Muscogee-Talbot-Taylor County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hezekiah Bussey November 5 1917 ************************************************ 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 historycam@wmconnect.com May 12, 2004, 3:11 pm The Butler Herald, November 8, 1917 The Butler Herald Thursday, November 8, 1917 Page Four Local News Colonel Hezekiah Bussey, widely known throughout this section of Georgia, died at his home in Columbus Monday night. He was 77 years old. He entered the Civil War as Captain of the Talbot Volunteers in Talbot, his native county, and rose to be Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-Seventh Georgia Regiment. Col. Bussey was at one time Solicitor General of the Chattahoochee Circuit. He was an ordained minister in the Primitive Baptist church and for many years the esteemed pastor of the Primitive church at this place. Colonel Bussey was the founder of the Home Mixture Guano Co., a highly successful fertilizer manufacturing company. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb