I came across this in looking through some of the obits I have collected and thought Mrs. Hartley might belong to someone researching in Screven County. I note "Rev. Robert Puckett" mentioned and Collison WATERS' dau. (a long time before this, I know), Sarah WATERS, b. 1815, m. Harris PUCKETT, Jr., Pendleton District, SC; Collison WATERS moved to the Jackson/Hall Co. area and Sarah and Harris PUCKETT lived in Gwinnett Co., GA. The Times Gainesville, Hall Co., GA Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1999 Ruth WATERS Hartley Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Wed., Dec. 29, 1999, at Little-Davenport Funeral Home Chapel for Ruth Waters Hartley, 87, of Park Hill Drive, Gainesville. The Rev. Willard Baxter, Phil Hartley and the Rev. Robert Puckett will officiate. Burial will be in Alta Vista Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Tues. at the funeral home. Mrs. Hartley died Sunday, Dec. 26, 1999, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following a sudden illness. A native of Screven County, Mrs. Hartley had lived in Gainesville for most of her life. She was the daughter of the late Hardy Leroy and Clara Roberts WATERS. She was a retired house parent at North Georgia ech for 12 years and also was a homemaker. Mrs. Harley was a charter member of the Lakewood Baptist Church. She is precended in death by her husband, Howard Jackson Hartley, Jr. Survivors include her sons and daughters-in-law, Leroy J. and Jacqueline Hogsed Hartley, Gainesville, B. Wayne and Linda Hartley, Blue Springs, MO; dau. and son-in-law, Sylvia Harley Head and Claude W. Head, Suwanee; and eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowes, the family requests that those desiring please make memorial contributions to the Lakewood Baptist Church Buildilng Fund, 2235 Thompson Bridge Rd., Gainevsille, GA 30501. Little-Davenport Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.