February 7, 1860
Federal Union
  Died at his residence in Jones county on the 17th ult, Michael Burkhalter, aged one hundred years.
  He was born in Virginia, but in early life moved to Warren county, and resided there for many years in the neighborhood of Newsom's Ponds. Warren county being then but nearly settled, the indians were troublesome and he was engaged in many skirmishes with them and found it necessary for the safety of himself and family to retire from his house to the forest at night and in pursuit of his daily labors to carry his rifle with him to the field in order to protect himself against their sudden attacks.
  Very soon after the removal of the Indians west of the Ocmulgee he removed to Jones county, near the place at which he died.

April 10, 1860
Southern Recorder
    Departed this life near Greenwood, Florida, on the 30th ult., EDWARD BRYAN, aged 70 years and 7 months.
   The subject of this notice was born in Jones county, N. C., and at the age of 24 years moved with his mother to Laurens county, Ga., where her resided until 1838. He then removed to Jackson county, Florida, where he raised a large and highly respected family. A widow and five daughters survive him to mourn their irreparable loss. Of him it may be truly said, "he died without and enemy on earth," and in the full hope of heaven; often during his illness expressing his perfect readiness and willingness to submit to the will of his Creator, and constantly exhorting, even with his last breath, his surviving friend, his brothers and sisters and children, to prepare to meet him in that happy abode above, where troubles and trials are known no more forever. A FRIEND.  

April 17, 1860
Southern Recorder
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.  HORATIO, 15 or 16 years of age, son of Mr. Francis Johnson, of Clinton, Jones county, unfortunately shot himself while playing with a loaded pistol at Mount Zion, (where he was at school) on Saturday, the 7th inst. He was at the time, we learn, sitting in company with two other students, handling the pistol, when it unexpectedly went off, discharging the whole load into his thigh, severing the main artery. The artery was taken up as speedily as possible, but from the loss of blood and consequent exhaustion, he died on the succeeding day. At the firing of the pistol no alarm was excited on the part of the young men present, but Johnson soon directed their attention to his bleeding thigh by pointing to it. All possible aid was rendered, but to no effect. Thus a second son friend Johnson has been suddenly bereft of, in the vigor of life, from the effect of fire-arms. We deeply sympathise with him and friends in their great loss-the loss of a promising and loved son. How delusive worldly hopes-brightest expectatons how suddenly blasted! Every day's observation shows the hazard and impropriety of carrying deadly weapons, yet it is still persisted in.

May 12, 1860
Macon Telegraph
DIED. Departed this life, in Jones county, near Clinton, 8th of May inst., Mariah A. Morton, wife of Edward T. Morton, aged 32 years 4 months 13 days, of Cancer. She was confined to her bed 3 months, wand was never heard to complain of her affliction; her brother, and other relatives and friends were present to soothe her last moments. An amiable wife and fond mother has passed away, leaving the domestic circle desolate. Long will she be remembered by her many friends and attached husband.

August 18, 1860
Macon Telegraph
DIED, In Jones county, on the 11 inst., John S. Walker, Esq., a native of North Carolina, but for many years a resident of Jones county. Having filled the office of Magistrate, Sheriff and Legislator, with credit to himself and satisfaction to his consituencs, he was a reliable and useful citizen in every sense of the word; a frugal and industrious man, a kind and provident husband, father and master, and finished his course with a spot upon his character. B.

September 19, 1860
Macon Telegraph
DIED. In Savannah, on the 1st inst., on his way home from New York, WILLIAM MORELAND, of the county of Jones. He was born in the county of Greene, but for the past thirty years lived in Jones. For a good many years past he was the leading member of our Inferior Court, and filled that post, as he did all others, with credit to himself and with honor to his county. His integrity and practical common sense gained for hime the esteem and confidence of all with whom he came in contact. He was a firm, unwavering friend, reliable under all circumstances-a useful public citizen, ever watchful over the interests under his care; and carried with him to the grave, not only the tears and sympathies of friends and neighbors, but the good will and respect of ever one. He left behind him what all men may covet, an unsullied reputation. He ws aged about 60. FRIEND.

November 27, 1860
Southern Recorder
  ~excerpt~ Dr. Horatio Bowen, aged 68 years, died in Clinton on the 18th inst. He was a surgeon of Volunteer in Floyd's Army in 1812, and after retiring from the Army settled soon thereafter in this place, and for the past 45 years has been laboriously engaged in the duties of his protection.

July 13, 1861
Macon Telegraph
DEATH OF COL. S. SLATTER, Col. S. Slatter, formerly of Clinton, Georgia, for many years a resident of New Orleans,  died a few days since, at Meridan, a depot on the Mobile and Mississippi Rail  Road, about one hundred and forty miles above Mobile. He was a brother in law to Captain Jonathan Parish, who died at the Indian Springs on Wednesday last.

July 16, 1861
Southern Federal
A Venerable Man Fallen, We learned with deep regret yesterday that the aged and venerable Col. Jonathan Parish, of Clinton, Jones county, died suddenly at the Indian Springs on Wednesday evening, from what was supposed to  be an apoplectic attack. His remains were brought to this city yesterday morning, and carried to Clinton. He had passed his "threescore years and ten" and was highly esteemed and respected for his manly virtues. [Telegraph, 12]

September 18, 1861
Macon Telegraph
Camp Bartow, Quarters of the Jones Volunteers, Sept. 8th, 1861
  At a meeting of the "Jones Volunteers" this day, held for the purpose of appropriately noticing the deaths of JAMES SEABORN, FRANKLIN WELLS,
WILLIAM T. SMITH AND WILLIAM G. GIBSON, members of said company.
    The following preamble and resoultions were unanimously passed
 WHEREAS, Our respected friends and fellow soldiers James Seaborn, Franklin Wells, William T. Smith and William G. Gibson, have departed this life, be it therefore
  Resolved, 1st. That the sympathies of the "Lones Volunteers: be, and the same are hereby tendered to the families and relatives of our deceased comrades in arms.
   Resolved, 2nd. That in the deaths of these soldiers our company has lost some of its best members, soldiers who were ever ready to answer to the call of duty-who were always faithful in the discharge of that duty-whose places in our ranks it would be difficult to fill.
   Resolved, 3rd. That while we deplore our loss, we are satisfied it was their gain-all being membrs of the Church, and we believe sincere and pious Christians.
  Resolved, 4th. That the proceedings of this meeting be sent to the families of each, and also for publication in the Macon papers.
ISAAC HARDEMAN, Lieut. commanding company, Josiah N. Beall, O. S., Sergeant Woodall, Sergeant Barrow, Corporal Balkcom, Private Leeves, Private R. C. Franks, Committee.

October 23, 1861
Macon Telegraph
    Departed this life at the American Hotel, in Richmond Va., on the morning of the 10th of this month, Lieut William Barron, of the Jones Volunteers, 12th Ga. Reg., in the twenty-second year of his age.

November 20, 1861
Macon Telegraph
DEATH OF CHARLES MACARTHY, ESQ. All interested in the courts and public records of Jones county, and congnixant with the punctilious and methodical character of the old Clerk and Ordinary of that county, will regret to see from an obituary noticed that he is no more.-. He was a model officer, and carried into all his judiciary and business transactions a characteristic promptitude and exactness. For some months Mr. Mccarthy has been unable to discharge his official duties, and they have dissolved upon his deputy, ROLAND T. ROSS, Esq., who has performed them with a fidelity worthy of his principal, and that is saying a great deal.

August 19, 1862
Southern Recorder
  Died, at his residence in Jones county, on the 16th July, Mr. MARK WHITAKER, aged 80 years, formerly of Columbia county, Georgia.

August 27, 1862
Macon Daily Telegraph
DIED, In Seabrook Hospital, Richmond, July 14th, of wound received in the hip at the battle of Mechanicsville, ELI S. GRAY, of Jones county, Ga., private in Company F., 45th Ga. Reg. He fell nobly fighting for his country.

September 22, 1862
Macon Telegraph
DIED. Departed this life on the 15th inst., after seven days of painful illness, Mrs. ELLEN L., wife of Capt. Richard W. Bonner, in the 33 year of her age. As a wife and mother, she was faultless; as a Christian, her light shone brightly. Since the commencement of the present war she has been zealous and active in caring for our soldiers and to them she will be a sad loss.  Her afflicted relatives deeply mourn her death, but to her it is great gain, for she died full in the faith of happiness hereafter. Clinton, Ga., Sept. 20, 1862.

October 28 1862
Macon Telegraph
  ~excerpt~ DIED in Jones county, Georgia, October 23, Mrs. MARY E, consort of H.H. ANTHONY, Surgeon 4th Regiment, Miss. Cavalry.

November 11, 1862
Southern Recorder
  Died, in Jones county, on the 10th October last, Mrs. ELIZABETH HART, in the 89th year of her age. Her life has been one of true piety, and her last end was peace. H. P.

June 23, 1863
Southern Recorder
~excerpt~  The subject of this notice is Mrs. SARAH CHILDS (relict of John Childs, deceased) who departed this life at her residence in Jones county, Ga., on the evening of the 8th inst., after a protracted illness of several months, in the 64th year of her age....

June 27, 1863
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt -DIED, At Clinton, Jones county, on the 16th inst., in the 25th year of his age, private Samuel Griswold Johnson, of Co. B., 2nd Battalion Ga. Vols, from the effects of a wound received while skirmishing at the battle of Chancellorsville.

August 25, 1863
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~ Departed this life on the night of the 18th, Thomas Woolfolk, after the short period of sickness of one day....
  He was born in Wilkes county, North Carolina, on the 14 day of February, in the year 1776-moved to Jones county, Ga., in 1806, and in January 1826 he settled at Fort Hawkins, while Macon was in the woods, and the Indians possessed the western bank of the Ocmulgee river.
  Modest and retiring, he was little known outside his friends and asociates of former days. Of his deeds of benevolence, he always acted "Let not they left hand know what thy right hand doeth." Kind and indulgent, his children were won and endeared to him with more that common affection.
   A member of the Baptist Church, her welfare was ever a constant desire...

September 22, 1863
Southern Recorder
~excerpt~DIED, In Jones county, on the 6th inst., STEPHEN BIVINS, in the 76th year of his age.

October 6, 1863
Southern Recorder
  Died, at his residence in Jones county, on the 19th inst., of dropsy, in the 36th year of his age,ROBERT BROOMFIELD RIDLEY, son of Dr. Charles L. Ridley, an honest, noble-hearted, generous man. "In the midst of life we are in death." Would to God that the living could lay to heart the inevitable destiny of humanity, and in life prepare for death.

June 29, 1864
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt -DIED, on the 15th instant, after a brief illness of three days of pneumonia, little MOLLIE, daughter of Daniel W. and Lizzie J. Holsenbeck, aged five years and twenty-eight days. Clinton, June 22  '64

July 11, 1864
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt- DIED, In Clinton, Ga, June 29, 1864, FRANCES, son of O. P. and Ann Finney, aged 3 years, 2 months and 29 days.
  He met his sad, untimely fate, from the effects of poison, administered by a servant to the family at breakfast. He lingered but a short time after the deadly potion had been received, and died about noon of the same day, bemoaned and regretted by the entire community. For his bereaved and heart stricken parents, the most profound sympathy is felt by all.
(Note - called Frank)

September 24, 1864
Macon Telegraph
  ~excerpt~ Killed at the battle of Jonesboro, August 21st, 1865, private JESSE C GOLLY, in the 27th year of his age.
  Knowing his inability and unfitness for a camp life he never entered Confederate service until April of the present year. He left his home in Jones county, with several others, and attached himself to the 1st Confederate Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, where he remained but a short time before he became an inmate of the hospital, he then obtained a furlough and came home; while at home he often spoke of the hardships of his short campaign, but from a sense of duty he expressed a desire to be again with his comrades; but alas how soon was his work to be ended, he was there but a short time before he fell on the bloody field..

December 27, 1864
Southern Recorder
   ~excerpt~ Died, on the 12th inst., at her residence in Jones county, Mrs. PANINA GRISWOLD, consort of the late Giles H. Griswold, of Griswoldville, in about the 44th year of her age.
  The circumstances of her death were purely accidentally, resulting from the excitement and confusion occasioned by the presence of the Yankee cavalry. After they had left with her stock and several negroes, still expecting other arrivals and further deeds of violence, she thought of a small bag of powder left by her nephew, which she did not regard as sufficiently secure. While engaged in pouring the powder from one bag into another a spark of fire flew into her lap, igniting the powder with a report and shock equal to that of a cannon. Her clothes were set on fire, and her limbs and body dreadfully burned, from which she suffered the most excruciating pain for about three weeks, when death came, the harbinger of her eternal rest. She has left a family of eight interesting children with many relatives and friends to mourn their irreparable loss, but with the consolation that all her anticipation and rapturous visions of the heavenly world, are being abundantly realized.

December 24, 1867
Southern Recorder
  ~excerpt~ Died, on the 12th inst., in Jones county, Ga., at the residence of Thomas J. Williams, Esq., her son-in-law, Mrs. GILLA ANN DISMUKES, in the 84th year of her age.

March 5, 1869
Macon Weekly Telegraph
  ~excerpt~ Died, near Clinton, Jones County, Ga., on the 23d January, 1869, Mrs. MAZY PATTERSON, consort of Judge Hearndon Patterson.
  Deceased was in the 62d year of her age; was married to the Judge more that forty-one years ago; was truly an estimable l ady, a kind, loving and devoted wife and the most affectionate of mothers.

February 15, 1870
Federal Union
  Mrs LOUISA GRISWOLD died on the 8th instant, at Griswoldville, in the 80th year of her age.

June 21, 1870
Macon Telegraph
DIED, in Jones county, MATTIE UDORA HADDOCK, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Haddock, departed this life June 5, 1870, aged one year, four months and twenty-three days. After a protracted illness of nine days, the messenger of death came and wafted her innocent little soul to that bright land above. J. R. ANDREWS.

September 13, 1871 
Federal Union
    We are pained to announce the death of Mr. Oscar V. Brown, which occurred at his residence in this county on Friday last. Mr. Brown was one of our most respected and worthy citizens, and a mason of high standing. At the time of his death he was Past High Priest of Temple Chapter No 3.
     His funeral took place at Pleasant Grove Church ten miles from this city on last Sabbath morning. We learn that a touching and appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. J. W. Stipe. Some 25 or 30 members of the Masonic Fraternity from this place were present and took charge of the remains and escorted them to the family burial ground at Fortville, where they were interred with the usual masonic honors. The distance prevented a larger attendance of the brotherhood.

June 26, 1872
Federal Union
  Died, in Clinton, Ga., June 5th, Mr. Samuel Morgan, Sr., in the 62d year of his age.

August 6, 1872
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
    ~excerpt DIED, of consumption on Friday evening, the 26th of July, Mrs. CORDELIA A. BROACH, wife of Calvin Broach, of Jones county, Georgia, aged 38 years and 4 months. She leaves a doting and deeply bereaved husband, who had idolized her for the last 20 years. In all the relations of life, whether a daughter, mother, or wife Mrs. B. was a patter of lady and her memory will long be treasured in the hearts of numerous friends as worthy of all affection.

September 18, 1872
Union and Recorder
  An old colored preacher, Geo. Simmon, died suddenly on Sunday, week in Jones county, while in the act of giving out a hymn. He had long expressed a desire to die in harness.-Since emancipation he has always voted the Democratic ticket.

March 26, 1873
Macon Telegraph
~excerpts~
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
Death of Elder James Stewart, of Jasper County, Georgia.
  In the morning of the 21st day of last December, while some were preparing for merry Christmas and others were quietly pureeing their daily vocations, came the astounding intelligence of the death of our Baptist minister, ELDER JAMES STEWART. ..
  One week prior to his death he was attacked with a severe chill while superintending the raising of a saw-mill on his plantation in Jones county. This was the inception of pneumonia, of which he died.
  Elder James Stewart was born in Jones county, Ga., August 8, 1812. He attached himself to the Primitive Baptist Church in the year 1832.
  He was ordained to preach in the year 1836.....
  ..In him the widows, orphans and the poor have lost their best friend, his children and grand-children a kind and tender father, his widowed wife a fond and devoted husband...
       ...In the spring of 1871 he was a subject of hepatitis or inflammation of his liver....

September 9, 1873
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~Death of a Young Lady.   Miss Annie Cate Catching, a very lovely young lady of fourteen years of age died at her home after a brief illness.

June 16, 1874
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~ Mr. R. H. Hutchings died at his residence, in the city, Sunday morning, at the age of fifty-seven years. For some months he has been a sufferer from amost malignant cancer, and during the past few weeks his sufferings were  extreme.
  Mr. Hutchings was formerly a citizen of Jones county, but since the war has been a residence of this city............

November 4, 1874
Union and Recorder
   ~excerpt From the Telegraph & Messenger Nov. 2. Death of Mr. James M. Gray.
  Mr. James M. Gray, of Jones county, after a severe and somewhat protracted illness, died at his residence about seven o'clock yesterday morning. The deceased was born on the 5th of February, 1813, consequently, was in the sixty-third year of his age. He was reared in Jones county, and grew up to be one of its most influential citizens.........
  Mr. Gray will be buried to-day, beside his father, in the old cemetery at Centon (sic) Clinton.

December 1, 1874
Augusta Chronicle
   Mr. John Barfield, one of the oldest and best citizens of Jones county, died on Sunday last, the 22d inst. He was perhaps, the oldest citizen of Jones, having resided in that county sixty-six years. He leaves a large family connection and a great number of friends to mourn his loss.

February 23, 1875

June 1, 1875
WeeklyTelegraph and Journal & Messenger
Mr. WILLIS BEDDENFIELD, formerly of Jones county, where he was raised, died at Quitman last week, aged 65 years.

July 20, 1875
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~Deparated this life, in Dooly county, Ga., on 29th June, MRS. ANN E. OWEN, wife of Rev. R. M. Owen, and daughter of Thomas and Temperance Feagan, after an illness of only a few days. Sister Owen was born in Jones county, Ga., on the 21st of April, 1820. Early in the year 1825 her famither moved to Crawford county, where she grew up and was educated. She was married to the Rev. R. M. Owen on the 7th of December, 1837, by the Rev. Z. H. Gordon. Sister Owen joined the Baptist Church at Knoxville, Crawford county, in the year 1845, and was baptised by the Rev. Marlin Ansley.............

August 10, 1875
Macon Weekly Telegraph
SAD FATALITY IN JONES COUNTY. Two Men Killed by Lightning.
   We have information of a sad fatality by lightening which occurred at Elam Church, about three miles from Clinton, in Jones county, abut 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. A protracted meeting was in progress in the church, and the casualty occurred during a storm between the morning and afternoon services. After a vivid flash of lightening and a startling peal of thunder, Rev. J. W. Butts, a young minister, was discovered to have been struck by lightning. He was found lying near a tree not far from the church. He was at once carried into the church and a physician sent for, and after a prompt use of restoratives he soon returned to consciousness and was considered out of danger. His worst injury was a severe contusion on one of his cheeks, caused by falling face downward upon a root when he received the shock.
  When Mr. Butts had been restored and the excitement caused by the causality had somewhat subsided - this was nearly an hour after Mr. B. was found - the absence of Mr. Henry G. McArthur and Mr. John Phelps was noticed. They had walked out about the same time that Mr. Butts had, and both were under the same umbrella. Search was instituted for them at once, and not far from the church both of the men were found lying together struck dead by the same awful flash of lightning. It seem, from appearance, that the lightning had struck a tree near which they were standing, descending it to about ten feet of the ground, when the current left the tree for the umbrella under which the two men were. Death was probably instaneous. The umbrella was torn all to fragments. The neck of young Phelps and nearly every bone in his body was broken. In the case of Mr. McArthur no bones appear to have been broken. The shoes of both men were torn off their feet. It was a horrid fatality and cast a gloom of sadness over the whole community.
   Mr. McArthur was a native of Tennessee, and had been a resident of Jones county only about eighteen months. He leaves a wife and two children.
  Phelps was about twenty years of age, and unmarried.
  Mr. Butts, who made so narrow escape, graduated from Mercer University at is late commencement.

March 28, 1876
The Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Journal & Messenger
 Mrs. Mary Loretta Childs, wife of Mr. John F. Childs, died of pneumonia, at her residence in Jones county, Georgia, on Thursday evening, March 9, 1876; after an illness of one week.
  She was born November 10, 1842. and consequently was in her 27th year when she died. She was a quiet, good woman, though she had not joined the church. She seemed to be  adorned with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is, in the sight of God, of great price. A day or two before her death, she clasped the hand of her husband in her own, bade him good-bye, and said she was going to rest; that her sufferings were great, but would soon be over. Mr. Childs had to give her up so soon! She leaves a little bright boy, about sixteen months old. Little Willie Jordan is unconscious of his Loss. Her funeral was largely attended by sorrowing relatives and friends, on Saturday morning, at the residence of her mother, Mrs. J. J. Barfield.

March 28, 1876
Union and Recorder
  SUDDEN DEATH - Miss Orrie Tufts, grand daughter of Mr. Wm. Little, of Jones county, and who was a student at the school of Mr. Willis, was found dead in bed at the residence of Col. R. B. Nisbet on last Tuesday morning. The occurrence is indeed a said one, being a severe shock to her relations here and more especially to her two sisters, who were here with her, and her grand parents in Jones county, who had sent them here to attend school only a few weeks ago. Her death it is supposed, was caused from some organic disease of the heart. The corpse, accompanied by her relations, Mr. J. T. Dennis and Col. R. B. Nisbet, and her two sisters, was carried across the country to her home in Jones county on Wednesday morning, where she was interred. Eatonton Messenger.

June 6, 1876
Union and Recorder
DIED. On the 1st instant, near Haddock
s Station, Jones county, MRS. MARY PALMER, relict of the last Isaac Palmer, in the 76th year of her age. SHe was for many years a member of the Baptist Church, but two years ago she became converted to the faith of the Second Advent Church, and died in the faith of that church. She was greatly beloved and her death is lamented by all who knew her; but her many relatives and friends have the consolation of knowing that she was prepared when the summons came. J.

July 24, 1877
Union and Recorder
  Mr. Sam Gray died at his residence in Jones county last Tuesday, aged 85.

November 24, 1877
Macon Telegraph
~excerpts~ DIED, At his home in Jones county, Georgia, on Saturday, the 17th instant, Green A. Clower, in the seventy-third year of his age.
     In early youth, he removed with his father, the late Peter L. Clower, to Jones county...
  A man of genial disposition ans social habits, yet he was never married. A brother, P. L. Clower, and a sister, Mrs. Dr. Thomas Hamilton, of Rome, survive him. Captain C. A. Hamilton, of Macon, and Colonel A. J. Hamilton, of Clinton are his nephews.

February 5, 1878
Macon Telegraph
  ~excerpt -Died in Clinton, on the evening of the 23d inst., after an illness of three days, H. Clower, youngest child of
H. S. and M. S. Greaves, aged two years and two months.

June 2, 1878
Macon Telegraph
   Mr. James R. Stripling, son of Thomas R. Stripling, Esq., of Jones county, died at his late home in Arkansas on the 29th ult. Deceased was about twenty-eight years of age. He removed to Arkansas in 1871, and was an energetic and successful famer. His remains reached here yesterday evening by the Columbus train, and were taken to his old home in Jones county, where they will be interred at 11 o'clock this morning.

October 7, 1879
Union and Recorder
Mrs. Barron, wife of Hon. H. H. Barron of Jones county, died October 2nd, in Clinton.
 
 
 

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