February 6, 1930
Macon Telegraph
The funeral of Thomas A. Stubbs will be held at Salem church in Jones county this morning at 11 o'clock. Dr. Charles R. Jenkins, pastor of the Mulberry Street Methodist church cemetery.
Mr. Stubbs was 48 years of age. He died at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon at his late residence at James, Ga. He was angaged in farming practically
all his life, and was a member of the Methodist church. He was born in Jones
county, in June, 1880.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Rosa Etheridge Stubbs; a son and three daughters; Otis, Ruth, Gladys and Dorothy Stubbs; a brother, A. T. Stubbs of James; three sisters, Mrs. George Gatliff, of James; Mrs. Ethel Etheridge of James; and Mrs. P. W. Hurt of Bowden. He was a son of the late Jim Stubbs and Elizabeth Pitts Stubbs of Jones county.
February 13, 1930
Macon Telegraph
James Van Buren Dies at His Home In Jones
County
James
R. Van Buren, 80, a resident of Jones county for the greater part of
his life and a man who had come into prominence in affairs of the state,
died at his home at Griswoldville, Ga., at 7 o'clock last night, after
an illness of about a month.
He was born in Stillwater,
N. Y., where he received his early education, and he came to Georgia to
make his home when still a boy. He served for 12 years as a trustee of
the Georgia State sanitarium and he was elected honorary trustee at the
time of his resignation. Only recently he resigned as a trustee of the
Georgia Academy for the Blind. He was a member of the Telegraph's 50-year
club.
For a number of terms
he represented the Twenty-first district as state senator and at
one time he was prominently mentioned as a candidate for state treasurer.
He declined to run on account of his extensive farming interests to which
he devoted the greater part of his life.
Descendant of Prominent Family
Mr. Van Buren was a direct descendant
of Martin Van Buren, former president of the United States. He was
married to Miss Laura Whitehurst Massey, of Wilkinson county, who
died in 1916.
He is survived by a brother,
Olin
M. Van Buren, Lockport, N.Y., and the following children: Mrs. L.
Roy Fernad, Tarpon Springs, Fla.; Mrs G. A. Patterson and
Mrs.
Lucian C. Durham, Tampa; Mrs. Claud B. Wilson, Griffin, Ga.;
and Mrs. Wallis B. Hardeman, Fort Valley; B. N. Van Buren, Amsterdam,
Ga. ; J. R. Van Buren Jr., of Macon and Hansell O. Van Buren,
Griswoldville.
Funeral services will be held
from the chapel of Connally and Pitts at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Interment will follow in Rose Hill cemetery. The services will be conducted
by Dr. W. R. Mackay, pastor of the First Presbyterian church here.
April 20, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Gray, Ga. April
19. Word was received here today of the death ofJ.
E. Bowen, former resident here who was reported killed last night in
an automobile accident near Montgomery, Ala.
Mr. Bowen was the brother of
Sheriff J. A. Bowen, of Jones county and C. R. Bowen, also of
this city. One other brother, C. R. Bowen, resides at Wayside in
this county, and Mr. Bowen also is survived by two sisters, Mrs. C.
D. Reynolds, and Mrs. E. Abeny, both of Alabama.
August 17, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Mrs.
Lucinda Stripling, of Griswoldville, Ga., died yesterday at the home
of Mrs. James Baker on the Milledgeville road while on a visit
here, after an illness of only two days. She was a trained nurse until
her health failed recently.
She was born and reared in
Jones county, and was the daughter of H. T. and Georgia Parrish Moore,
of that county. Besides her father, H. T. Moore, of Griswoldville,
she is survived by three brothers and two sisters, Ed. Moore, of
Macon; M. H. Moore, of Gray; O. M. Moore, of Griswoldville;
Mrs.
J. H. Marsden, of Arlington, Fla., and Mrs. Dan White, of Spring
Island, S. C. Several nieces and nephews and an aunt, Mrs. B. F. Balkcom,
of Griswoldville, also survive.
She was a member of the old Griffin
Chapel Methodist church of Jones county. Funeral services will be held
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the residence of her brother, O.
M. Moore, at Griswoldville. Interment will take place in Griffin chapel.
The pallbearers will be W.
S. Stripling, James Baker, L. F. Price, P. L. Henderson and Luther
J. Henderson.
No details of how the accident
occurred were received here.
September 7, 1930
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for William
Edward Baker, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Baker, of
108 Ross street, were held at the grave in Mountain Springs cemetery yesterday
afternoon at 5 o'clock, Rev. C. A. Jackson, pastor of the First
Street Methodist church, officiating.
The child died at a local sanitarium
yesterday morning. He was three months of age, and had been ill most of
his life. Surviving besides his parents, are one brother, George Baker,
and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moore, of Macon, and Mrs. W.
E. Monroe, of Madison, Ga.
December 31, 1930
Macon Telegraph
DANIEL JACKSON. Round Oak, Ga., Dec. 30. Daniel
Jackson, 80, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George T. Pippin,
yesterday morning. Funeral and burial took place at Caney Creek church
at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Jackson is survived by his wife, formerly
Miss
Mirah Childs; one son, Rufus M. Jackson, of Round Oak, five
daughters, Mrs. W. G. Pippin and Mrs. J. G. Bradley, of Gray;
Mrs.
Clyde VanZandt and Mrs. George T. Pippin, Round Oak, and Mrs.
C. J. Stephenson, of Hapeville..
April 10, 1931
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
Elvinah A. Bragg, 87, who died at the homeof her son, E. R. Bragg,
246 South College street, Wednesday night, will be held at the Gray Baptist
church at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Elder B. F. Williamson will
conduct the services and interment will be in Gray cemetery. Pallbearers
will be Earl, Thomas, Fred, Noel H., Richard and T. S. Bragg. Mrs.
Bragg was a member of the Mount Zion Primitive Baptist church, of Gray.
Mrs. Bragg is survived by 104 direct
descendants, including eight sons and one daughter; T. H. Bragg,
of Irwinton; W. M. Bragg, Macon; S. E. Bragg, Gray; J.
H. Bragg, Hawkinsville; C. W. Bragg, Tampa, Fla.; L. E. Bragg,
Macon; I. W. Bragg, Gray; E. R. Bragg, Macon and Mrs.
W. W. Crocker, Valdosta.
April 15, 1931
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for R.
D. McDaniel were held at Mountain Springs church near Gordon at 11
o'clock yesterday morning. Rev. J. J. Bennett, pastor of the Gray
and Haddock Baptist churches, conducted the services and interment was
made in the church cemetery.
The pallbearers were J.
M. Bloodworth, H. W. Lester, W. A. McDaniel, J. J. Christian, H. W. Lester,
and G. B. Moore. Mrs. J. A. Middlebrooks, Mrs. M. F. Morton
and S. P. Myrick, accompanied by Mrs. H. C. Pearson, sang
Abide With Me and Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
Mr. McDaniel died at his home
in Haddock, Monday morning. He was engaged in the lumber business in Haddock.
Surviving, besides his widow, formerly Miss Maggie Balkcom, are
four children,
Ruth, Mary, Bessie and Polan McDaniel; four brothers.
W. F. and J. T. McDaniel, of Macon; L. H. of Thomaston; G.
L. McDaniel and also one sister, Mrs. J. L. Lester, of Macon.
May 22, 1931
Macon Telegraph
Wiley
Mason, 58, Jones county farmer, died at his residence at Griswoldville,
at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon after an illness of two weeks.
Mr. Mason was born and
reared in Jones county and is survived by two brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services will be held
at 5 o'clock this afternoon at the grave in Jackson county.
May 25, 1931
Macon Telegraph
C. P. BLOODWORTH. Funeral services for Charles Perry Bloodworth,
who died in Atlanta Saturday night, will be held at the Cherokee Heights
Baptist church at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The Sunday school class, of which
he was teacher, will serve as a group of honorary pallbearers.
Rev. W. F. McClunney and W. G. Veal, of Milledgeville, and Rev. J. Fred Eden, pastor of the Cherokee church, will conduct the services. Interment will be in Salemn cemetery near Haddock in Jones county.
Pallbearers will be R. O. Thomas, J. T. Trimble, Ray Turner, Ira D. Green, Furman O. Tyner and Charles O. Brooks.
June 24, 1931
Macon Telegraph
MRS. DANIEL JACKSON. Round Oak, Ga, June
23. Mrs Daniel Jackson,
of Round Oak, died at 3 a.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. T.
Pippins, at the age of 77.
She is survived by five daughters
and one son, Mrs. H. G. Bradley and Mrs. W. G. Pippins of
Gray, Ga., Mrs. W. H. VanZandt, of Atlanta; Mrs. G. T. Pippins
of Round Oak; Mrs. Essie Stephenson, of Hapeville and R. M. Jackson,
of
Round Oak. Funeral servces will be conducted by Elder B. F. Williamson,
of Lizella, at Caney Creek Baptist church, Wednesday at 11 a.m.
June 24, 1932
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
Bessie Haddock were held in Doles church at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Rev.
T. H. Tinsley, officiated. Interment was in Doles cemetery.
Mrs. Haddock died Tuesday afternoon.
She was the widow of Joseph Haddock. She was born in Jones county
and lived in Macon 25 years, moving to the Thomaston road five years ago.
A daughter and two brothers
survive, also two grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Homer Jones,
Charles Brown, Emory Ester, Sam Tucker, Dock Jones and Ozie Jones.
January 23, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Miss
Ida Bell Jarrell of Round Oak, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Jarrell, also of Round Oak, will be held at 2 o'clock Monday
afternoon in Caney Creek Primitive Baptist church. Rev. Mr. Meeks of
Atlanta will officiate and interment will be in the family lot of the church.
Pallbearers will be B. R. Jarrell,
Jr.; J. M. Jarrell, C. F. Jarrell and W. L. Jarrell, all of
Round Oak; Alfred Barfield and W. L. James of Macon.
Miss Jarrell was 31 and had been
in bad health for more than a year. She was a member of the Baptist church
at Dames Ferry.
July 27, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Double funeral services for Miss
Doris Miller and Hoke
Smith Miller will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Haddock
Baptist church. Rev. J. S. Hays and Rev J. L. Reeves will
conduct the services. Interment will be made in the Salem cemetery.
The two cousins were
drowned Sunday afternoon at Sarasota, Fla.
July 28, 1933
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Miss
Doris Miller and Hoke Smith Miller were held at 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon in the Haddock Baptist church. Rev. J. S. Hays and Rev. J.
L. Reeves officiated. Interment was in Salem cemetery.
Active pallbearers for Miss Miller
were Celia Miller, Ernest Bloodworth, Herbert Miller, Jim Huff, Jamie
Jackson and James Mullins. Honorary pallbearers were Augusta
Smith, Ruby Moore, Lorena Moore, Francis Lister, Ruby Lister, Lovie Miller,
Sarah Morris and Ruby Mullen.
Active pallbearers for
Mr. Miller were Jimmie Bloodworth, H. T. Bonner, Bert Dixon, Herman
Miller, Lucious Bivins and Caulder Bivins.
February 17, 1934
October 17, 1934
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Charles Williamson Middlebrooks, 74, Jones county farmer and merchant, were held at 3:30 p.m. yesterday in Haddock Methodist church. Rev. Mr. Singleton of Gray officiated.
Mr. Middlebrooks died Monday night at his home after
an illness of several months. He was a member of the Haddock Methodist church.
Interment was in Fortville cemetery.
June 22, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Sam
E. Bragg, 68, who died at his residence at Gray, early Thursday night
after an illness of five days with pneumonia, will he held at the graveside
in the Gray cemetery at 11 a.m. today. Elder W. J. Green will officiate.
Mr. Bragg was a native of Jones
county and had lived there all of his life and was engaged in farming.
Pallbearers are to be R.
H. Bragg, J. Tom Bragg, Earl S. Bragg, J. M. Childs, J. P. Hawkins
and J. E. Morton.
July 29, 1935
Macon Telegraph
Hardwick, Ga., July 28. Mrs.
Sarah Ellen Moore died at her home in Hardwick today. She was 77 years
of age. Funeral services will be held at Salem church in Jones county at
11 o'clock Monday.
She is survived by four sons,
W.
A. Moore and S. I. Moore of Hardwick; C. H. Moore of
Gordon, Ga., and R. L. Moore of Macon; two daughters, Mrs. J.
I. McAdams of Hardwick and Mrs. J. J. Burlington of Macon; two
brothers, J. F. Newton of Palm Beach, Fla.; and C. I. Newton
of
Milledgeville and 11 grandchildren.
June 4, 1936
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Ed
Moore of 120 Winship street, whose death occurred at his residence
shortly after noon Tuesday, after an illness of four weeks, were held in
the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 4 p.m., yesterday. Rev. E. M. Shelton
and
Rev.
G. Reid Smith, officiated and interment was in the James cemetery near
Mountain Springs.
Mr. Moore was born in Jones county
but had made his home in Macon for eight years. He was a member of the
First Street Methodist church and was employed by the city of Macon at
Central City park.
November 12, 1936
Macon Telegraph
Funeral Services for Mrs.
Cora Comer, formerly of Jones county, whose death occurred at the residence
of her son, W. L. Comer, in North Carolina Sunday, were held at
the Mount Pleasant church, in Jones county, at 3 p.m. yesterday. Elder
J. A. Monsees officiated and interment was in the Gordon cemetery.
Pallbearers were F. A. Gordon,
J. S. Godo, E. T. Nowell, Litt Nowell, B. O. Tribble and T. A. Tribble.
June 30, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
Mattie Lou Gordon, who died at her residence in Round Oak Friday afternoon,
were held at the Round Oak Presbyterian church at 4 p.m. yesterday. The
Rev. J. M. Davis, pastor, officiated and burial was in the cemetery
at Gray.
Pallbearers were Carl Williams,
J. Nell Smith, Coleman Smith; J. M. Childs Sr.; Nolan Sammons and Elton
Smith.
Honorary pallbearers
were Joe Mercer, J. M. Gordon and Neil Smith, Jr.
August 26, 1937
Macon Telegraph
ROBERT YOUNG. Milledgeville, Ga.,
Aug. 25. Funeral services for Robert
Young, 76, who was found dead early yesterday at his home in Haddock,
were conducted this morning at the Bethlehem church in Gordon. Interment
followed in the church cemetery.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Nancy Roberts Young; one son, Dan Young, of Haddock, and two
daughters, Mrs. J. R. Davis, of Hardwick, and Mrs. Andrew Kitchens
of
Gordon..
November 23, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs. Ophelia Young Hammock, Jones county woman who was fatally burned Sunday, will be held at 1 p.m. today at the graveside in Kelly cemetery,
Jones county.
Mrs. Hammock died of burns received when her clothing caught fire from an open grate.
The Rev. H. M. Cannon will conduct the funeral services today.
November 24, 1937
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
J. W. Hardin, mother of G. S. Hardin, of Macon, were held at
11 a.m. yesterday in the Round Oak Methodist church. Mrs. Hardin was injured
fatally in an automobile accident Sunday.
The Rev. Will Greene of
Gray and the Rev. H. E. Gaddi of Mercer University officiated at
the services. Burial was in the church cemetery.
August 26. 1938
Macon Telegrap
Funeral services for Mrs.
Mary Frances Rice, who died at her residence, 256 Church street, Wednesday
afternoon after an illness of a week, were held in the chapel of
Hart's Mortuary at 5 p.m. yesterday. The Rev. Herman C. Jones officiated
and burial was in Fort Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Rice was a native of Jones
county and had made her home in Macon for 40 years. She was a member of
the East Macon Methodist church.
April 13, 1939
Macon Telegraph
Negro, 75, Killed On Railway Tracks. Gray,
April 12. Jones County Sheriff J. P. Hawkins said today an inquest
was held in James community last night in the death of Rufus
Jones, 75-year-old Negro, who was killed by a train.
Sheriff Hawkins said the investigation
indicated Jones stumbled when the train approached. He was carrying a fishing
pole and lunch.
A coroner's jury held the accident
unavoidable.
April 23, 1939
Macon Telegraph
Milledgeville, April 22. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Huff,
89, Haddock resident who died last night in her home after an illness of
a month, will be held at her residence at 3 p.m. Sunday, Joseph A. Moore, Milledgeville undertaker, officiating. Interment will follow in the Fortville cemetery.
Surviving are four sons: W A. Huff and E. M. Huff of Milledgeville, S. E. Huff of Baltimore, Md., and L. W. Huff of Spartanburg, S. C.; one daughter, Miss Lula Huff, Haddock; two sisters, Mrs. C. T. Brown and Miss Minnie Hysler, Macon; one brother, George Hysler, Macon; five grandhildren, Mrs. C. P. Bloodworth, Macon; Tom W. Huff, Salemburg, N.C., Mrs. A. J. Stroud, Macon; Jim Huff, Haddock, and Mrs. John Bansmith, Baltimore, Md.
August 29, 1939
Macon Telegraph
Otis Comer Dies At Clinton Home. Jones County
Policeman Had Been Ill for Month.
L. Otis
Comer, 78, for 14 years a Jones county policeman, died at his home
in Clinton at 11:45 p.m. yesterday after a month's illness.
Mr. Comer was born in Jones
county Dec. 24, 1860, the son of George Washington Comer and Martha
Comer. He was a member of Mount Pleasant Primitive Baptist church in
Jones county.
Mr. Comer's first wife, Mrs. Lizzie
Smith Comer, died about 25 yeas ago.
Survivors includes his wife,
the former Miss Mary Tyner of Jones county; eleven children, Ed.,
J. T., Sidney, by the firs wife, Louise, Jack, Mary Frances, Robert,
Joseph, Martha, Ann, and Winnie Comer, all of Jones county, several
grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
Mount Pleasant church at 4 p. m. today, with Elder B. F. Williamson
of Lizella officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
November 16, 1939
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
Lucy Garland Hunt, who died at her residence 114 1/2 Rogers avenue,
at noon Tuesday, after an illness of several months, were held in the chapel
of Hart's mortuary at 3 p.m., yesterday. Dr. S. T. Senter and Dr.
Ed F. Cook officiated. Mrs. T. Ayer Hatcher and Mrs. T. E.
Rogers, sang in duet Home of the Coul and Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,
accompanied at the organ by Crockett Odom. Interment was in Round
Oak.
Pallbearers were Andrew Buchanan,
H. W. Pittman, John Gibson, A. M. Domingos, T. M. Jones and O. H.
McAfee.
Mrs. Hunt was born at Hillsboro and
had made her home in Macon for 20 years. She was a member of Vineville
Methodist church and was a life-member of the Woman's Missionary Society.
April 20, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Miss
Annie Smith of Gray, who died in a local hospital early Thursday after
an illness of several months, were held at the Clinton Methodist church
at 4 p.m. Friday. The Rev. R. C. Singleton, pastor of the Grantville
Methodist church, and the Rev. O. J. Withrow, pastor of the Gray
Methodist church, officited and burial was in the Clinton cemetery.
Pallbearers were R. L. Chambless,
Ard Pulliam, Dr. J. D. Zachry, Emmett Jackson, S. A. Butler and Guy
Anderson.
Miss Smith was a life-long
resident of Jones county and was a member of the Methodist church.
April 26, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Mrs.
Ruth Bragg Dies Of Illness. Native Of Birmingham Succumbs At Home In
Gray. Mrs. Ruth Yates Bragg, 42, wife of E. A. Bragg of
Gray, died at her home Thursday night after a long illness. A native
of Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. Bragg was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Yates. She was a member of First Methodist church of Birmingham.
Besides her husband she is survived
by three stepdaughters, Mrs. H. P. Sturdivant of Barbourville, Ky.,
Mrs.
J. H. Clark of Macon, Mrs. J. T. Middlebrooks of Athens; one
stepson, Gus Bragg of Gray; three sisters, Mrs. Jeannette Buss,
Mrs. Edna Crain, Mrs. Fred Vincent; three brothers, Clarence and
Milton Yates of Birmingham and Fred Yates of Chicago.
Funeral services for Mrs. Bragg will
be held at 5 p.m. Saturday at Gray Methodist church.
Active pallbearers will be J.
U. Butler, J. J. Moore, T. H. Trice, Joe Glawson, Thad Greene, A. M. Greene,
Milton
Greene, and H. E. Greene. Honorary pallbearers will be Gus
L. Anderson, F. M. Stewart Sr., F. M. Stewart, Jr., W. E. Knox, J. A. Burnette
and J. McW. Hungerford.
July 16, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Wheeler Dies By Drowning. Young Man Falls
Into Lord's Lake. The body of Lewis
O. Wheeler, 25-year-old Clinton road resident, was recovered from Lord's
lake near Toomsboro about 4 p.m. yesterday. He fell from a boat and was
drowned in the lake while fishing yesterday morning.
Funeral services will be held at
the Bradley Baptist church at 4 p. m. Tuesday. The Rev. Ira McClung,
pastor of the Gray Baptist church, will officiate and burial will be in
the Wheeler cemetery near Bradley.
Mr. Wheeler was associated with his
brother, R. L. Wheeler, in the operation of a nursery on the Clinton
road about six miles from Macon.
He accompanied Harry Tucker
of the Macon fire department and H. P. Stapleton, Georgia Power
Company employee, on the fishing trip. In casting from a boat he lost his
balance, fell into the water and was unable to reach shore. His companions
landed safely.
Born in Jones county
Feb. 27, 1915, Mr. Wheeler had made his home near Macon all his life. He
was the son of W. L. Wheeler and Mrs. Vesta Johnson Wheeler.
He is survived by his parents, his
brother, and a sister, Mrs. R. W. Marchman, Macon.
Pallbearers will
be Ellis Wheeler, H. P. Stapleton, Harry Tucker, Raymond Marchman, Frak
Koen and John Stine.
July 17, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Sidney S. Smith, dairyman and farmer, died at his residence near Gray
at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday after an illness of a year. He had a heart ailment.
Mr. Smith was born in Jones county
November 24, 1872, the son of Moses W. Smith and Mrs. Lula Alexander
Smith, and had lived near Gray for nine years, moving there from
Wayside. He was a member of the Mount Pleasant Primitive Baptist church.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Miss Susie Gordon; two sons, Kelly Smith, Wakulla,
Fla., Moses Smith, Macon, RFD; his mother; a brother, Grady
A. Smith, Haddock; a sister, Mrs. G. E. Gordon, Wayside.
Funeral arrangements will be announced
by Hart's Mortuary.
July 19, 1940
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Sidney S.
Smith, dairyman and farmer who died at his residence near Gray Tuesday
after an illness of a year, were held at the Plentitude church at 2 p.m.
Thursday, Elder J. J. Nobles and Elder Will Green officiated and burial
was in Gordon cemetery in Jones county.
Pallbearers were Dawson Gordon,
W. T. Gordon, K T. Gordon, Walker E. Gordon, S. A. Gordon and J. Miller
Gordon.
June 11, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Walter Evans Dies at Home. Funeral services
for Walter Evans, textile
worker, who died at his residence, 111 Randolph place, at 10:20 a.m. Tuesday,
after a long illness, will be held at the graveside in the James cemetery
in Jones county at 11 a.m., Wednesday, G. P. Rankin will officiate.
Mr. Evans was born in
Jones county, May 5, 1881, the son of Rufus Evans and Mrs. Cyndy James
Evans, and had made his home in Macon for 30 yeas. He was a member
of the Mountain Springs Primitive Baptist church.
Surviving are two sons,
Albert
Evans and Willie Frank Evans, Macon; a daughters, Mrs. Annie Maud
Hawkins, Macon and two brothers, I. M. Evans, Macon; and Wayman
Evans, Gray; three sisters, Mrs. Bertie Whisdby, Gray;
Mrs.
Bertha Evans and Mrs. E. B. Donaldson, Macon, and his mother,
Mrs.
Cyndy Everidge, Macon.
July 1, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Mr.
Ernest Roberts died at the home of his father, Andrew Butler of
343 Boone street following an extended illness. Mr. Roberts is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Johnnie Mae Roberts, a son, Ernest Roberts,
Jr., his parents Andrew Roberts Sr. and Mrs. Laura Roberts;
four
sisters, Misses Hazel Elizabeth and Lovett Roberts of Macon; and
Miss
Laura Mae Roberts of Chicago, Ill; a grandmother, Mrs. Lucinda Roberts,
five aunts, one uncle, and a host of relatives and friends. Funeral
services will be held at Lizzieboro Baptist church Friday afternoon at
2 o'clock with Rev. E. O. Bivens officiating. Burial will be in
Griswoldville, Ga. Hutchings' Service.
July 31, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Leila Fegean,
66, died at her home in Gray at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. She is survived by three
sons, four daughters, 18 grandchildren and a host of friends.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today in the Gray AME chuch with the Rev. J. Wilson officiating. Burial will be in the state cemtery. Jones county funeral home ha charge of the arrangments.
August 11, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mack
Gray Souther of 1703 Second street, who died in a private sanitarium
at Pressmen's Home, Tenn., Friday morning after a long illness, will be
held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 10 a.m. Monday.
The Rev. Logan Landrum,
pastor of the Tattnall Square Prebyterian church, will officiate and burial
will be in Evergreen cemetery.
Mr. Souther was born
at Gray, the son of G. Tom Souther and Mrs. Nora Slocumb Souther,
and made his home in Macon and Atlanta before his health failed. He had
worked at The Macon Daily Telegraph, The Atlanta Journal and The
Atlanta Constitution.
Pallbearers will
be Gordon Thrash, L. H. Harp, R. H. Ward, G. H. Williams, C. M. Powell
and Frank Crute, Jr.
December 16, 1941
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for
Mrs. Lucinda Roberts, late of 343 Boone street, will be held in the
Griswoldville Baptist church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will
take place in the Griswoldville cemetery. Mrs. Roberts is survived
by two daughters, Mrs. Laura Roberts of Macon and Mrs. Bessie
Roberts of Griswoldville; two brothers, John James of McIntyre, Ga.,
and Frank James of Griswoldville, Ga., and one sister, Miss
Rena James of Griswoldville; two sons-in-law; 20 grand children and
28 great-grand children. Hutchings' Service.
May 14,1942
Macon Telegraph
Juliette Youth's Body Found. Juliette, May
13. The body of Charlie Taylor,
20, the head crushed, was found near the dam in the Ocmulgee river here
Wednesday at 11 a.m. but the cause of his death remained a mystey Wednesday
night.
The youth disappeared Saturday
night, after Marvin Bowden said he had loaned him a flashlight so
he could walk across the dam.
Dragging of the river, which
began Sunday, ended when C. C. Holley, electrician for the Juliette
Milling Company, found the body Wednesday.
Coroner Jim Weldon of
Monroe county summoned a jury and a lengthy inquest was held Wednesday
afternoon, with many witnesses testifying. The verdict was not revealed.
Mr. Taylor was
born in Jones county, June 12, 1922, the son of Charles W. Taylor and
Mrs. Nora Mason Taylor, and had lived at Juliette practically all
of his lfe. He was a textile worker.
Surviving are his mother; three
sisters, Miss Rosa Mae Taylor, Mrs. Mattie Mercer and Miss
Annie Delma Taylor, of Juliette; two brothers, James Henry Taylor
and Bennie Napier Taylor, of Juliette; four aunts, Mrs. Lizzie
Hunnicutt, of Macon; Mrs. Julian Mercer, Juliette; Mrs. Betty
Innis, Miami; two uncles, George Mason, Juliette; and H.
G. Mason, Dothan, and three nieces.
The funeral will be held at
11 a.m. Thursday at the graveside at East Juliette. The Rev. L. L. Minton
will officiate.
September 16, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services forMrs.
B. Monroe Green, who died at her residence at Gray, Ga., early Monday,
after a brief illness, were held at the Gray Baptist church at 5 p. m.
Tuesday. Elder P. H. Byrd and the Rev. H. L. Mitcham
officiated
and burial was in the Highview cemetery at Gray.
Mrs. Green, the former Miss
Mary Turner, was a life-long resident of Gray and was the oldest member
and a charter member of the Mount Zion Primitive Baptist church.
September 21, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
Pink Wood, widow of Taylor Wood, who died at the residence of
her daughter, Mrs. Mamie Donner at Griswoldville Friday afternoon,
were held at the graveside in the Wood cemetery at 4 p.m. Sunday. The
Rev. C. W. Stitt officiated.
Mrs. Wood lived in Jones county
most of hr life. She made her home in Macon for a few yeas prior to the
death of her daughter. Mrs. Harris Sharp, with whome she made her
home while here..
October 13, 1942
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
Hazel Lee Stevens, whose death occurred Sunday afternoon, will be held
at the graveside in the Souther cemetery in Jones county at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
The Rev. T. M. Bailey will officiate.
Mrs. Stevens was born
in Jones county, the daughter of Jim Ethridge and Mrs. Lula Collins
Ethridge. She had made her home in Macon for sevral year and was employed
a portion of the time at a local restaurant.
Surviving are a husband, Ed
Stevens, and a daughter Mary Lewis Stevens, Macon; her father,
Jim
M. Ethridge, of Jones county; several uncles and aunts.
February 15, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Mattie Lou Allen of 893 Cherry street, died in a local hospital at 9 a.m. Sunday, after a brief illness.
Mrs. Allen, the former Miss Mattie Lou Martin, was born in Jones county, March 8, 1882, the daughter of Dock Martin and Mrs. Sallie Crossley Martin, and had lived in Macon for 50 years. She was a member of the Eastside Baptist church.
Surviving are her husband, T. M. Allen, Macon; a son, M. N. Allen Macon; two daughters, Mrs. Carl Giles Jr. Macon; Mrs. Verna Carswell, Tampa; two grandchildren, Martha C. Giles and Thomas Newton Allen of Macon; a brother, Glenn Martin. Charleston; two sisters, Mrs. Annie Johnson, Cochran; Mrs. Mamie Christan, Bullards.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Hart's mortuary.
March 13, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Miss
Mary Ellen Bonner, 84, will be held at 12 o'clock noon today at the
Burghard-Connally chapel with the Rev. Silas Johnson officiating.
Burial will be in Rose Hill cemetery.
Miss Bonner died at her home
369 First street Thursday. She was the daughter of the late Richard
W. and Ella Griswold Bonner, and was born in Clinton, Ga., in 1859.
She was a graduate of Wesleyan
Conservatory of Music and taught music at the conservatory many years after
her graduation. She was also one of the oldest members of the Mulberry
Street Methodist church.
Pallbearers will be Sid Griswold,
Giles Hardeman, Phil Steed, E. L. Cheatham and John Bonner.
April 14, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Schiller
Hudson, of 1015 Second street, who died in a local hospital at 2:30
a.m. Tuesday, after an illness of two weeks, will be held in the chapel
of Hart's mortuary at 11 a. m. Wednesday. Dr. A. C. Baker, pastor
of the Baptist Tabernacle, of which he was a member, will officiate and
burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.
Pallbearers will be W. A.
Hudson, L. T. Hudson, C. N. Hudson, J. C. Hudson, Milton Andrews and
Jack
Smith.
Mr. Hudson was born in
Jones county, May 6, 1889, the son of Bonner Rett Hudson and Mrs.
Maggie Wheeler Hudson and had lived in Macon sice 1917. He was an automobile
painter and had been associated with the Steve Solomon Motor Company.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Miss Martha Clifford Roquemore from Monroe county; two daughters,
Margaret
Hudson and Shirley Ann Hudson, of Macon; two sisters,
Mrs.
Reid Burke, Macon; Mrs. Beulah Miller, Lumber City; four brothers,
W.
A. Hudson, L. T. Hudson, C. N. Hudson and J. C. Hudson all of
Macon; a large number of nieces and nephews.
May 16, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. Stripling Dies After Long Illness.
Funeral services for Mrs.
L. F. Stripling, who died at her residence on the Miller Field road
at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, after a lingering illness, will be held in the chapel
of Hart's mortuary at 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. M. A. Shaw will
officiate and burial will be in the Griffin's Chapel cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Ellis Baker,
Marvin Baker, Olan Baker, Joe Baker, W. F. Stripling, Jr. and Peyton
Balkcom.
Mrs. Stripling, the former
Miss
Sallie Baker, was born in Jones county, the daughter of John Baker,
and had lived near Macon for 18 years. She was a member of the Pitts Chapel
Methodist church.
Surviving are her husband;
two daughters, Mrs. T. K. Alston, Macon; Mrs. Malcolm E. Long,
Baxley;
three sons, J. P. Stripling, New York; Robert Earl Stripling
and
Eugene Stripling, of Macon; six grandchildren; three brothers,
James
Baker, John Baker and Will Baker, all of Macon.
September 8, 1943
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Pink
Young, Griswoldville farmer, who died in a local hospital Friday evening,
were held in the chapel of Hart's mortuary at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev.
A. C. Baker officiated and burial was in the Kelly cemetery.
Mr. Young was a lifelong resident
of Jones county.
April 29, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Funeral Rites Sunday For Moses Jack Wood.
Gray, Ga., April 28. Funeral services for Moses
Jack Wood, Jones county farmer, who died at his residence at Gray,
at 10:40 a.m. Friday, will be held at the Gray Methodist church at 3 p.m.
Sunday. The Rev. L. Baugh and the Rev. W. P. Spivey will
officiate and burial will be in the Highview cemetery, Gray.
Active pallbearers are to be U.
S. Lancaster, J. U. Butler, Ard Pulliam, F. W. Stewart, Jr., Herbert Greene
and
Juhan
Moore.
Honorary pallbearers are to
be Dr. J. D. Zachry, F. M. Stewart, J. C. Balkcom, J. H. Bonner,
D. V. Childs, J. A. Burnett, W. E. Knox and R. F. Turk.
Mr. Wood was born in Jones
county, July 22, 1877, the son of William Wood and Mrs. Lydia
Ann Giles Wood, and had lived there all of his life. He was formerly
superintendent of the public roads and was chairman of the board of
education. He was a member and a steward of the Gray Methodist church.
Surviving are his wife,
the former Miss Alice Roberts of Douglasville; three sons, James
Arthur Wood, New York; E. Jack Wood, Atlanta, Max Wood, Gray;
a grandaughter. Joan Wood, Atlanta; and a brother, John D. Wood,
Wayside.
August 29, 1944
Macon Telegraph
Funeral
services for Josiah Jones
Henderson, Jones county's last surviving Confederate veteran, who died
at his residence near Griswoldville Saturday afternoon, wre held in the
chapel of Hart's mortuary at 1 p.m. Monday. The Rev. M. A. Shaw officiated
and burial was in the Henderson cemetery.
Mr. Henderson was a lifelong
resident of Jones county. He was 100 years old Dec. 19.
December 14, 1944
Macon Telegraph
L.
Eugene Bragg, formerly of the Kinney Shoe Company here, died at his
residence in Valdosta, Monday. Funeral arrangements will be announced later
by Hart's mortuary.
Mr. Bragg was born in Jones
county, the son of S. Tom Bragg, and Mrs. Elvina Patterson Bragg.
Surviving are three brothers, I.
W. Bragg, Gray; E. R. Bragg, Macon; C. W. Bragg,
Tampa; a sister, Mrs. W. W. Crocker, Valdosta; several nieces and
nephews.
March 7, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
Minnie Viola Wheeler, who died at her residence at Bradley Monday evening,
will be held at the Bradley Baptist church at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Dr.
H. D. Johnson will officiate and burial will be in the Wheeler cemetery.
Active pallbearers are to be J.
J. Mercer, R. L. Wheeler, J. L. Glawson, Horace Greene, W. C. Glawson,
and Ellis Wheeler. Honorary pallbearers are to be
J. T. Glawson, George B. Slocum, J. J.
Glawson, Dr. J. D. Zachry, Homer Harris, Alva Greene and
Mac
Hungerford.
Mrs. Wheeler, widow of Allen Wheeler,
was a lifelong resident of Jones county and was a member of the Bradley
Methodist church.
November 5, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Funeral services for Mrs.
Louise Ford, late of 1132 Woolfolk Street will be held in the St. Luke
Baptist Church on the Emory Highway this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Burial
will follow in the family cemetery in Griswoldville, Ga. The remains will
lie in state in the church from 10 o'clock this morning until the hour
of the funeral service. Hutchings' Service.
November 8, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Haddock, Nov. 7 - Sam
D. Chambers, 67, life long resident of Jones County, died at the home
of his sister, Mrs. J. R. Childs, in Macon today after a long illness.
He is survived by another sister,
Mrs.
Albert Rodriguez, of New Orleans; and four brothers, C. R. and H.
H. of Brandon, Fla., John W. of Zephyr Hills, Fla., and
C. P., of Birmingham, Ala.
Funeral services will be held
Friday in the Haddock Methodist Church at 2 p.m.
December 30, 1945
Macon Telegraph
Mrs. J. F. Childs Dies at Wayside Mrs. Martha Alice Barfield Childs, widow of John F. Childs, and life-long resident of Jones County, died early yesterday morning at wayside.
The daughter of Jordan Barfield and Irene Humphries Barfield,
Mrs Childs was born on Feb. 27, 1852, in Jones County, and lived near Wayside
all of her life. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Her death followed
an illness of several years. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. E. M. Davis, Wayside; three sons, D. V. Childs, Gray; P. F. and O. P. Childs,
Wayside; fourteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services
will be held at 3 p.m. today from the Presbyterian Church at Wayside, with
the Rev. J. M. Davis and Rev. W. E. King officiating. Burial will be iin the family lot in the Round Oak Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Thad Childs, Holmes Hawkins, Barron Childs, Jack Childs, Grady P. Finney and Jerry Gorman.
The funeral cortege will leave Hart's Chapel at 2 p.m.
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