
  Relatives from Macon attended the funeral yesterday at Snow Hill, Wilkinson county, of Mrs. Letty Hammock, a Macon woman who shot and killed herself Monday morning with a shotgun. She formerly resided at 662 Hawthorne street, in this city.
  Mrs. Hammock was visiting with relatives in Wilkinson county, having gone there a few days ago to visit her father, J. D. Snow. On Sunday she went to the home of Judge Joseph O. Snow to spend a few days, and it was there that she ended her own life.
  According to the story that has reached friends here, Mrs. Hammock arose early Monday morning, procured a shotgun, tied it to the bedpost, with the barrel pointing toward her. A string was tied to the trigger.
  The load of shot tore off her arm and made an ugly wound in her breast, from which she died almost instantly. The family heard the explosion and when they reached her side she was dead.
  It is said that continued ill health was the cause of her act. she was 32 years of age and is survived by her husband and parents. She had no children.

August 17, 1914
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. T. J. McCommons passed away last night at the hospital after only a short illness. Mrs. McCommons was the wife of Tom McCommons, jailer of Bibb county, and she was reared in Wilkinson county. She leaves a number of sorrowing friends and relatives who sympathize with the husband in his bereavement.
  Definite plans for the funeral have not been made, but it will occur in Milledgeville Tuesday morning.
  Mrs. McCommons was 32 years of age and besides her husband is survived by three sisters, Mrs. W. N. Anderson, Macon; Mrs. Ossie Waters, Montezuma, and Mrs. Golden, Wilkinson county, and two brothers, Jack Harrold, of Cordele, and Ed. Harrold, of Savannah.

August 18, 1914
The Macon Daily Telegraph
COTTON GROWERS FORM INTO PROTECTIVE BODY. Over Two Hundred Meet For Purpose at Irwinton. OFFICERS ARE ELECTED. G. H. Carswell, of Irwinton, is Elected President and J. R. Crandall, Macon, Secretary of the Organization - Resolutions Are Adopted.
  Toomsboro, Aug. 17, - Wilkinson county cotton growers, merchants and bankers, two hundred and fifty strong, met at Irwinton today and organized the Wilkinson County Cotton Growers Protective association.
  Those in attendance were highly enthusiastic and on every side was expressed a determination to hold cotton at all hazards until the market becomes such as to warrant selling the staple.
  A permanent organization was effected with Col. G. H. Carswell, of Irwinton, as president, and J. R. Crandall, of Macon, secretary.
  Efforts will be made at once to get in touch with all parties who may be of assistance in any way in the effort that will be made to tide over the present crisis, to this end an executive committee, made up of citizens from each militia district in the county, being appointed, and strong resolutions, to be forwarded to the Georgia delegation in Washington were adopted.

August 28, 1914
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs. Martha McMullen, 56 years of age, died yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at her home, 6 Paine's Mill, following an illness of several months. She is survived by three daughters.
  The body will be taken this morning at 6:45 o'clock to Ivey, where the funeral and interment will take place at her former home.

August 29, 1914
Daily Telegraph
Hyman Nelson, 41 years of age, died yesterday afternoon at Gordon, after a brief illness. He is survived by his widow, one daughter and three brothers, M.C. and W.S. Nelson, of  Gordon, and R. S. Nelson, of Macon, who is an engineer on the Central of Georgia railway, Savannah division.
     The funeral and interment will take place in Gordon this afternoon.

September 28, 1914
The Atlanta Constitution
MRS. NAPIER HOLDING 300 BALES OF COTTON
Mrs. Ed Napier, who owns a big farm about eleven miles from Milledgeville, is doing her share toward aiding the cotton movement. She is holding 300 bales of cotton from the market in effort to help conditions.
  Mrs. Napier has in the neighborhood of thirty -five families as tenants on her farm. Each of these tenants she has paid off in the customary manner, just as though she had sold each and every bale of the cotton her farm produces each year. No one will suffer from her move to hold her crop until times better.
  She has sent a bale of bolls to the Winefcoff hotel and they are displayed in unique style along the gallery of the mezzanine floor, where they are in full view of the office and lobby.

November 2, 1914
The Macon Daily Telegaph
MRS. BELLE ALLEN.
  After a prolonged illness Mrs. Belle Allen, 67 years of age, died yesterday morning at 2:30 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Grayson, 756 Pine street. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. E. Grayson, and two sons, J. W. and L. C. Allen.
  Mrs. Allen formerly resided in Allentown, but came to Macon some time ago to make her home with her daughter. She had made many friends here who will be grieved to learn of her death.
  The body was taken yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock to Allentown, where the funeral and interment will take place some time today.

November 3, 1914
The Macon Daily Telegraph
JAS. R. RYLE, PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN, DIES. For Several Years He Had Been General Manager of Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. - To Be Buried by Masons.
James R. Ryle, 62 years of age, one of the best known business men of Macon, died last night at 7 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Ella Wasner, on Church street, East Macon, after an illness of about two weeks. He was unmarried but is survived by t wo sisters, Mrs. W. L. Griffin and Mrs. J. Edmondson, both of Macon, and one brother, A. F. Ryle, of Gordon.
  For many years Mr. Ryle had been general manager of the Buckeye Cotton Oil mills at Macon, and has been connected with the corporation owning that company for about thirty years. He was a Mason and a Shriner and he will be buried with Masonic honors.
  The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock from the East Macon Methodist church, Rev. J. G. Christian, the pastor, officiating. Interment will follow at Riverside cemetery.

November 6, 1914
The Union-Recorder
MR. GOODLOE BECK DIED ON WEDNESDAY MORNING
   Mr.Goodloe Beck, well know here, died at his home in Midway Wednesday and the remains were taken to Ivey, Georgia for interment yesterday morning, interment being in the family burial ground there. Rev. Harold Major conducting the services.
   Mr. Beck was about 45 years of age, and is survived by his wife, father and mother, and several other near relatives to whom sincere sympathy is extended.

November 27, 1914
The Macon Daily Telegraph
  W. Josh Ryle, 60 years of age, died suddenly yesterday morning at his home, 614 Main street, East Macon. For several months Mr. Ryle had been in feeble health but his condition was not considered serious
  Besides his widow, Mr. Ryle is survived by two sons, Frederick and Vernon Ryle; by three daughters, Mrs. Frank Hobbs, Mrs. Alma Vaughn and Mrs. L. E. Bragg, all of Macon. He is also survived by one brother and one sister.
  Mr. Ryle was a faithful and consistent member of the Methodist church and a charter member of the Magnolia camp, Woodmen of the World.
  This morning at 11:40 o'clock the body will be taken to Lewiston, his old home, where the funeral and interment will take place.

November 30, 1914
The Atlanta Constitution
ELEVEN ARE INJURED IN WRECK ON CENTRAL
Passenger Train Runs Into 300-Foot Washout Near Toomsboro
Macon, Ga., November 29 - A Central of Georgia passenger train, No. 23, running at full speed, plunged into a 200-foot washout 2 miles from Toomsboro, on the Savannah division, at 6:25 o'clock tonight, and the engine and  three day coaches turned over into the ditch.
  It is believed that no lives have been lost, though ten or more persons were injured.
  The injured:
Henry Clay Tompkins, Wrightsville, injured internally about the lungs
Clarence Hall, Sandersville, nose broken
T. H. Bridwell, Sr., Toomsboro, Ga, hip dislocated
S. Z. Downs, Bowden, Ga., tavelling salesman for a Macon house, injured internally
W. C. Clements, bridge foreman, for the Central, wrist injured
Six negroes also are hurt.

December 11, 1914
Milledgeville News
Mrs. M. A. Barnes, age 73 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hiram Johns, in Wilkinson county, Saturday morning.
  While Mrs. Barnes had been in feeble health for several months her death came somewhat unexpected and was on a visit to her daughter at the time she died. She had lived at Midway for many years and was well known in Milledgeville and Baldwin county.
  Mrs. Barnes is survived by three daughters, Mrs. W. B. Richardson of this county, Mrs. Joe Dunham, of Midway, and Mrs. Hiram Johns, of Wilkinson county, also one son, Mr. Homer Barnes, residing in east Baldwin.
  The remains were interred in the city cemetery in Milledgeville Sunday afternoon. Rev. Harold Major conducted the funeral service.

December 21, 1914
Atlanta Constitution
Mrs. Nancy Goodman, Nashville
Nashville, Ga. December 20 (Special) Mrs. Nancy Goodman, aged 85 years, died at her home here Thursday. She had a severe stroke of paralysis about five months ago, and since that time had had several attacks. She was born in Wilkerson (sic) county, but had been a resident of Nashville and Berrien county since before the war. She was the mother of Mrs. J. P. Hall and Miss Semanda Goodman, of Nashville, and J. H. Goodman, of Willacoochee. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. R. Powell, of the Baptist church. The remains were interred in the city cemetery.

January 3,1915
Macon Telegraph
Fractured Skull Is Fatal to Gordon Boy. Zollie Hardie, the 12-year-old boy who was brought to Macon Wednesday from Gordon with a fractured skull died last night at 9 o'clock at the Williams sanatorium. He did not regain consciousness after the accident.
   The boy was at his home in Gordon watching a workman trim the lower limbs from a big tree in the yard, when in some way one of the limbs fell upon him, fracturing his skull.
  Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hardie, he is survived by four sisters and five brothers.
  The body will be taken this morning at 6:45 o'clock to Gordon, where the funeral and interment will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

January 25, 1915
Macon Weekly Telegraph
 ~excerpt. when J. J. Proctor, deputy sheriff of the municipal court, was laid to rest in Cedar Ridge cemetery in the presence of a large crowd of sorrowing friends and relatives, and  the body of Joe Brewer, the man who killed him, was sent to Gordon for funeral and interment.

January 29, 1915
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Gordon, Jan. 28.Mrs. J. J. McArthur died here this morning at 6 o'clock after a prolonged illness. She was 60 years of age and had been a faithful member of the Primitive Baptist church for forty years.
  She leaves a husband and five children to mourn her loss. Those at home are Emma, Lillian and Price McArthur. A daughter, Mrs. R. J. Smith, lives at Milledgeville, and a son, J. T. McArthur, at Cordele.
  The funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the family burial grounds near the McArthur home.

February 9, 1915
Dallas Morning News
CONFEDERATE VETERAN WHO DIED RECENTLY AT DENTON
 J. T. Jones was a pioneer of Denton (Texas) and a Confederate soldier. He died last week.
  Mr Jones lived in Denton for forty years and was a photographer known by every one in the county. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Eunice (Law) Jones, and five children, Mrs. S. J. Jones of Albany, Ga; Mrs. Sam H. Sullivan of Denton,
R. Taliaferro Jones of Dallas, Victor C. Jones of San Antonio and Mrs. Herman C. Schultz of Seattle, Wash.
    James Taliaferro Jones was born June 15, 1845, in Wilkinson County, Ga. At the age of 2 years he moved with his parents, Dr. and Mrs John Richard Jones, to Mariana, Fla., where he grew to young manhood. When war was declared between the States, Mr. Jones enlisted and was mustered in at Chattahoochee, under Captain Ashley Hamilton, in whose company he served as drummer boy for six months. On Nov. 10, 1861, he entered Captain Thigpen's company, Second Florida Cavalry, in which company he served until the close of the war being honorably discharged at Quincy, Fla. May 26, 1865.

February 15, 1915
Macon Telegraph
J. C. Randall, who only a year ago returned from the west, whre he lived twenty years, died at 5 o'clock yestrday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. R. Jones, 1063 Elm street. He had been in bad health for a long time.
  Besises Mrs. Jones, Mr. Randall leaves another sister, Mrs. U. B. Shehe, of Macon; his mother, Mrs. M. E. Murphy, and one brother, E. T. Randall. His former home was at Ivey station.
  The funeral will be held this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Jones, Rec. Loy Warwick officiating. At 5:45 o'clock Saturday morning the body will be taken to Ivey Station for interment.

February 15, 1915
Macon Telegraph
  Scotland, Feb. 15. Attended by many friends and relatives from  a number of places, the funeral of J. I. Kemp, who died Friday evening was held here Sunday at 10 o'clock at the Methodist church, Rev. W. A. Mallory, pastor, and Rev. C. C. Hines, of McRae, a former pastor, officiating. The funeral was one of the largest ever attended here.
  After the funeral was preached, the body was turned over to the Masons and a service washeld by them, concluded at the cemetery, where the burial took place.
   The deceased had been confined to his bed most of the time for ten months, his death being due to a complication of troubles. In the death of Mr. Kemp Scotland has given up one of her best citizens.  He was popular in this section, where he had lived since he was 21 years old, coming here from his native county, Wilkinson. He was 60 years old, leaves a devoted wife, two daughters, Ora and Mrs. H. C. Roughton, of Brunswick; five sons, W. E., Joe, Earl, Ottis and Edwin; one brother, J. E. Kemp, of Toomsboro, and one sister, Mrs. Thigpen, of Eastman.

February 18, 1915
Macon Telegraph
Cordele, Feb. 17 - Mrs. John McArthur died Sunday night at 8 o'clock at the home of her son, Mr. T. J. McArthur, of this city. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Rev. LaCrouse, of Graymont, and Rev. Thomas, of Valdosta, conducted the services.
   Mrs. McArthur was 79 year of age. Pallbearers at the funeral were her sons: J. J., of Gordon; James F., of Atlanta; Dr. A. L., of Cordele; L. R. of Valdosta and J. T. McArthur, a grandson, who acted in the place of C. A. McArthur.

February 24, 1915
Macon Daily Telegraph
KILLS HIS RIVAL IN LOVE AFFAIR ON GORDON ROAD. Ira Bloodworth, 18, Is Shot Dead by Mixon, WAS MET ON THE HIGHWAY. Bloodworth Was Ordered From Wagon to Say His Prayers, HAD JUST REACHED GROUND. Eye Witnesses Say Bloodworth Had No Chance - Mixon Took to His Heels, Running Towards Jeffersonville and Has Not Been Located.
  Gordon, Feb. 23. - Tuss Mixon, 23 years old, shot and killed Ira Bloodworth, 18, near here today. The murder, witnesses say, was in cold blood, and was caused by a quarrel at a party a week ago, a girl figuring in the trouble at that time.
  Mixon was at a shelter on the Thomaston plantation, a mile and half east of here, and seeing young Bloodworth coming up the hill on a wagon, remarked to three eye-witnesses to the tragedy that he expected to have trouble, at the same time picking up his shotgun and going to the road.
Told  to Say Prayers.
  Eye-witnesses say that Mixon said: "Get off that wagon and say your prayers, I am going to kill you." Young Bloodworth crawled down to the ground and was hardly on one knee when Mixon poured a load of shot into his left side, two inches above the heart. Death resulted instantly.
  Mixon made his escape and is said to have gone in the direction of Jeffersonville. The sheriff of Wilkinson county was summoned to the scene and with a posse is in pursuit of the alleged murderer. Feeling is running high and it is feared that Mixon will be handled roughly of he is not well guarded, if caught.
  Other than the little quarrel at a party given at Edward Young's about a week ago, no motive is given as the cause of the trouble. It is rumored that they had a falling out over a girl.
Bloodworth Was Popular
   Young Bloodworth was well thought of throughout the county. He was the only support of a widow mother. His father, James Bloodworth, died last year and was held in high esteem. The Bloodworth family has been living in Wilkinson county for many years.
  Both the Bloodworths and Mixons were renters. Bloodworth, with his mother, lived about four miles east of Gordon, and on Mrs. Singletary's place. Mixon cultivated a plot of ground on W. A. Jones' place, about two and half miles east of Gordon. Neither lived on the main road. The killing occurred on the main road.
Formerly Lived Here.
  Mixon is not so well known here. He was single, having come to this county about two years ago from Macon, where he was assistant hostler at the Central of Georgia yards. He has been in trouble here before. It is alleged that last fall he threatened to shoot a station agent here because he frightened his horse. He has also been mixed up in other minor affairs.
   There were three eye-witnesses to the shooting. Lem Lavender, his son Louie, and a negro. They were at a shelter when Mixon came up and upon seeing the boy coming, made known his intentions. It is the general opinion here that Nixon (sic) had premeditated the whole affair and went to this place in order that he could meet young Bloodworth.
Description of Mixon.
  Deputy Sheriff B. Whitehurst, of Wilkinson county, arrived in Macon at 10 o'clock last night, saying that he had traced the slayer of Bloodworth toward Jeffersonville. Mixon having gone on horseback. It is believed that Mixon left the horse and started on the railroad tracks. He has a brother in Macon. Police of surrounding counties have been given a description, which is as follows:
Age 22; height 5 feet 10 inches; dark complexion; black hair, with scar on upper lip; heavy set of beard when out, but has freckles on face; wears No. 8 or No. 9 shoe; upper tooth shows prominently.

February 26, 1915
The Macon Daily Telegraph
REWARD.   The sum of $50 will be paid for the arrest ofLuss Mixon. Description: 5 feet 10 inches in height; 165 pounds; 25 years old; small narrow face; sharp nose; scar on left upper lip; has tush upper tooth on right side and teeth project; black hair; sandy beard, now clean shaven; freckles on face and hands; white.
  Wanted in Wilkinson County for murder. Wire me at McIntyre, Ga. C. H. PARKER, Sheriff Wilkinson County.

March 6, 1915
Atlanta Constitution
Reward for Bloodworth's Slayer. The state on Friday offered a reward of $200 for the capture of Luss Mixon, accused of the murder of Ira Bloodworth in Wilkinson County February 23 last. It is alleged that Bloodworth incurred the anger of Mixon by dancing with a young woman with whom Mixon was in love. When Mixon met Bloodworth in the public highway, it is alleged he told him to kneel down and say his prayers and he was shot in the acting of  so doing.

March 8, 1915
Atlanta Constitution
FARMER SLAIN WITH AX; TWO NEGROES ARRESTED
John D. Pennington Found With Skull Crushed at His Home Near Irwinton
Irwinton, Ga.. March 7 - (Special) John D. Pennington, a prominent farmer, was found murdered at his home about eight miles north of here this morning. His skull had been broken over the eyes and at the back of his head. An ax, apparently, had been used, upon the farmer, but no blood stained instrument could be found.
  Mr Pennington was alone at his home during the night, his wife being away on a visit to relatives. He was seen at Bloodworth's store, two miles away, at 11 o'clock Saturday night. He left the store and started home. Whether he was followed by robbers or accompanied by someone who killed him has not been determined.
  A negro woman in doing the work at the Pennington home discovered the body of the farmer about 7 o'clock. She had gone to the kitchen to prepare breakfast and there stretched on the floor partly under the front of the stove was Pennington's body.
  Track dogs were obtained from the state farm at Milledgeville to train the murderer. Sheriff Parker has arrested two negroes, John Fountain and Adolph Hicks, and has taken them to Macon for safekeeping.
  The scene of the killing is not far from the place where Luss Mixon shot and killed young Bloodworth a few days ago. Mixon had not been captured yet.

March 9 1915
Atlanta Constitution
NEGROES TAKE TO MACON FOR FEAR OF VIOLENCE
Dublin, Ga.. March 8 - (Special) According to information received here this afternoon John Fountain and Randolph Hicks, negroes, under arrest for the murder of J. D. Pennington, white man, in Irwin county, Sunday morning, have been carried to Macon in fear of mob violence, as excitement is high at Irwinton. Although the coroner's jury refused to make its verdict public, yet it is know Fountain paid Pennington a $60 debt Saturday night before the killing, and this, with other money, gave Pennington a large sum on his person. Most of this money was missing when Pennington was found Sunday morning on the floor of his kitchen with his head split open.
  A ham missed from Pennington's smokehouse was found at Fountain's house, and bloody overalls, found by officers, belong to one of the negroes.
     Other negroes are thought to be implicated in the crime, which is one of the worst ever known here, and was committed about 5 o'clock Sunday morning, according to officers.

March 15, 1915
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. R. H. O. McCook, 71 years of age, and one of Bibb county's best known women, died yesterday morning at her home at Lizella, after an illness of only a few days. Pneumonia is given as the cause of her death.
  She is survived by two sons, E. B. and V. B. McCook, both of Lizella and five grand-children, all of Lizella; by one sister, Mrs.
J. C. Jackson, of Ivey,
  The body will be taken this morning to Snow Hill cemetery, in Wilkinson county, where the funeral and interment will take place this afternoon at 1 o'clock.

March 11, 1915
Atlanta Constitution
CONFESSES TO SHERIFF HE KILLED PENNINGTON
Adolph Hicks Admits Murder in Wilkinson County - Implicates Another
Macon, Ga.,, March 10 (Special) Adolph Hicks, a negro arrested in Wilkinson county in connection with the murder of J. D. Pennington, a farmer, last Saturday night, and brought to Macon for safe-keeping, has confessed to Jailer McCommons and Sheriff Parker, of Wilkinson county, that he killed Pennington. He implicates John Fountain, another negro, and says the motive for the crime was robbery
     Hicks says they crushed the farmer's head with an ax and robbed him of $65. Pennington's body was found in his home, lying partly under the kitchen stove, the morning following the crime.
  Fountain's wife was arrested here today when she called at the jail to see her husband. She had $21 with her and admitted her husband gave it to her to keep for him on the night of the murder.
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Claims Fountain Innocent
McIntyre, Ga.. March 10 (Special) Adolph Hicks, a negro tenant, arrested for the murder Saturday night, of John D. Pennington, brother of Wilkinson county's tax collector, admitted the crime to a negress, according to a statement made today by the woman, who is under arrest here.
  The negress, who is the wife of John Fountain, also under arrest, states that Hicks came to here home early Saturday night and left, going towards  Pennington's house; that he returned shortly before day and, finding her husband in a drunken sleep, told her that he (Hicks) had killed Pennington with an ax. Hicks then tried to give her a roll of bills, she says, and when she refused to take it left it on a shelf.
  The woman claims she followed her husband when he was arrested and taken there, in order to tell him about it, for, she claims, he was drunk while it happened and knows nothing about it.
  The sum of $21 was found on her person and her story is generally believed. The case will be tried in April term of court.

March 11, 1915
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs. W. D. Dewell, 56 years old, died at her home at Gordon yesterday morning. She was the wife of Rev. W. D. Dewell, and is survived by her husband and three children, Mrs. W. B. Ryle, Mrs. E. C. Ryle and Mrs. R. D. Dewes. The furneral will take place this morning at 10 o'clock at the Ramah church, two miles sout of Gordon.

March 18, 1915
The Union-Recorder
IN LOVING MEMORY
  Mrs.Mary E. Beck, wife of Mr. H. T. Beck, passed away on the morning of March 3, 1915.
  Mrs. Beck had been in declining health for a long time. Everything that physicians, friends and relatives could do was done to restore her natural health, but God in his eminence saw fit to take her away.
   Trusting in her word we know she is at rest, sweet rest beyond the shining River, where those smiles, the sweetest smiles, they seem to us, are now being placed on her Saviour to who she trusted so fully. She was a kind and affectionate wife and a friend to everybody. We feel deeply that our loss is Heaven's gain, and pray that God in His infinite mercy may comfort her devoted family in their bereavement. She is survived by her husband and three sons, J. F., W. H., and L. M. Beck, and two daughters, Misses Minnie and Effie Beck and five grandchildren, two brothers Mr. B. F. Bloodworth, of McIntyre, Ga., Mr. John H. Bloodworth, of Ivey Ga , two sisters, Mrs. J. H. Beck and Mrs. R. P. Etheridge.
  The remains were interred in Snow Hill cemetery March the 4th in the presence of many friends and relatives who gathered to pay the last tribute to her.
A Niece

March 21, 1915
Atlanta Constitution
In Church Steeple Slayer Takes Refuge And Defies Arrest
Macon, Ga, March 20. (Special) That Tuss Mixson, the young Wilkinson county farmer who several weeks ago shot and killed his rival Ira Bloodworth, near Gordon, after making Bloodworth alight from his wagon, get down on his knees in the middle of the road and say his prayers, is barricaded in the steeple of the Methodist church at Jeffersonville and defying arrest, was the information brought to Macon late tonight by a party from Jeffersonville.
  Mixson, it is said, is armed with a rifle and two pistols and so far no one has gotten up courage enough to try to arrest him.
  To get at him it is necessary to climb up a twenty-foot ladder.
  The discovery was made by some women who went to ring the bell to call members of the congregation to a meeting.
  The door of the belfry was barricaded. Being unable to ring the bell themselves, the women asked Mixson, if it really is he, to do it for them. He readily complied and now the bell rings regularly whenever services are to be  held, the request being transmitted to Mixson by Rev. W. H. Ketchum, who calls up the ladder to Mixson.
  It is said that when Mixson gets hungry he comes out at night and secures food from the homes of Negroes. There is a $300 reward for his arrest.

March 22, 1915
Atlanta Constitution
Big Crowd Attacks Belfry Stronghold To Find Bird Flown
Macon, Ga. March 21. (Special) When a crowd of a hundred or more men went to the Methodist church at Jeffersonville this morning to "smoke out" Tuss Mixon, the young Wilkinson county murderer, said to be hiding in the belfry of the church, they found that the bird had flown.
  Some of the bolder members of the party climbed up the 30-foot ladder to the entrance above and found the door open. Whether or not it was really Mixon who had been making himself at home in the church belfry, some one had certainly been there, for there were  evidences of some one having spent several days there.
  Negroes say that for several nights past they had been startled when a white man heavily armed had appeared at their homes and demanded food. For several days the occupant of the belfry had reufsed to permit anyone to ring the church bell, but did so himself when requested. Mixon has been missing since he slew Ira Bloodworth, near Gordon, several weeks ago.

March 26, 1915
Atlanta Constitution
T. J. Hughes Macon
Macon, Ga., March 25- (Special)T. J. Hughes, a well-known Macon insurance man, died suddenly this morning at his home, 851 New street. He had been ill only a few days and the announcement of his death was a shock to his friends. Mr. Hughes was connected with the local agency of the Metropolitan Insurance company. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. J. T. Hatfield, of Macon, and Mrs. Gabriel Parker, of Irwinton. The body was taken to Irwinton this morning for funeral and interment.

March 30, 1915
Union Recorder
  Mr. A. T. Johns died at his home in Wilkinson county on Sunday, March 21st. His funeral was held at his home on Monday 22nd.
   Mr. Johns was 42 years old. He was a well known farmer of Wilkinson co., and had a large circle of friends who regret his death. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his death.

April 27, 1915
Daily Times-Enterprise
~excerpt~ Mrs Minerva Shepherd passed away Friday night, at 10:45 o'clock, at her home, six miles north of Thomasville, in the Fredonia community. She had been seriously ill for many weeks past,...
  Mrs. Shepherd had just passed the seventy-seventh milestone of her useful, busy life, celebrating that birthday on the tenth of last February. She had been an honored and much-loved citizen of Thomas county since the year 1873, coming here from Wilkinson county with her husband, the late J. C. Shepherd, who died about twenty years ago...
   A large family of children survive and they are Mr. A. J. Shepherd, of the Fredonia community, Mr. W. W. Shepherd, Mr. Robert Shepherd, Mrs. R. G. Jackson and Mrs. J. E. Smith, of Thomasville; Mr. L. A. Shepherd, of Pelham, and Mr. J. W. Shepherd, of Mayesville.
  The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, at the Fredonia Baptist Church, of which the deceased was for many years a faithful member. The burial took place immediately afterwards. the services both at the church and the grave will be conducted by Rev. T. A, White, of Thomasville, who has been a life-long friend of the Shepherd family.

May 3, 1915
The Macon Daily Telegraph
MRS. J. W. EVANS.
  The funeral of Mrs. J. W. Evans, aged 87, was held yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock at her late home at Toomsboro, GA. Three daughters survive her. They are Mrs. J. W. Shepherd, Mrs. T. H. Bridwell, Mrs. N. D. Rawls, and one sister, Mrs. Kingsy, all of Toomsboro. Interment was at the family cemetery.

May 18, 1915
Macon Daily Telegraph
MRS. DRUCILLA KENNINGTON
  Friends in Macon were grieved yesterday afternoon to learn of the death of Mrs. Drucilla Kennington, which occurred yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the family residence at Gordon. She had reached the age of 72 years.
  For a long number of years she had been held in the highest esteem throughout a wide community and her home circle prized her highly for her motherly and affectionate interest which she had always manifested. Nine children survive her.
  The funeral will be held at the family home this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and he remains will be interred in the family cemetery at Gordon.

June 7, 1915
Macon Daily Telegraph
After an illness of but a few hours Sunday, Mrs. J. B. McCook, well known in Macon, died at her residence in Gordon. She was 45 years old and is survived by her husband, four children and her mother, Mrs. S. Soloman. The funeral services will be held at Gordon.

June 15, 1915
Macon Daily Telegraph
Cormannie - Wood
  A quiet marriage which will be of much interest in their many friends throughout the state occurred yesterday afternoon when E. Geddings Wood, of Fitzpatrick, Ga., and Miss Mamie Cormannie, of Ivey, were united. The marriage, which was known only to their most intimate friends, occurred at the East Macon Baptist Church, Rev. J. Parry Lee performing the ceremony. The attendants were Miss Bigham and T. M. Jones.
  Mr. Wood is the popular young son of Dr. A. J. Wood, of Fitzpatrick, while Miss Cormannie is a handsome young school teacher, teaching near Ivey, Ga.
  Mr. and Mrs. Wood left for Indian Spring over the Southern yesterday afternoon. After a week or ten days stay at the springs, they will be at home to their many friends at their lovely country place near Fitzpatrick.

June 27, 1915
Macon Telegraph
ELOPERS COME 18 MILES IN "BORROWED" RIG TO MARRY.
Then to Make It More Romantic, Gordon Girl Suggests Woods At Crump's Park as Scene of Ceremony.
   "You can come to Macon and get your horse and buggy, uncle, for we are through with it now, " said pretty Bertha Myrick-Martin, a 17-year-old brunette, over the long distance telephone to her uncle at Gordon late yesterday afternoon. "By the way, you might congratulate me, too, for I'm now Mrs. J. B. Martin."
  Back of that telephone conversation is the story of a romantic elopement; the seizure of a horse and buggy; an eighteen mile ride to Macon  through the country roads, a search for the "marrying justice" of Crump's Park as the altar and only the birds and a couple of park attaches as witnesses.
  Borrow Uncle's Horse.
     Securing a horse and buggy belonging to Miss Myrick's uncle, on the plea that they wanted to "go for a buggy ride," the young woman and her fiancé, J. B. Martin, of Masseyville, this county, headed for Macon. When they arrived here they put the horse and buggy in a livery stable and taking a street car hurried out to Crump's Park to get Lee Davis, justice of the peace, to perform the ceremony.
  In addition to dispensing justice to whoever desires it, Mr. Davis, in his spare moments, also does a little deputy sheriffing at the park. He was not at his office when the couple called but someone told them he might be found over in the park. They hastened there and finally located the justice in the woods, some distance from the pavilion.
   "We have read about you in the papers," said Miss Myrick, bestowing on the somewhat embarrassed official one of her prettiest smiles, "and we decided this would be the safest place to get married."
  "Well, just walk over to my office and I will be glad to accommodate you," replied Mr. Davis.
  So Romantic, You Know.
   "Oh, no, let's be married right here in the woods, " begged Miss Myrick, "It will be so romantic."
   The groom readily consented and a couple of the employes of the park were quickly summoned as witnesses. There was no wedding march, unless the songs of the birds in the trees overhead might be so considered, but the knot was tied as effectively and with as much satisfaction to the young people as if it had been a big church wedding, possibly more so.
   When it was all over, the couple hastened back to the city and then ensued the telephone conversation between Mrs. Martin and her uncle.
   Mr. and Mrs. Martin will reside at Masseyville.

September 12, 1915
Macon Telegraph
DUNCAN-CASON. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Duncan announce the engagement of their daughter Naomi, to Mr. Levi R. Cason, Jr., of Toomsboro, the wedding to take place November 16

September 19, 1915
Macon Weekly Telegraph
WOMAN SHOOTS THIEF
Mrs. Napier in Baldwin County Catches Negroes in Her Gin.
  Milledgeville, Sept. 18 - While he was in the act of stealing cotton seed from hr gin house, Mrs. Marguerite Napier shot and probably fatally injured a negro last night on her farm, known as the Black Lake plantation, just south of Milledgeville. Mrs. Napier is an expert shot. For some time she has been missing seed from her gin house. Last night she lay in wait for the thieves. She counted three loading seed into a wagon. She first tried her rifle, but that failed to fire. Then she grabbed her shot gun and opened on one of the Negroes with both barrels.
  All three blacks were later caught and placed in jail in Irwinton where the wounded man is reported to be in a dying condition.

October 5, 1915
Macon Daily Telegraph
    Dublin Ga, October 4 (Special) Mrs. A. E. Holland, aged 79 years, died at her home early this morning after a short illness. She is survived by several children, J. W. Holland, of Dublin; C. C. Holland, of Laurens county; J. T. Holland, of Wilkinson county; Mrs. Bob Adams, of Gordon; Mrs Bartow Adams, of Milledgeville, Mrs. R. B. Patterson, of Thomasville; Mrs. H. H. Erwin, of Dublin, and W. H. Holland, of Washington county. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. W. F. Mott this morning, and the interment will follow in Northview cemetery.

October 3, 1915
Macon Daily Telegraph
A. J. Pierce, 76 years old, died yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his residence, 410 Jackson street. He was a Confederate veteran and a member of the Toombsboro Masonic lodge. His widow and seven children survive the four daughters being Mrs. Fananda Cannon, of Stevensville, and Mrs. G.W. McCommons and Fannie and Ellen Pierce, of Macon, and the three sons, E.W., H. R. and J. P., of Stevensville.
  The body will leave on the M.D. and S. train this morning at 7 o'clock for Danville, where the funeral and interment will be held.

October 10, 1915
Macon Weekly Telegraph
  Mrs. Nancy Russell, widow of the late Joel B. Russell, died yesterday at her home, 241 Carling avenue, following an illness of some duration. Mrs. Russell had been a resident of Macon for ten years prior to her death, having moved here from Jones county. She was 79 years of age.
  Surviving her are the following relatives: One son, D. E. Russell; one daughter, Mrs. S. E. Quinn of Wilkinson county; one sister, Mrs. W. L. Massengale, of McIntyre.
  Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock, conducted by Rev. C. B. Ellis.

Ocobter 17, 1915
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs. J. E. Burney, aged 75, died at her home at Irwinton Friday afternoon. Mrs. Burney is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. B. Broadfield, of Noma.

November 12, 1915
The Macon Daily Telegraph
GORDON'S PRODUCTS DAY. Everything is Georgia Made and Grown, Even Paper of Menu Cards.
  Under the auspices of the Gordon Improvement club a dinner will be served on Georgia Products day, Thursday, November 18.
  A distinctive feature of the dinner is that every viand upon the extensive menu, except the coffee, which is roasted in Georgia, are the product of Wilkinson county. Even the menu cards are printed on paper manufactured from Wilkinson county pine trees, by the Pynetree Paper company , of Gordon, and tied with twin(e) spun by hand from Gordon cotton and dyed the club colors of yellow and white with bark from the trees of the nearby forest. The elaborate menu which will tempt the most fastidious is as follows:
Wilkinson County Salted Peanuts, Vegetable soup, Wilkinson County Chilled Acme Tomatoes, Sliced Gordon Beets, Mixed Pickles, Gordon Lettuce, Young Gordon Onions, Gordon Radishes, 'Possum and 'Taters, Stuffed Wilkinson County Turkey, Apple Jelly, Gordon Potato Chips, Boiled Onions, Barbecued Pig, Gordon Tomato Ketchup, Gordon Corn Bread, Wilkinson County Biscuits, Chicken Pot Pie, Boiled Country Ham, Gordon Candied Yams, Georgia Collards, Field Peas, Turnip Greens, All Gordon Salad, Apple Fritters, Sweet Potato Pie, Gordon Peach Ice Cream, Home-made Fruit Cake, Gordon Pecan Layer Cake, Buttermilk, Sweet Milk, Persimmon Beer, Sassafras Tea, Georgia Roasted Coffee, Iced Cane Juice.

November 13, 1915
The Macon Daily Telegraph
NEILL BRANAN EXPIRES. His Death Occurs at Green Cove Springs, Fla.
Former Macon Bank Employee Had Been Ill Only One Week-Body Will Be Brought to Macon.
  News was received in the city last night of the death of Neill Branan, aged 30 years, formerly a resident of Macon, but lately of Green Cove Springs, Fla. Mr. Branan's death followed an illness of one week, he having become ill on last Friday.
  Mr. Branan was for many years the assistant cashier of the American National bank of this city, occupying that position at the time he moved to Florida to accept the cashiership of the Green Cove bank.
  He is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Lillian Nutting, and one daughter; his mother, Mrs. C. M. Branan, 702 First street; two sisters, Miss Mattie Branan and Mrs. W. W. Massengale, of McIntyre; three brothers, Frank, William and Arthur Branan.
   No funeral arrangements have been made yet. The body will be buried here.

November 14, 1915
The Macon Daily Telegraph
NEILL BRANAN
  The body of Neill Branan, who died at Green Coe Springs, Fla., Friday night, arrived in Macon early this morning and will be interred this afternoon in Riverside cemetery. The funeral services will be held at 3:30 o'clock at the Mulberry Street Methodist church, with Rev. W. N. Ainsworth and Dr. Wells officiating.

November 20 1915
Atlanta Constitution
H. F. Stokes, Tennille
Tennille, Ga., November 19 - (Special) H. F. Stokes, of Tennille, Ga., merchant, traveling salesman, teacher, died in Augusta at Margaret Wright hospital November 13. Mr. Stokes was a native Georgian, born in Twiggs county on October 16, 1865. He is survived by his wife and two children, besides three brothers, Rev. F. L. Stokes, Springdale; J. A. Stokes, Gordon, Ga.; F. D. Stokes, Dudley, Ga., and one sister, Mrs. C. T. Bickley, Bellville, Ga. Mr. Stokes was a member of the Methodist church and was a Knight of Pythias. The body was interred in the old family cemetery near Gordon, Ga..

December 5, 1915
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Death of Officer McMullen. The many friends of Patrolman J. P. McMullen will regret to learn of his death at his home in East Macon the first of the week. he was regarded among the most reliable and trustworthy men on the department. In his two years service no one could say aught against him. Mr. McMullen was a relative of Harvey Criswell, the well known plumber, and N. M. Criswell, owner of the Second street garage.

January 3, 1916
Macon Telegraph
DOKE-HITCHCOCK. One of the prettiest home weddings of the holiday season was that of Miss Maure Monte Doke and Dr. Woodfin Grady Hitchcock, of Moultrie, on Tuesday morning last at the home of the bride's father, Mr. Dennis Doke, of Toomsboro. Rev. J. C. Lawrence performed the very sweet and impressive ceremony before an improvised altar of ferns, southern similax and white roses. Miss Louise Wilson played the wedding march, and also played Melody of Love during the ceremony. The bride looked stunning in a brown cloth tailored suit with hat, shoes and gloves to match, and carried a shower bouquet of bride's roses.
    Mrs. Hitchcock as Miss Monte Doke is the only daughter of Dennis Doke, and was greatly admired on account of her genial dispostion, and has wide circle of friends who are interested in her marriage. Dr. Hitchcock is a popular young dentist of Moultrie, and enjoys a wide circle of friends, both solcially and in the business world, and their wedding is a happy culmination of school boy and girl love affair. Immediately after the ceremony Dr. and Mrs. Hitchock left for Macon, thence to Moultrie, where thy will make their future home.

January 4, 1916
Macon Daily Telegraph
Gordon, Jan. 3. J. H. Holliman died Tuesday morning, December 28, 15 6:20 o'clock at his home near Gordon.
  He is survived by five sons, H. O., O. J., W. S., C. G., and A. D., and three daughters, Mrs. C.M. Clements, Mrs. O. F. Kingry and Olive Holliman, and his two brothers and two sisters. The deceased was 70 years of age.
  His body was interred in the churchyard at Ball's church.

Feb. 13 1916
Atlanta Constitution
NEGRO IS LYNCHED IN TWIGGS COUNTY
Confessed to Murder of S. A. Fountain, Wilkinson County Farmer, Before Being Hanged by Mob
   Macon, Ga. February 12. - Marvin Harris, a negro, was lynched in Twiggs county today, according to news received here tonight, as a result of his alleged murder of S. A. Fountain, prominent farmer of Wilkinson county.
    Fountain was shot yesterday while he was plowing in a field near the Wilkinson Twiggs county line.
  The  negro Harris then is alleged to have walked to the home of the farmer and told Mrs. Fountain what he had done. According to the farmer's wife, the negro threatened her life if she told any one what he had done.
    The woman was badly frightened by the negro and she only told neighbors late in the evening that her husband had not returned from the field.  A search was begun and the body was found at 10 o'clock last night. There were several bullet wounds in his body.
   At the coroner's inquest this morning Mrs. Fountain told how the negro had told her of his crime and how he had threatened her.
  A mob of men quickly formed and though officers tried to reach the negro first, the mob leaders won the race and hanged Harris to the limb of a tree. The body was riddled with bullets, the head being literally shot to pieces with pistol bullets.
  The negro is said to have confessed to his crime and admitted that Mrs. Fountain's story was correct before he was executed by the mob. The negro's family refused to take his body and the county will bury it.
  The negro was 21 years old. The farmer was 60 years old.
  Mrs. Fountain said that the negro told her that he lost his temper in an argument with her husband over a plow boy whose work did not suit the farmer. Fountain was unarmed and when the negro approached him with a revolver he started to run. The negro then aid he shot the farmer and as Fountain fell he fired several more times into the body.

February 26, 1916
The Macon Daily Telegraph
B. F. Ryle, Sr., of Gordon, died yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock at his home in that city. He was 70 years of age and was engaged in farming.
  Besides his widow, Mr. Ryle leaves three sons, C. H., W. B. and E. C. Ryle and two daughters, Mrs. Fannie Bennett and Mrs. Alice Brannan.

March 6, 1916
The Macon Daily Telegraph
PROF. G. W. LEE
Friends in Macon were grieved to learn of the death ofProf. G. W. Lee at his home at Gordon, Saturday, where for the last twenty years he had been engaged in the mercantile business.
  The first part of Prof. Lee's life was spent in teaching. He relived the degree of A. N. and A. M. from Mercer university and shared first honor in his class. Later he taught in Millen, Cartersville, Byron and Barnesville, giving up the teaching profession twenty years ago to enter business at Gordon. He did a credit business, and it is said that he collected ninety-nine and one-half cents on the dollar. His efficiency in the school room stood him in good stead in his business. In fact, it is said, he lived in his work. His loyalty to his church and his abiding faith in God made him a strong Christian character and his life of 60 years, he being born September 20, 1855, is worthy of his emulation in his loyalty, devotion, efficiency and father, say those who knew him best.
  He leaves to mourn his loss, his widow, Mrs. Pauline Whitehurst Lee, and the following sons and daughters; Rev. Walter M. Lee, of Rochelle; Mrs. (Kate) G. C. Henry, of Cordele; Mrs (Carrol) W. S. Fishburn, of Montgomery, Ala; Dr. Lott W. Lee, of Milledgeville, and D. Paul Lee and Burke W. Lee. Of his seven children, one, Bryan, passed away in childhood.
  The funeral service was conducted by his pastoer, D. F. Stamps, in the Gordon Baptist church, of which he was a member, yesterday, and the body was interred in Lee's cemetery, near Gordon.

March 29, 1916
Macon Daily Telegraph
  Word was received in Macon yesterday of the death at Irwinton, Wilkinson county, of D. A. Holt, who for ten years was one of the letter carriers in the employ of the Macon post office.
  Two months ago Mr. Holt was taken sick and had to give up his work at the post office. He went to Irwinton to the home of his father-in-law, Col. John Lindsay, where he died.
  Mr. Holt leaves two sons, J. C. and R. L. Holt, of Macon. Mrs. Holt died about ten years ago. He was 49 years of age, a member of the Second Street Methodist church and well known throughout the city.
  The body will be interred at Irwinton, beside that of his wife.

April 8, 1916
Atlanta Constitution
VAUGHN-NASH. Mr. J. W. Vaughn, of Toomsboro, announces the engagement of his daughterJeffie Jeynelle, to Mr. Howard Buford Nash, of Atlanta, wedding to take place June 7.

April 20, 1916
Macon Daily Telegraph
  W. E. Grayson.
  Stepping on a nail while superintending the erection of a house,W. E. Grayson, a contractor of Macon, developed lock-jaw and died early yesterday morning at the Macon hospital. Mr. Grayson had been ill since last Tuesday.
  He is survived by his widow, one nephew, R. H. Grayson, of 756 Pine street, Macon, and by six brothers and six sisters, residing in Washington, D.C. and in Virginia.
  The body will be sent to Allentown, Ga. , Friday morning for funeral and interment.

April 23, 1916
Macon Daily Telegraph
  After an illness of one week of appendicitis, Mrs. Missouri Hooks, wife of C.M. Hooks, died yesterday at 12:15 and a local hospital. Mrs Hooks was 50 years of age, and was from one of Wilkinson county's most prominent families.
  She moved to Forsyth in her youth and has lived there since, taking active interest in church work, being a member of the First Baptist church.
  Surviving the deceased are her husband, two sons, V. B. Hooks, of Forsyth; C. R. Hooks, of North Carolina; and one daughter, Mrs. H. E. Maddox, of Atlanta.
  The body was shipped to Atlanta yesterday afternoon for funeral and interment. The services will be held at the home of R. B. Hooks.
  Mrs. Hooks had many friends in Macon, who will learn with  sorrow of her death.

April 23, 1916
Macon Telegraph
HUGHES-STEPHENS. Mr. and Mrs. Haywood D. Hughes, of Toomsboro, announce the engagement of their daughter, Mayme, to Mr. Herbert Eugene Stephens, the wedding to take place in June.

June 27, 1916
Union Recorder
~excerpt~ In Memory. In the early morn of June 13 the death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Jackson carrying away their youngest son, Wilfred, who was one of the prettiest, brightest and most interesting babies of our community.
  His dear little form was laid to rest in the Snow Hill cemetery. Rev Dewel, of Gordon, Georgia, conducted a very impressive funeral. And there a number of relatives and friends gathered to pay their last tribute of love and respect..............
 

July 16, 1916
Macon Daily Telegraph
GIANT PUMPKIN RAISED. Toomsboro, July 15 - G. W. Webster, who lives about two miles from Toomsboro, has some pumpkins that really are "sum punkins." Two of these pumpkins, which have only been on the vines about six weeks, measure six feet in circumference and are estimated to weigh 150 pounds each. The bloom has only recently fallen from them. As they will have at least three months longer to grow, it is thought that they will weigh 300 pounds or more when grown and measure well over ten feet in circumference.
  Mr. Webster's other crops are also very fine and will compare favorably with any to be found in the state. He attributes his success to the fact that he doesn't plant too large a crop and keeps it well worked at all times.

July 21, 1916
The Atlanta Constitution
DR. J. S. WOOD DIES AT IRWINTON HOME
Irwinton, Ga. July 20 (Special)Dr. J. S. Wood died at this home here at 4 o'clock the mourning, after a long illness.
  He was a prominent physician, and held the office of county school commissioner for a number of years, and was in the senate representing the twenty-first district in 1888 and 1889. Beside a host of friends to mourn his death, he leaves a wife and seven children - Mrs. Marvin Williams, Greensboro, Ga.; Dr. H.C. Wood, Irwinton; Mrs. J.N. Todd, Palmyra, N.Y.; Mrs. L. J. Pritchard, Tennille, Ga.; Mrs. O. W. Manson, Irwinton, Ga., and Mrs. J. J. Ragan, Irwinton, Ga.
(buried Irwinton Masonic Cemetery)

July 31, 1916
Macon Daily Telegraph
Miss Harvill A Bride. Weds Walter C. Kelpen, Southern Railway Employe of Atlanta
MissRosa Lee Harvill, of Irwinton, was married to Walter C. Kelpen, of Atlanta, yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Rev. T. F. Callaway, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, the latter performing the ceremony.
  The ceremony was a quiet affair, only a few friends of the couple witnessing it.
  Miss Harvill, while her home is in Irwinton, has lived in Macon for about a year, and is well known here. Mr. Kelpen is employed by the Southern Railway company and is well known here as well as in Atlanta.
  The couple left yesterday afternoon for Atlanta, where they will make their home.

August 2, 1916
The Macon Daily Telegraph
MRS. C. H. BRANAN.
News reached the city yesterday announcing the death of Mrs. C. H. Branan, which occurred yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. W. Bragg, at Gray.
   Mrs. Branan was the widow of C. H. Branan, and had lived to the advanced age of three score years. Besides her daughter, she is survived by three sons.
   The body will be taken to Gordon, where the funeral and interment will take place this afternoon.
(Gilla Rivers Branan is on tombstone)

September 19, 1916
The Macon Daily Telegraph
WOODALL - WILSON
  MissEdna Pearl Woodall and Mr. James B. Wilson were married Sunday night at the residence of Rev. T. F. Callaway on Pine street at 10:30 o'clock. Mrs. Wilson is formerly of Toomsboro. The couple will make their home at 120 Third street.

October 1, 1916
The Atlanta Constitution
DOUGLAS-DUPREE
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey Douglas, of Alpharetta, Ga. announce the engagement of their daughter, Effie Pearl, to Mr. John Thomas DuPree, Jr., of McIntyre, Ga., the wedding to take place October 25.

October 17, 1916
Union Recorder
DEATH OF MRS. SARAH FRANCIS EADY. On the twenty-ninth of September, God, In His infinite glory, saw fit to take from our midst this deart mother and friend of ours.  Mrs. Eady has been in declining health for several years. She was born in Wilkinson county December 7, 1865, and at the age of 21 years was married to Mr. Jim Eady, with whom she had lived until about 3 years ago. He passed away. Mrs Eady gave her life to Christ in her youthful days and has evr since been a usefu and persintent worker for the cuase until her Master called her from this world of sorrow and of woe.
  To occupy a place prepared for the faitful in the portals of Glory.
  Mrs. Eady leaves six sons and three daughters and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her death.
  Weep not loved ones, but let her life be an example for ours. So that when the Lord calls us we may ask the question:
Oh death, where is thy sting?
Oh, Grave, where is thy victory?
-FRIEND.

October 24, 1916
Union Recorder
Death of An Old Negro. Amanda Downing, known as "Aunt Mandy" an old Negro of the before the war period, died at her home in the southern part of this county on the 12 last. She had lived on the place of Mr. J. E. Etheridge with her son for the past 30 years and was supposed to be near ninety years old. She was brought from Virginia as a slave, and lived and was known all over South Baldwin, and Wilkinson Counties. She was buried at Mt. Carmel Baptist church, where she was a member and was probably the last of the old negroes who were members of their white folks church.

November 5, 1916
Macon Telegraph
   KENNEDY-HELTON. Mr. J. B. Kennedy, of Devereaux, Ga., announces the engagement of his daughter, Minnie May, to Mr. William Roswell Helton, of McIntyre, the marriage to take place on Dec. 28, at home.

November 5, 1916
The Atlanta Constitution
DOUGLAS - DUPREE
Alpharetta, Ga. November 5 (Special) The marriage of Miss Effie Pearl Douglas to Mr. John Thomas Dupree, of   McIntyre, Ga., was a beautiful event of last Wednesday evening, taking place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Douglas, of Alpharetta. Rev. W. H. Means, of Demorest, officiated. Only the near relatives were present.
  The decorations in the home were an artistic arrangement of roses and chrysanthemums; in the parlor was an improvised altar of ferns, goldenrods and palms, above which rose an arch entwined with smilax.
  The bridge was handsome in a going-away suit of midnight blue, trimmed with gray, with hat and gloves to match., Mrs. Douglas, mother of the bride, was gowned in gray. Miss Mamie Douglas, sister of the bride, dressed in old rose and Georgette crepe, furnished music for the occasion.

November 14, 1916
The Macon Daily Telegraph
JOSEPH B. HATHORNE
  The body of Joseph B. Hathorne, who died Sunday morning at his home in East Macon, was shipped to Gordon yesterday morning for funeral services and interment.

November 26, 1916
Macon Daily Telegraph
DAUGHTRY - SMITH
  A beautiful wedding of the season was solemnized last Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. O. A. Daughtry, of Allentown, when their daughter, Sara Elizabeth, was married to Mr. Drane Dupont Smith, of Attapulgus.
  The home was decorated for the occasion with southern smilax and chrysanthemums, combined with vases of pink and white roses.
  Mrs. Smith is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. O. A. Daughtry, and is a young woman of culture and refinement, possessing many lovable traits of character and winsome ways that endeared her to a large circle of acquaintances. She graduated at the G. N. I. college in the class of 1914, and won many friends while there through her pleasing personality.
  Mr. Smith has a large farmer interest and telephone system at his home town.
  Among the out-of-town guests present were Mrs. Sissons and Bayard Sissons of Macon; Miss Nettie Minter, of Sunnyside; Miss Gladys Kendrick, of Macon, Mrs. Thompson of Wrightsville; Mr. Lester, of Attapugus; Dr. and Mrs. Tom Jones, of Jeffersonville; Mr. and Mrs. Smith, of Attapulgus.

December 3, 1916
The Atlanta Constitution
BOONE - PARKER
Mrs. M. W. Boone, of Toomsboro, Ga. announces the engagement of her daughter, Pearl, to Mr. Henry C. Parker, of Toomsboro, the wedding to take place in December. No cards.

December 5, 1916
 Macon Daily Telegraph
MRS LITTIE N. BLACKSHEAR
Furneral services for Mrs. Littie (Millie)  N. Blackshear, aged 75, who died Sunday at the home of her son, Albert, in Lewiston, were held yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Gordon, Rev. Mr. Dewell officiating. Interment was in the family burying ground near Gordon.

December 7, 1916
Macon Daily Telegraph
SLAIN YOUNG WOMAN BURIED
Body of Mrs. Ruby Barfield, Shot by Nunn Pye, is Taken to Gordon.
  the body of Mrs. Ruby Barfield, aged 16, who was shot and killed Sunday morning by Nunn Pye, who then shot himself, was taken yesterday morning to Gordon. Funeral services were held at 12 o'clock at the New Haven church and interment was held in a cemetery near Gordon.
  She was a daughter of Mrs. M. L. Gray, 325 Flanders street, East Macon, where the tragedy occurred. Her husband is W. H. Barfield, of Ashburn, a fireman on the Hawkinsville & Florida railway.
  Pye was buried in Cordele Tuesday afternoon.

December 21,1916
The Macon Daily Telegraph
S. N. Leslie, aged 64 years, died at 3:30 o'clock Wednesday morning at the family residence, 19 Lake street. Mr. Leslie had been a resident of Macon for eighteen years, coming here from Wilkinson county, where he was born.
  He is survived by his wife and three sons, J. O. Leslie of Fitzgerald, W. F. and J. J. Leslie of Macon, and four daughters, Mrs. M. P. Wade, Mrs. M. L. Allen, Mrs Evie Wood and Miss Bertha Leslie of Macon. Mr. Leslie was a member of the Baptist church.
  Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock this (Thursday) morning at Asbury church, in Wilkinson county. Rev. R. L. James will conduct the services. Interment will be made in the church cemetery.

December 21, 1916
Macon Weekly Telegraph
FATHER OBJECTS TO MATCH, BUT YOUNG COUPLE FIND WAY. Carl Eugene Collins, of Irwinton and Miss Bertha Hall, of Dublin, Wed, Though Love Encounters Many Obstacles.
  When the train from Atlanta pulled into the terminal yesterday morning the timid eyes of a little schoolgirl bride peeped from the window in search of - him.
  Oh, yes, he was there, you may be sure, eagerly awaiting her arrival from Young Harris college.
  With tender solicitude he led the blushing bride through the throng of passengers, wholly oblivious of their smiles, to a waiting car and whirled away.
  "They" were Carl Eugene Collins, 25, of R. No. 2, Irwinton, Ga, and MissBertha Hall, 18, of Dublin, Ga., until-
   But, to begin at the beginning. The proverbial "course of true love did not run smoothly." Father Hall had been very cruel, denying the young man the house and vowing his daughter should finish her education before he would entertain the idea of a suitor for her hand.
  But "all the world loves a lover," and with the help of mutual friends they managed to correspond secretly. In this way he was informed of her stern parent's plan to send her away to school and so he was at the station when she left, hoping in vain for an opportunity to steal her away, for had he not written "i don't want you to leave ne," and had she not answered "please don't let me go."
  Arriving at Atlanta she spent some days with some young friends who were also leaving for Young Harris, and who were being entertained with a house party previous to their departure
  One night they were joined by Mr. Collins, and while music, laugher and chatter filled the house Miss Hall and he slipped away - "for a little stroll in the moonlight" - he told their hostess.
  In reality, they called on Rev. J. L. Jackson, Baptist parsonage Kirkwood, and wee united in marriage in the presence of Miss Lucy Bryant and Miss Stella Meadow. That was Sept. 1. With no one the wiser Miss Hall (as she continued to be known) took up her studies at Young Harris and Mr. Collins returned home to begin preparations for the reception of his bride when school should close for the Christmas holidays. Then more trouble for the lovers arose. Father Hall had been informed by some awful villain of that visit in Atlanta, and of that "moonlight stroll." and so to preclude the possibility of such another occurrence he wrote his daughter he would meet her in Atlanta on the 22d and accompany her home to spend the holidays.
  She in turn wrote her "hubby" and they arranged to meet in Macon on the 19th with the above stated results.
  From Macon they sent Father Hall the following telegram:
  "Daddy, we're married. Please forgive us. CARL AND BERTHA."

(Note: Carl and Bertha were married 41 years when he died in 1958, they are buried in New Providence Cemetery)

December 29, 1916
Macon Daily Telegraph
WOODALL - BRACK
   A lovely wedding ceremony on Christmas day was that of Miss Ora May Woodall and Mr. Gordon Lee Brack, which was solemnized at the little church just after a lovely Christmas celebration, in Toomsboro. Miss Woodall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Woodall, of Toomsboro.

January 23, 1917
Atlanta Constitution
Mrs. Nannie A. Smith, 72 years old, died at the residence, 31 Elmira avenue, Monday afternoon. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. W. O. Sanders, of Gordon, Ga.; Mrs. J. W. Wilkinson and Miss Minnie Smith; two sisters, Mrs. A. M. Barfield, of Macon, and Mrs. Sallie Bridger, of Savannah, and one brother, Fayette Balkcom, of Gordon, Ga.

January 30, 1917
Macon Telegraph
  News was received in Macon last night of the death in Gordon of Dr. W. W. Lee, aged 63, who expired suddenly after an illness of some time with heart trouble. He is the father of Dr. W. G. Lee, of Macon, and J. W. Lee, of Conrad & Lee Auto Repair Co. He is also survived by two daughters, Mrs. Fannie Williams, and Mrs. Emma Dennard, of Gordon, and a sister, Mrs. Homer M. Oliphant, of Ash street.
  Relatives in Macon will leave this morning for Gordon to attend the funeral services.

February 2, 1917
Macon Weekly Telegraph
YAWN - PARKER
  Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Yawn, of McRae, announce the marriage of their daughter,Mary Lee, to Dr. W. H. Parker, of Irwinton. The weding took place Feb. 4.

February 6, 1917
Macon Telegraph
   The body of Thomas Horne, aged 19 years whose death occurred Saturday afternoon, was taken to Danville yesterday morning at 8 o'clock for funeral services and interment.

February 22, 1917
The Macon Daily Telegraph
MRS. S. J. VALENTINE
  News was received in Macon yesterday of the death ofMrs. S. J. Valentine, at 12 o'clock Tuesday night at the family home at Gordon, following an illness of three weeks.
  Mrs. Valentine was in her 76th year. Surviving her are five sons and five daughters.
   The funeral will take place Thursday morning at 11 o'clock at Clear Creek. Rev. W. T. Dewell, officiating. Interment will be made in Clear Creek cemetery.

March 19, 1917
Macon Telegraph
J. F. Horne, aged 59, died at his home at 52 Hydrola  street, Sunday morning at 2 o'clock, after an illness of six weeks. He is survived by a wife, five sons and three daughters, all of Macon. Furneral services were held yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the residence and the body will be taken to Danville this morning for interment.

April 3, 1917
The Macon Daily Telegraph
  The funeral of C. O. Hughes was held yesterday afternoon from the residence of his sister, Mrs. J. M. Rainy, 534 Ash street. The services were conducted by Dr. E. C. Dragon, pastor of the First Baptist church, assisted by Dr. G. H. Fern, minister of the First Christian church. Interment was in Rose Hill cemetery. Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers acted as pall bearers.

April 26, 1917
Macon Telegraph
Samuel J. Gee, Confederate soldier and well known Twiggs county planter, died Thursday morning, after a short illness. He was 78 years old and had lived in Twigs county practically all his life.
   He is survived by his wife and an aged brother. Mr. Gee enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 and served for four years. He was taken as prisoner on Johnson's island and was confide for ten months. He was captured seven days before Lee's surrender. On Aug. 21, 1864, he married Miss Mary Ryle, daughter of the late William B. Ryle.
  The funeral will be held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock, from the home, the Rev. J. G. Reynolds officiating. Interment will be in the family cemetery in Wilkinson county.

May 11, 1917
Macon Daily Telegraph
  Mrs. Martha Douglas Johnson, widow of Rev. Charles Johnson, of Twiggs county, died at the residence of her son, C. C. Johnson, of Gordon, on Saturday last. She leaves four sons, J. Hunter Johnson, of Jeffersonville; H. G. Johnson, L. E. Johnson, C. C. Johnson, and two daughters, all of Twiggs county. She was 75 years old.

May 13, 1917
Macon Daily Telegraph
The funeral service ofMrs. J. M. Shepherd, of Toomsboro, was held Friday morning at the First Christian church of Toomsboro, Rev. James A. Moore officiating, and the interment was held at the local cemetery.
   Mrs. Shepherd was 66 years old, and although she has been in ill health for some time her death came as a surprise to all who knew her and cast gloom over the whole town. Mrs. Shepherd was active in all of the religious and social activities of the community and it is with the deepest sorrow that the many friends express their sympathy to the bereaved ones.
    The deceased is survived by her husband, two daughters, Mrs. T. H. Boone and Mrs. Windham, of Macon, and son, Will Shepherd, of Dallas, Texas.

May 27, 1917
Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs. Sarah Jane Collins, widow of the late L. H. Collins, of McIntyre, Ga., died Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. B. Dyche, on the Bellevue road.
   Mrs. Collins was 68 years of age and had been in ill health for several months. She has made her home here with her daughters
since the death of her husband eight years ago. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J. T. Tomlinson, Mrs. Henry Perkins,
and Mrs. M. B. Dyche, also one nephew, Frank Collins.
  The body will be carried to McIntyre, Ga., Sunday for funeral and interment.

June 5, 1917
Union Recorder
   Mr. V. S. Jeans died at his home in Wilkinson county on last Friday morning. The funeral services were held Saturday, Rev. J. C. Wilkinson conducting the services.
   Mr. Jeans was an old and honored citizen being in his eighty fourth year. He was a member of the Baptist church and a confederate veteran. He was the father of our townsman, Mr. T. S. Jeans and leave other members of his family who have the deepest sympathy of our people.

June 5 1917
The Macon Daily Telegraph
 Mrs. Annie Patterson Snow, wife of J. H. Snow, died at 11 o'clock Sunday night at the Macon hospital, following an illness of only two weeks. The family live at 1109 Oglethorpe street.
  Mrs. Snow was in her twentieth year. Besides her husband, she is survived by one child, Malcolm Everett; her parents, Mr and Mrs. W. Y. Patterson, of Wilkinson county, and two brothers and three sisters,. The remains will be taken to Ivey this morning at 6:40 for funeral and interment.

June 7, 1917
Macon Telegraph
LULA PEARL HARDEN. Lula Pearl, the little 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Y. Harden, died at 2 o'clock Wedneday morning at the Macon Hospital, following an illness of only a few hours. Besides her parents, the little girl leaves one brother, Ray, and one sister, Dorothy Mae. The body was taken to McIntyre yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock for funeral and interment.

June 15, 1917
Milledgeville News
ALLIGATOR IS CAUGHT IN WILKINSON COUNTY. An alligator reported to have been seen near the public road bridge on Commissioner creek in Wilkinson county one day last week, resulted in the killing of the amphibian reptile, which measured eight feet in length.
  The alligator was killed by Messrs. T. F. and Andrew Deason, of McIntyre, and it is said that the skin was taken from the lizzard-like animal and sold in the regular markets for an exceedingly fancy price. It is presumed that the water animal had been wandering in the Oconee swamps for a number of years before being captured by the McIntyre men.

June 17, 1917
Macon Daily Telegraph
BRANAN-BATEMAN. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Branan of Gordon, Ga. announce the engagement of their daughter, Ethel Lucile, to Mr. Buford Belton Bateman, the wedding to take place in July.

July 22, 1917
Macon Daily Telegraph
SANDERS - JONES
  On Thursday Miss Mary Alice Sanders, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Sanders, of Gordon, was married to William Beeman Jones, a prominent merchant and farmer of Jenkins County. The wedding march was masterfully rendered by the combination of violin and piano music, the former instrument being handled by Mrs. W. N. Hill, of Gordon, and the piano by Miss Elouise Grier, a charming friend of the bride's from Oglethorpe. At the termination of the march the union of these two  instruments' tones struck up the "Sweetest Story Ever Told," and continued to play the selection during the marriage.
  From the church the wedding party repaired to the home of the bride, where an elegant reception was given, Mrs Z. T. Miller and other friends receiving. The bride and groom are now on an extended tour of the East.

August 20, 1917
Macon Daily Telegraph
The funeral of Andrew Chambers was held yesterday morning at 10 o'clock from the residence of his son, No. 231 New Street. Rev. R. C. Granberry, pastor of the Tattnall Square Baptist Church, conducted the service. The body was taken to Toomsboro immediately for interment yesterday afternoon. Mr. Chambers was a Confederate veteran.

September 17, 1917
Macon Daily Telegraph
J. J. Brewer, age 40 years, died at 2:40 p.m. Wednesday at the family home, 220 Clinton street, after an illness of only a few hours. Apoplexy was given as the cause of his death. Mr. Brewer was born in Wilkinson County, but spent practically all of his life here, moving here when he was only a boy.
   He was in the employ of the Central Railroad, being a painter by trade. Besides his widow he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. S. A. Schell and Miss Mildred Brewer, also four sons, Messrs. William, Jack, Chester and Henry, all of this city.
   Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock this (Thursday) morning front he residence, Rev. J. T. Wildman officiating. Interment will be in Fort Hill cemetery.

September 18, 1917
Macon Daily Telegraph
  Mrs.Mina Rutland, aged 65, one of the oldest residents of Bibb County, died early Monday morning at her residence near Rivoli. She is an aunt of W. C. Marshall, of Macon.
  The body will be taken to New Providence Church near Jeffersonville, where funeral services and interment will take place Tuesday afternoon.

September 20, 1917
Macon Daily Telegraph
MissRuby Lyles, age 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Lyles, died at the Macon Hospital yesterday afternoon at 4:30; after an illness of four weeks from typhoid fever.
  She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Lyles, and five brothers, H. L., F. L., T. F., and T. W. Lyles, all of Macon.
  The remains will be shipped to Gordon today at 11:50 over the Central of Georgia Railway. Funeral and interment at Gordon cemetery at 4:30 p.m.
  Miss Lyles was a member of the Alexander School No. 2 at the time of her illness. She was in the seventh grade.

November 1, 1917
Macon Weekly Telegraph
S. L. Smithy died at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning at his residence, 754 Boundary street, after an illness of only two weeks.
  Mr. Smithy was 65 years of age. He was born in Virginia, but had made his home here practically all of his life.
  Besides his wife, he is survived by four sons, Messrs. J. R., S. L. Jr, W. T. and L. W. Smithy.
  Funeral services will beheld at 10:30 o'clock this (Thursday) morming from St. Joseph's Catholic church, Rev. Father Murphy officiating. The body will be taken to Gordon, Ga., for interment at 11:40 via the Central railway.

December 18, 1917
Union Recorder
    Mr. Morris Youngblood died at his home in Wilkinson county last Friday. The funeral services were held at Hopewell church in Baldwin county Sunday morning, Rev. Z. Speer officiating.
    Mr. Youngblood was a son of the late Mr. Cornelius Youngblood and was a native of Baldwin county. He is survived by a number of relatives.

December 20, 1917
The Macon Daily Telegraph
A Source of Genuine Pride
  Irwinton has three good ladies, Mrs. Georgia Anne Hughes, Mrs. Epsey Hooks and Mrs. Katie Simpson, ninety-three years young, whose mothers knitted for the soldiers of George Washington. These ladies talked to the soldiers of the Revolution, married soldiers of the Mexican War, sent sons to the Civil War, and are now knitting for the boys in France. May they live to see a glorious victory. - Irwinton Bulletin.

December 27, 1917
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Macon Police Requested to Aid in Finding Slayer of Charley Sapp
  Macon police were requested last night to be on the lookout for a negro named Beal, who is alleged to have shot and killed a white man,Charlie Sapp, at Irwinton, in Wilkinson county, yesterday.
  Details of the murder were not obtainable last night, the telephone office at Irwinton being closed early on account of the holiday.
  One negro was taken from a Central of Georgia passenger train late last night, but he satisfied the police that he was employed by the Central of Georgia railroad and had no connection with the Wilkinson county murder.

January 20, 1918
Augusta Chronicle
    ~excerpt~ Tennille, Ga., Jan. 19. - A beautiful home wedding was that of Miss Fannie Murchison and Mr. Lee Pittman Hatfield of Irwinton, which was solemnized on Tuesday aftenoon. The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Murchison, parents of the bride, ............wedding march was played my Miss Annie Mary Smith....ceremony..performed by Rev . G. J. Davis, pastor of the Baptist Church....Immediately after the ceremony the young couple left for their home at Irwinton. The marriage was to have take plance later in the spring, but Mr. Hatfield came Sunday and used his persuasive powers to good effect. The not a chance club attended in a body the first marriage in their membership, and the relatives and a few close friends were among the guess Five or six cars of the groom's friends cme from Irwinton for the wedding. Miss Elizabeth Brown came up from Millen, where she is teaching and Miss Alline Pritchard accompaned the bridal part to Irwinton. The bride is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Murchison and has hosts of friends here, who wish for the young couple all possible happiness.
 

February 14, 1918
The Macon Daily Telegraph
WHITAKER - Died at the home of her son, G. W. Whitaker, 1777 Third street, Macon, Ga., February 13, 1918, Mrs. M. J. Whitaker, age 81 years. The funeral services will be held this Thursday morning at 10:30 from the residence, Rev. T. G. Wright, assisted by Rev. G. H. Fenn, officiating. Interment Cedar Ridge Cemetery. Friends are invited.

February 26, 1918
The Macon Daily Telegraph
MRS. LEVI CASON, JR.
Sandersville, Feb. 25. Mrs. Naomi Duncan Cason, wife of Levi Cason, Jr., died at a local sanitarium today. The funeral service will be conducted tomorrow afternoon, interment  to be in the family burial ground near Toomsboro.
   Surviving Mrs. Cason are her husband, a young baby, and a daughter, Leila Virginia. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Duncan, two brothers, William Peyton Duncan, with the colors at Newport, N. J., and George W. Duncan, of Macon.

March 6, 1918
Union Recorder
Leila Johns died at her home in Wilkinson county Wednesday, February 20th, 1918. Her death came unexpected. She was ill only 12 days with pneumonia. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Johns.
  She was a kind and loving child and had a sweet disposition and loved by everybody.
  She leaves a father and mother and a host of relatives and friends who mourn her death.
  The funeral services was conducted by Rev. Speer and Rev. Lawrence.
  Interment at Nonen sic (Nunn and)Wheeler Cemetery. M. L. P.

March 27, 1918
Union Recorder
  Mr. H. M. Williams died at his home in West Baldwin Sunday morning. His death was sudden and unexpected, as he was ill only a few hours. He attended preaching at Camp Creek Saturday, and was apparently in his usual health. About mid-night he was taken ill, and died about four o'clock Sunday morning. He was buried at Camp Creek cemetery Tuesday morning.
  Mr. Williams was born in Wilkinson county, and was nearly eight years of age. In early manhood he enlisted in the Confederate army. He has been a successful farmer in Baldwin county a number of years, and was a good citizen. He is survived by several children.

March 31, 1918
The Macon Daily Telegraph
H. C. Cobb, 40 years of age, died at the Macon Hospital last night after an illness of several days. He had been a resident of Macon for eleven years. The body is to be shipped to the home of his mother at Gordon today.
    Surviving Mr. Cobb are his wife, two sons and one daughter, Hugh, Jr., William and Myrtle; his mother, five brothers and four sisters.

April 1, 1918
The Macon Daily Telegraph
The body of H. C. Cobb, aged 40 years, who died at the Macon Hospital Saturday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock, was carried to Gordon Sunday for funeral and interment.

April 3, 1918
Union Recorder
 Mr. Madison Roberts died at his home in Wilkinson county Sunday morning about eleven o'clock, aged 65 years. He was a brother of Mr. J. W. Roberts, of this city, who was with him at the time of his death. The funeral services were held Monday.

May 1, 1918
Union Recorder
Mrs. Sarah King Storey, wife of Col. R. L. Storey who at one time was a member of the Presbyterian church of this city, passed away April 17th.
  Her patience, truthfulness, and charity toward others endeared her to her neighbors, and made friends of her acquaintances.  Her self sacrifice toward her children and all others under her roof brought the honor commanded to be given by children to parents.
  Her work in the church helped many souls to be better and stronger. She was the step mother of J. J. Methvin, (Missionary to wild tribes in the Indian Territory) assisted in organizing the first Sunday School in the church of which she had been a member since twelve years of age.
  She was almost eighty-five when she passed to her Heavenly home from that of her youngest daughter, Mrs. J. A. McCallum, of Jeffersonville, Ga. Three of daughters and one son survive her; Mrs. W. T. Chappell, of Jeffesonville, Ga.; Mrs. Ada Kendrick, of Mayfield, Ga.; Mrs. W. H. Blanks, of this city and Mr. R. Lawson Storey, of Lumber City, Ga. These with twenty-two grand children will miss her love and prayer, and always cherished the memory of a true Christ like mother and grandmother. Mrs. W. H. Blanks.

May 2 1918
Atlanta Constitution
Prominent Georgians on Ill-Fated Steamer. Savannah, Ga., May 1 (Special) Among the passengers on the City of Athens, which was sunk off the Delaware coast early this morning, was Mrs. Roland Harrison, daughter of the Rev. Dr. W. L. Pickard, president of Mercer university at Macon. She was accompanied by her little daughter, Florence. They were coming to visit Mr. and Mrs. Alan Sweat, of Savannah.
  T. A. Gibbes sic Gibbs,  of Gordon, Ga., superintendent of the Savannah Kaolin company, with sixteen laborers he had employed in the north, was on board also. He has a wife and eight children at Gordon.
 B. F. Grimes, of Gordon, of the Pynetree Paper company, was also a passenger. Among the others who are well known in Georgia was Miss Belle Styles, of New York, sister of Lieutenant Hugh Styles. She is related to prominent people all over Georgia.

May 17, 1918
Macon Weekly Telegraph
G. J. Leslie died yesterday morning at 10:10 o'clock after an illness of only three days. Mr. Leslie was stricken with a stroke of paralysis that caused his immediate death. He was born in Wilkinson County, and had been living in Macon eighteen years. He was 63 years of age. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, J.W., and H. L. Leslie; three daughters, Mrs. G. T. Sanders, of Macon; Mrs. S. J. Butler, of Waycross, and Mrs. E. R. Hunnicutt, of Macon. The funeral services will beheld from the residence, 51 Maynard Street, this afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Dervell officiating. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.

June 26, 1918
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Mrs. Elizabeth Collins, aged 78 years, died last night at the Macon Hospital. Her residence is No. 536 Oak street. She is survived by four sons, J. D., A. F., and J. T. Collins, of Macon, and George Collins of Toomsboro; also by two brothers, Willie Brannan, of Carroll County, and Jessie Brannan, of Jacksonville, Fla. The body will be taken this (Wednesday) morning at 11:40 o'clock to McIntyre, where the funeral services and interment will take place.

July 10, 1918
Union Recorder
~excerpt~ IN MEMORY. On Monday, July 1, 1918, just at the midnight hour, the angel of death visited the home of Mr. J. C. Jackson, in Wilkinson county, and carried his wife to those higher realms, for which she had patiently been waiting for years.
  Before her marriage in December 1868, she was Nancy Meadows, and was the last of a large number of children. She often spoke of how she missed the ones gone before.
  She joined the church in her early girlhood.  Her faith lived with her through life and was a great comfort during her trials, temptations and last illness.
  She was noted for being talkative, frank and friendly with all whom she met.
  SHe was well know throughout Wilkinson County, having been born and having spent her entire life here. No doubt her death will be felt all over the county, and she will be missed by a host of people.
   We laid her to rest in the family cemetery (Snow Hill), Rev. W. N. Hill conducting the service. She is survived by her husband, Mr. J. C. Jackson, Ivey, Ga., and five children, as follows: C. M. Jackson, Chester, Ga.; V. P. Jackson, Ivey; Mrs. D. C. Kingry, Gordon; Mrs. J. A. Pace, Eatonton; Mrs. C. H. Richardson, Ivey, and thirteen grand children.
  Sixty-nine years on earth she toiled, making a pure and spotless record. She was always doing the worth while things of life, making life to those cheerful and bright.

August 21, 1918
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Co. C Man Is Cited For His Gallantry
Irwinton, Aug. 20 - Private Robert Nelson, of Wilkinson county, member of Company C, 151st Machine Gun Battalion now in France, has been recently been cited for gallantry. The honor has been done Mr. Nelson on account of his brave action under exposure of heavy shell fire while acting lookout guard.

September 3, 1918
The Macon Daily Telegraph
C.E. Cobb, well known man of Gordon, died at his residence in Gordon early Monday morning after an illness of seven weeks. Mr. Cobb was only 20 years of age, but was a young man of many friends throughout this section. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. W. R. Cobb; four brothers and four sisters; they are W.D., A. A., A. L., L. P. Cobb; Mrs Lilly Happoldt, Mrs. R. J. Hawthorn, Mrs. W. A. Kennington, Mrs. W. W. Taylor. The funeral services will be held today at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in Hardie Chapel cemetery.

September 15, 1918
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Miss Leo White and Mr. E. C. Adams were married September 8th, Rev. T. D. Eillis performing the ceremony. Miss White is a daughter of Mr. C. B. White of Bleckly county, and Mr. Adams is a business man of Wilkinson county.

September 20, 1918
Macon Daily Telegraph
KILLED BY WORK TRAIN. Flagman Goes to Sleep on Track Near Gordon-Engine Awakens Him.
Gordon, Sept. 19 -Jake Kelly, a flagman on a Central of Georgia work train, was killed four miles east of here yesterday afternoon by his train. He went to sleep near the track, resting his head close to the rail. After the engine passed him he was awakened and raised his head. A bolt on a truck struck him, killing him instantly. The deceased was an adopted son of Rufus Kelly, of this place.

September 22, 1918
Macon Weekly Telegraph
BURNEY SUFFERING FROM GUN WOUND
Irwinton Man in Macon Hospital - Said to Have Been Wounded by George Rutherford
Rowell Burney, of Irwinton, is in the Macon hospital, suffering from gunshot wounds. George Rutherford, of the same place, is said to have inflicted the wounds following an alleged argument of the two men over cotton picking.
  Rutherford was not under arrest yesterday afternoon, it was stated, but the authorities are awaiting the outcome of Burney's condition.
  According to reports received from Irwinton, Rutherford shot at Burney with a pistol, several of the bullets entering the home of Mrs. M. E. Burney, formerly of Macon. Rutherford then secured a shotgun and continued his attack on Burney, it is alleged.
  Burney was rushed to Macon in an automobile and place in the Macon hospital, where it was reported last night that, while he was suffering severely from gunshot wounds in the right eye, in the head and the right hand, his chances for recovery are good.

September 29, 1918
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Mrs. Mary E. Benford, aged 63 years, widow of the late R. M. Benford, of Dexter, died yesterday morning at 11:40 o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Callaway, 134 Napier avenue, after an illness of over 12 months. She came to Macon about a year ago in hopes that the change might benefit her and later she went to White Springs, Fla., but returned to Macon a short while ago. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. John W. Callaway, of this city, at whose home she was at the time of her death; also by five sons, James L. King, of White Springs, Fla.; John T. and W. A. King, of Palatka, Fla,; J. H. King, of Knoxville, Tenn., and H. L. King, of Dexter; also by two brothers, Dr. W. L. Smith, a well known dentist of Macon, and R. L. Smith, of Macon, alderman; one sister, Mrs. J. B Freeman, of Toomsboro.
  Mrs. Benford was a consistent member of the First Baptist church of Dexter, and she took a great interest in all church work. The body will be taken to Dexter this (Sunday) morning at 7 o'clock over the Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad, where the funeral and interment will take place some time today. The funeral will be conducted by the pastor.

October 1, 1918
Macon Weekly Telegraph
  ~excerpts~
 The unknown driver of the automobile on the Camp Wheeler road which ran down Andrew J. Golden, a well known Bibb county farmer, Friday night, fracturing his skull and causing his death which occurred last night at the Macon Hospital, deliberately ran down Mr. Golden rather than slacken speed in a race with another automobile according to evidence brought out yesterday at an inquest held by Coroner P. W. Stubbs.
  Mr. Golden came to Bibb County from Wilkinson county about a year ago and has been operating a farm on the Milledgeville road since that time. He made many friends in and around Macon. He was a member of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.
  He is survived by his wife and 3 brothers, R. J. Golden of Dexter, C. L. Golden of Atlanta, and E. Z. F. Golden of Florida
  The body will be shipped to Dublin this morning at 7 o'clock, where the funeral and interment will take place.

October 6, 1918
Macon Daily Telegraph
William L. Pearson. W. L. Pearson, 410 Plum street, died Friday night at 11:30 o'clock at the Macon Hospital, after an illness of one week of pneumonia. Mr. Pearson was a well  known business man of this city and the news of his death is learned with much regret. He was born in Wilkinson county and was 23 years of age. He had been a resident of Macon fourteen years, and has many friends here who deeply sympathize with his bereaved family.
  He was a member of the Tattnall Square Baptist church and Sunday school, Macon Lodge No. 5. F. & A.M., and K. of P. He leaves a mother and sister and grandfather to mourn is death; Miss Mable Pearson and J. H. Bloodworth, of Wilkinson county. The funeral services will be from the residence this (Sunday) afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. H. M. Fugate, officiating. The interment will be in Riverside cemetery. Those who will serve as pallbearers are: Messrs. Frank J. Hodges, T. F. Rogers, Thomas F. Crawford. Thomas F. Asbell.

October 6, 1918
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~JACKSON-CARSWELL. An event of interest Wednesday night was the wedding of Miss Ruth Jackson to Mr. Robert H. Carswell, both of Gordon, at the Baptist church.
...The bride is the daughter of Mrs. J. F. Jackson.....

October 19, 1918
Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs. Julia E. Dennard, a former resident of Macon, died in Milledgeville at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. W. Gholson, Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Dennard had been ill for a number of years. She has many friends in Macon who regret to learn of her death. She leaves two sisters and one brother, Mrs. J. W. Gholson and Mrs. M. E. Simmons, and J. C. James. The body will arrive today at 11:30 and will be carried to Riverside cemetery, where the interment will take place at 12 o'clock.

October 22, 1918
The Macon Daily Telegraph
J. E. Lawson,aged 26 years, died at 6:45 yesterday evening at the Macon Hospital, following an illness of ten days with pneumonia. Mr. Lawson was connected with the Macon Railway and Light Company, and formerly lived in Wilkinson county. Besides his widow and mother, he leaves one little daughter, Mildred. The body will be taken to Wilkinson county for funeral and interment.

October 22, 1918
Atlanta Constitution
Irwinton Ga., Oct. 21 (Special) The epidemic of Spanish influenza is decidedly on the increase in this section. Every doctor in the country is busy day and night attending the case so fast are they developing. One physician visited a negro cabin yesterday where there were thirteen cases in one room. Seven deaths from it occurred in country Saturday.

Irwinton, Ga., Oct. 21 (Special) The Ebenezer Baptist Association will convene here on Oct. 23rd, and 24th. This association includes churches from three counties. Large deligates from every church are expected and Irwinton people are expecting a very inspirational meeting.

Irwinton, Ga., Oct. 21 (Special)
Wilkinson County went over the top on last day of the Liberty Loan by a margin of fifteen thousand dollars worth bonds.George H. Carswell Chm. Mens Committee and Mrs. O. W. Manson Chm. Women's Committee directed the work of the campaign.  

October 26, 1918
Macon Daily Telegraph
   Mrs. Narcissa C. Brooks, wife of J. W. Brooks, died at her home at Gordon early Friday morning. She had been in declining health for a number of yers. Mrs. Brooks was born in Wilkinson county and was 63 years of age. She was a faithful member of the Baptist church and leaves a score of friends who will greatly miss her. Besides her husband, five daughters and one son survive. The funeral services will be held from the Asbury Baptist church today at 11:30. Rev. W. D. Duvell officiating. The interment will be in the Gordon cemetery.

October 26, 1918
Macon Daily Telegraph
M. A. Passmore died last night at his residence, 165 Second street. He was 71 years of age. Mr. Passmore was born in Wilkinson county and had resided in Macon for twenty five years.
   Mrs. Passmore is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J. Ed Wilson and Misses Annie and Mamie Passmore; two granddaughters, Miss Louise Wilson and Mrs. H. J. Capps, of Jacksonville, Fla.
   He was a member of the Baptist church, a Confederate veteran and was a member of the Joe Brown Pets.
  A few nights ago while serving as night watchman at the Willingham lumber plant he suffered a stroke of apoplexy and fell. He was found a short time later and was carried to his home.

October 28, 1918
Macon Daily Telegraph
  The body of George B. Cook who died at an early hour Saturday morning at the Macon Hospital after a short illness from pneumonia, was taken yesterday morning at 6:25 over the Central of Georgia Railroad to Ivey, Ga., where funeral services and interment took place.

December 2, 1918
Macon Weekly Telegraph
C. S. Smallwood, aged 56 years, expired Sunday morning at 5 o'clock at his home, 105 Enterprise street. He was stricken one week ago with a stroke of apoplexy and continued to grow worse until the end came. He was born in Wilkerson county, and operated a farm near Macon. He was a member of the Methodist church. He is survived by one son, O. B. Smallwood, four brothers and one sister, and two daughters, Mrs. C. C. Singleton and Mrs. A. V. Smith. The remains were shipped to Lewiston, last night for funeral and interment.

December 26, 1918
Macon Telegraph
Felton Lyles, aged 10 years, died at the family residence, No. 1211 South College street, at 10 o'clock Christmas eve, after a two weeks' illness of pneumonia. He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Lyles, and four brothers: O. L., H. L., C. F., and P. W. Lyles.
    The body will be taken this morning at 11:50 o'clock to Gordon for funeral and interment.

January 2, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
   Mrs. Susie Mansfield, 58 years of age, died at her residence, 118 Rutherford street, in South Macon, at 1:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She is survived by her husband, W. H. and one son C. E. and one daughter, Mrs. Willie Hawthorne. Mrs. Mansfield had been sick eight days. The body will be shipped at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon over the Central to Gordon.

January 15, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
L. V. Dennard, aged 63 years, died at the home of his son, C.B. Dennard, on Houston avenue, Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. Mr. Dennard had been in declining health for some time, and the news of his death was not unexpected. He was a native of Wilkerson County and had lived here for sixteen years. The last eleven years he was employed with the city as water inspector. He was a member of the Baptist Church. He is survived by two sons and two daughters - F. E. Dennard, of Shreveport, La.; C. B. Dennard, of Macon;Mrs. J. S. Gornto, of Macon, and Mrs. O. C. Attaway, of Dublin. Also two sisters and four brothers survive. The funeral services will be conducted from Hart's chapel this Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev.  J. G. Harrison will officiate. The interment will be in the family lot near Jeffersonville, Ga.

January 13, 1919
The Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Nannie A. Branan
Gordon, Jan. 12 - Mrs. Nannie A. Branan, of Wilkinson County, widow of the late Iverson Branan, died Thursday after an illness of several days. She was stricken with influenza and sank rapidly. Mrs. Branan was born Feb. 5, 1843, in Twiggs County, being the daughter of James Balkcom, deceased, of Macon. Eight children survive, three sons and five daughters. The are: W. I. Branan, of Muscogee, Okla; Jas. C. Branan, of Lufkin, Texas; C. T. Branan, of Sanford; Mrs. J. F. Lingo, of Milledgeville; Mrs. W. D. Pace, of Macon; Mrs. C. E. Gladin, of Gordon; Mrs. W. H. Freeman, of Toomsboro, and Mrs. C. J. Hicks, of Plano, Texas. Four brothers also survive, as follows: Lafayette Balkcom, of Macon; J. F. Balkcom, of Jeffersonville; M.C. Balkcom, Sr., of Macon, and H. V. Balkcom, of Jeffersonville, formerly a resident of Macon. The deceased joined the Methodist church when a young girl and was a devout Christian, having many friends throughout this section. The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Boland, of Irwinton.

January 21, 1919
Union Recorder
Mrs. Julia Batson, widow of the late Mr. Luther Batson, died at her home near Coopersville, Saturday, Jan. 11th, after an illness of a few days with influenza. She had been in ill health for a long time, and was not able to resist this dread disease.
   The funeral was held the following Monday, Rev. J. C. Wilkinson officiating. The interment was at Mt. Pleasant Church cemetery.
  Mrs. Batson was 63 years of age, and was a consistent member of the Baptist church for more than forty years and was a faithful and devout Christian. She was Miss Julia Gardner, of Wilkinson.
  She was twice married, her first husband being Mr. Daniel Sanders. She is survived by four children. They are Mr. John Sanders, of Vienna, Ga.; Mrs. C. W. Moore, Messrs. Walton and Fred Batson of this county.
  They have the sympathy of a large number of friends.  

January 23, 1919
Macon Daily Telegraph
   Miss Annie Jeanes died at the Macon Hospital Wednesday morning at 5:45 o'clock. Miss Jeanes was a well known and popular young lady and the news of her death is sadly learned by her many friends. She was born in Baldwin county and was 24 years of age. She was stricken with pneumonia several days ago which caused her death. She leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jeanes, two brothers, L. B., and George; two sisters, Mrs. Fountain, of Twiggs county, and Mrs. J. Snipes of Milledgeville, to mourn her death. The remains will be carried to Ivey Station, Ga., for  funeral and interment.

January 28, 1919
Macon Daily Telegraph
J. M. Shepherd, a former resident of this city, died at his late home at Toomsboro, yesterday, after an extended illness. Mr. Shepherd was 72 years of age and had retried from the mercantile business, in which he was prominent for many years. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. J. J. Wyndham, of Macon, and Mrs. Josie Boone, of Milledgeville; one son, W. M. Shepard, of Dallas, Tex. Funeral services will be held from the Christian church at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Interment will be in the family burial ground at Toomsboro.

February 1, 1919
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Louella Thompson, aged 43 years, died at her home, 604 Main street, Friday morning at 11:40 after an illness of ten days. Mrs. Thompson was born in Richmond county and have lived in Macon three years. She came here from Irwinton, Ga. She was a member of the Baptist church. Besides her husband, J. D. Thompson, she leaves one son, Claud; two brothers and one sister. The funeral services will be held from the residence Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. The remains will be carried to McIntyre, Ga., for interment. Rev. A. J. Johnson, will officiate.

Feb 2, 1919
Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs Irene Hooks, aged 93 died yesterday at the house of her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Etheridge, near Pinehust. Mrs. Hooks was born in Wilkinson county, but lived most of her married life in and near Hawkinsville. For the past thirty-one years she has made her home in Macon with her daughter, but died while on a visit to another daughter. She has been a member of the Baptist church since girlhood and will be buried today in the family lot at Harmony Baptist church, near Pinehurst. She is survived by one son and three daughters, Mr. J. W. Hooks, of Gordon; Mrs. R.M. Etheridge, of Macon; Mrs W. J. Etheridge, of near Pinehurst, and Mrs.
L.N. Lewis of Cordele.

February 9, 1919
Macon Daily Telegraph
Edgar Holder died Saturday morning at 4 o'clock at his home, 7 Randolph street, after an illness of two weeks of pneumonia. Mr. Holder was born and reared in Macon and was 28 years of age. He was well known here and has many friends who deeply regret to learn of his death. Surviving him are his wife, his mother, Mrs. Lila Jenkins, and one son, C. E. Holder. The body was carried to Ivey Station early this morning for funeral and interment, which will be held today.

February 18, 1919
Union Recorder
  Mr. Chess Combes, an old citizens of Baldwin County, died at his home in the south western part of the county last Sunday, Mr. Combes had been in ill health for a number of years. His remains were buried Monday at Snow Hill cemetery in Wilkinson County. Mr. Combes was seventy years of age and is survived by two children, Mr. W. R. Combes and Mrs. Henry Osborne.  

February 23, 1919
The Atlanta Constitution
Thomas - Boone
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Thomas, Jackson, Ga., announce the marriage of their daughter, Daisy, to Mr. Edwin M. Boone, of Toomsboro, Ga. February 19, 1919

February 24, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Miss Jewell Lavender, aged 15 years, died yesterday at her home near Gordon, in Wilkinson County, after an illness of several days with pneumonia. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and and Mrs. L.  J. Lavender; one sister, Mary, and one brother, Dewey. The funeral will take place today and the interment will be in McCook cemetery.

March 1, 1919
Augusta Chronicle
MONITOR-MERRIMAC BATTLE SURVIVOR DIES
Portsmout, Va., Feb. 28. Capt. Elsberry V. White, survivor of the Monitor-Merrimac battle in Hampton Roads during the Civil War, died at his home here today, aged 80 years. Capt. White was a member of the Confederate engineer corps and was assistant engineer of the Merrimac, then the ironclad Virginia, during the fight He was born in Wilkinson county, Georgia.

March 14, 1919
Macon Telegraph
WILKINSON HASTRACTOR
Irwinton, March 13 - Former State Senator G. H. Carswell, of Irwinton, has purchased a tractor for use on his farm land. It is the first in Wilkinson county, and will be watched with interest.

April 2, 1919
Atlanta Constitution
SURRENDERS TO LAW ON MURDER CHARGE
Macon, Ga., April 1 (Special) Norman Davis (Davidson) aged 30 years, who six year ago is alleged to have killed C. A. Bell at Irwinton, Wilkinson county, and who has been a fugitive since that time, was brought to Macon today and lodged in the Bibb county jail. He surrendered to the sheriff of Wilkinson county yesterday.
  Since the killing Davis had been living in Florida. He claims he killed Bell in self-defense during a fight at a school entertainment and decided to return home and stand trial, believing he will be acquitted.

April 11, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
MISTRIAL RESULTS IN DAVIDSON CASE
Defendant Killed Brother-in-Law Seven Years Ago and Escaped Jail; Recently Return
In Statement to Jury Plea of Self-Defense Is Made; Tried to Avoid Trouble.
  Irwinton, April 10 - Failing to agree upon a verdict in the case of Norman Davidson, charged with the murder of C. A. Bell in Wilkinson County seven years ago, the jury was this afternoon charged and a mistrial declared by Judge Park. It is understood that for some hours the jury stood eleven for conviction and one for acquittal. Application for bond has been filed. Pending the outcome of this action the defendant is in jail here. Davidson escaped from jail shortly after Bell was killed and remained at liberty until a few weeks ago, when he returned and surrendered to the sheriff, expressing the belief that he would be cleared of the charge. Bell was the brother-in-law of Davidson's and was killed at the Cool Springs School April 13, 1912.
   The trail started yesterday. The state was represented by John Sibley, of Atlanta, J. S. Davis, of Irwinton, and Solicitor Doyle Campbell, of Monticello. The defense had as counsel G. H. Carswell, Fleming Bloodworth and Victor Davidson, all of Irwinton.
  The defendant, in his statement, said he had known Bell four or five years and loved him dearly, and Bell loved him save when he was drinking. When Bell was drinking he had a mania for killing Davidson, saying Davidson owed him a dollar, which Davidson says he did not owe but frequently told Bell he would pay if he insisted.
  Tried to Avoid Trouble
  Davidson stated he had run from Bell many times to keep out of difficulty. Bell having shot at him one time. One the night of the killing at the supper table. Bell said: "I am going to have that dollar from Norman Davidson tonight or I'll have his life." Davidson replied he did not have the money then but would give it to him when he got it.  Davidson's father insisted that Bell let him pay the dollar for Norman, Bell saying: "No I'll have it from Norman himself."
   Davidson reached the school house before Bell, he said in his statement, and was sitting in front of the building when Bell drove up in a buggy and called to him saying: "Is that you, Norman? He answered "Yes." Bell then called him to come to home and he went, not knowing Bell meant at that time to have trouble. When he reached the buggy Bell was on the ground, so Davidson stated, and had his knife open. Davidson stepped back, Bell followed, then Davidson opened his knife and stabbed Bell, he thought on his arm, and not seriously. Bell got back in his buggy and drove to the home of a Mr. Cook, nearby. There he died in Davidson's arms. Davidson said he sent for a physician, Bell's father and mother, and did all he could for the man who he says he was forced to kill in self defense.
 Blames "Blind Tigers."
   The defense called no witnesses to the stand. The state call four, none of whom say the actual stabbing, all saying the night was dark and although they were standing near they were unable to tell whether Bell left his buggy with an open knife as Davidson said he did or not. The remainder of their evidence corroborated Davidson's statement. Six speeches were made on the case. George Carswell in his speech denounced the "blind tiger" in Wilkinson County, saying it was responsible for Bell's death and turning to Bell's brother said: "The blood of your brother is on the hands of Doyle Campbell, the luke warm juries in Wilkinson County. The trustees of that school who allowed this entertainment where every single man who attended it was drunk, the sheriff of the county and the other citizens who allow the existence of the tiger. The very tiger that put the bottle to the lips of your brother and caused him to meet his death is sitting right now in this court room and is unpunished, yet this lad who was drunk when he was forced to kill your brother, who was also drunk, is being tried for murder."

April 12, 1919
Columbus Daily Enquirer
TO FACE TRIAL AFTER HIDING SEVEN YEARS
Irwington, Ga., April 10 - Wilkinson county superior court is in session here this week. One of the most important cases to be tried is the Bell murder case. Seven yeas ago Norman Davidson, of near Danville, this county shot and killed his brother-in-law, Mr. Bell at an entertainment at a country school house. Davidson was arrested and placed in the county jail here. Shortly afterwards he managed to escape by cutting the bars of his cell with a file which had been got to him by a relative, it is supposed.

April 13, 1919
Macon Telegraph
  Miss Ethel Bragg, of Irwinton, and Mr. Burke Lee, of Gordon, were married at the home of the bride Sunday by Rev. C. C. Boland, pastor of the Methodist church. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Bragg and is a charming young lady.Mr. Lee is the son of Mrs. Green Lee and is well known through this section. Mr. and Mrs. Lee will make their home in Atlanta.

April 14, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Alexander Parker, 18-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Parker, of Irwington, died at Williams Sanatorium yesterday afternoon after an illness of three weeks. The body was taken to Irwington yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock where funeral services will be held this Sunday after __ them home. Interment will be in the family burial grounds there.

April 15, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
DAVIDSON GIVES BIG BOND. Mistrial Recently Resulted at Irwinton for Alleged Murder of 7 Years Ago.
  Norwood (Norman) Davidson, held in the Bibb jail for safe keeping, yesterday gave bond for $5,000 and was released. Davidson was tried a few days ago at Irwinton for charges of murder committed seven years ago. The case resulted in a mistrial. He is alleged to have killed his brother-in-law and lived in Florida during the seven years he was at large.

May 11, 1919
Macon Telegraph
  J. T. Hatfield, Sr., of Irwinton, died at his home this morning at 9 o'clock after an illness of several months. Besides his wife he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J. T. Miller, of Macon; Mrs. E. C. Momand, of Irwinton; also four sons, J.T. Hatfield, of Albany; J. W. and Sam W. Hatfield, of Macon, and Zee P. Hatfield who has been with the army of occupation but who is now en route to the United States. He is also survived by two sisters and one brother.
  The funeral service will take place at the family residence Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.

May 12, 1919
Macon Daily Telegraph
  Mrs. Bula Mason Elrod, beloved wife of J. R. Elrod, expired yesterday morning at 10:15 at her home, 130 Napier avenue. While Mrs. Elrod had been in declining health for several months, still the news of her death came as a surprise to her many friends. She was born in Wilkinson county August 28, 1884. She was married to J. R. Elrod fourteen years ago and to this union were born two children, Gladys and Reid. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Mason, and two sisters survive - Mrs. W. C. Jones and Mrs.A. J. Rewis. The funeral services will be held at the home this (Monday) afternoon at 4 o'clock, Rev. C. W. Curry, pastor of Centenary Methodist church, officiating. Interment will follow in Riverside cemetery.

June 6, 1919
Macon Telegraph
NEGRO IS FREED OF MURDER. State Asks That Verdict Be Directed To Case Tried At Irwinton
    Irwington, Oct. 10. Ed Jackson, a negro charged with the murder of Tom Reed, also a negro, was acquitted in the superior court here today,. Solicitor Doyle Campbell asking that the court direct a verdict in favor of the defendant after the state's evidence was all in.
   The killing took place at Gordon in June 1919, at a negro frolic. Jackson claimed that Reed shot him the day previous to the killing and shot him again just before he killed Reed.
   Jackson was represented by Attorneys John R. Cooper, of Macon, George Carswell and Hubbard.

July 18, 1919
Macon Weekly Telegraph
MYRICK KILLED AT MILL. No Details of Death of Baldwin County Man Known at Milledgeville.
Milledgeville, July 17 - Information was received here this afternoon that B. B Myrick, 60 years of age, was killed this afternoon at a sawmill near Gordon.
  Myrick is a member of a well-known Baldwin county family. He is survived by his father, three brothers and one sister. His father is J. E. Myrick; his sister is Miss Annie Myrick, and his three brothers are W. S.,  Dudley P. and Gus Myrick. B. B. Myrick lived at Meriweather, which is near Milledgeville.
  No details of how he met his death had been received here tonight.

August 5, 1919
Union Recorder
Mrs. Ella B. Goggins died at her home in this city Saturday, Aug. 2nd, at half-past five o'clock in the morning, after a protracted illness.
  The remains were laid to rest in Snow Hill Cemetery in Wilkinson County, Dr. Rembert G. Smith officiating at the funeral and burial services.
  Mrs. Goggins had been a resident of Milledgeville, 2 years coming here from Florida soon after being left a widow by the death of Mr. Goggins. She is survived by one son, Emory. She was a consistent member of the Methodist church, and was a christian woman.

August 11, 1919
Macon Daily Telegraph
WALL REUNION BIG EVENT IN TWIGGS
Relatives and Friends from Three States Gather at Country Home Near Jeffersonville.
Barbecue Is Feature of Day, Being One of Most Elaborate Ever Served in County
Jeffersonville, Aug. 10. - Todd Hall, the lovely country home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Wall, four miles from Jeffersonville, was recently the scene of one of the largest family reunions ever held in this section. Relatives of the Wall family gathered from all parts of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina.
The guests' register contains this bit of family history:
   James Jackson married Elizabeth Pittman June, 1833. Their children were Louisa Jane, who married Lawrence Clay. Lydia Caroline married Jasper M. Wall. Mary Frances married Jack Moore. Sallie Ann married John D. Rawlings. Nancy Elizabeth married first James McCallum, second Linton Hatcher. Maxa Benita married Andrew James Harrison, Ben Hill married first Mattie Gibson, second a Criswell.
   Lydia Caroline Jackson was the second wife of Jasper McArthur Wall,  married Oct. 2, 1861. Their children, William Todd Wall married Elizabeth Lingo King, March 16, 1913; James Jackson Wall married Lucy Graves Wimberly, Feb. 20, 1890; Jasper McArthur Wall married first Tussie Dolyne Bennett, Feb. 20, 1895, second Mrs. Tommie B. Melton, Sept. 6, 1913.
    A delightful barbecue had been prepared by the host and there was everything good to eat at this feast. In fact, a more elaborate barbecue has never been known in Twiggs county.
Vistors from Three States
 Among the relatives and friends present were the following: Mrs. W. M. Whitehurst and children, of Jeffersonville; R. Lee Moore, of Statesboro; Emma Bell Hatfield, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hatfield, of Dublin; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Wall, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wall, Charlie Wall, Miss Lillie Wall,  Mrs. Tommie Wall, Courtney and Ellen Carswell, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Faulk, Mr. and Mrs. Walker Wood, Linton Hatcher, Mr. and Mrs. John Will Hatcher, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McCallum, F. C. Balcom, Mrs. W. R. Carswell, Miss Bertha Dunevent, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Chappell, Misses Ruth and Elle Chappell, Willie and Archie Chappell, S.C. Jones, S.C. Jr., and Miss Leila Mae Jones, Mrs. J. Hunter Johnson, Frank Johnson, Rosalind Johnson, Hazel Hatcher, Mrs. W. A. Johnson, H. A. McCallum, Katherine McCallum, Mrs. Sam Hatfield, I. S. King, Sr., I. S. King, Jr., John Hatfield, Mrs. Annie Adams, S. W. Hatfield, of Jeffersonville.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Duncan, Leila Cason, Richard Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Will Wall, P.M. Jackson, Martha Jackson, B. H. Jackson, Mollie Colson, of Toomsboro; Mrs. Mollie Lindsey, M. A. Oates, Lena Haynes, Mrs. W. B. Oates, of Headland, Ala; Mrs. Sue Martin, Mrs. Rebecca Hoover of Fitzpatrick; Mr. and Mrs. George W. Duncan, of Macon.
     Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Pennington, C. H. Parker, Beulah Pennington, Alice Parker, Mrs. E. C. Normand, Mrs. Lee Hatfield, Mrs. Emmie P. Bell, Jack Bell, Jack Bell Jr., Mrs. W. L. Pennington, Lee Hatfield, of Irwinton;  Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Holland and children, Manassas; W. F. Jackson, of Greenville, S.C.; Mrs. Mae Birch, of New Smyrna, Fla;  Miss Clara D. Hunter, of Statesboro; Adeline Ivey of Tennille; Mrs. Alice Smith, of Tennille; Mrs. M.V. Coleman, of Cobbtown; James J. Moore, of Scarboro; Mrs. Lizzie Shepard and Elizabeth Shepard, of McIntyre, and R. C. Shepard, of McIntyre.

September 2, 1919
Union Recorder
DEATH OF MRS. IVERSON GOLDEN.
   Mrs. Iverson Golden, of Wilkinson county died at the Hall-Little Sanitarium Tuesday morning at once o'clock.
  The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon, and the interment was in the Camp Creek Cemetery.
  Mrs. Goden (sic) was, before her marriage, Miss Hattie Farmer, of this County. She is survived by her husband and six small children, mother and several sisters and brothers. Her death is keenly felt by her relatives and friends

September 13, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
AMERSON STAYS IN BALDWIN
Wilkinson County Loses Fight for White Prisoner
Milledgeville, Sept. 12 - A commitment trial involving some interesting legal phases was heard here today before Judge Ellison. In the month of July, Henry Amerson and Johan Abbaglin, a Swede, both citizens of Wilkinson county, near the line of Baldwin, had a quarrel about a farm road and Amerson shot Abbaglin in the thigh, the latter bleeding to death from the wound. There was no witenss to the shooting. The coroner of Baldwin held an inquest and about ten days afterwards Amerson was arrested in Griffin by Sheriff Terry of Baldwin county and lodged in jail here, charged with the crime of murder.
  Today a demand was made by the authorities of Wilkinson county in behalf of Amerson to have Amerson transferred from Baldwin county to Wilkinson county jail and the further legal procedure in the case be in the latter county, it being contended that the crime was committed in Wilkinson county. This brought up the discussion of the line between the two counties, Attorney Erwin Sibley acting for the state. It was contended by him that everybody reported that the crime had been committed over in Baldwin and Wilkinson authorities made an effort to act in the case and Amerson had been captured and lodged in jail to answer for the murder of the Swede by Baldwin's sheriff and that there was no definite proof showing in which county the crime was committed, therefore, the prisoner was in proper custody.
  The decision of the judge denied the motion of Attorney George Carswell and ordered Amerson held in Baldwin county jail.
  Much interest was shown in the trail of the case and quite a number of citizens from adjoining communities of both counties were witnesses and spectators.

September 29, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
W. B. (Wiley B.) Aids, 46 years old, superintendent of the Ganit Manufacturing Company, died at 8:30 o'clock last night at his home, No. 131 Knott street, after a ten day's illness.
   Besides his wife he is survived by three daughters and three sons: Mrs. F. C. Kline, Misses Ezelle and Flora May Aids, and Wiley, Marvin and George Aids; his mother, Mrs. Rebecca Aids, and four brothers.
   Mr. Aids was a member of Magnolia Camp, Woodmen of the World, and also of the J. O. U. A. M., and the Second Street Methodist church.
  The funeral will be held from the residence at 4 o'clock this afternoon, Rev. H. M. Morrision officiating. Interment will be in Cedar Ridge. Magnolia Camp, W. O. W., will be in charge of the funeral.

October 4, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Macon Man Is Attorney for Man Who Lost Leg in Battle of Argonne.
  Attorney John R. Cooper, of Macon, will defend James Moore, of Allentown, ex-soldier, accused of killing a negro named Earl Stevens. Moore was recently discharged from the army. He lost a leg in the fight with Germans in the Argonne forest. The case will be called Monday in the Irwinton Superior Court. Solicitor Doyle Campbell and State Senator Carswell will represent the State. Judge J. B. Park presides in the case.

Oct 6, 1919
The Atlanta Constitution
M'WILLIAMS - Died, Mildred Louise McWilliams, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. McWilliams,at the residence, 166 Hampton street, at 6:15 p.m., Sunday. The remains will be taken to Gordon, Ga., this (Monday) morning for funeral and interment. Harry G. Poole, funeral director.

October 10, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
JAMES MOORE ACQUITTED ON CHARGE OF MURDER. Accused of Killing Negro, Veteran of A. E. F. Pleads Self-Defense, Claiming Black Reached for Gun.
Irwinton, Oct. 9. James Moore, a white man, was acquitted in Superior Court here today on a charge of shooting Iryin (sic) Stevens, a negro, to death on the night of September 20.
  Witnesses for the State, Henry Bowden and Will Stevens, both negroes and the latter a kinsman of Irvin Stevens, testified that Moore and another white man named Horton, stopped outside a hall where the negroes were holding a dance and called Stevens out. Moore, they swore, cursed Stevens and demanded what he meant by brushing against him. They testified that Stevens asked Moore to excuse him and that Moore cursed the negro again and threatened to kill him. As Moore reached for his pistol, the negroes said, Stevens ran, and Moore shot him twice, one through the right arm and once through the abdomen. They testified that the negro had no weapon except a small knife with a broken blade.
  James Moore was the only witness for the defense. He said the negro brushed against him, that he cursed the negro and Stevens told him he had no business there. He swore the negro made a movement as if to draw a pistol and that he shot in self-defense.
  Moore served in the A. E. F. and in his statement today said that he was wounded at Chateau-Thierry. His mother was present at the trial and wept during her son's testimony.
  John R. Cooper and Victor Davidson represented the defendant and Doyle Campbell and George Carswell the State. Another murder case will be tried tomorrow.

October 13, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
Mrs. Lena Belle Ward, wife of W. J. Ward, died at the Macon Hospital yesterday morning at 8:30 o'clock of typhoid pneumonia. She had been ill for two weeks.
  Mrs. Ward was 25 years of age and came to Macon to reside from Wilkinson county nine year ago. She is survived by her husband, daughter, Gladys, and son, Edward; mother, Mrs. J. H. Wooden; sister, Miss Lobie Grier, two brothers, James and Frank Wooden.
   The funeral will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the residence of her mother, No. 148 Hydrolia street. Rev. A. J. Johnson, pastor of the East Macon Baptist Church, will have charge of the service. Interment will be in Fort Hill cemetery.

October 21, 1919
Macon Weekly Telegraph
INFANT OF D. W. WARD.
  The friends of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Ward sympathize with them in the loss of their infant daughter, who died at their home 1159 Hazel street, yesterday morning. The body was taken to Gordon, Ga., for interment.

November 1, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
NEGRO KILLED IN WILKINSON. Irwinton, Oct. 31. Billie Rozier, a negro, was shot to death near here Monday by Lamar Carswell, also colored. Jealously over a negro woman is believed to have caused the killing. Carswell has been taken to the Bibb county jail. He came here and surrendered.

November 16, 1919
Macon Telegraph
    Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Ward of Gordon announce the engagement of their daughter,Miss J. D. Crosby, to Mr. William Clarence Barlow of Gordon. The wedding will be solemnized the latter part of December.

November 16, 1919
Macon Telegraph
STOKES-GREEN. An interesting even of Wednesday evening, November 12, at Gordon, was the marriage of Miss Eva May Stokes to Mr. J. P. Green, Jr. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride by Rev. P. W. Ellis, presiding elder of the Macon district. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stokes and is a most charming and popular young woman. Mr. Green is one of Gordon's most prominent young men, being agent for the Central of Georgia Railroad at Gordon. Immediately after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Green left for an extended wedding trip.

November 26, 1919
The Macon Telegraph
Mrs.Margie Ann Branan, aged seventy-six, died at the home of her son, J. J. Branan, 769 Mulberry street, yesterday morning at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Branan had been in declining health for some time, but confined to her bed only a few weeks.
   She was the widow of J. L. Branan, and had lived in Macon the past thirty-seven years. Mrs. Branan with her family moved here from Wilkinson county, where she was born and reared. Surviving her are two sons, J. L. of Jacksonville, Fla., and J. J., of Macon; one brother W. A. Jones, of Gordon, one sister Mrs. George Reddy of Macon;  also several nieces and nephews, among them Miss Ruby Faucette, of Macon, and John N. Faucette, of Jacksonville; Frank W. Faucette, of Atlanta, and Joe L. Branan of Jacksonville, and Miss Edith Norris of Haverhill, Mass.
  The funeral services will be held from the residence this morning at 9 o'clock Rev. T. D. Ellis, of the Mulberry Street Methodist church, officiating. The interment will be immediately afterwards in the family lot at Riverside. The following will serve as pallbearers: J. T. Burnett, J. T. Clements, Jim Chambers, Thomas Grice, C. D. McCowan and Loring Peterson.
(Note:Tombstone says Morgianna Jones Branan)

November 30, 1919
Macon Daily Telegraph
  Mrs. L. E. Snow died yesterday morning at 1:30 at her hone, 260 Main street, after a long illness. She was sixty-three years of age, and had been a resident of Macon eight years. Mrs. Snow was a member of the Methodist church, and has many friends who regret to learn of her death.
   Surviving her age three sons and one daughter, J. O., G. N., and J. H. Snow and Mrs. C. E. Davis. The body will be carried to Ivey, early this morning for funeral and interment.

December 2, 1919
The Macon Daily Telegraph
NEGRO IS LYNCHED. Shoots and Seriously Wounds Hansel Rosier's Son.
  Dublin, Dec. 1 - Meager details of a lynching just across the line of Laurens in Wilkinson county reached Dublin this afternoon. A negro, whose name has not been learned, was lynched some time during Sunday night near Big Walnut church. He shot and painfully wounded a son of Hansel Rosier, one of the best known men of that section. It is stated that young Rosier was struck in the face and breast by shot from a gun fired by the negro.
  The lynching was quiet and few people were aware of what had taken place. The body was found hanging from a tree near the main road at Big Walnut church. There was no excitement in the community, according to reports received here.

December 18, 1919
Atlanta Constitution
  Governor Dorsey yesterday offered a reward of $500 for the arrest with evidence to convict of the unknown parties who, on the night of November 30, 1919, lynched Jack Ridicer, a negro, in Wilkinson county. The people of Wilkinson are indignant over the affair as the negro was taken over the county line to be put to death, the crime with which he had been charged having been committed in an adjoining county.