Muscogee-Heard County GaArchives Obituaries.....Purgason, Earnest Watson January 22 1953 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] November 2, 2004, 12:19 pm Columbus Enquirer, Jan. 23, 1953 Earnest Watson Purgason, 80 died suddenly at 2:15 p.m. yesterday after a heart attack at his home in Warm Springs. He had been in ill health the last two years. Mr. Purgason was born Feb. 10, 1873, in Heard County, Ga., and had resided in Warm Springs for the last four years. He was a member of Harmony Methodist Church in Heard County. Survivors include his wife... There is more, but the article is cut off and cannot be read. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/p/gob1966purgason.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lowery, Mrs. Carrie January 21 1953 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] November 2, 2004, 12:12 pm Columbus Enquirer, Jan. 23, 1953 Funeral for Mrs. Carrie Lowery, 83, 101-D Riverview Apts., Phenix City who died Wednesday after a two-week illness at Cobb Memorial Hospital, was held at St. Mark Free Will Baptist Church. The Rev. L. E. Sheffield, assisted by the Rev. Joel Davis of Opelika, conducted the services. Burial was in Pine Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers were Luke Skinner, Nelson Outlaw, J. A. Bartley, Harrison Bass, Robert Langford and F. J. Whitaker. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/l/gob1965lowery.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Flinn, Charles L. January 23 1953 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] November 2, 2004, 12:06 pm Columbus Enquirer, Jan. 24, 1953 Charles L. Flinn, 82, 1201 14th Ave., Phenix City, died at 2:20 a.m. yesterday at Cobb Medical Hospital after a two-week illness. A retired merchant, Mr. Flinn had lived in Phenix City 50 years. (Nothing further) File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/f/gob1964flinn.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Shirah, Mrs. Aretha January 23 1953 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] November 2, 2004, 12:01 pm Columbus Enquirer, Jan. 24. 1953 Mrs. Aretha Shirah, 54, 209 42nd St., died at 2 a.m. yesterday at City Hospital after a 12 day illness. She was born a Camilla, Ga., May 31, 1898, daughter of Mrs. Robert Taylor of Columbus and the late Bob Taylor. She had lived in Columbus 30 years, having moved here from Camilla. Survivors include her mother; her husband, R. G. Shirah, Columbus, three brothers, Charlie Taylor, and Jerry Taylor, Columbus, and Robert Taylor, Bainbridge, Ga., and several nieces and nephews. She was a member of the Assembly of God. Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at North Highlands Assembly of God Church, with the Revs. Edgar W. Bethany and Emory T. Andrews conducting the service. Burial will be in Riverdale Cemetery. Pallbearers will be, Homer Shirah, T. P. Shirah, A. C. Ward, Homer Pollock, Harman Pollock, and J. C. Pollock. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/s/gob1963shirah.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....King, John December 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 November 1, 2004, 10:36 pm The Marion County Patriot, December 16, 1887 The Marion County Patriot, No. 50 December 16, 1887 Page One State News Items Mr. John King who was for a long time proprietor of the Columbus Enquirer, died suddenly in Birmingham last week while visiting relatives. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/k/ob5738king.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Odom, Abram August 1 1894 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carol Shaw [email protected] November 1, 2004, 4:50 pm Columbus Daily Enquirer-Sun Aug. 2, 1894 MR. A. ODOM DEAD THE CITY SEXTON PASSES PEACEFULLY TO HIS REST. At 5 o'clock yesterday City Sexton Abram Odom breathed his last at his home on Hamilton Avenue. This sad announcement will cause great regret, for Mr. Odom was a good man and was greatly liked throughout the city. It was known all yesterday that the end was rapidly approaching, and many sympathizing friends called at the family residence to inquire the condition of the aged sexton and express their sympathy for the sorrow-stricken family. Mr. Odom's death resulted from a stroke of paralysis which was visited upon him a few days ago. Mr. Odom was sixty-seven years of age, and had been the sexton of the city cemetery for about twenty years. He has been faithful in the discharge of his duties, and was always ready and willing to give information, and otherwise assist those who had sad duties at the cemetery. Mr. Odom was a Christian man, and he has gone to meet a Christian's reward. He was an exhorter and a steward of the Rose Hill Methodist church. His wife and nine children survive him. They have the sympathy of their many friends in their very great bereavement. Mr. Odom was a member of Creek Tribe No. 11, I.O.R.M. The funeral will occur from the Rose Hill Methodist church at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Creek Tribe will attend the service. A funeral notice appears in this issue of the Enquirer-Sun. Additional Comments: Abram Odom is the son of Abraham Odom, Sr., who is buried in Nix Family Cemetery in Columbus, GA. He had a brother William Odom, who lived in Columbus and is buried in the Patrick Cemetery in Columbus. Another brother John L. Odom lived in Columbus until after the Civil War, and then John moved to Hopkins County, Texas where he is buried in Gafford Chapel Cemetery. Abram also had a sister Mary Susan Odom, who married Robert B. Green. In 1910, she was living in Bridgeborough, GA, Worth County. Abram Odom's first wife was Eliza Ann English. She is buried in Linwood Cemetery. Abram's second wife was Sarah E. Duncan. They married Nov. 2, 1868. She died January 24, 1932 and is buried next to Abram in Linwood Cemetery. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/o/gob1953odom.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Odom, Abram August 1 1894 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carol Shaw [email protected] November 1, 2004, 4:48 pm Columbus Daily Enquirer-Sun Aug. 2, 1894 MR. A. ODOM DEAD THE CITY SEXTON PASSES PEACEFULLY TO HIS REST. At 5 o'clock yesterday City Sexton Abram Odom breathed his last at his home on Hamilton Avenue. This sad announcement will cause great regret, for Mr. Odom was a good man and was greatly liked throughout the city. It was known all yesterday that the end was rapidly approaching, and many sympathizing friends called at the family residence to inquire the condition of the aged sexton and express their sympathy for the sorrow-stricken family. Mr. Odom's death resulted from a stroke of paralysis which was visited upon him a few days ago. Mr. Odom was sixty-seven years of age, and had been the sexton of the city cemetery for about twenty years. He has been faithful in the discharge of his duties, and was always ready and willing to give information, and otherwise assist those who had sad duties at the cemetery. Mr. Odom was a Christian man, and he has gone to meet a Christian's reward. He was an exhorter and a steward of the Rose Hill Methodist church. His wife and nine children survive him. They have the sympathy of their many friends in their very great bereavement. Mr. Odom was a member of Creek Tribe No. 11, I.O.R.M. The funeral will occur from the Rose Hill Methodist church at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Creek Tribe will attend the service. A funeral notice appears in this issue of the Enquirer-Sun. Additional Comments: Abram Odom is the son of Abraham Odom, Sr., who is buried in Nix Family Cemetery in Columbus, GA. He had a brother William Odom, who lived in Columbus and is buried in the Patrick Cemetery in Columbus. Another brother John L. Odom lived in Columbus until after the Civil War, and then John moved to Hopkins County, Texas where he is buried in Gafford Chapel Cemetery. Abram also had a sister Mary Susan Odom, who married Robert B. Green. In 1910, she was living in Bridgeborough, GA, Worth County. Abram Odom's first wife was Eliza Ann English. She is buried in Linwood Cemetery. Abram's second wife was Sarah E. Duncan. They married Nov. 2, 1868. She died January 24, 1932 and is buried next to Abram in Linwood Cemetery. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/o/gob1952odom.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jeffries, William Arthur January 22 1953 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] November 1, 2004, 2:05 pm The Columbus Enquirer, Columbus, Ga., Jan. 23 & 24, 1953 William Arthur Jeffries, 74, retired textile worker, died at 4 p.m., Jan 22, 1953, at his home, 206 18th St., Phenix City, AL, following a one month illness. He was born Oct. 26, 1878, in Columbus, Ga., and moved to Phenix City, AL, 50 years ago. He was the widower of Mrs. Hattie Parker Jeffries. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. G. B. Duke, Dallas, Texas, Mrs. George M. Slaughter, Fitzgerald, Ga., Mrs. Clara Hibbler, and Mrs. Wilson Abbott, both of Phenix City, seven grandchildren including Mrs. Ann Weaver and Mrs. Beverly Leggett of Phenix City and three great-grandchildren. Funeral for William Arthur Jeffries , will be held at 4 p.m. today at the Britton and Dobbs chapel. The Rev. Joseph Avery, pastor of the Phenix City First Baptist Church, will conduct the service. Burial will be at Girard Cemetery with Louie Lane, B. L. Cole, O. E. Cole, G. L. Webb, John Freeman and J. M. Whittle serving as pallbearers. Additional Comments: William Arthur was the son of William Robert Jeffries and Ella McCracken. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/j/gob1951jeffries.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hollar, Mr. Julia September 11 1951 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] November 1, 2004, 1:46 pm The Columbus Enquirer, Columbus, Ga., Sept. 13, 1951 Mrs. Julia Hollar, 73 widow of Benjamin F. Hollar, died Thursday, Sep. 11, 1951 at her home. No further information. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/h/gob1950hollar.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 0.7 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jeffries, Sannie Mae March 16 1939 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] November 1, 2004, 1:29 pm The Columbus Enquirer, Columbus, Ga, Saturday, March 18, 1939 "Mrs. Sannie Jeffries" Say Mrs. Sannie Mae Jeffries, who was the wife of John S. Jeffries and mother of W. C. Jeffries, died Thursday morning at her home, 1932 Second Avenue. Funeral services were conducted March 17, 1939 at 3:30 o'clock at St. Mark Methodist Church. Rev. Frank Snell, pastor, officiated. Sannie Mae was buried in the family plat in Riverdale cemetery. Pallbearers were E. L. Gulatt, J. M. Jenkins, W. A. Hendricks, Ben Watkins, O. T. Wrye and Jay Palmer Additional Comments: Sannie Mae BURTON JEFFRIES was born, 31 May 1874, in TX., but her family returned to Russell Co., AL while she was still a young child. She was the daughter of William E. Burton and Mary Elizabeth Willis. She was married first to a Mr. Ogletree and they had one daughter, Mamie. She married John Swept. Jeffries, 03 Sep 1900, in Columbus, GA. They had two sons, William Curtis Jeffries and Clifford Joseph Jeffries. She was called "Ma", by her grandchildren and greatly loved by each of them. She was remembered as a sweet Christian lady. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/j/gob1949jeffries.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jeffries, John S. September 12 1951 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] November 1, 2004, 1:06 pm The Columbus Enquirer, Columbus, Ga., Wednesday, Sept. 12 and 13, 1951 "J. S. Jeffries Dies at Home" Obit states that, John Swepton Jeffries, who was 77, and the father of W. C. Jeffries, president of the Columbus Central Labor Union, died at 12:40 a.m. today at his home, 428 Broadway. Also states that he had been ill for several months. John S. Jeffries birthday was June 6, 1874, and he was a member of the St. Mark Methodist church. Survivors are: sons, W. C., and C. J. Jeffries of Columbus; a step-daughter, Mrs. L. W. Jones, Columbus; a half brother,Arthur Jeffries, Phenix City and several grandchildren. Funeral was to be held at 4 p.m. in Sept 13, 1951 at St. Mark Methodist. He was to be buried at Riverdale Cemetery. Pallbearers: Floyd Wood, C. M. Davis, Howard Anthony, C. R. Briggs, T. E. Hubbard and A. B. Teal. Honorary pallbearers will be J. R. Sweatt Sr., J. G. Newberry, Sterling Dudley, H. H. Hunter, E. F. Howell, W. G. Bridges, Claude Scarbrough, W. A. Hendricks, E. L. Gullatt, George Reese, E. G. Coots, Tom Moore, and Sidney Pollard. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/j/gob1948jeffries.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb
Muscogee-Jones-Harris County GaArchives Biographies.....Blandford, Mark Hardin 1826 - 1902 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher [email protected] October 31, 2004, 11:34 pm Author: William Harden p. 1033-1034 HON. MARK HARDIN BLANDFORD. A former justice of the supreme court of Georgia, a veteran of two wars, and a member of the Confederate congress, the late Mark Hardin Blandford, who died January 31, 1902, was one of the most eminent men of south Georgia. He was born in Jones county, Georgia, July 13, 1826, being in his seventy-sixth year at the time of his death. His father was Clark Blandford, and his grandfather was also named Clark Blandford. The grandfather was a native of England and came to America in young manhood, during the colonial era, and was married in this country. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war he returned to England, where he owned some property and was never heard of again by any of his family or friends. He left a wife and three children in America. These children were Clarke, Champion and Polly. Polly married a Mr. Hardison of Florida. Champion died unmarried. Clarke Blandford, the father, moved from Trenton, New Jersey, to Georgia, and for a time lived in Warrenton, Jones county, and from there came to Harris county, where he served as one of the first clerks of the court. The maiden name of his wife was Nancy Hardin, who belonged to the Hardin family of Kentucky. The three children of the parents were named Francis, Mark Hardin and Carrie. The late Judge Blandford attended school in Pennfield, known as Murphy University of Georgia. He was less than twenty years of age when the war with Mexico was declared, and without the knowledge of his parents he slipped away and enlisted in Captain Scott's Company, going into Mexico with that command and serving with the company in all its various marches and battles until the war was over. Returning home a veteran of this conflict, he took up the study of law in the office of Col. Hardeman of Macon, and was admitted to the bar by special act of the legislature. He began practice at Tazewell, which was then the capital of Marion county. He rose to distinction in the law, and after a few years his practice was again interrupted by war. With the outbreak of the war between the states, he raised a company for the Confederate service, and this company took the name of the Buena Vista Guards, and was attached to the Twelfth Georgia Regiment. He went to the front in command of this company, and was severely wounded and lost his right arm at McDower in the Allegheny mountains. Thus being disabled for further active service as a soldier, he returned home and was soon afterwards elected to the Confederate congress, defeating Col. Hines Holt. He continued in the Confederate congress until its dissolution at the close of the war, and then resumed the practice of law in Columbus, Georgia. In 1869 he formed a partnership with B. H. Thornton. This firm was dissolved later, and he was associated with Lewis Garrard, under the firm name of Blandford & Garrard. In 1874 Mr. Blandford was elected associate justice of the supreme court of Georgia to fill an unexpired term, and at the next regular election was chosen for the full term. He served as associate justice for ten years, making an admirable record as judge of the highest court of the state, and on leaving the bench returned to Columbus, and formed a partnership for practice with Thomas W. Grimes. He continued in that association and in active practice until his death on January 31, 1902. Judge Blandford married Sarah Daniels, daughter of John Daniels, of Talbot county, Georgia. They were the parents of eight children, three of whom survived their father, namely: Robert Hall, since deceased; John W. and Lucy Mary, who now occupy the old homestead near Columbus. Additional Comments: From: A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/bios/gbs501blandfor.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb
Muscogee-Meriwether-Talbot County GaArchives Biographies.....Tigner, Wesley Fletcher 1834 - living in 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher [email protected] October 31, 2004, 10:59 pm Author: William Harden p. 1027-1028 WESLEY FLETCHER TIGNER. After a career of forty years as a dental practitioner in Georgia, Dr. Tigner now lives retired at his home in Columbus, and is one of the most highly esteemed citizens of that locality. Wesley Fletcher Tigner was born in Meriwether county, Georgia, August 13, 1834, and is thus one of the oldest native sons of the state. His parents were Rev. Young Fletcher and Sarah (Tinsley) Tigner, concerning whom and this interesting family, further details will be found in the sketch of G. Y. Tigner, in other pages of this work. Dr. Tigner was reared in a rural community and his earliest education was that afforded by one of the neighborhood schools which existed in Georgia before the war. He was very liberally educated for his time, and from the common schools attended Collingsworth institute and in 1856 graduated from Emory College. The following years were spent in teaching, up to the beginning of the Civil war. Then in May, 1861, he enlisted in a company first known as the Henry Grays, and subsequently designated as Company A and attached to the Sixth Regiment of Alabama infantry. Few Georgia soldiers saw a more active and strenuous career as soldier than Dr. Tigner. His regiment was sent into Virginia, and became part of the army of northern Virginia. Its campaigns were many, and the doctor's service can be briefly suggested by referring to the important battles which were Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Seven Pines, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Winchester, Kernstown, the Seven Days Fighting around Richmond, and the battles about Petersburg, concluding with the surrender of Lee's forces at Appomatox. He was paroled with the rest of the southern forces and made his way south riding on a pony. He passed through North Carolina and South Carolina in this way, and reached the banks of the Savannah river at Barksdale Ferry, and thence to his father's home in Chattahoochee. He soon afterwards began the study of dentistry at Baltimore college. After a term of two years he began active practice in Columbus, and subsequently returned to Baltimore, where he was graduated in dentistry. Dr. Tigner was for a great many years the family dentist for hundreds of the best people in Columbus and vicinity, and it is of interest to note that he occupied one office in this city for a period of forty years. He has since retired from his active profession and now lives quietly surrounded by family and friends in Columbus. In 1869 he married Mary Eliza Cunningham, who was born at Talbotton, Georgia, a daughter of James D. and Caroline (Sallie) Cunningham. The two children of the doctor and wife are Mary Frances and Annie Louise, the latter being the wife of J. Ralston Cargill. Additional Comments: From: A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/bios/gbs496tigner.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb
Muscogee-Coweta-Franklin County GaArchives Biographies.....Tigner, Germanicus Young unknown - living in 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher [email protected] October 31, 2004, 10:55 pm Author: William Harden p. 1025-1027 HONORABLE GERMANICUS YOUNG TIGNER. A man of broad capabilities, resourceful, and quick to grasp a situation and utilize opportunities, Honorable Germanicus Young Tigner has for many years been an important factor in the public life of Muscogee county, serving his fellow-men in various capacities, at the present writing, in 1913, being judge of the Columbus city court of Columbus. A native of Georgia, he was born in Haralson, Coweta county, of excellent English ancestry, being a descendant in the fifth generation from the immigrant ancestor, George Tigner, his lineage being thus traced: George Tigner, Philip Tigner, Young Fletcher Tigner, William Archelaus Tigner, and Germanicus Young Tigner. About 1750 George Tigner, accompanied by his brother Thomas, came from England, their native country, to America. They were seafaring men, engaged in the merchant marine service, and both located in Baltimore, Maryland. A year later Thomas Tigner returned to his old home in England, but George Tigner remained in Baltimore, and kept his ships in active service until the Revolution, when they were seized by the British government. After his marriage he lived for a time in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, from there moving to Accomac county, Virginia, and settling near Drummondtown, where he spent his remaining days, being engaged in farming. He was twice married, by his first wife having three children, namely: William, who reared a family, and has descendants living in Virginia, and in various other parts of the Union; Hannah married a Mr. Houghton, and settled in New York State; and Philip, the next in line of descent. Philip Tigner was born in Accomac county, Virginia, December 25, 1760. Leaving home in the seventeenth year of his age, he went first to Norfolk, Virginia, from there, going to Salisbury, North Carolina, where he married. With his bride, he came to Georgia, and after spending a short time in Greene county removed to that part of Franklin county that was later a part of Jackson county, and is now included within the boundaries of Clarke county. Purchasing a tract of land through which a creek flowed, he improved the water power, built a saw mill and a grist mill, and was there prosperously employed in farming and milling until his death, at the age of fifty-nine years. A devout Methodist in religion, he erected one of the first Methodist Episcopal churches in North Georgia, it having been known as Tigner's Chapel. He married first, March 7, 1780, in Salisbury, North Carolina, Nancy Forbish, who died in Green county, Georgia, May 28, 1792. He married second Nancy Hall, a daughter of John Hall, a native of Ireland, who came to America in colonial times, locating first in North Carolina, later coming to Georgia as pioneers. By his first marriage he reared five children, Sarah E., James, William, Elizabeth, and Hope H. His second wife, to whom he was married in 1793, bore him eight children, namely: Nancy; Innocence; Pamelia; Freeborn G.; John Wesley; Young Fletcher, through whom the line of descent was continued; Urban Cooper; and Philip Gillen. Young Fletcher Tigner was born August 22, 1805, on a plantation located about three miles north of Salem, Clarke county, Georgia. Converted when young, he joined the Methodist Episcopal church, and became a preacher in that denomination, as a member of the Georgia conference, filling the pulpits of churches in various places. In Meriwether county he purchased a plantation near Durand, which was his home for many years. Late in life he removed to Columbus, and lived in that vicinity until his death. Rev. Young Fletcher Tigner married Sarah Frances Tinsley, who was born in Clarke county, Georgia, a daughter of James Tinsley, and granddaughter of Thomas Tinsley, a native of Hanover county, Virginia. She was a lineal descendant, it is thought, of one Edward Tinsley, who came from Yorkshire, England, to America in the early part of the seventeenth century, locating in Virginia. Seven of his brothers, according to tradition, served, and were killed, in the Revolutionary war. James Tinsley was born near Richmond, Virginia, in 1764. During the progress of the Revolutionary war, he went to South Carolina, and settled on the Cooper river, ten miles from Chesterton, from there coming, in 1790, to Georgia, where he afterwards spent his remaining years, his home having been in Columbia county. He married first Elizabeth Zachery, of South Carolina. He married for his second wife Mrs. Lucy Ann (Crawford) Richards, a sister of Hon. William Harris Crawford, who served as secretary of war under President Madison, as secretary of the treasury under both President Madison and President Monroe, and minister to France, and who, in 1824, as candidate for president of the United States, shared the electoral vote with John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay. Of the union of Rev. Y. F. and Sarah F. (Tinsley) Tigner, nine children were born, namely: James Andrew, Eliza Boring, William Archelaus, Wesley Fletcher, Lucy A. E., Samuel Hodges, and Sarah. Julia, and Young Fletcher. Dr. Wesley Fletcher Tigner, uncle of G. Y. Tigner, is a well known Confederate veteran, having fought in all the leading battles of Lee's army from Bull Run to Appomattox; engaged in thirty pitched battles, and now a retired dentist, in comfortable circumstances, and loved by ail who know him. William Archelaus Tigner was born in Meriwether county, Georgia, July 13, 1832, and received his rudimentary education in the rural schools, afterwards studying under Prof. Thaddeus Oliver, of Buena Vista. He was graduated from Emory College, in Oxford, Georgia, with the class of 1854, and soon after began teaching in Haralson, Coweta county. Succeeding well as an educator, he was made president of a Male and Female College, at Chunnenuggee Ridge, Alabama. He afterwards taught in a Lutheran settlement, both in Oglethorpe county. Georgia, and in Macon county. While thus occupied, he studied law in his leisure moments, and after his admission to the bar located as a lawyer in Vienna, Dooly county. After practicing awhile in both Dooly and Oglethorpe counties, he removed to Atlanta, where he formed a partnership with William H. Hulsey, under the firm name of Hulsey & Tigner. He was later associated with W. D. Ellis as senior member of the law firm of Tigner & Ellis. In 1884 he was elected as senator from the Thirty-fifth district, and took an active and intelligent part in the work of legislation. He was reared a Methodist, but when about thirty-five years old united with the Lutheran church, and became a preacher in that denomination, filling pulpits in Ebenezer and other places, and serving as president of the South Carolina, Georgia and Florida Synod. For several years prior to his death he lived in Jonesboro, his death occurring there February 19, 1894. William Archelaus Tigner was twice married. He married first Eugenia R. Dozier, who was born in Marion county, Georgia, in 1834, a daughter of Thomas H. and Martha Thomas (Davie) Dozier. She died March 19, 1872, leaving three children, namely: Germanicus Young, the special subject of this sketch; Martha, wife of A. 0. Os-borne, now of Wilmington, North Carolina; and William A. Tigner, Jr., an attorney now in Jonesboro, Georgia, He married for his second wife Miriam Byington, who is now living in Jonesboro, Georgia. Germanicus Young Tigner was carefully educated under his father's and mother's tutorship, attending private schools in Atlanta, and the Jonesboro Academy. A young man of excellent mental attainments, eminently capable and intelligent, he was appointed, in 1876, by Judge Martin J. Crawford, official stenographer of the superior court at Columbus, and met every requirement of that responsible position so efficiently and satisfactorily that he was continued in office for sixteen years. In 1888 Mr. Tigner was elected as a representative to the state legislature, and later was appointed stenographer of the supreme court. At the end of two years he resigned that position, and returned to Columbus. In 1902 he was again elected to represent his county in the state legislature, and served in the sessions of 1902, 1903, and 1904. In 1908 Mr. Tigner was appointed, by Gov. Hoke Smith, judge of the city court of Columbus, and served by appointment until 1912, when he was elected to the position by an overwhelming majority, receiving a flattering vote that proved his popularity with all classes of people. Mr. Tigner married, June 27, 1889, Johnny Lindsay. She was brought up and educated in Columbus, and at the Moravian Institute at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, being a daughter of John B. and Helen (Slade) Lindsay, and granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Slade, father of Hon. J. J. Slade, of whom a brief biographical sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. Two children have been born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Tigner, namely: Helen; and John Lindsay, who died at the early age of seventeen years. Religiously Mr. Tigner belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mrs. Tigner is a member of the Baptist church. Additional Comments: From: A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/bios/gbs495tigner.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 9.9 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Odom, William Abraham November 27 1910 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carol Shaw [email protected] October 31, 2004, 4:59 pm Columbus Enquirer Sun Nov, 28, 1910 Mr. Wm. A. Odom Died Last Night Was an Old Confederate Veteran and a Well-Known Citizen Mr. William Abraham Odom, one of the oldest citizens of Columbus, died at the home of his son, Mr. W. A. Odom, Jr.,3407 Third Avenue, last night at 8:30 o'clock. He was seventy-four years of age and was an old Confederate veteran and a member of Camp Bening. His death was the result of an attack of typhoid pneumonia, from which he had been confined two weeks. Wm. Odom was a consistent member of Broad Street Methodist Church. He was a strictly upright and honorable man. He is survived by three sons, Messrs. W.A. Odom and Robert Odom of this city, and Mr. G.W. Odom of Eufaula, Ala., one sister Mrs. M.S. Green, of Bridgeborough, GA and one brother, Mr. Samuel Odom, of White Sulphur Springs, Texas. The funeral will take place from the residence at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon and will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Ewing. The remains will be interred at the Patrick burial grounds five miles east of the city. The following will be the pallbearers: Messrs. L.A. Scarbrough, D.D. Bartlett, T.Z. Hanier, L.D. Bazenmore, pre. Kesse Jesse A. Beard and L.R. Cauley. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/o/gob1947odom.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb
Meriwether-Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Phelps, William November 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 October 30, 2004, 11:54 pm The Marion County Patriot, November 25, 1887 The Marion County Patriot, No. 47 November 25, 1887 Page Four Columbus Enquirer: From a gentleman near Chalybeate Springs, Meriwether County, we learn that Mr. Lock Mitchell shot and mortally wounded Mr. William Phelps at the springs yesterday morning. They got into a dispute about some seed cotton and Phelps struck Mitchell, who drew his pistol and shot him in two places. Dr. Campbell attended the wounded man, and pronounced the wound mortal. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/meriwether/obits/p/ob5720phelps.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb
Jefferson-Walton-Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Harris, Robert Hamilton 1842 - living in 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher [email protected] October 30, 2004, 6:57 pm Author: William Harden p. 991-995 ROBERT HAMILTON HARRIS, A. M., D. D. With a long and distinguished career in the law, as an educator and in the ministry, Dr. Harris, who is now residing in Cairo, Georgia, but purposes to return about November 1, 1913, to Columbus, is one of the eminent Georgians whose lives extend over the greatest epochs of the last and present century, and his beneficent activities are a matter of pride to all residents of the state. Both his own career and the record of his family have unusual interest, and the following paragraphs will treat these subjects as fully as possible. Robert Hamilton Harris was born on the Holly Springs Plantation, the country home of his father, Dr. Bennett Harris, an Augusta physician, in Jefferson county, Georgia, April 19, 1842. Going back to the founder of the family in America, it is believed, from' the best information obtainable, that the first ancestors were natives of either England or Wales, and during colonial times came and settled in Virginia. In Virginia, was born the head of the next generation, John Harris, who removed from his native state to Sampson county, North Carolina, where he spent the rest of his life. Benjamin Harris, grandfather of Dr. Harris and son of John, was born in Sampson county, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, enlisting while a lad, and some time after the close of that conflict removed to South Carolina, and later to Georgia, becoming a pioneer settler in Walton county. He secured land there, which was virgin soil, cleared a plantation and made his home at Social Circle until his death. The maiden name of his wife was Bethany Odom, who had three brothers, named Elkanah, Halatia and Deldatha. She survived her husband and lived to be about ninety years of age. Dr. Bennett Harris, father of the Rev. Dr. Harris, was born in Edgefield district, South Carolina, in 1805. Though his early life was spent in a period marked by a dearth of good schools and in a country just emerging from the wilderness state, he made the best use of his scant opportunities to secure a good education and became a student in the state university in Athens, Georgia, where he was contemporary of the Cobbs and Hillyers. He undertook to work his way through the latter institution, by manual service about the buildings and grounds; but his strength failed him, and he was prostrated by fever. He was beginning to despair of completing his education, when Major Walker, a prominent citizen of Athens, became interested in him and advanced him the necessary amount of money to carry him through school to graduation. He then became a teacher, and after paying off his indebtedness and accumulating some earnings, entered the Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. After receiving a full diploma in medicine and surgery from that institution he took a post graduate course in medicine at the Eclectic School, Cincinnati, Ohio. He subsequently went abroad, studied and acquired extensive experience in clinics at the noted medical institutions of Paris during two years, and later spent one year of like work in London. Returning to America, in 1839, he located in Augusta, Georgia, and was in that city when its first great epidemic of yellow fever occurred. He and Dr. Turpin, with the two Doctors Eve, were the only physicians with such a sense of devotion to duty as to remain in the plague-stricken city. Dr. Harris was, himself, ultimately stricken down with the fever, but recovered and continued in practice until his death in 1845. Dr. Harris was married, in 1840, to Rebekah Ann Baldy, who was born in Beaufort District, South Carolina, a daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Dixon) Baldy. Many interesting things might be said about the family of Elizabeth Dixon. Her grandfather was James Smithson, one of the first land-graves of the province of South Carolina. It is related that an English sea captain was compelled to put his ship into Port Royal harbor for repairs and, while waiting, was entertained in the home of Governor Smithson. When the captain left he gave the governor a sack of seeds from India. Those seeds were grains of rice in the rough, which were planted by Governor Smithson; and the tradition is that from that little planting originated rice culture in America. The mother of Elizabeth Dixon was a lineal descendant of Gilbert Hamilton, of Scotland, a friend of William Wallace and Robert Bruce, whose cause for the liberation of Scotland he espoused, participating, as a soldier and prominent officer, in the great battle of Bannockburn, which resulted in seating Bruce upon the throne. For his distinguished services in that cause, Robert Bruce gave him a patent of nobility, by virtue of which he became progenitor of the noble line of Dukes of Hamilton. The present title-holder of that line is Duke Frederick Hamilton, residing on his Irish estate at Baroncourt. Dr. Robert Harris has now in his home at Cairo, Georgia, among his family heirlooms, a beautiful collection of solid silver pieces, of inestimable value, upon all the large pieces of which is engraved the Hamilton "crest"a saw cutting into an oak, with the word "through," in capitals above. This silver service has been handed down from generation to generation for many centuries, and is one of the rarest and most interesting collections to be found in America. Dr. Harris also possesses the original family coat-of-arms, beautifully hand-painted on parchment and containing no bar-sinistera fact of which he is justly proud. He also has the little christening stole, with hood and mittens, worn by the Hamilton babies during that church ceremonial for ages in the past. Those heirlooms came down to him through his mother, who in her orphaned girlhood went with her aunt, Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, to reside with a great-aunt, Miss Margaret Hamilton, in Dublin, Ireland, by invitation and until the death of the latter, of whom she became the heir. At the death of Miss Margaret, Miss Baldy returned with her aunt, Miss Elizabeth, to America, and the two set up housekeeping in Augusta, Georgia, in 1839, where Miss Elizabeth died of yellow fever and where Miss Baldy met and was married to her first husband, Dr. Harris. In the death of Dr. Harris his wife was left a widow with two little children, Robert and Bennetta, the latter of whom died in 1861. Some years later Mrs. Harris was married the second time, to Rev. Robert Fleming, a distinguished teacher, a noted author and a prominent minister of the Baptist denomination. Her death occurred in Thomasville when she was sixty-one years of age, leaving as survivors her husband, Mr. Fleming, and three children, her son and two daughters, Alice and Adela Fleming. Alice and her father died a few years later. Adela, now Mrs. Smith, for the second time a widow, resides in Waco, Texas. When the Civil war came on, Robert Hamilton Harris was in college at Mercer University, but he left school to join the Newman Guards, Company A, First Georgia Regiment. He was soon transferred, however, to the Thomasville Guards, Company F, Twenty-ninth Georgia, serving with that command twenty months, along the Atlantic coast, at Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington and Jacksonville. In March, 1863, he was promoted to a lieutenancy, in Company A, Fifty-seventh Georgia Regiment. The captain being absent and the first lieutenant hors de combat, he was placed in command of his company and so continued until the close of the war, the first lieutenant soon dying and the captain being promoted to major. Mr. Harris received in order two more promotionsto first lieutenant and brevet captain. In that command, he went through the entire Vicksburg campaign, ending with that dreadful siege; in Johnston's campaign from Dalton to Atlanta; in Hood's campaign, from Atlanta to Nashville, Tennessee, and back to Corinth, Mississippi. He was under fire on scores of occasions, many of them extremely bloody and sometimes when he lost nearly all of his men; but although bullets frequently pierced his clothing, he never received more than a scratch or two in the nature of wounds. Besides the service mentioned, he fought Stoneman at Macon, commanding a regiment part of that day, and starting that general's defeat by turning his right flank. He was not with his regiment when it surrendered, under Johnston, at Bentonville, North Carolina, being on detached service in command of a lunette in defense at Macon against Wilson. He declined to surrender there, and, breaking through the swarms of Federal cavalry, made his way home to Thomasville, with only two men who escaped with him. While a paroled prisoner, after the siege of Vicksburg, Dr. Harris, then just twenty-one, was married to Mary Martha, daughter of Hon. Peter E. Love, of Thomasville. On reaching home he read law under his father-in-law, was admitted to the bar and soon secured a good practice. He was elected mayor of his city, then after serving two or three years became solicitor of the county court, and later was appointed counsel for the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, which extended from Savannah to Bainbridge and Albany. His health having become greatly impaired in that service, he decided to abandon the practice of law and later, in 1876, entered upon the next important phase of his career, as an educator. He was elected principal of the chief school in Cairo, and spent six years as a teacher in the local academy. In the meantime he had entered the ministry of the Baptist denomination. In 1882, he was called to the charge of the school at Calvary, and, consolidating four rival schools at that point, established the Calvary High School. In 1883, he was called to the pastorate of the Baptist church at La Grange, Georgia, where he continued for two years. From that city he was called to the great First Church in Columbus, and during his ministry of eight years there added six hundred members to his charge. His next location was at Troy, Alabama, where he remained for two years, whence he was called to Thomasville, where he served the Baptist church for five years. In the meantime and since, he has received calls and overtures from a number of prominent churches in large cities that he has not felt at a liberty to consider. While pastor in La Grange, Dr. Harris was elected a member of the faculty of the Southern Female College, an institution which was later removed to College Park, near Atlanta, and became known as Cox College. Being reelected to a leading chair in Cox College, Dr. Harris resigned his pastorate at Thomasville and went to that institution, where he remained over three years. There his health broke down, and he went to Tampa, Florida. While in Tampa, in 1906, after he had somewhat recuperated, he was called to the Baptist church at Cairo, which town has since been his home. Soon after taking charge in Cairo, Dr. Harris commenced a campaign, among his own members only, to raise funds for the erection of a new church building, and the result is the present beautiful edifice in that city. The church is built in the English abbey style of architecture, of the finest pressed brick, the interior being most unique and very beautiful, with exceedingly handsome furnishings, and it was finished and equipped without a dollar of debt. Dr. Harris continued his pastorate in Cairo until March, 1912, at which time he resigned, in order to become apostolic messenger to the churches of the Mercer Association. The degrees of A. M. and D. D. were conferred upon him years ago by Mercer University, and he has been for many years, as he still is, in great demand as a speaker on various important occasions in many sections of the country. In addition to other distinctions, he is also chaplain and major on the staff of the South Georgia Brigade, U. C. V. Hon. Peter E. Love, the father of Dr. Harris' wife, was a lawyer by profession, occupied the superior court bench for many years, was a member of the United States congress at the time of secession and used his influence in vain effort to prevent Civil war. He was the Georgia member of the committee of thirty-three, one from each state of the Union, appointed some time prior to the outbreak of hostilities, to arrange some compromise which might avert the imminent war. He died, honored by all who knew himand there were thousandsin November, 1866. Mrs. Harris passed away in 1900, leaving, besides her husband, two sons and one daughter. Of the sons, James Hamilton Harris is an expert accountant, resident in Texas, and is unmarried. The other, Amos Love Harris, is in the real estate business in Tampa, Florida, and was married in 1902 to Mattie Ward Henderson, a daughter of W. B. Henderson, late deceased, and one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of that city. They have two children, named Robert Hamilton and Caroline Henderson. Mamie Anne, the third child and only daughter, was married in 1894 to Edgar Duncan Burts, a prominent young attorney of Columbus, of brilliant promise, who died in January, 1905, leaving three children, Mamie Love, Edgar Duncan, Jr., and Sarah Caroline. Besides the two sons and daughter named there have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Harris five other children, all boys, and all dead before 1888. Additional Comments: From: A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA BY WILLIAM HARDEN VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/jefferson/bios/gbs477harris.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 14.0 Kb
Hi all, I received this through one of my other lists. Its from a Pittsburgh newspaper. The list you are receiving this email from is part of the project that was mentioned in the paper. kemis http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04302/402844.stm
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....JEFFRIES, Lula (Mrs. Ed) November 8 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] October 30, 2004, 9:28 am Columbus Enquirer-Sun - 08 NOV 1913 Mrs. Ed JEFFRIES Mrs. Lula JEFFRIES, wife of Mr. Ed JEFFRIES, aged 42 years, died in Russell Co, Girard, AL, Sunday at 1:20 p. m. of pellagra. She was Presbyterian. Leaves her husband, one son and four daughters under the age of 14. The funeral was conducted 07 Nov. 1913, by Rev. Dr. McELROY. Pallbearers were Messrs. A. H. VANN, H. L. WARREN, J. F. JEFFRIES, S. BARNES, J. W. CONWAY, and W. A. JEFFRIES. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/j/gob1939jeffries.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb
Muscogee County GaArchives Obituaries.....JEFFRIES, Sarah Jane March 4 1905 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Brown [email protected] October 30, 2004, 9:12 am Columbus Enquirer-Sun - 05 MAR 1905 Mrs. Sarah JEFFRIES Has Passed Away Mrs. Sarah Jane JEFFRIES of Russell county, aged 78 years, died 4 March 1905, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. PRINCE. They were living at No. 610 Summerville street, Phenix City. Sarah had come to visit her family about six week before her death She became ill, a week after her arrival. She had suffered with rheumatism and was a Christian. She was a member of the Methodist church. She is survived by one son, Mr. H. (Henry) D. JEFFRIES, of Russell county, and two daughters, Mrs. J. W. PRINCE, of Phenix City, and Mrs. T. P. PRINCE, of Russell county. The funeral took place at her daughter's home at 2 o'clock and was conducted by Rev. P. M. GUTHRIE. The interment was in Girard cemetery. Relatives who served as pallbearers were: Messrs. Robert C. KENNINGTON, Grandsons, O. S. PRINCE, Ivey CONWAY, L. CONWAY, John CONWAY and Arthur JEFFRIES. Additional Comments: Sarah Jane CARRINGTON married Bolin S. JEFFRIES, 04 Feb 1857, Muscogee Co., GA. She was his second wife and raised his children from his first wife, Rebecca TUGGLE, as well as the children from their own marriage. Bolin and Sarah's children were: Raddie JEFFRIES, b.Apr 1860, and Martha JEFFRIES, b. 1864. Bolin and Rebecca's children were: Mary, b. 1846; William Robert,b.1848; Henry D., b. July 1853; Ella N. R., b. 1857. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/muscogee/obits/j/gob1938jeffries.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb