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Submitted By "Davine Campell" davine@alltel.net
Citizens
& Georgian –
The Macon County Citizen - Oglethorpe, Ga. December 10, 1915
"LOCAL NEWS" - Mrs. M. P. Wilson died at her home in the Hamburg
Community the first of the week.
[Note: I have no idea who this is, anyone having knowledge of Mrs. M. P. Wilson,
PLEASE RESPOND.]
Citizens & Georgian - Montezuma, Ga. July 10, 1969
JAMES A. WARREN FUNERAL NOTICE - Funeral services for James A. Warren, 88, who
died July 7th at local nursing home after an extended illness, were held
Wednesday from the Watson-Mathews Funeral Home, Rev. Kenneth Bush and Rev. C. G.
Ward officiated with burial in the Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. WarreN was a lifetime resident of Macon County and was a retired miller.
Pallbearers were Robert L. Williams, Kenneth Williams, James W. Williams, Sidney
Lanier, George Warren, Joseph F. Warren, Jr. Thomas Groover, and Clyde Ellison.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. J. A. Warren of Natchez, Mississippipi; two
daughters, Mrs. Louis Williams of Montezuma and Mrs. R. L. Greer of Columbus;
three sons, Herschel Warren of Montezuma; Joe Frank Warren of Orlando, Fla., and
Julian Warren of Miami, Fla.; two stepsons, Mitchell Groover and G. B. Groover,
both of Columbus; two step-daughters, Mrs. Paul Kneedler of Natchez, Miss. and
Mrs. Arthur Wynn of Kingsland, Ga. One sister-in-law, Mrs. James Leon Warren of
Pensacola, Fla; thirteen grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren and
one great-great-granchild.
[Note: I do not find a marked grave in "Cemeteries of Macon County"
for James A. Warren but he was born about 1881 - Died July 7th 1969.]
[Note: There is "a" Hammie Louise Sutton Dawson Warren, wife of James
Apperson Warren, died in childbirth in 1914 and is buried in Mt. Zion Lutheran
Cemetery - Does anyone know is this could be the same James A. Warren?] PLEASE
RESPOND
Citizen & Georgian - Montezuma, Ga. August 21, 1969
THOMAS LEWIS WALKER FUNERAL NOTICE - Funeral services for Thomas Lewis
Walker,
69, who died Thursday in a local hospital after a short illness, were held
Saturday, August 16, at the St. Mary's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Graham
Glover,
Rev. Emory Gilbert and Rev. C. G. Ward officiated and burial was in the FELTON
CEMETERY.
Pallbearers - not copied. A life time resident of Macon County and a native of
Montezuma, Mr. Walker was a pharmacist at Walker Drug Co. He was a member of the
St. Mary's Episcopal Church and attended Mercer University, Georgia Military
Coillege and Struby School pf Pharmacy. Mr. Walker was a veteran of World War I.
Survivors include one brother, Edgar M. Walker and one sister, Miss Estelle
Walker, both of Montezuma.
[Note: Thomas Lewis Walker - Born May 26, 1900 - Died August 14, 1969 is buried
in Felton Cemetery beside his sister, Estelle Walker [1909-1989] and brother
Edgar Martin Walker [1902-1990]
From: The Christian Index - November 27, 1890 Pg. 15 Col.2
WALTERS - MRS. MATILDA WALTERS, wife of J. D. Walters, Sr., died Nov. 13, at her
home near Montezuma, Ga. She was baptized in July 1850. Ever after she has lived
an exemplary Christian as wife, mother, church member, neighbor and friend. She
lived to see her youngest child grown - a settled Christian man.
A husband, children, grandchildren, a host of friends mourn her loss, but not as
those who have no hope.
Signed: Her Pastor, A. J. Cheves. Montezuma Nov. 14, 1890
[Note: Rebecca Matilda, wife of Jerry D. Walters - Born September 4, 1829 - Died
November 13, 1890 is buried in Travelers Rest Baptist Cemetery beside her
husband, Jerry Dawson Walters - NO DATES Co. E. Ga. Res. CSA [He was born about
1829 since he was 71/1900 Census, living alone next to his son, John M.
Walters.]
Found: The Christian Index - June 20, 1889 - Pg. 15 Col. 2
WALTERS - The home of our brother, J. D. W. Walters, Jr., has been made sad by
the death of his only son, Jesse Willie Walters, and the little circle, which
had before been unbroken, now mourns the loss of one of its loved ones.
Willie was born Feb. 21, 1870. At the age of nine or ten years, he was attacked
with heart disease and has suffered from it ever since.
He was received by experience and baptism into the Traveler's Rest Baptist
Church in July 1887. [Much more, not copied.] The family put forth every effort
to arrest the disease and render his suffering as pleasant as possible.
To humor him, rather against the judgment of his father, he was carried to
Montezuma, two or three miles from home, to spend a day or two with his uncle on
May 22.
On the evening of the 23, feeling much worse and desiring to return home, his
uncle started to carry him; but while yet in town, he grew worse, so rapidly, he
had to be taken from the buggy and laid upon a counter in the drug store. Death
came in a very few minutes.
[Note: Jesse Willie, son of Jesse D. & Yetta Walters - Born February 21,
1870 - Died May 23, 1889 is buried in Traveler's Rest Baptist Cemetery beside
his father, Jesse D. Walters.] See OBIT
From: The Christian Index - March 1, 1894 - pg. 7. col.2
WALTERS, - DR. JESSIE D. WALTERS - Dr. Jessie D. Walters died at his home near
Montezuma, Ga. on the 18, of December 1893, aged 45 years. He was a true man in
all the relations of life, and a consistent member of Travelers Rest Baptist
Church where be was baptized in early youth and around whose sacred precincts he
loved to linger until the sun of life went down. He met the dark messenger with
Christian calmness and serenity and when life's golden sands were running low,
he ezpressed a bright and lively hope that he would meet his Saviour and loved
ones on the other shore. W.
[Note: Jesse D. Walters - Born October 15, 1848 - Died December 18, 1893 is
buried in Travelers Rest Baptist Cemetery beside a son, Jessie Willie, son of
Jesse D. & Yetta Walters [Feb. 21, 1870 - May 23, 1889]
[We OOOPS'D in reading the marker for Jesse D. Walters, our "Cemeteries of
Macon County" uses October 18, 1893 as his death date, obituary uses
December __ 1893. It is impossible to get through the Travelers Rest Cemetery,
so use the date you find workable.]
From: MONTEZUMA RECORD; Printed in THE HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH,
Hawkinsville, Georgia = Vol. 18, #40, Thursday Morning, October 2, 1884:
Information reached Montezuma on Tuesday morning that Ebb Westbrook, son of Mr.
E. W. Westbrook, died at the plantation of his father near Drayton, Dooly
County, on the evening before, of that dreaded and fatal disease - the low
country yellow fever...His remains were carried to Beulah, in Houston County and
buried on Wednesday morning.
[Note: E. W. Westbrook Born January 19, 1864 - Died September 22, 1884 has a
marker in the Felton Cemetery. There are several markers in Felton Cemetery that
also appear in the MC KENZIE FAMILY CEMETERY located on the southeast side of
State Hwy 26, 1 mi past Five Points Store. It [McKenzie] is an abandoned
cemetery and this makes me think that family members have placed memorial
markers in Felton Cemetery for at least part of the burials there.]Anyone having
knowledge of this, PLEASE RESPOND.
Macon County Citizen - Oglehtorpe, Ga. April 19, 1929
MRS. GEORGE WALKER DIED AT MARSHALLVILLE - Marshallville, Ga. April 14, Mrs.
Georgia Walker died here this morning after an attack of acute indigestion. She
is survived by one sister, Mrs. Murray of Oglethorpe, Ga. and three brothers,
Tom Maffett of Montezuma; Irwin Maffett of Fitzgerald, and Eugene Maffett of
Macon.
The funeral will be held here tomorrow morning. The services will be conducted
by Rev. W. P. Webb, pastor of Methodist Church.
[Note: Ida Maffett Walker - Born October 23, 1858 - Died April 14, 1929 is
buried in Marshallville Cemetery beside her husband, George C. Walker [1858 -
1926]
From the Macon County News & Shopping Guide, 6/7/01:
Charles Edwin Whittington, 71, resident of 3114 Corina Circle, Archdale, NC,
died Friday, April 13, 2001, in the High Point Regional Hospital.
Mr. Whittington was born May 7, 1929 in Macon County, a son to Edward Lee and
Hetty Roby Whittington. He had been a resident of Archdale and vicinity for the
past 34 years and was a retired employee of the High Point Enterprise, where he
had been employed as a pressman for 28 years. Mr. Whittington was a veteran of
the U.S. Navy, having served during the Korean conflict, and was a life member
of the Franklin VFW Post #7339. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in
death by a brother, James Whittington.
Surviving are one daughter, Teresa Brown of Cartersville, GA; his fiance, Maxine
Boyles of Kernersville; and three sisters: Rosa Lee Jacobs of Sarasota, FL;
Frances Crisp and Nancy Whittingtoj, both of Franklin.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday, April 15, at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel of
Cumby Family Funeral Service in Archdale with the Rev. Robert Beckons
officiating. Visitation was to be immediately following the funeral service.
Interment was held Monday, April 16 at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Franklin.
Memorials may be directed to the American Heart Association, 202 Centreport Dr.,
Suite 100, Greensboro, NC 27409.