I'm very excited to report that Penny Cliff (the very energetic Archivist/Director of Thomaston Archives) is working with Lisa Graham in providing some newspaper obits. Some of these were clipped out without the dates.....so if you can help us supply exact dates that would be wonderful.....and the burial location. In fact, if one of you would volunteer to work on this with us, that would free both Lisa and I up to concentrate on other work. Your job would be to use your common sense, resource books (i.e. cemetery book, Upson Co History, on-line data like census, tax lists, etc) to try to determine the answers about the exact date of death and burial. You might search on the Boards to see if someone is researching that particular surname. Would some kind soul who isn't able to get to Upson County, but has time and interest to solve some of these "mysteries".... write me. That way when the obits are posted we might be able to add some "NOTES" that would help the researcher out. I've always found that when I do something in depth like this, I really help my own research out by some discovery that I never guessed I'd find!! >From: [email protected] >Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 10:56:07 EDT > > >Thomaston Times >MR. E.L. CALLIER DIED >THURSDAY, >Was One of Thomaston's Oldest and Best Known Citizens. > Death claimed one of Thomaston's oldest and best known citizens last > Thursday afternoon when Mr E.L. Callier was called to the great beyond. > He was 72 years of age, having been born in Talbot County April 12, 1841. > Mr. Callier had been quite sick for more than a week and his >death was not unexpected, but cast a gloom over the community. > His body was carried to Talbotton last Friday and buried there beside > his wife who proceded him to the grave several years ago. > "Uncle Bud", as he was familiarly called, was a generous and kind > hearted Soul, who always had a pleasant greeting for everyone with whom > he came in contact. He had a large number of friends among all classes. > Mr. Callier was a Confederate Veteran, having enlisted in Company "A" > 14th GA Reg., in April 1861 and served through the War. > Mr. Callier is survived by two children, Mr. S. M. Callier of > Thomaston, and Mrs. E.W. Strange, of Ellaville. > The Times joins the people of Thomaston and vicinity in offering > sympathy to the bereaved family. Virginia Crilley