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Obituaries
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newspapers, the majority
from Glynn, McIntosh and Brantley Counties.
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HACKETT, Guy T.
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 5 July 1961; pg. 12 col. 5
GUY HACKETT DIES AT LOCAL HOSPITAL FOLLOWING ILLNESS
Guy T. Hackett, 71, office manager of Grantham
Insurance Agency for the past 16 years, died early today at the Brunswick
hospital, which he entered Monday following an attack.
Mr. Hackett, a lifelong member of the St. Mark’s Episcopal Church,
and prominent in local music circles, served for over 40 years as parish
organist, retiring in 1958. He also had served as organist at Temple Beth
Tefilloh for the past 11 years.
Mr. Hackett had been a member of the Brunswick Rotary Club, and
served as pianist for a number of years.
Surviving are his two nieces, Mrs. D.L. Priest and Mrs. Lucille
Jones, both of Jacksonville.
Funeral arrangements, in charge of Gibson-Hart-Durden Funeral Home,
are incomplete, but burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery.
The Brunswick News; Thursday 6 July 1961; pg. 14 col. 4
HACKETT FUNERAL RITES HELD THIS MORNING
Funeral services for Guy T. Hackett who died
yesterday, were held this morning in the chapel of Gibson-Hart-Durden Funeral
Home.
The Rev. Talbert Morgan, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church,
officiated and interment followed in Oak Grove Cemetery.
HACKETT, Thomas Sr.
The Brunswick Times-Advertiser; Tuesday 8 October 1895; pg. 4 col. 3
MR. HACKETT DEAD
Mr. Thomas Hackett, Sr., died at 3:30 this
evening at his residence, 1505 Monk street, Mr. Hackett had been sick one week.
He was over 70 years of age and has been many years in Brunswick as a
contracting carpenter.
He leaves two sons, Messrs. Wm. A. and Thomas Hackett, both of whom
are in the city. The funeral will occur tomorrow at 10 o’clock from the
Catholic church, Father Hennessey officiating. The bereaved relatives have the
sympathy of a host of friends.
HACKETT, William A.
The Brunswick News; Sunday 7 March 1915; pg. 8 col. 3
WM. A. HACKETT TO BE BURIED THIS AFTERNOON
The funeral of William A. Hackett, who was
killed yesterday, will take place this afternoon at 3 o’clock from the family
residence near Windsor park. The following gentlemen will act as pallbearers:
J.H. Tankersley, H.J. Read, W.H. Berrie, W.E. Porter, A.M. Calder and L. Ludwig.
Mr. Hackett was born in New York in April, 1854, and was therefore
61 years of age. He removed to Brunswick in 1869 and has been engaged in the
undertaking business for many years. He is survived by his widow and two
children, Guy and William Hackett.
The deceased was a prominent secret order man, being a member of the
Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows and the Junior Order of the American
Mechanics and members of all of these lodges will attend his funeral.
He was a charter member of Rathbone lodge, K. of P. and, and as a
tribute of respect, members of his lodge will carry the coffin from the
residence to Oak Grove cemetery, where the interment will take place.
HALEY, William
Darien Timber Gazette; Saturday 6 January 1883; pg. 3 col. 1
Wm. Haley, a well-known colored man of Darien,
died here on Saturday afternoon after a short illness. “Bill” Haley was an old
and respected citizen of this county and his familiar face will be missed. He
was buried from the Baptist (colored) Church on Sunday afternoon.
HALL, Alfred
Advertiser & Appeal; Wednesday 5 December 1877; pg. 3 col. 1
We are pained to announce the death of little
Alfred, son of Mrs. And Mr. Frank Hall, who died on Monday night last, of
typhoid fever. He was one of the healthiest looking children we ever saw.
HALL, Betty Jones
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 6 March 1930; pg. 8 col. 2
BURNS FATAL
Statesboro, Ga., March 6. (AP)—Betty Jones Hall, six-month old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Hall, died last night from burns suffered when the
baby fell near an oven fire earlier in the night. The child fell from a high
chair to the hearth and her clothing ignited.
HALL, Eliza
Advertiser & Appeal; Vol. 1, No. 35; Wednesday 1 December 1875; pg.
1, col. 3
Mrs. Eliza Hall, widow of Mr. Lafayette Hall, for many years a
resident of this city, died last Sabbath (Nov. 28, 1875), and was buried on
Monday afternoon (Nov. 29, 1875) from the M.E. Church. We are pleased to
mention that during her last illness she received every attention that kindness
and affection could dictate, not only from members of her own household, but
also from friends and neighbors. The Masonic fraternity, too, no doubt,
extended a helping hand to relieve a widow's wants. Over this, however, the
veil is thrown. "Let not the right hand know what the left hand doeth."
HALL, Ennis Lee
The Brunswick News; Friday 26 November 1992; pg. 3A col. 3
ENNIS LEE HALL SERVICE SATURDAY
The funeral for Ennis Lee Hall, 78, of
Brunswick will be at 11 am. Saturday in Bright Star Baptist Church with the Rev.
S.T. Thomas officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery with full
military honors.
He died Sunday at Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center.
Pallbearers will be a military detail from Frot Stewart.
The body will be placed in the church an hour before service.
Surviving are his wife, Rosa Lee Hall of Brunswick; a brother,
Murphy Hall of Pittview, Ala.; a sister, Frances h. Bryant of Brunswick; a
stepdaughter, Cherry Lee Johnson of Port Arthur, Texas; three stepgrandchildren
and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
The Burke County native had lived in Glynn County since 1942. He
was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and was retired from Dixie Service
Center.
Collins’ Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HALL, John H.
The Darien Gazette; Saturday 2 September 1899; pg. 3 col. 3
DEATH OF MR. HALL—We regret to learn of the death of Mr. John H. Hall, which
occurred in Savannah on Wednesday night. Mr. Hall was well-known in this county
and his many friends will join with us in tendering to his family heartfelt
sympathies.
HALL, Lawrence James
The Brunswick News; Friday 4 February 1983; pg. 3A col. 3
Rites Tomorrow for James Hall
Services for Lawrence James "L.J." Hall, who died recently at the
veteran's hospital in Dublin, will be Saturday, 1 p.m., in the Collins' Funeral
Home chapel. Interment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Wade McDouglas, Robert Wallace, Willie Bernard,
Walter Mapp, Lonnie Johnson and Earl Gillan. The Rev. R.N. Reeves will
officiate at the service.
Hall, a native of Brunswick and a veteran of World War II, resided at
1708 1/2 Lee St.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Marie B. Hall, and an aunt, Mrs. Sue
Walker, both of Brunswick; several cousins.
Collins Funeral Home of Brunswick is in charge of arrangements.
HALL, Ora Mae
The Brunswick News; Friday 26 December 1997; pg. 3A col. 3
ORA
MAE HALL SERVICE SATURDAY
Ora Mae Hall, 72, of Woodbine and formerly of Fernandina Beach,
Fla., died Dec. 18 at Camden Medical Center.
The funeral will be noon Saturday at Myers Funeral Home with the
Rev. John E. Banks Sr. officiating. Burial will be in Woodbine Cemetery.
The family will receive friends 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
Local survivors include a sister, Rosemary Cuthbert of Woodbine.
A native of White Oak, she attended Camden County public schools and
retired from ITT Rayonier after 13 years of service.
HALL, Virginia (Heins)
The Brunswick News; Thursday 23 January 1941; pg. 6 col. 3
FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN HARTFORD
News was received here today of the death in
Hartford, Conn., a few days ago of Mrs. Virginia Hall, 93, widow of the late
Frank Hall, who was lighthouse keeper on St. Simons in 1872 and 1873. She had
been ill for a week.
Funeral services were held in Hartford Tuesday and the body was
placed in a receiving vault there to remain until April, when it will be
forwarded here for interment in the family lot in Oak Grove cemetery.
Mrs. Hall was a sister of Mrs. Julia Hoodenpyle, of this city. She
is survived by one son, A.F. Hall, of Hartford, and one daughter, Mrs. Lee
Leitner, of New York City.
HANLEY, W.J.
The Brunswick Times-Advertiser; Thursday 26 July 1894; pg. 1 col. 6
A
SAD DEATH—Mr. W.H. [sic] Hanley Died This Morning at His Home.
Mr. W.J. Hanley, air-brake inspector at the Brunswick and Western
shops, this city, died this morning at 2 o’clock from peritonitis.
He has been sick for several weeks, and his mother came up from
Fernandina to attend his bedside, as he was very low. Yesterday morning he was
so much improved she returned home. Last night he became worse and died this
morning.
He leaves a young wife to mourn his loss.
Mr. Hanley had a large circle of friends and was very popular with
all who knew him.
The funeral will occur tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock from the
funeral parlor of Undertaker Moore, and the remains interred in Palmetto
cemetery.
The remains were to have been taken to Fernandina for burial, but
the health laws of Florida prohibit the interment of any body from another State
during the summer months, hence the remains will be interred here temporarily
and removed in the winter.
FUNERAL NOTICE—The members of Rush Lodge No. 48, and all Odd Fellows, are
requested to attend the funeral of Brother W.J. Hanley from Moore’s undertaking
establishment at 3 p.m. July 27th. By order of C.L. ELLIOTT, N.G. Attest R.
RIGGSBEE, Sec’y.
HARLEY, Hilliard H.
The Savannah News; Tuesday 31 August 1869
ASSASSINATION OF DR. H.H. HARLEY—Our community
was shocked on Wednesday morning, upon the circulation of the fact of the cruel
and dastardly assassination of the gentleman whose name heads this article.
From the findings of the empanelled jury we glean these
particulars: Dr. H. was in charge of the business of Mr. Babcock, cutting and
hauling cross ties for the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, with headquarters at
College plantation, about two miles from Bethel. On Tuesday night, about ten
o’clock while Dr. H was sitting in his cabin, an open log house, writing at his
desk, with one or two others present, a gun was passed through the logs and
discharged, the murderous fire terribly mutilating his head, his brains staining
the walls of the house. He survived the fatal wound but a few brief moments.
As there are dozens of rumors as regards the probably cause of this
assassination, and as it is probably that the affair will be thoroughly sifted,
and, if possible, the guilty party or parties brought to punishment, we refrain
from publishing any of the unpleasant rumors.
Dr. H. was a young man, lately a resident of Camden county, in this
State, but a native of South Carolina, where he has a father, brothers, and
sisters now residing. He served during the late war in the C.S.A. as assistant
Surgeon, with Maxwell’s Battery. Since the war he has been connected with the
timber business in this vicinity.
His remains were brought to our city Thursday and interred with
Masonic honors, by Ocean Lodge, of which he was a member. Brunswick Appeal.
The Georgia Weekly Telegraph (Bibb County) Friday 1
October 1869; pg. 5 col. 3
A PROCLAMATION—$1000 REWARD—GEORGIA—By R.B. Bullock,
Governor of said State.
WHEREAS, It has been officially communicated to
this Department that on the night of the 24th August ultimo, Dr. H.H.
Harley was shot and killed while engaged in writing, at his residence in the
county of Glynn, in this State, by a party or parties unknown; and
WHEREAS, The Foreman of the Grand Jury of said county of Glynn
certifies to me that no evidence sufficient to warrant the arrest of any party
has come to the knowledge of said body, and that it is their desire as well as
the desire of all good citizens of Glynn county to bring the murderer to
justice; and
WHEREAS, The said Foreman of said Grand Jury, in accordance with a
resolution of that body, suggests the offering of a suitable reward as a means
of insuring the arrest of the assassin or assassins of the said Dr. H.H. Harley;
Now, therefore, in order to vindicate the majesty of the law and the
sacredness of human life, and in order the more certainly to bring to speedy
trial and punishment the guilty party or parties, I, Rufus B. Bullock, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of this State and the Militia
thereof, have thought proper to issue this, my Proclamation, hereby offering
reward of One Thousand Dollars for the apprehension and delivery of the person
or persons engaged in the perpetration of this atrocious murder as hereinbefore
recited, with evidence sufficient to convict, to the Sheriff of said county of
Glynn;
And I do moreover charge and require all officers in this State,
civil and military, to be vigilant in endeavoring to apprehend the said party or
parties, in order that they may be brought to trial and punishment. Given under
my hand and the great Seal of the State, at the Capitol, in the city of Atlanta,
this 28th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of
America, the ninety-fourth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK, Governor.
By the Governor: DAVID G. COTTING, Secretary of State.
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HARPER, Harold Fraser “Sonny”
The Brunswick News; Friday 28 February 2003; pg. 4A col. 1
Harold Fraser “Sonny” Harper, 75, passed away on February 26, 2003,
at his home on Blythe Island.
His boyhood days were spent in the Arco Community where his entire
family was actively involved in baseball and the Arco Methodist Church. He
served in the U.S. Army during World War II in occupied France. He readily
introduced himself as “165 pounds of walking hell from Arco, Ga.” After his
army discharge, Sonny married Marianna Tyre, formerly of Baxley. Sonny worked
in the local shipyard and other construction jobs, and in 1957, Sonny opened
South Georgia Tower and Tank.
He and Marianna were married for 51 years on February 10th. They
have a daughter, Marjanne Woods; a son, Pete Harper, three grandchildren, Sean
Gibbs, Garrett Gibbs and Marjanna Markham. Sonny was preceded in death by a
brother, Bobby Harper. He has two sisters, Virginia Strickland and Bette Ann
Mavromat. He loved fast black trucks, racing and his family and employees. All
of his loved ones will miss him greatly.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Edo
Miller and Sons Funeral Home with the Rev. Mark Kase and the Rev. Gordon “Butch”
Dukes officiating. Interment will follow in Palmetto Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Troy Faircloth, Herman Diestel, Jerome
Dean, Johnny Mavromat, Bobby Strickland, Hal Strickland, Jimmy Souter and Mike
Strickland.
Honorary pallbearers will be Bonnie Caldwell, Lula Holmes, Buddy
Webb, R.E. Thomas, Levi Woods, Mike Gibbs, Greg Gibbs, Jake Jacobs, Pat
Strickland, Mae Lipthratt, Donnie and Virginia Lipthratt, Jamie Souter, Charlie
Johnson Sr., Charlie Johnson Jr., Clarke Wiggins, William Meyer and employees of
South Georgia Tower and Tank Inc.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Edo
Miller and Sons Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice of the Golden
Isles or a charity of the donor’s choice.
HARPER, Marthel
The Brunswick News; Thursday 14 October 2004; pg. 4A col. 4
Marthel “Marty” Harper, 70, of Brunswick died Wednesday at Hospice
of the Golden Isles.
Mrs. Harper had been a resident of Brunswick for the past 35 years.
She was a homemaker and also owned and operated Rainbow Yarn and Gift Shop for
several years.
The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the chapel of
Brunswick Memorial Park Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Crandall officiating.
Interment will follow in Brunswick Memorial Park Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Chad Neal, Ryan Harper, and Drew
Irwin, as well as, Billy Shape, Dwight Varnedoe and Keith Paseur.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Duane Moores and staff; and the
staff and volunteers at Hospice of the Golden Isles.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Brunswick
Memorial Park Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions can be made to Hospice of the Golden Isles.
Survivors include two daughters, Jody Neal of Brunswick, and Julie
Irwin of Dallas, Texas; one son, Lex Harper of Brunswick; seven grandchildren;
and two great-grandchildren.
HARRINGTON, James Walter
The Brunswick News; Monday 5 January 1959; pg. 14 col. 6
FATHER SUCCUMBS—Funeral services were held yesterday in
Daytona Beach, Fla., for James Walter Harrington, 78, father of J.W. Harrington,
market manager of the local Winn Dixie Food Store. Mar. Harrington had been a
visitor here on several occasions. Death was attributed to a heart condition.
HARRIS, Adeline (Hirsch)
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California); Thursday 17 July 1930
FUNERAL NOTICE—Attention, members Sunbeam Chapter, No. 376, O.E.S.: The funeral
services of Sister Adeline Harris, Past Matron, will be held at the Robinson 7
Adair Mortuary, 917 Venice Boulevard, Friday, July 18, at 10 a.m. ETTA HARRIS,
Worthy Matron.
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California); Friday 18 July 1930
HARRIS. Adeline Harris, beloved wife of H.L. Harris; mother of Ray and Bernard
Harris, Mrs. Ernestine Brown of San Francisco, and sister of Mrs. Julius May and
J.D. Hirsch of Los Angeles and Henry Hirsch of Dania, Fla.
Services will be held today, July 18, at 10:30 a.m., from the chapel
of Robinson & Adair, Inc., 817 Venice Boulevard, under auspices Sunbeam Chapter,
No. 376, O.E.S.
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HARRIS, Allen
Advertiser & Appeal; Vol. 2, No. 30; Wednesday 17 January 1877; pg.5,
col. 1
Allen Harris, colored, for many years in the employ of Mr.
Friedlander, died yesterday (Jan. 16, 1876). Aged 65 years.
HARRIS, Bonnie Lynn
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 25 October 1994; pg. 3A, col. 4
SERVICE THURSDAY FOR BONNIE LYNN HARRIS
A memorial service for Bonnie Lynn Harris, 46, of Brunswick will be 3
p.m. Thursday at Chapman Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Leon Guest officiating.
Mrs. Harris died Friday at Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center.
The family requests memorials to Toys for Tots through the Glynn County
Fire Department.
Surviving are her husband, Clifford W. Harris of Brunswick; a son, B.
John Buckland of Brunswick; a stepson, Steven Harris of Brunswick; a
stepdaughter, Stacy Taylor of Brunswick; a brother, Nelson Clark of Brunswick;
six grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
The life-long resident of Glynn County was a homemaker and of the
Pentecostal faith.
HARRIS, Clarence
The Brunswick News; Monday 2 September 1996; pg. 3A col. 3
SERVICE TUESDAY FOR CLARENCE HARRIS
The funeral for Clarence Harris, 61, of Brunswick will be 4 p.m.
Tuesday at Needwood Baptist Church with the Rev. Milton Moore officiating.
Burial will follow at Eliza Field Cemetery.
He died Thursday at his residence. The body will be taken from the
funeral home one hour prior to the service.
Pallbearers will be Cleveland Gallimore, Randolph Williams, Benjamin
Lewis, James Williams, Donell Mention and Mack LeCounte. Honorary pallbearers
will be Georgia Power Co. employees.
Surviving are a daughters, Patricia Rutledge of Brunswick; a
brother, Raymond Harris of Brunswick; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild;
and several nieces and nephews.
Harris was a member of the Working Men Club and the Ambassador
Club. He was employed as a mechanic at Georgia Power. Hall, Jones and Brown
Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HARRIS, Elizabeth (Price)
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 22 June 1971; pg. 3 cols. 7-8
SERVICES FOR MRS. HARRIS ON WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Elizabeth Price Harris, 60, died in Chattahoochee, Fla., Sunday
after a short illness. She was a native of Brunswick and a member of the First
United Methodist Church.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. M.A. Robinson, McDonough; two
sons, D.F. Harris, Smyrna, and Major J.R. Harris, Fort Hood, Tex.; two sisters,
Mrs. George Dekle, Brunswick, and Mrs. Rollena Parker, New Smyrna Beach, Fla.;
two brothers, J.M. Price and D.K. Price, both of Brunswick; seven grandchildren,
and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services under the direction of the Edo Miller & Sons
Funeral Home will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the graveside in Palmetto
Cemetery, with the Rev. Rudolph Dixon of the McKendree United Methodist Church
officiating. The body will remain in the chapel of the funeral home until the
hour of services. The family will be at the residence of George Dekle at 3201
Treville Ave.
HARRIS, Ellen
The Brunswick News; Thursday 8 March 1973; pg. 14 col. 1
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. HARRIS TO BE ON SUNDAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Ellen Harris who died
Sunday at the Brunswick hospital after a short illness will be held at 2 p.m.
Sunday at the Friendship Baptist Church with the Rev. J.P. Allen officiating.
Burial will follow at the Upper Mill Cemetery in Darien.
A native of Darien, Mrs. Harris had lived in Glynn County for the
past 60 years and was a retired midwife. She was a member of the Household of
Ruth, Mount Sinai and Beautiful Light Church and president of the Pastor Aid
Club at Friendship Baptist Church.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Inez Hose, Mrs. Estella
Jones, both of Brunswick and Mrs. Gertrude Thompson of Orange, N.J.; a son,
James E. Harris of New York City; 15 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren and
11 great-great grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Eustice Williams, Robert Florence, Martin
Ingram, George Muse, Paul Walker and J.C. Conway.
Halls Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HARRIS, Frances E. (Holmes)
The Brunswick Call; Wednesday 8 June 1898; pg. 1 col. 6
A
SAD DEATH
Mrs. W.H. Harris, wife of contractor W.H. Harris, died yesterday
morning of heart failure. The deceased lady was well and hearty up to a few
moments before her death. Mrs. Harris leaves a husband and five little
motherless children to mourn her loss, besides her brothers, Messrs. Scott, Alex
and Dempre Holmes and one sister, Miss Mamie Holmes. The funeral will occur
from her late residence on corner F street and Cochran avenue at 9 o’clock this
morning.
HARRIS, Francis
The Brunswick News; Sunday 19 February 1905; pg. 1 col. 6
LITTLE FRANCES HARRIS DEAD—Six-Year-Old Son of Mr. and Mrs.
F.H. Harris Died Yesterday.
Little Francis Harris, the six year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Harris died yesterday afternoon at [torn] o’clock after a
short illness. [The little] fellow was perfectly well ???day evening when eh at
some [torn] for supper and after [torn] of his aunt crank [torn]. He was taken
sick [torn] and grew rapidly worse and our [torn] physicians were called and
[torn] possible was done to pave [torn].
The little boy was an [torn] and lovable and was the [torn] home and
his parents [torn] with grief over his sudden [blacked out].
Funeral arrangements [blacked out] completed last night await
[blacked out] arrival of his brother John D. Harris of Jacksonville. It will
probably occur tomorrow.
HARRIS, Frank Henry
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 8 March 1932; pg. 8 col. 3
COL. FRANK H. HARRIS PASSES AWAY TODAY—DEAN OF LOCAL BAR
AND AGED CONFEDERATE VETERAN DIES AT HOME HERE
Col. Frank Henry Harris, 85, dean of the
Brunswick bar and one of the last two surviving Confederate veterans living in
Glynn county, died at his home here at 11 o’clock this morning, following an
illness of some time. Col. Harris had been ill at his home for weeks, but his
condition was not critical until last week, when he suffered an injury in a fall
at his residence. Because of his advanced age the accident proved serious and
his condition had been critical for the past few days.
Col. Harris, often called the “boy soldier of the confederacy”, was
born at Wood Hill, Richmond county, Georgia, Nov. 24, 1846. He enlisted in
company B, 27th Georgia infantry of the Confederate army in that
county May 16, 1863, when only 17 years of age and he served continuously
through the war. On June 3, the same year, he was appointed a fourth corporal,
and several weeks later, was made a fifth sergeant. He was with General Joseph
E. Johnstone’s [sic] army when it surrendered at Greensboro, N.C., April 26,
1865, then being a member of the company commanded by Capt. Edward Tatnall
Miller.
Since the war Col. Harris had always taken a leading part in the
Confederate veterans organization and had many times served as commander of John
B. Gordon camp of this city. He attended many of the reunions and always
manifested great interest in the Confederacy.
The deceased was a grandson of john Milton, of Georgia, an
historical character and of fame in the Continental army. He was also a
grandson of Lewis Arthur Harris, a soldier of the war of 1812.
Col. Harris was admitted to the bar May 3, 1873, and with they
exception of eight years he resided in Tampa, practiced his profession in this
city. He was one of the workers assisting in the establishment of the
Democratic party in the reconstruction days, and although a mere boy, he did
great work with the leaders of his party.
Mr. Harris was the youngest child of Benjamin and Maria Milton
Harris. In September, 1870, he was married to Caroline Margaret Wade, of
Savannah, and to this union five children were born, four of whom survive, John
L. Harris, of Tampa, Mrs. Hayden McKay, Miss Meta Harris and Mrs. William Bruand,
all of this city. After the death of his first wife he was later married to
Miss Louise Westberry, of this city, and to this union one child was born, who
passed away at the age of five.
During all of the years that Col. Harris practiced law in Brunswick
he was considered one of the leading members of the bar and he continued his
practice until unable to do so because of illness a short time ago. He had
served as judge of the old Glynn county court, and had always been considered an
able jurist.
Funeral services will be held from St. Marks Episcopal church
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, with the Rev. Royal K. Tucker, rector,
officiating and Mortician Edo Miller in charge. The funeral will be attended by
the Brunswick Riflemen and the members of the local lodge of Knights of
Pythias. Active pall bearers will be H.F. duBignon, A.O. Townsend, Millard
Reese, D.W. Krauss, Frank M. Scarlett, A.A. Nathan. Members of the Brunswick
Bar Association will act as honorary pall bearers.
HARRIS, George
The Brunswick News; Saturday 7 October 1972; pg. 15 col. 3
George Harris Dies Early Today After Brief Illness
George Harris, 65, of Valona, died at the Brunswick hospital early today
after a short illness.
He had been a resident of Valona for the past 25 years and was a member
of the First Baptist Church in Darien. He was a member of Live Oak Lodge 137,
Masons, a member of the Alee Temple Shrine of Savannah, a member of the O.E.S.
Live Oak Chapter 331, a Past Patron of the Live Oak Chapter 331. He was a
commercial fisherman.
Harris is survived by his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Driggers Harris of Valona; a
step-son, Robert Garrett of West Virginia; a sister, Mrs. C.L. Crumbly of Ocala,
Fla.; a brother Sam Harris of Oak Hill, Fla.; four grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Edo
Miller and Sons Funeral Home with the Rev. B.E. Hannah and the Rev. Marien
Mullis officiating. Interment will follow at Brunswick Memorial Park.
Active pallbearers will be Harry Thomas, Charles Thomas, Reginald
Sawyer, E.B. Kennedy, Jack D'Antignac, and Monroe Graham.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Hurley Jones, Dr. E.R. Jennings, Dr.
B.A. Addison, Dr. A.W. Strickland, Dr. Richard Egan, Live oak Lodge 137, F. &
A.M., and the O.E.S. 331.
The body will remain in the chapel for the services.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HARRIS, Isabella M. (Clubb)
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 11 June 1881; pg. 3 col. 2
We note this week the death of Mrs. Lewis
Harris, which occurred on Saturday last, after a long and tedious illness.
HARRIS, John Lewis
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 10 May 1879; pg. 3 col. 2
DEATH OF JUDGE HARRIS
He is gone! He passed away about nine o’clock on Monday night last,
calmly and quietly, though rather suddenly. He has been suffering for some time
past with rheumatism, but was considered much better. At eight o’clock on
Monday night he was seized with a convulsion, from which he never rallied, nor
was he again conscious.
Of his noble qualities of head and heart we fain would speak, for
none feel for him a warmer attachment than the writer, but language fails us,
and we leave to abler pens this sad but loving duty. Our whole community is
saddened by this unexpected blow, and bow in meek submissions to the ‘hand that
smites.”
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT
The Glynn County Agricultural Association met at 11 A.M., at office
J.M. Dexter and was called to order by James M. Couper, President, and after the
transaction of regular business, the following resolution was offered:
RESOLVED, that this Association have heard of the death of Hon. J.L.
Harris, with deep sorrow and regret, and hereby express our sympathy with the
bereaved family in their great affliction, and bow in submission to the will of
Him who giveth and taketh away.
J.M.
DEXTER, Sec’y.
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 10 May 1879; pg. 3 col. 3
THE
FUNERAL
On Wednesday afternoon last, our people turned out en masse to pay
the last tribute to our esteemed townsmen, Judge John L. Harris, whose death is
mentioned elsewhere in these columns. At 3:30 sharp the hearse containing his
remains left his residence, followed by quite a procession, and wended its way
to the Methodist Church, where was assembled an immense number of people. Here
was read the usual burial service of the M.E. Church by the pastor, Rev. R.L.
Honiker, in an impressive manner, which, interspersed with appropriate music by
the choir, made that vast assemblage pause and think, and in many a heart, no
doubt, came up the unwelcome thought, “I, too, must die.”
The procession was then formed in the following order:
Brunswick Brass Band,
Oceanic Fire Company,
Mayor and Alderman,
Hearse, with the legal fraternity as pall-bearers,
Pastor,
Family and kindred of deceased,
Citizens generally.
Of this last class we might well say “their name was Legion,” for it
comprised scores from every class of society. From the highest to the lowest,
all seemed anxious to add their mite in swelling this last tribute to the memory
of one beloved by all.
As the procession moved forward, the Band played appropriate airs,
and the vast assemblage moved silently on to Oak Grove Cemetery, where we laid
him down to rest, waiting the last trump that shall wake his sleeping ashes.
In the death of Judge John L. Harris, our people have met a loss not
yet realized. The rich and the poor alike will miss him, for he was a friend to
all.
To that aged mother, now ripe for the better land, that fond and
devoted wife and partner, that only daughter and child, and those sad brothers,
all mourning because “he is not,” we extend the heartfelt sympathy of one who
has drunk of the cup of sorrow, and knows full well its deepest bitterness.
The deceased was fifty-six years of age.
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 10 May 1879; pg. 3 col.
IN
MEMORIAM
At a meeting of the members of the bar in the city of Brunswick,
held on the sixth day of May, 1879, the following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAS, In the dispensation of a mysterious Providence, our
esteemed brother, the Hon. John L. Harris, Judge of the Brunswick Circuit, has
been taken from earth, its cares, troubles, trials, and duties, to another, and
we trust and believe a better world, where sorrow and suffering and pain are
unknown;
AND WHEREAS, It is fit and proper that we who were so closely
associated with him in the daily walks of life, as lawyer, jurist and companion,
should take some action whereby our respect for his memory may be placed on
record, and our share in the last sad tribute of respect at his funeral be
defined, therefore
Be it resolved, That in his death the community have lost a
true and tried and able champion of their rights and interests, and able lawyer
and jurist, a benevolent, kind hearted, genial man, whose failings, if he had
them, leaned to virtue’s side, whose loss leaves a blank in our community, and
is a misfortune to the whole State of Georgia, and to us who were so closely
associated with him by professional and business relations, a loss impossible of
description.
Resolved, That the deepest sympathy is felt for each member
of his family thus suddenly deprived of father, husband, brother, son and uncle,
and that each of us hereby tender, as individuals and as a body, our heartfelt
sympathy for them in this hour of deep gloom and sorrow, only relieved by the
proud consciousness that his was a life well spent.
Resolved, That each member of the Bar will, for the space of
thirty days from this date wear crape on his left arm as a tribute of respect to
the memory of the deceased, and that crape be placed upon the outer door of each
law office until after the funeral, and that we will attend the funeral in a
body.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished to
the family of the deceased, and another cop furnished to the editor of the
Advertiser for publication, with a request that other papers throughout the
State will copy the same.
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the
Chairman of this meeting, whose duty it shall be to draft for publication and
presentation to the members of his family an article giving a brief resume of
his life and services, expressive of our respect for his memory, and that the
Savannah News, Telegraph and Messenger. Atlanta Constitution and
Augusta Constitutionalist and other papers throughout the State be
requested to publish the same as a matter of public interest.
M.L.
MERSHON, Ch’m.
W.E. KAY, Secretary.
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 17 May 1879; pg. 1 cols. 3-6
TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE HON. JOHN L. HARRIS BY THE BRUNSWICK BAR
Death loves a shining mark, and when a man is stricken down by that
grim power, who has exercised a large influence upon his section and his State,
has formed a large circle of acquaintance, and is esteemed and loved for his
many excellent qualities of head and heart, we pause and realize more deeply the
old, old truth that all must die, and that the day, the hour, or the month, or
year of Death’s coming are mysteries which we cannot pierce and fathom and
understand.
Where is Judge Harris? But three weeks ago he sat upon the bench in
the exercise of all his intellectual faculties, strong, capable, earnest and
conscientious in the performance of his duty as the interpreter of the law to
the people, the arbitrator of their disputes, the head of that system of
jurisprudence for his circuit, which in the civilization of the present day
replaces the violent modes of settlement of barbarous times.
Home, from Ware Superior Court, with his family, he complained of a
cold, contracted at Ware during the fearful storm of last month, which we all so
well remember, and took his bed, no one dreaming (unless, perhaps, he may have
had a premonition of the end) of any fatal result. Fever set in, but was kept
under control.—His mind, with a few exceptions when the fever was upon him,
remained bright and clear. The play of his genial humor enlivened the sick
room. A table by the head of his bed was covered with the books of his favorite
authors. Every year since he arrived at mature manhood he has renewed his
acquaintance with Latin and Greek, reading the Greek Testament, Horace, Virgil
and other authors, and those books had been read by him on the day he died, and
lay upon his table, where he had laid them on the night of the 5th, when death
came so suddenly into his peaceful home and took husband, son, father, uncle,
brother, away from the cares of earth to another and a better world.
Only last Saturday he was sitting on his front porch in the
beautiful sunset hour of that charming May day, with his family and friends
gathered around him, discoursing in his quaintly humorous way of many things,
and then as in the past days of his illness the news came to our people that he
was better and would soon be able to again resume his work as Judge of the
circuit. So fully was this believed that his physician, who had visited him
daily, felt fully authorized to leave his bedside to attend the medical and
health conventions in Atlanta. So fully was it believed by our people, that
many of his best and closest friends, knowing that he had many visitors, fearful
that they might weary him by a visit, stayed away, believing they would soon
meet him on the streets, and be able to congratulate him upon his recovery.
Monday evening, upon the night upon which he died, the Bar met informally to
consult about Camden and Charlton Superior Court, and proposed on the next day
to send a committee to consult with him as to the propriety of asking another
Judge to hold those courts.
Monday night he sat in his bed talking with his family until 9 P.M.,
when suddenly, without premonition or warning of any kind, he was seized with a
convulsion, which lasted but a moment, and although every effort was made to
revive him, all efforts were fruitless, and there is little doubt that the first
seizure was his death struggle. The blow to his family and friends, and to the
community, was all the more fearful from its suddenness. It is believed the
immediate cause of his death was rheumatism of the heart.
While his intellectual faculties remained bright and active to the
last, he has been failing in health for years, and it is believed that he has
felt conscious of the approach of death, and has kept it from family and friends
out of regard for their feelings.
Yesterday the community paid the last sad tribute of respect to his
memory, and such a funeral gathering has not been known here for years, if ever
before. The bright and beautiful flowers of May which he loved so well, were
sent and placed upon his coffin in rich profusion. The Bar, the Masonic
fraternity, the fire company and band, and the Mayor and Council, attended in a
body. The church was filled to overflowing. Rich and poor, old and young, all
classes, colors and conditions gathered around his open grave, attesting the
love and respect he had inspired by his long life of usefulness and benevolence.
At a meeting of the Bar on the 6th day of May, 1879, the morning
after his death, the undersigned were appointed a committee to perform the
painful yet pleasing task of preparing a short sketch of his life, services and
character for publication. We approach the task with diffidence and ask that
any mistake or failure on our part may be condoned and forgiven, in view of the
deep respect and love which we, in common with each member of the Bar of the
circuit and of the people thereof, entertained for him.
Judge Harris was born near Augusta, in Richmond county, at the old
homestead named “Woodhill.” The Miltons were related to the family on the
mother’s side, the Secretary of State of that name being the grandfather of
Judge Harris. Gov. John Milton, of Florida, was his cousin.
He was born in May, 1823, making him fifty-six years of age at the
time of his death. He attended a school in Richmond county, kept by a Mr.
Gardiner, another kept by Mr. Edmund Graves, and another by a gentleman named
Scruggs; and from there went to Pendleton, S.C., and attended a classical school
taught by a Dr. Wayland. In his childhood his mind was very bright and active,
giving promise of a bright future. At Dr. Wayland’s school he took a high rank
as classical scholar, which he has sustained through life.
From there he went to Asheville, North Carolina, to a school taught
by Dr. Dickson, where he remained for two years, and was prepared to enter
Columbia College, but by reason of the losses sustained by his father in the
crisis of 1842-43, it was impossible to carry out that intention. Dr. Dickson,
who took a great interest in his welfare, then took him back to Asheville as
assistant teacher, undertaking to complete his education. But shortly after
this Dr. Dickson changed his plans, breaking up his school, and Judge Harris
returned to Pendleton, South Carolina, and started a classical school himself,
continuing it for a year, when he returned to Augusta and commenced the study of
the law under Judge Starnes; was admitted to the bar in Augusta, practiced there
for some time; removing to Atlanta in 1848, where he continued the practice of
the law. He held the position of City Attorney for a number of years, and was
elected a member of the Legislature from Fulton county in 1855; removed to
Brunswick in 1857, going into partnership with his brother, Benjamin F. Harris,
in the practice of the law.
In 1858 he was elected for the Legislature to fill a vacancy caused
by the death of the Hon. J.W. Moore; and in the ensuing year was elected for the
full term in the Lower House on the same ticket with the Hon. Thomas Butler
King, who was elected Senator, both being elected upon the issue of State
aid—and in the House, during his term, was a consistent, earnest and able
advocate of State aid, making an argument in its favor which commanded the
admiration even of it opponents. He was a member of the Secession Convention
from the county of Glynn, being elected with Dr. D.H.B. Troup, and advocated
secession.
When the war came on he enlisted as a private in the Brunswick
Riflemen, in May, 1861; was promoted to a Corporalship, and upon the
reorganization of that corps, two months afterwards, he left that company and
joined Captain Hopkins’ company of cavalry as a private. On the reorganization
of Captain Hopkins’ company, he was elected First Lieutenant, and on the
organization of the Fourth Georgia Cavalry was elected a Major, and afterwards
Lieutenant Colonel, serving in the last named position until the close of the
war, and led the regiment in every engagement except at Ocean Pond, Florida,
where Colonel Clinch was wounded.
After the war he returned to his home in Richmond county, at the old
homestead, where his wife and family had remained, and commenced farming, going
resolutely to work to rebuild the shattered fortunes of himself and family. In
the autumn of 1865 he removed from there to Waresboro, in Ware county, and again
took up the practice of his profession, at once taking the position of leading
lawyer of his circuit. In 1868 he stumped the First Congressional district for
General Gordon for Governor, and Seymour and Blair for President and Vice
President. His name was before the Congressional Convention of that year, but
he was disqualified at that time, and therefore did not receive the nomination.
In 1870 he was solicited to be a candidate for Congress from the First
Congressional district, but declined on account of ill health in a humorous but
earnest article in the Savannah News.
In 1872, ’74, ’76, ’78, Judge Harris’ name was frequently mentioned
in connection with the nomination for Congress, but in each instance he declined
to allow his name used.
In 1870 he removed from Ware county to his farm in Glynn county,
practicing law in Brunswick in partnership with William Williams, Esq. He
removed to Brunswick in the fall of 1871, continuing the practice of the law
until January, 1873, when he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of the
Brunswick Circuit by Governor Smith, and to which position he was elected in
December, 1878.
Thus briefly we have sketched the main incidents of his life. There
is much, did space permit, which might be said of his life and character. Much
which did not relate to his public life, but to the man in the family relation
and a private citizen. In his family relations he was a kind and loving son to
the aged mother who mourns his loss. A loving husband and father to his wife
and daughter so suddenly left in mourning. A true brother, an affectionate
uncle, a faithful friend. Yet he was more than this. He was the friend of the
weak, the wayward, the poor, the unfortunate, both in word and deed. His
charity and benevolence was not of the order which is blazoned from the house
tops, but it ever responded to the cry of distress and trouble.
We have seen nothing more touching than the gathering of the mass of
colored people who mourned yesterday his loss in the cemetery and reverently
laid their offering of flowers on his grave. They knew he was their friend;
they knew he had dealt justly by them in the court house and in the every day
affairs of life.
Of Judge Harris as a lawyer, there is no need to speak. He was well
known as an able, fearless and untiring advocate—indeed, was better known in
that sense than as a Judge. The play of his humor, the magnetism of his manner,
captivated juries and won verdicts. His was the light armor of forensic
effort. Heavy blows were not his forte, but the flash of his weapon was bright,
its point sharp and piercing, well fitted to his purpose. But his attacks
seldom left a sting behind them, and if he has, after his thirty-odd years of
practice, made a permanent enemy in Georgia or elsewhere we have yet to know
it. As an orator, and especially as an orator before the people in the
discussion of public questions, he was popular and powerful, controlling his
audiences with that power which, for want of a better word, we call personal
magnetism, and carrying them captive whatever their previous convictions while
the spell was on them.
He had faults, and who not but they were of the lighter order, and
overbalanced by his many good qualities of head and heart. His loss is not a
loss to his family alone, or to the people of our city, his adopted home. We
mourn his loss, and Southern Georgia also is in mourning, and the sad refrain is
echoed back from the hills and valleys of North Georgia, where his early life
was spent. His death has left a blank. His memory will remain green in the
hearts of the thousands who knew and loved him, through the years which are to
come. Requiescat in peace.
C.P.
GOODYEAR,
A.J. CROVATT,
IRA E. SMITH,
Committee.
The above report was on motion unanimously adopted.
M.L.
MERSHON,
Chairman Meeting Brunswick Bar.
W.E.
Kay, Secretary.
HARRIS, Melvina (Paulk)
The Brunswick News; Friday 7 May 1993; pg. 3A col. 6
MELVINA P. HARRIS FUNERAL SATURDAY
The funeral for Melvina Paulk Harris, 89, of Brunswick will be at 1
p.m. Saturday at Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. W.T. Moore officiating.
Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
She died Monday at Medical Arts Center of Coastal Georgia.
Pallbearers will be the men of the family. Honorary pallbearers
will be deacons of Bethel Baptist Church.
The body will be placed in the church an hour before the service.
The family will receive friends at 921 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
tonight and Saturday.
Surviving are a sister, Nancy Williams of Miami, Fla.; a brother,
Foster Paulk Jr. of Sarasota, Fla.; two stepsisters, Bertha Jones of Daytona
Beach, Fla., and Cora Walker of Miami; six grandchildren, several
great-grandchildren, and several other relatives.
The Coffee County native and had lived [sic] in Glynn County for
over 50 years. She was retired and was a member of Bethel Baptist Church.
Collins’ Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HARRIS, Rosa Etelyn
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 1 February 2000; pg. 4A col. 1
ROSA
HARRIS—Rosa Harris, 92, of Brunswick died Tuesday at the Sun Bridge Health and
Rehabilitation Center. Arrangements will be announced by Chapman Funeral
Chapel.
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 2 February 2000; pg. 4A col. 2
ROSA
HARRIS
Rosa Etelyn Harris, 92, of Brunswick died early Tuesday morning at
Sunbridge Health Care Center.
The funeral will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Chapman Funeral Chapel with
Grover Meeks and the Rev. John Harris officiating. Burial will be at Palmetto
Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 tonight at the
funeral home.
Pallbearers will be John Green, Al Chapman, Jenning Overstreet,
James Elledge and Jerry Reeves.
Surviving are two daughters, Cloveine White and Joyce Green, both of
Brunswick; two brothers, John White of Adairsville and Franklin White of
Brunswick; three sisters, Goldie Motes of Macon, Carine Lumas of Oklahoma City,
Ok. And Mary Lillie of Gainesville; eight grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren,
and nine great-great-grandchildren.
A native of Bath, S.C., she lived in Brunswick most of her life and
was a homemaker. She was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church.
HARRIS, Samuel James
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 26 March 1946; pg. 8 col. 4
SAMUEL J. HARRIS DIED YESTERDAY
Samuel James Harris, 69, a resident of
Brunswick practically all of his life, passed away at the City Hospital
yesterday afternoon, following an illness of three or four months. He resided
with a daughter, Mrs. Annie King, 114 Glynnvilla.
Survivors include eight children, Mrs. King, Mrs. Lana Dixon, Mrs.
Florence Jones, Mrs. Catherine Crosby, Ned, Raymond, and Nick Harris all of this
city, and I.C. Harris, of Nebraska. Five sisters, one brother, 28[?]
grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at
the Advent Christian church, with the Rev. W.F. Jamison officiating. The body
will be taken today to 2201 M street to remain until the hour of the funeral.
Pallbearers will be Bill, Earl and Mac Harris, Robert Jones, James and Major
King. Arrangements are in charge of Mortician Edo Miller.
HARRIS, William Henry
The Brunswick News; Thursday 5 February 1925; pg. 8 col. 3
WILLIAM H. HARRIS, OLD CITIZEN, DIES AT HOME IN URBANA
Following a stroke of paralysis just two weeks ago today, William H.
Harris, seventy-six years of age, passed away at his home in Urbana shortly
after 10 o’clock this morning and the funeral will be held from the home
tomorrow afternoon at 3:30, conducted by Rev. D. Watson Winn, of Christ church,
Frederica, and interment will be in Oak Grove cemetery, in charge of Undertaker
J.D. Baldwin.
Deceased was born in Brunswick on May 29th, 1848, and has
lived here all of his life, following the carpenter trade until his health
became so that he was unable to work. He leaves one son, W.H. Harris, Jr., and
one daughter, Mrs. H.M. Bell, both of this city, and besides these he leaves a
number of grandchildren and other relatives.
Being one of the city’s oldest residents, Mr. Harris was known by
many and esteemed by all.
The Brunswick News; Friday 6 February 1925; pg. 3 col. 1
FUNERAL OF W.H. HARRIS HELD THIS AFTERNOON—The funeral of William H. Harris,
whose death was reporte3d in these columns yesterday, is being held this
afternoon from his late home in Urbana and is being conducted by Rev. D. Watson
Winn, of St. Simons. Many friends of the deceased and his family are attending
and the floral offerings are both bountiful and beautiful. Interment is being
held in Oak Grove cemetery.
HARRISON, Alice
The Brunswick News; Thursday 23 April 1953; pg. 14 col. 5
MRS.
N.B. HARRISON DIES EARLY TODAY; FUNERAL ON FRIDAY
Mrs. Alice Harrison, widow of the late Nathan B. Harrison, passed
away at an early hour today after an extended illness. She was one of
Brunswick’s oldest and best known residents.
Born in Camden County January 31, 1868, Mrs. Harrison was married to
Mr. Harrison October 19, 1888, and she had made her home here for many years.
Mrs. Harrison had been a lifelong member of the First Methodist
Church and for years a member of the local chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. In her earlier life she was unusually active in religious
and social affairs. She counted her many friends among all classes in the city,
and she was loved by all of them. Mrs. Harrison was known for her many acts of
charity, her interest in others, and her willingness to always do anything
possible for friends as well as her family.
She is survived by five children, Mrs. Clyde Z. Walker, Decatur;
Mrs. Isaac M. Aiken and Thomas D. Harrison, Brunswick; Spencer A. Harrison,
Atlanta, and John P. Harrison, Piedmont, Ala., and the following grandchildren:
Mrs. Walter Rylander, Americus; I.M. Aiken, Jr., Augusta; Harrison Aiken, U.S.
Air Force; T.D. Harrison, Jr., Philadelphia; Misses Alice, Ellen and Mary V.
Harrison and John P. Harrison, all of Piedmont, Ala. Two great grandchildren
also survive.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at
the First Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. E.J. Garbutt, assisted by the
Rev. Talbert Morgan of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Oak Grove
Cemetery under the direction of the Miller Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be
Dr. Robert S. Burford, Judge Frank M. Scarlett, Bernard N. Nightingale, E.J.
Gayner III, W.E. Geiger, Walter Dunwody, Harry Parker and Osborne Morgan.
HARRISON, F.H.
The Brunswick News; Saturday 17 March 1917; pg. 1 col. 2
WAYNE COUNTY'S OLDEST CITIZEN PASSES AWAY
F.H. Harrison, 96 years of age, of near Thallman, passed away early
yesterday morning after an illness of many weeks, and the funeral will occur
today.
Deceased was one of the wealthiest men in Wayne county, and was
plain to a marked degree, but was always ready to help those who really needed
it. He was well known in Brunswick where he often visited.
HARRISON, Nathan Brown
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 7 April 1919
VETERAN CONDUCTOR DIES ON HIS TRAIN
Fitzgerald, Ga., April 5—(Special)—N.B.
Harrison, a conductor for sixteen years on the A.B.A. railroad, died suddenly on
his train this morning between Thalman and Brunswick of Bright’s disease.
HARRISON, Virginia (Brown)
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 4 January 1900
FUNERAL OF MRS. HARRISON—Body Laid to Rest at Waynesville,
Ga., Yesterday—The Services.
Brunswick, Ga., January 3—(Special)—The remains
of Mrs. Virginia Harrison, who died in Atlanta New Year’s day, arrive here this
morning on the Southern train. Those who were dearest to her in life, her only
son, N.B. Harrison, and her only daughter, Mrs. Spencer R. Atkinson, arrived
with her remains on the Southern this morning, where they were joined by Mayor
D.D. Atkinson, Judge S.C. Atkinson, Rev. J.B. Game and many others, who took a
special on the Plant system for Waynesville, where remains were interred. Rev.
J.B. Game, of the First Methodist church, Brunswick, conducting the ceremony.
HART, J. Freeman
The Brunswick News; Monday 27 April 1959; pg. 16 col. 4
J. FREEMAN HART, MORTICIAN, DIES
J. Freeman hart, 75, of Macon and Sea Island,
and originally a partner in the Gibson-Hart Funeral Home here, died last night
in Macon after a brief illness.
He headed Hart’s Mortuary in Macon. He some time ago sold his
interest in the Gibson-Hart Funeral Home here to his brother-in-law and partner,
Dewey Gibson.
Mr. hart had owned a Sea Island cottage for some 10 years and was a
regular visitor here.
Funeral services will be held at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at Hart’s
Mortuary in Macon. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery there.
Survivors are his wife; one son, J.F. Hart, Jr.; four grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren; and his brother-in-law, Mr. Gibson here.
HART, James William
The Brunswick News; Thursday 4 June 1914; pg. 8 col. 2
FUNERAL OF PROF. J. WILLIAM HART—Sunday afternoon friends followed him to last
resting place.
The following from the Athens Banner tells of the funeral of Prof.
J.W. Hart whose tragic death on Jekyl so shocked the people of Brunswick.
“The funeral of Prof. James William Hart was held Sunday afternoon
at six o’clock at Emmanuel church, of which he had been a member since coming to
Athens.
“Scores of sorrowing friends had sent beautiful floral tributes in
token of their grief and the floral offering of the State College of Agriculture
of which institution’s faculty he had been a popular member, was one of the
loveliest ever seen here.
“The large auditorium of Emmanuel church was filled to its
capacity. Prof. Hart had been a resident of Athens for only a few years, but
had made hundreds of warm friends, who deeply lamented his tragic taking off.
“The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Troy Beatty, rector of
Emmanuel church. The choir sang the songs, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” and “Blest
Be the Tie That Binds,” and Dr. Beatty read the solemn burial services of the
church.
“The casket was bourne to the hearse by the pall bearers, Dr. A.M.
Soule, Prof. M.P. Jarnagin, Mr. M.P. O’Callahan, Dr. Coleman, Mr. C.A. Whittle,
Mr. R.T. Goodwyn, Mr. P.W. Vanatter and Mr. J.C. Helmer. The remains were
interred in Oconee cemetery.
“No death has occurred in recent years that has thrown a greater
gloom over Athens. Prof. Hart was one of the most popular of our citizens and
together with his charming family enjoyed the friendship of hundreds of our best
people.
“He had left Athens only because his new position was by far a
better position than he had and he deemed it his duty to go. But for the
manifest advantages of his new position he would have remained here, for he was
very fond of Athens and was deeply attached to his many friends.
“Prof. Hart was a man in every way devoted to his duty. He never
shirked anything that was in line with that duty when it became his duty to
handle a delicate situation on Jekyl Island, he attempted to do so. He fell
before the deadly fire of a misguided man and laid his life upon the altar of
duty. In this sad hour it may not be much consolation to the bereaved ones but
years hence it will be worth much to look back.
HARVEY, Edward J.
The Brunswick Times-Advertiser; Friday 12 April 1895; pg. 4 col. 2
The funeral of the late Mr. E.J. Harvey occurred this morning at 10
o’clock from McKendree church. The services were conducted by Rev. G.N.
MacDonell assisted by Rev. Ed. F. Cook. The attendance was very large.
Oglethorpe lodge, K. of P., attended in a body, as did also the employees of the
B. and W. shops.
HARVEY, Henry J.
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 17 March 1901
FUNERAL OF MR. H.J. HARVEY—The Knights of Pythias Met the Remains and Attended
Services.
Macon, Ga., March 16.—(Special.)—The remains of H.J. Harvey arrived
from Brunswick this afternoon and were met at the depot by relatives, a large
circle of friends and members of Central City lodge, Knights of Pythias. The
body was carried direct to Riverside cemetery, where the interment was made.
The deceased was sixty-two years old and had lived in Macon about fifty years.
His wife and three sons survive him. He died on the day of the anniversary of
his marriage.
HARVEY, Ira M.
The Brunswick News; Monday 30 December 1935; pg. 8 col. 4
IRA M. HARVEY, ILL ONLY SHORT TIME, DIED LAST NIGHT
An illness of only a short time last night
proved fatal to Ira M. Harvey, well known and popular resident of Brunswick, who
died at his home, 2220 Reynolds street.
Mr. Harvey was taken ill last week with influenza, which later
developed into pneumonia, and although everything possible was done for him, he
failed to respond to treatment, and his condition became critical a few days
ago.
Born in Brunswick March 14, 1902, Mr. Harvey would have been 34
years of age on his next birthday. He had resided in Brunswick all of his life
and attended local public schools. For a number of years he had been an
operator at the plant of Hercules Powder Company.
News of the death of Mr. Harvey caused genuine sorrow today among
his unusually large number of friends, many of whom learned only a few days ago
that he was seriously ill.
He is survived by his widow and one little girl, two sisters, Mrs.
Claire Jones and Mrs. Justin LaCombe, and one brother, W. Lee Harvey.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 8 o’clock from
the Advent Christian church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Edwin O. Hardison,
assisted by the Rev. C.C. Davison, of the First Baptist church. The following
friends will act as pallbearers: Norman Landis, A.H. Reu, Arthur Harrison, Dr.
J.B. Avers, R. Maddison, LeRoy Lovett. Interment will be in Palmetto cemetery.
Mortician Edo Miller is in charge of funeral arrangements.
HARVEY, Janie E. (Kenrick)
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 25 May 1927; pg. 8 col. 3
MRS. J.P. HARVEY DIED IN DOUGLAS; IS BURIED HERE
Mrs. John P. Harvey, for many years a resident
of Brunswick, passed away in Douglas yesterday, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. T.B. Stanford, with whom she was residing. Mrs. Harvey had been ill for
some time.
The remains were forwarded to this city for interment and the
funeral was held at 3 o’clock this afternoon from the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. J.A. McLardie [sic], 1421 Union street, Rev. W.P. Blevins and Rev. T.F.
Drake conducting the services. The interment was in Oak Grove cemetery, where
her husband, the late J.P. Harvey, was buried a number of years ago.
Mrs. Harvey spent all of her early years in Brunswick, and resided
here for some time following the death of her husband, when she made her home
with her daughter. She had a large circle of friends here among the older
residents.
The Brunswick News; Thursday 26 May 1927; pg. 8 col. 4
MRS. J.P. HARVEY BURIED YESTERDAY
The funeral of Mrs. J.P. Harvey, who passed
away Tuesday in Douglas, was held yesterday afternoon and was attended by many
friends of the family. The pall bearers were D.W. Krauss, J.A. Davis, Capt. C.E.
Arnold, J.H. Tankersley, Tom Ford, and Ward Lang. The interment was in Oak
Grove cemetery.
Mrs. Harvey, who was 86 years of age, was for years a resident of
Brunswick. Before her marriage she was Miss Jane Kendrick [sic], daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Kendrick, who were among Brunswick’s first residents. She was
the widow of the late J.P. Harvey, who, during his entire life resided in
Brunswick occupying many positions of honor and trust in the city.
Mrs. Harvey is survived by the following children: H.H. Harvey, of
Atlanta; Mrs. T.B. Stanford, of Douglas; Mrs. J.A. McLarty and Mrs. J.C.
Franklin, of this city. She is also survived by fifteen grand children and
fourteen great grandchildren.
HARVEY, John P.
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 14 November 1894
J.P. HARVEY’S SUDDEN DEATH
Brunswick, Ga., November 13—(Special)—Brunswick
was shocked this morning to learn that John P. Harvey, a prominent citizen, who
has occupied many high places of public trust and honor, had died suddenly at
midnight, while sitting in a chair at Dr. Hugh Burford’s office. He was well
and hearty all day, but at night began suffering with headache. He came down
town for relief and Dr. Burford gave him an injection of morphine and left the
room to go upstairs and finish dressing to answer a sick call. During an
absence of not more than five minutes, he heard Mr. Harvey walking around and
coughing, but when he returned Harvey was dead.
The Brunswick Times-Advertiser; Wednesday 14 November 1894; pg. 1 col. 2
THE
LAST RITES—The Remains of John P. Harvey Laid to Rest—Under the Sod of Oak
Grove—An Impressive Funeral—Fifty Carriages in Line.
The remains of Brunswick’s dead official, Mr. John P. Harvey, were
followed to their eternal place of rest today by a host of friends forming a
procession six blocks in length and were interred in the presence of as large a
concourse as ever assembled in our oak-shaded city of the dead.
The remains were conveyed from the residence of the deceased on I
street, to McKendree church at 11 a.m. The church was crowded with sympathizing
friends, Rev. Ed. F. Cook, after the singing of “Asleep in Jesus” by the choir,
read the ritualistic scripture lesson. The choir sang, “Jesus, Lover of my
Soul,” and Rev. Cook followed with a deeply impressive talk, in which he alluded
in the close relationship existing between himself and the deceased, and stated
that his feelings were too deep for the usual words of eulogy. The services
were concluded by the singing of a touching solo by Mrs. Ed. F. Cook.
The procession formed in front of the church and moved down E street
with fifty carriages in line.
The police force, in command of Assistant Chief Levison, and the
Oglethorpe and Rathbone Lodges, Knights of Pythias, fifty strong, in command of
Captain T. Newman, preceded the carriages.
The mayor and the entire board of aldermen, in carriages, formed
part of the procession.
The pall-bearers were Messrs. H.J. Read, L.C. Bodet, E. Brobston,
A.J. Crovatt, A.D. Gale, Jr., and John C. Green.
The remains were interred in the family lot at Oak Grove Cemetery,
with the reading of the impressive burial service of the Methodist Church, and
the solemn ceremonials of the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Henry J. Harvey, of Macon, brother of the deceased; Mrs. E.E.
Judge, of Nashville, his sister, and Mrs. J.H. Bryant, of Sparks, Ga., his
daughter, were here to attend the funeral.
The stricken widow was completely prostrated with grief, and unable
to attend the funeral.
And thus passes from our midst one of our best and most favorably
known citizens. Esteemed by all who knew him, and his death sorrowed by an
entire community.
HARVEY, John P. c/o
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 23 July 1881; pg. 3 col. 2
After months of lingering sickness, an infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
John P. Harvey departed this life last Thursday night. The little one has never
been well since it had measles some months ago.
HARWELL, Jane Rebecca (Shepard)
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 31 May 1897
WIDOW OF REV. HARWELL DIES—Remains Will Be Taken from Brunswick to Jonesboro.
Brunswick, Ga., May 30.—(Special.)—Mrs. J.R. Harwell, widow of Rev.
T.S.L. Harwell, deceased, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. D.W.
Kraus [sic], after an illness of two weeks.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Minnie L. Parker and Mrs. D.W.
Krauss.
The funeral will take place tomorrow at Jonesboro, the former home
of Mrs. Harwell.
HASELL, Nathaniel Ingraham Jr.
The Brunswick News; Monday 22 October 1990; pg. 3A col. 6
NATHANIEL HASEL [sic] DIES SUNDAY NIGHT
Nathaniel Hassell, 76, a resident of St. Simons Island, died Sunday
night at the Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital. Funeral arrangements and
survivors will be announced later by Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home.
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 23 October 1990; pg. 3A col. 6
RITES WEDNESDAY FOR BUDDY HASSELL OF ST. SIMONS
Nathaniel I. “Buddy” Hasell, 76, of St. Simons Island died suddenly
at Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital Sunday night.
Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Christ Church with
the Revs. Thomas Fitzgerald and Michael Delea officiating. Interment will
follow in the churchyard cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be David Davis, Bascom Murrah III, Patrick
Murrah, Bascom Murrah IV, John Davis, Lee Murrah, Jack Trout and Tom Dennard.
Honorary pallbearers will be Neil Sims, Bill Bartlett, Col. W.J.
MacPherson, Jimmy Gould, Bill Way, David Gould, Joe Gould, Bill McDonald, George
Aycock, Jimmy Bruce, David Boland, Stanley Beach, Hilman Howren, Bill Walker,
Dr. J.L. Owens, members of the EAA, Cannon Gould, Lee Howe, Livingston Everett
and Eustace Shelfer.
The body will remain in the funeral home until taken to the church
for services. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7:30 to
9 tonight. The family request those wishing to make contributions to Christ
Church.
Survivors are his wife, Jacqueline Vickers Hasell [sic] of St.
Simons, two daughters, Barbara H. Murrah of Titusville, Fla., and Jacqueline H.
Davis of Tallahassee, Fla., a son Nathaniel Ingraham Hasell Jr. of Dallas,
Texas, a sister, Catherine Grider of St. Simons, five grandsons and two
granddaughters.
Hasell was born on St. Simons and moved back to the island in 1974.
He was a graduate of Riverside Academy in Hollywood, Fla. and the University of
Georgia in 1932 where he was commandant of the ROTC.
He joined the war effort as an instructor for the 63rd
Army Airforce Flight Training Detachment in Douglas. During World War II, he
entered the commercial ranks for Eastern Airlines and rose to the position of
captain. He helped usher Eastern Airlines into the jet age and was manager of
flying of Lockeeds’ L-1011. He worked with Eastern for 31 years.
After retirement, Hasell embarked on other aviation adventures
including a two-year tour flying heavy transport DC-8s. He also served as a
pilot for the LA Dodgers for several years during his tenure in commercial
aviation.
He was a manager of Little St. Simons resort guest program from 1976
until 1986. He was also a member of the EEE, Quiet Birdmen and was a practicing
certified flight instructor.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HASTINGS, Warren
Darien Gazette; Vol. 1, No. 2; Monday 2 November 1818; pg. 3 col. 4
Died, in Worcestershire, England, the right honorable (and
celebrated) Warren Hastings, late governor of Bengal.
HAYES, Bessie (Curry)
The Brunswick News; Monday 2 June 1969; pg. 3 col. 3
MRS. HAYES, 76, DIES AT HOME ON SATURDAY
Bessie Curry Hayes, 76, a resident of 531 Old
Jesup Road, died Saturday at her home.
She was born in Winston-Salem, N.C., and had lived in Brunswick most
of her life. She was a member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church.
Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Troy McElhaney of Brunswick; two sons,
D. Arthur Curry of Miami and Frank Curry of East Orange, N.J.; three
granddaughters and a grandson; three great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. today in the chapel of the
Gibson-Hart-Durden Funeral Home. The Rev. J.P. Pullium officiated and interment
was in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Nephi Clark, Leonard Clark, R.C. Wallace,
Jimmie Clark, Charles Roach and Prather Butts.
Honorary pallbearers were Dr. Frank Mitchell, Tom Stutts, G.G.
Mobley, Raymond Mobley, John King, Elmer Stokes, Dr. John Hobson, Dr. William
Drew, Thad Dankel, Bernard Nightingale, Harold Fraser and Mitchell Owens.
Gibson-Hart-Durden Funeral Home was in charge.
HAYNES, Lucy (Bailor)
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 3 November 1883; pg. 6 col. 2
Our colored townsman Ned Bailor was summoned by telegram to Savannah
last Sunday, to attend the funeral of his sister, Lucy Haynes.
HAYNES, Natalie Erdman
The Darien News; 28 November 1974; pg. 2 col. 1
MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR MRS. WILLIAM G HAYNES WERE HELD
NOVEMBER 23
Memorial services for Mrs. Natalie Erdman
Haynes, 58, were held on Nov. 23, at the First Presbyterian Church of Darien
with the Rev. William C. Sistar, Sr. officiating.
A resident of Ashantilly, Mrs. Haynes died at her home last Tuesday
after an extended illness. She came to McIntosh County from New York City in
1954 and served as the librarian here from 1956 until recent months.
She is survived by her husband, William G. Haynes, Jr., Darien; her
mother, Mrs. Seward Erdman, New York City; a sister, Miss Rosalind Erdman, New
York City; two brothers, Donald S. Erdman, Puerto Rico, and Dr. Lawrence H.
Erdman, Columbia, S.C.; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
HAZLEHURST, George Hall
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 1 December 1883; pg. 2 col. 2
DEATH OF COL. GEORGE H. HAZLEHURST
The wires on Sunday last announced the death of Col. Geo. H.
Hazlehurst of Chatanooga [sic], a brother of our townsman Dr. Robt.
Hazlehurst—his remains were taken to Macon on Monday and interred in the Macon
cemetery. Col. Hazlehurst was born in this county in 1823, and was educated in
Pennsylvania, and was, withal, a gentleman of high character, as will be seen
from the following extracts from the Telegraph and Messenger, written by
a classmate who knew him well:
Mr. Hazlehurst’s public life was marked by a singular adherence to
one determination—the determination to advance and develop his native land.
Throughout a long life of labor, he seems never to have lost sight of this
steadfast intention, and every public act of his was in sympathy with it. In
the bosom of his family his ruling impulse seemed to have been to advance the
interests of and care for those to whom he was bound by ties of relationship.
He was a loving father and guardian in every sense of the word, and was
venerated by a large family who looked to him for guide and protection. He has
discharged his trust nobly, rendering justice to all, and leaving a name to be
honored in the land that gave him being. To-day, his labors ended, his work all
done, he will be laid to rest amidst his departed loved ones, on the banks of
the Ocmulgee.
Mr. Hazlehurst began his business life as rodman in the surveying
party employed to survey and locate the Florida lands. He afterwards joined the
party engaged in surveying the Macon and Western railroad. From this section he
went to Tennessee and gained employment upon the Nashville and Chattanooga road,
then being built.
Mr. Hazlehurst’s first important work, however, was the locating and
building of the New Orleans and Jackson railroad. He received the appointment
of engineer of this road at a large salary, and despite the fact that a
predecessor had just died of yellow fever in the same position, went
energetically to work and completed the enterprise. He afterwards was engaged
in building the Macon and August railroad and the Macon and Brunswick railroad,
holding the position of President upon the former for a while, and afterwards
the positions of President and chief engineer of the latter, a strong
testimonial of the confidence reposed in him by capitalists.
When the Macon and Brunswick railroad passed into the hands of the
State, Colonel Hazlehurst became associated with Col. A.J. Lane, and with him
built the Montgomery and Eufaula railroad, the North and South railroad, the New
Orleans, Shreveport and Alexandria railroad, and the Pensacola and Atlantic. He
was engaged upon the Mississippi Valley road when he was stricken down with
malaria, which, complicated with chronic dyspepsia, resulted in his death.
Col. Hazlehurst passed through the war in active service, and
planned the defenses of Vicksburg. History bears record to the admirable
arrangement of the fortifications, which were never carried until starvation had
exhausted their defenders.
It has fallen to the lot of but few men to work greater benefits and
more lasting results for his country. In addition to the vast development
afforded by his railway construction, Col. Hazlehurst was engaged in many
enterprises, all of which were crowned with success. During all these years of
labor he has been establishing a character which enabled him to bring into this
country by means of powerful friends many millions of dollars. His life’s
labors now ended, he sleeps the sleep of the just. Peace to his ashes.
HAZLEHURST, John McNish
Advertiser & Appeal; Vol. 10, No. 4; Saturday 5 July 1884; pg. 6,
col. 4
A
Sad Death
It is our mournful duty to chronicle the demise of Mr. J. McN.
Hazlehurst, which sad event occurred on Tuesday morning last in this city at the
residence of his brother-in-law, Dr. W.B. Burroughs. Mr. H. has been for
several months suffering from a cancerous tumor, and, although every possible
effort was made to save his life, all proved futile, and he passed away in the
full vigor of his manhood. The deceased was a son of the late Leighton W.
Hazlehurst, of Waynesville, and was highly esteemed, not only for his excellent
family connections, but for many virtues of his own. The remains were taken on
Wednesday to Waynesville for interment by special train, chartered by Dr.
Burroughs. A large party of friends from this city accompanied the body to its
last resting-place.
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 12 July 1884; pg. 3 col. 5
IN MEMORIAM
J. McNish Hazlehurst is asleep. We carried him
to his last resting place in the old family cemetery at Waynesville, where but
so short time before his honored father had preceded him. The rain fell gently
as the train carried us and him from Dr. Burroughs’ home, which had been his in
his last illness, nature joining in the general mourning that one so young, so
strong, so manly, so loveable, must leave us, and after we left the cars and
while the services were being concluded in the little church near his open
grave, the clouds poured forth another shower of tears, but as we placed him
with gentle, loving hands in that open grave, and the solemn service of the
church was pronounced, the sunlight struggled through the clouds, and seemed an
emblem of the hope, yea, belief, we have that he has gone to a better and
brighter life beyond the grave; for in his sphere he lived a manly and true
life, and the world is better that he lived.
But 37 years of age, it was hard for him to realize that he must
die, and he endured much of suffering under the surgeon’s knife in the hope that
he might reverse the verdict, which, sooner or later, is pronounced upon all of
us; but when he realized that death was inevitable he met it like a man, and
quietly left his simple direction as to the personal effects which had been his
companions in life, and will be treasured now as mementoes of his life, sad
reminders of this sad ending of a life brightly begun. Loving sisters were with
him through his weary weeks of suffering, and all that could be done to mitigate
his pain was done. Hundreds of schoolmates, comrades, friends who knew Mac
Hazlehurst and loved him, join with his immediate family in mourning, but all
join in the intuitive feeling that he has met the reward of a brighter and
better life. C.
HAZLEHURST, Leighton W.
Advertiser & Appeal; Vol. 8, No. 5; Saturday 5 August 1882; pg. 6,
col. 2
Mr. Leighton W. Hazlehurst Sr., of Waynesville, died on Wednesday
night last after an illness of several weeks. He is brother of Dr. R.
Hazlehurst and father of Mrs. Dr. W.B. Burroughs of our city. His funeral took
place on the day following.
HEAD, Clara (Miller)
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 9 November 1943; pg. 8 col. 4
ILLNESS FATAL TO MRS. CLARA HEAD
Mrs. Clara Head, 75, wife of Sam W. Head, died last night at the
family residence following an extended illness. She had been a resident of
Brunswick for twenty-five years.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Mary Holmes, Mrs. Liller
Clark and Mrs. Lena Holmes, all of Brunswick and a son, Sam Head, Jr.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at the
Horsestomp cemetery, near Waverly, with Gibson-Hart Funeral Home in charge.
HELCK, Alan R.
The Brunswick News; Friday 10 July 1998. pg. 2A col. 3
Private services for Alan R. Helck, 70, of St. Simons Island will be
held later.
He died Wednesday at his residence.
Surviving are his wife, Jean B. Helck of St. Simons; a daughter,
Marcie Young of Vero Beach, Fla.; a son, Mack Helck of Brunswick; a sister,
Janice Clark of Green Pond, NJ; a niece; and a nephew.
A native of New Jersey, he had lived on St. Simons for the past five
years. He was retired from the I.L.A. Checkers Union Local No. 1 of New Jersey.
Chapman Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
HELMS, Ronald
The Brunswick News; Vol. 88, No. 85; Saturday 9 December 1989; pg.
3A, col. 5
Ronald Helms Dies Friday
Ronald Helms, 43, died Friday at St. Vincents Hospital in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Services and survivors will be announced by Chapman Funeral Home.
HENDERSON, Athaline
The Brunswick News; Saturday 20 October 1990; pg. 3A col. 3
ATHALINE HENDERSON DIES FRIDAY AT HOME
Athaline Henderson, 71, of Brunswick died Friday at her residence
after an extended illness.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Norwich Street Baptist Church
with the Rev. Paul Lewis and the Rev. Charles Tanner officiating. Interment
will follow in Palmetto Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be William S. Smith, Alton Walling, Virgil
Hickox, Dilburn Saunders, Kenneth Mobley Sr., and Paul Varnedoe Jr.
Honorary pallbearers will be the deacons of the Norwich Street
Baptist Church, members of Faithful Workers Sunday School Class, Dr. Edwin Mayo
and Dr. Phillip Saleeby.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 4 to 6 p.m.
Sunday. The family requests those wishing make memorial contributions to the
American Lung Associating of Georgia, 6606 Abercorn St., Suite 211, Savannah,
Ga., 31405 or the Norwich Street Baptist Church.
Miss Henderson is survived by her mother, Mary L. Walling of
Brunswick; three sisters, Ruby Cauley of Brunswick; Barbara McIntyre of St.
Simons Island, and Joan W. Gray of Bowie, Md.; a brother, Robert H. Walling of
Atlanta of Atlanta, several nieces and nephews.
She was a native of Fernandina Beach, Fla. and had been a resident
of Glynn County for the past 65 years. She was a member of the Norwich Street
Baptist Church and the Faithful Workers Sunday School Class.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HENDERSON, David J.
Waycross Journal-Herald; Saturday 12 October 1918; pg. 3 col. 5
DAVID J. HENDERSON
David J. Henderson, aged 33, died this morning at 11:30 at his home,
33 Seaman street, after an illness of ten days. He was a son of Mr. E.S.
Henderson and is survived by three young children and a sister, Mrs. J.F. Mosley
of Baltimore, Md. Funeral and interment will be at Kettle Creek tomorrow at 3
o’clock.
HENDERSON, John Wayne Sr.
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 1 February 2000; pg. 4A col. 2
JOHN
HENDERSON
John Wayne Henderson Sr., 62, of Nahunta died Monday night at his
residence, following an extended illness.
The funeral will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the chapel of Chambless
Funeral Home with the Revs. Leon Wilson and Bruce Dean officiating. Burial will
be in the Pilgrim’s Rest Cemetery in Waynesville.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday night.
Pallbearers will be Gerald Roberson, Richard Johns, Nick Cowman,
Danny Harden, Brian Ternest and Tony Cheshire.
Surviving are his wife, Susan Ternest Henderson of Nahunta; four
daughters, Karen Dezern of Brunswick, Maria Sousa of Augusta, Jackie Tucker of
Evans and Pam Moore of Waycross; two sons, Wayne Henderson Jr. of Waycross and
David Henderson of Nicholls; a sister, Ann Henderson Dell of Waycross and six
grandchildren.
HENDERSON, Nero
The Brunswick Call; Tuesday 11 October 1898; pg. 4 col. 5
DROWNED MAN FOUND—Identified as the Body of Nero Henderson, of St. Simon [sic].
The body of a drowned man, with one leg missing, was found on the
north end of Long island Saturday.
Judge J.D. Gould and a party went to the scene and identified the
body as that of Nero Henderson, a well known negro of St. Simon [sic]. The body
was found, and the place marked. It is believed that Henderson was drowned in
the storm of October 2.
HENDERSON, Samuel L.
The Brunswick News; Monday 22 October 1934; pg. 8 col. 4
THEIR FATHER DEAD
Samuel L. Henderson, 73, father of R.J. Henderson and Mrs. Ralph
Miller, of this city, and well known resident of Blackshear, died at his home in
that city Saturday night. He was also known here where he frequently visited.
Mr. Henderson attended the funeral, but Mrs. Miller could not attend, her little
infant dying yesterday. The departed is survived by eleven children and a
number of other relatives. Interment yesterday afternoon was at Mount Olive
cemetery, [illegible], Ga.
HENRY, Pearlie
The Brunswick News; Thursday 1 January 1970; pg. 18A col. 2
PEARLIE HENRY, 53, DIES WEDNESDAY AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Pearlie Henry, 53, a resident of Community Rd., died Wednesday
afternoon after a short illness. He had been a resident of Brunswick for the
past nine years and was a retired farmer.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Moody Henry; a daughter,
Mrs. Melba George of Wichita Falls, Tex.; two sons, Nelson M. Henry of Dennison,
Tex., and Calvin Henry of Hinesville; his mother, Mrs. Beann Henry of
Swainsboro; three brothers, Woodrow Henry of Cortez, Fla., Edward Henry of
Shreveport, La., and James A. Henry of Sherman, Tex.; five sisters, Mrs. Oreta
Kersey of Milledgeville, Mrs. Mildred Strickland of Palatka, Fla., Mrs. Vennie
Lee Chassereau of Pembroke, Mrs. Ruth Stanton of Cortez, Fla., Mrs. Yvonne
Archer of Swainsboro; five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services, under the direction of Edo Miller and Sons Funeral
Home, are incomplete pending arrival of relatives and will be announced later.
The Brunswick News; Saturday 3 January 1970; pg. 12 col. 4
HENRY RITES TO BE HELD TOMORROW
Funeral services for Pearlie Henry, who died Wednesday, will be held
at 12:30 p.m. Sunday from the chapel of the Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home,
with the Rev. A.C. Blount officiating.
Services will be held in the Little Flock Church near Reidsville, at
2 p.m. with the Rev. Wiley Lynn and the Rev. A.C. Blount officiating. Interment
will follow in the churchyard cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Cecil I. Johnson, Russel Johnson, L.D.
Griffin, Gene Holland, Lon Barnes, Henry Rentz, Herbert Wise, and J.E. McCall.
The body will remain in the chapel of the funeral home for services.
HENSEL, August R.
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 28 June 1922; pg. ? col. 3
BODY
OF A.R. HENSELL TO REACH HERE THURSDAY--No Funeral Arrangements Have as Yet Been
Made
The funeral of A.R. Hensell, whose death was announced in The News
Sunday [paper missing that day--Amy Hedrick], will be held here at a time to be
announced later. The body, accompanied by Oscar Hensell, brother of the
deceased, left Grand Rapids, Mich., last night and will reach here over the
Atlantic Coat Line at noon Thursday and it is likely that the funeral will be
held Friday, conducted by Rev. Sadtler, of St. James' Lutheran church, of which
Mr. Hensell has long been a member and interment will be held in Palmetto
cemetery with undertaker Edo Miller in charge.
Mrs. Hensell, Mrs. Oscar Hensell and a number of friends in Savannah,
will come over for the funeral. Mrs. Hensell was not with her husband when he
passed away, but was in Savannah with her sister.
HENSEL, Edith Vaughn
The Brunswick News; Saturday 29 August 1970; pg. 12 col. 6
FUNERAL SUNDAY FOR MRS. HENSEL
Mrs. Edith Vaughn Hensel, 99, widow of Oscar G. Hensel died at the
Brunswick Nursing Home last night after an extended illness.
Mrs. Hensel had been a resident of Brunswick for the past 66 years.
She was a member of the Advent Christian Church, the oldest member of
the Neptune Chapter of the Eastern Star No. 153 and also a charter member, and a
charter member [sic] of the Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW.
She is survived by a son, Harry Hensel, Brunswick, a grand daughter,
Mrs. Edith Hensel Johnson, Waldick, N.J.; three great-grandchildren, a niece and
three nephews.
Funeral services under the direction of the Edo Miller & Sons Funeral
Home will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of the funeral home with the
Rev. William H. Brusby of the Advent Christian Church officiating. Entombment
will be in the Palmetto cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be members of the VFW and honorary escort will
be members of the Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW, and the members of the Neptune
Chapter of the Eastern Star No. 153, who will hold rites at the graveside.
The body will remain in the chapel of the funeral home for the services.
HENSEL, Mrs. Hattie Adelia
The Brunswick News; Monday 10 July 1948; pg. 8 col. 2
MRS.
HATTIE HENSEL TAKEN BY DEATH
Mrs. Hattie Adelia Hensel, wife of the late August R. Hensel, died at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Oscar G. Hensel, at 407 Wolf street this morning at
8:10.
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at the chapel of Miller's
Funeral Home with the Rev. D.L. Heglar officiating. Burial will follow in
Palmetto cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Tom Eberhardt, James Osborne, William Womack,
Jack Baumgartner, Fritz Torkeldsen and J.M. Kimberly. Honorary pallbearers will
be Jerry Leonidas, T.E. Davis, Walter Nathan, Tom Tipaldos, B. Padrosa, J.E.
Register, Rudolph Baumgartner and George McCullough.
The Neptune chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star will conduct a
service at the graveside.
Mrs. Hensel had been a resident of Brunswick since 1895 and had been ill
approximately two week[s] before her death. She was born in Brunson, Michigan,
August 28, 1866.
Besides her sister in Brunswick, she leaves two other sisters, Mrs.
Charles Kahler of Union City, Michigan, and Mrs. Evie Ferris of Charlevoix,
Michigan; a brother, George Vaughn, also a resident of Michigan, and several
nieces and nephews including Harry Hensel of Brunswick.
HENSEL, Oscar Gabriel
The Brunswick News; Monday 27 March 1967; pg. 14, col. 2
O.G.
HENSEL, VETERAN OF WAR WITH SPAIN, DIES
Funeral services for Oscar Gabriel (Pop) Hensel, 88, will be held at 2
p.m. tomorrow in the chapel of Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home. Hensel died
Saturday night in the V.A. Hospital in Dublin, after an extended illness.
The Rev. Silas Aldridge will officiate, and burial will be in Palmetto
Cemetery. Active and honorary pallbearers will be selected from the VFW Post
2588, and full military honors and Masonic rites will be held at graveside with
Ocean Lodge members serving as honorary escorts.
A resident of Brunswick for the past 68 years, Hensel made his home at
407 Wolf Street. He came to Brunswick as a veteran of the Spanish American War,
and worked with Parker and Hensel Marine Machine Shop. During that time he
served as engineer of several tugs and passenger boats in the Brunswick and
Savannah harbors. He was also an engineer on several government tugs and
dredges. Later transferred by the Civil Service Department to the Post Office,
he retired in 1945.
Hensel was a member of Advent Christian Church, and VFW Post 2588, and
was a life member of Ocean Lodge No. 214 F&AM. He was one of the early
organizers of the Glynn Academy Band.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edith Hensel; a son, Harry Hensel of
Brunswick, a granddaughter, and several nieces and nephews.
Members of Ocean Lodge 214, F&AM, are requested to meet at the Masonic
Temple at 1 p.m. to attend the funeral.
Members of VFW Post 2588 are asked to meet at the funeral home at 1:30
p.m.
HERFEL, Charles A.
The Brunswick News; Monday 18 August 1930; pg. 8 col. 4
CHARLES A. HERFEL BURIED YESTERDAY
Funeral services for the late Charles A. Herfel
were held at the First Baptist church yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock and were
attended by an unusually large number of friends of this well known Brunswick
citizen.
Members of the Brunswick fire department acted as active
pallbearers, and the fire wagon, on which the deceased traveled to hundreds of
fires during the many years he was a member of the department, was used as a
hearse. Besides the full fire department and many other friends, the funeral
was also attended by a number of Knights of Pythias, of which order he had long
been a member.
[newspapers from August 15-16 were missing—ALH]
HERFEL, Marion T. (Mock)
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 4 September 1957; pg. 14 col. 2
MRS. HERFEL, 86, DIES IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Marion T. Herfel, widow of the late
Charles A. Herfel, died in a Savannah hospital yesterday afternoon following an
illness of several months.
The body was returned to Brunswick last night by the Edo Miller &
Sons Funeral Home and funeral arrangements will be announced later. The body
will remain in the funeral chapel until the hour of service.
Mrs. Herfel, a native of Florida had been in Brunswick since
childhood. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and had been active in
church and social circles in her younger life. She was 86 years of age and had
resided with a nephew, Marion W. Mock at 1521 Union Street.
Survivors besides her nephew are two sisters: Mrs. W.T. Davis,
Jacksonville, and Mrs. Minnie Edenfield, Miami, Fla., and a number of nieces and
nephews.
HERNDON, Harry H.
The Brunswick Pilot; Friday 4 January 1929; pg. 1, col. 4
Harry H. Herndon, 47 years of age, died at the Hospital early Saturday
morning from the effects of a pistol wound, accidentally administered, while he
was cleaning a pistol at his office late Friday night. Mr. Herndon had lived in
Brunswick for the past twenty-five years and is survived by his wife and one
daughter, Miss Thelma. He was buried Sunday afternoon in Palmetto cemetery.
HERNDON, Steve Blanchard
The Brunswick News; Saturday 7 October 1972; pg. 15 col. 6
S.B. Herndon Succumbs After Extended Illness
Steve Blanchard Herndon, 71, of 29 West Oak St., died Friday night after
an extended illness. He was a native of Lodge, S.C. and had been a resident of
Brunswick for 36 years. He was retired from the Brunswick Public Works Dept.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary D. Herndon of Brunswick; two
daughters, Mrs. Paul T. Gurtman of Brunswick and Mrs. Robert Poppell of Darien;
two sons, Vernon D. and Johnny D. Herndon, both of Brunswick; seven
grandchildren; four brothers, Ronnie, Jay and Harry Herndon, all of South
Carolina, and Rudolph Herndon of Brunswick; several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday from the United
Pentecostal Church on Reynolds St., with the Rev. Pat Williams officiating.
Interment will be in Palmetto Cemetery.
The body will be a Chapman Funeral Chapel until 2 p.m. Monday when it
will be placed in the church.
Pallbearers will be J.R. Saers, Henry Morris, Cecil Self, Bunion Self,
Nobert Tindall, John Dills and Earl Davis.
The family will be at the Paul Gurtman home, 45 Dixie Ave.
HERRIN, Evyonne (Hickcox)
The Brantley Enterprise; 15 April 1998; pg. 7 col. 2
Evyonne Hickox Herrin, 67, of Okeechobee, Fla.,
died Wednesday night, April 8, at H.H. Ralerson Hospital in Okeechobee,
following a lengthy illness.
A native of Brantley County, she was a daughter of the late Charlie
J. and Martha Josephie Griffin Hickox. She was preceded in death by her
husband, Edwin Herrin, her sons, Morris Herrin and Wallace Herrin and three
infant daughters.
She was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include a daughter, Diane King, Okeechobee, Fla.; three
sisters, Doris Wilson, Jacksonville, Fla., Grace Rowe, Orange Park, Fla. and
Dorrell Baggs, Middleburg, Fla.; three brothers, Marvin Hickox, Barnesville,
Franklin Hickox, Okeechobee, Fla. And Julian J. Hickox, Slidell, Louisiana; 8
grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, several nieces, nephews and other
relatives.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 12, from the
chapel of Chambless Funeral Home with the Rev. Leon Wilson officiating.
Interment followed in the Bethlehem Cemetery in Brantley County.
Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in charge of arrangements.
HERRING, James Earl
The Brunswick News; Friday 7 June 1991; pg. 3A col. 4
JAMES E. HERRING FUNERAL MONDAY
James Earl Herring, 63, of Augusta died unexpectedly Thursday at his
residence.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the funeral home chapel with
the Rev. James E. Crandall Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Palmetto
Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Rick Gillis, Paul Henthorn, Dr. Robert J.
Henderson, J. Morris “Pete” Henderson, Dr. J.R. Miller and Donald Tatum
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m.
Sunday.
Herring is survived by his wife, Carol Pruitt Herring of Augusta;
four daughters, Bonnie Jones and Lynn Gillis, both of Orlando, Fla., Dale
Couvdos of Sacramento, Calif., and Dawn Henthorn of Augusta; locally, by two
brothers, A.J. Herring Jr. and Sam Herring, and a sister, Alwilda Cunningham,
all of Brunswick; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and several nieces
and nephews.
He was educated in Glynn County public schools and retired from
Olin-Matthiessen Chemical Corp. of Augusta. He was a U.S. Navy veteran and was
a member of Central Baptist Church of Augusta.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements.
HERTZ, Ernistein
The Brunswick News; Friday 18 June 1971; pg. 14 col. 6
MIAMI RESIDENT DIES AT HOSPITAL
Mrs. Ernistein Hertz, 83, died Thursday afternoon at the local
hospital. She was a resident of Miami, Fla.
Funeral services and interment will be held in New York.
Chapman Funeral Chapel is in charge of local arrangements.
HERZOG, Frank
The Brunswick News; Sunday 7 October 1928; pg. 6 col. 3
FRANK HERZOG, OLD LOCAL RESIDENT, DIES LAST NIGHT
Frank Herzog, a resident of Brunswick
practically all of his life, passed away at 11 o’clock last night at the
residence of Mrs. J.M. Hoodenpyle, 805 Monk street.
Mr. Herzog had been ill for two or three years and during the past
few months his condition has been serious. He was well known among all of
Brunswick’s older residents. His only close relative is a brother, Ed Herzog,
of Birmingham, also a former resident of Brunswick.
Funeral arrangements were not completed last night.
The Brunswick News; Monday 8 October 1928; pg. 8 col. 4
MR. HERZOG BURIED
The funeral of Frank Herzog, who died Saturday
night after a long illness, was held this afternoon from the funeral parlors of
Edo Miller, at 3:30 o’clock. The services were conducted by Rev. R.K. Tucker,
rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal church. Interment was in Oak Grove cemetery.
The pallbearers were as follows: D.W. Krauss, Joe Borchardt, G.H. Jennings,
Thomas Hacket, Hanzel Baumgartner, Tom Hardcastle and A.J. Miller.
HICKMAN, William
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 27 November 1897
DIED
WHILE IN A RELIGIOUS TRANCE
Brunswick, Ga., November 26.—(Special.) William Hickman, reported
in these dispatches last night as in a religious trance, died today. Hickman
lay unconscious from the time he fell in a trance and died in that condition.
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 29 November 1897
THE
NATURE OF HIS DEATH—Was It from Fever or from Religious Excitement?
Brunswick, Ga., November 28.—(Special.)—The tragic death of young
Will Hickman caused much comment.
The Times has gathered fuller details, which sheds light upon the
affairs. The first story told was to the effect that the young man was under
the influence of excitement incident to the emotional nature of the meeting now
being conducted at the six-mile crossing, fell into a trance, and could not be
awakened. Another story is now told in connection with the case. It is said
that Hickman’s real affection was a case of fever, and that he became violently
ill at the meeting on Sunday night and remained unconscious. The physicians
were unable to do anything for him. He died without regaining consciousness.
His case was a very peculiar one.
The religious trance story is still told by some of those who were
at the meeting. It is said that the young man dropped off suddenly at a
particularly excitable period of the service. Some insist that it was a case of
hypnotism, and that others have been similarly affected during the meeting.
The meetings are attended nightly by a large crowd of people, both
from the city and the county. They are marked by great enthusiasm, and many of
the manifestations of religious emotion. Many shout, some fall flat on the
ground and groan, others yell at the top of their voices, and still others give
up their valuables. The collections are said to be very large, including the
watches, jewelry, and, in some cases, articles of clothing of the members of the
congregation.
HIESMAN, Thomas
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 12 July 1896
DEATH OF A CHILD
Brunswick, Ga., July 11.—(Special.)—Thomas, the three-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hiesman, of San Antonio, Tex., formerly of Macon, died
today at the residence of James Wright, after a brief illness. The death of
this child was unusually pathetic, due to the brightness of its young life and
the circumstances attending it. Its father arrived only the day before
yesterday from Texas, and the young mother is prostrated with the severe blow.
The funeral will occur tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock from the house, Rev. Ed. F.
Cook conducting the service.
HIGGINBOTHAM, Annie
The Brunswick News; Friday 3 December 1943; pg. 8 col. 5
NEGRESS SAID TO BE 126 YEARS OF AGE DIED WEDNESDAY
Glynn county’s oldest resident, Annie
Higginbotham, a negress, died Wednesday, and on her last birthday she said she
was 126 years old, and while the definite date of her birth has not been
established, further than information supplied by the woman, many of Glynn
county’s oldest residents declare she is well over 100.
According to Emma’s [sic] record, she was born at Fancy Bluff, in
this county, in 1817, and was a slave of the well known Glynn county Pyles
family.
For ten years she had been receiving an old age pension through the
local welfare office, and those who have conferred with her regarding the
pension state that when she was first placed on this roll she gave her age at
116. Each year since then, she has correctly kept up with her age, therefore
welfare workers said if she did this all through her life her age as given must
be correct. Although she has been feeble for some time, her mind has been
perfectly clear, and frequently Brunswick people visited her and listened to her
tell about conditions of the long ago. She said she remembered Brunswick when
there was nothing here but a couple of houses, all the remainder of the city
being a wooded area. She said she was grown at the time Sherman marched through
Georgia and headed this way, and with her family went temporarily to an
adjoining county. She could give dates of many outstanding occurrences in the
city and county, and, as stated, while there is no absolute way in which the
date of her birth can be established, those who know her believe she was just
about the age she claimed.
Annie died at her home here, 1928 Johnson street, having removed to
the city some time ago from Fancy Bluff. Funeral services will be held at the
First Baptist church, colored, on Amherst street at 1:30 o’clock Sunday
afternoon, and it will be attended by many of Annie’s white as well as colored
friends.
[There was only one Annie Higginbotham throughout the
census years, and that was Annie (Blue) Higginbotham, the wife of Nelson
Higginbotham, married 15 November 1872, and unfortunately, she was not 126 years
old at the time of her death. Throughout the census years she was born
anywhere between 1838 and 1852; so the oldest she could have been was 105 years.
In 1880 her birth year was 1852 and every census year after that she got
increasingly older, 1900 it was 1846, in 1920 it was 1850, and in 1930 it was
1838. Her death certificate records her as being 112 years old--ALH]
HIGGINBOTHAM, James
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 20 December 1988; pg. 3A col. 4
HIGGINBOTHAM RITES TO BE WEDNESDAY
The Funeral for James Higginbotham of Brunswick
will be held Wednesday. He died Dec. 14 at the Veterans Administration Hospital
in Lake City, Fla.
The 2 p.m. rites will be held at First Jordan Grove Baptist Church.
The Rev. T.L. Davis will officiate. Interment will be at Magnolia CME
Churchyard in Brookman. Pallbearers will be members of the military. Honorary
pallbearers will be members of the Everett City Hunting Club and First Jordan
Grove Baptist Trustee Board.
Survivors are four sons, James Higginbotham, Jr., Calvin Herrington,
Michael Herrington, and Natthedeus Dallas, all of Brunswick; three daughters,
Mary Hicks, Betty Williams, Vernethia Habersham, all of Brunswick; two brothers,
Henry Higginbotham of New York and Nathan Higginbotham of Jesup; 16
grandchildren; five great-grandchildren.
A native of Brunswick, he was a member of First Jordan Grove Baptist
Church where he was on the trustee board and the city-wide ushers board. He was
retired from Glynn County Public Works.
The body will be placed in the church one hour before the time of
the services. Visitation will be held tonight fro 7 until 8 o’clock.
Brunswick Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HIGHSMITH, Wilhelminia “Willa”
(Rozier)
The Brantley Enterprise; 15 April 1998; pg. 7 col. 1
Wilhelminia “Willa’ Rozier Highsmith, 57, of
Route 3, Folkston, died early Wednesday morning April 8, at the residence of
Charles and Wanda O’Quinn following a lengthy illness.
A native of Brantley County, she was a daughter of the late Hubert
W. and Tedia Bell Howe Rozier. She operated Ma’s Country Crafts at her home in
Winokur. She was a member of the Winokur Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband of 39 years, Ward W. Highsmith,
Winokur; a daughter Teresa Highsmith and a son, Timothy Highsmith, Hilliard,
Fla.; three sisters Emily Herrin, St. Marys, Florie Harden, Jacksonville, Fla.,
an Virginia Thrift, Nahunta; special friends, Charles and Wanda O’Quinn,
Folkston and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Friday, April 19, from the
Winokur Baptists Church with the Rev. Wayne Manning and the Rev. Monroe Gill
officiating.
Interment followed in the Smyrna Cemetery in Brantley County.
Casketbearers were Dr Roy Crews, Arnold Johns, Archie Don Crews,
Clayton Carter, Jeff Stokes, Terry Temple, Jr., Larry Norris and Donald
Morrison.
The honorary escort was composed of Jerry A. Herrin, Archie W.
Crews, Terry Temple, Sr., Johnnie Crews, Dwight “Bubba” Bramlitt, Arris Lee,
Jesse Thrift and Jackie Tumlin.
Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in charge of arrangements.
HILL, Burford Brewer
The Brunswick News; Monday 13 September 1971; pg. 5 col. 4
Burford Brewer Hill, 53, died at the Brunswick
Nursing Home Sunday after an extended illness. He was a lifelong resident of
Brunswick and resided at 226 Habersham St. Extension.
He was a member of Taylor’s United Methodist Church, and had been
employed by the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company for 23 years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Hill, of Brunswick; two
daughters, Mrs. Carolyn Elaine Anderson of San Diego, Calif., and Shirley Diane
Hill of Brunswick; a son, Richard Paul Hill of Brunswick; his father, Burford
Hill of Brunswick; two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Bell Miller of Brunswick, and Mrs.
Violet Horne of Port Royal, S.C.; two grandchildren and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Chapel of Edo
Miller and Sons Funeral Home.
HILL, Charlie Fisher
The Brunswick News; Saturday 16 February 1974; pg. 2 cols. 5-6
FIGURE FROM JEKYLL PAST SUCCUMBS AT 99 YEARS
The oldest of the original employes [sic] of
one-time-millionaire-island, Jekyll Island, is dead at 99.
Charlie Fisher Hill, a native of the Brookman Community, died at the
local hospital Thursday night following a short illness.
He was known to his many friends and relatives as Uncle Charlie and
was well known for his unusual agility as a senior citizen. He could be seen
most any day over the years making his brisk walk to town and back.
He was the first man to take a delegation to Jekyll in 1889, by way
of row boat, to inspect the island for possible purchase by the millionaires.
According to a spokesman of the family, Hill was employed on Jekyll that same
year. He was a coachman for the Maurice family and remained with that family to
witness the growth of the island. He retired when the millionaires left the
Island in 1941, giving way to use of the island by the U.S. Armed Forces.
Hill could tell many stories of the outstanding money men of
America, members and non-members of the Jekyll Island Club, who gathered on the
island annually in the winter. Only recently he was notified of the beginning
of rehabilitation of the Maurice Cottage.
Among survivors are a daughters, Mrs. Anna Arnette; a brother, Myers
Hill; nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 4:30 p.m. at Grace United
Methodist Church with the Rev. William Ashley officiating. The body will be
placed in the church one hour before the services. Burial will be in Greenwood
Cemetery.
The Brunswick Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HILL,
Edwin Leroy
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 3 March 1953; pg. 10 col. 6
4 PERSONS DROWN WHEN BOAT SINKS—Mother, Two Sons, Companion
Die; One Body Found.
A mother, her two young sons, and a woman
companion drowned late yesterday afternoon when their bateau capsized in Cedar
Hammock Creek near Lathan Hammock.
Drowned were Mrs. Mildred Thomas Hill, 32; her sons, Edward, 11, and
Jimmie, 8; and Mrs. Helen Jean Robinson, 21, all residents of Arco. Their
husbands, Burford Brewer Hill, 35, and James E. Robinson, 26, were able to make
their way to shore.
Only one body had been recovered early this afternoon, but county
police officers, the Coast Guard, Captain Hoke Smith, warden on Jekyll Island,
and volunteers are continuing the search. Efforts to recover the four bodies
were hampered this morning by fresh northeasterly winds.
The body of Mrs. Robinson was found at 2 p.m. and was carried to the
Miller Funeral Home.
The party left their Arco homes yesterday afternoon to gather some
oysters. The bateau was carried on a trailer and was launched on a small beach
at Cedar Hammock, created when a dredge was pumping up the highway to Jekyll
Island some time ago. The group then proceeded up the creek for some distance;
where they gathered the oysters.
According to officers who investigated the tragedy, the party was
returning to the point from which they started, and a rather strong northeast
wind was prevailing, and it is believed that wind caused the boat to capsize.
In it besides the six persons, was a kicker and the oysters, a rather heavy
load, it was stated, for a bateau.
As the boat capsized, both Hill and Robinson made efforts to rescue
their families, but they were unsuccessful, they told officers.
After reaching shore, Robinson walked through the marsh to his auto
and drove to the Fancy Bluff Grill, some several miles away, where he informed
an employee of the tragedy. County police were called and immediately went to
the scene.
Hill told officers he narrowly missed saving one of his sons. He
said he had hold of the boy and was endeavoring to reach the marsh with him, but
in some way he lost his hold on the youth. Hill was reported to have been
exhausted and was carried to the City Hospital, where he remained overnight. He
was released this morning.
Both men are employees of the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company.
Hill has been an employee of the pulp mill since March, 1948, and works in the
machine room at the plant. Robinson has been an oiler at the plant since
August, 1951, and has resided here for several years.
Mrs. Hill formerly resided at Vidalia and has been a local resident
since her marriage. Mr. Hill is a native of Brunswick and he has resided in the
city and county all of his life. His family is well known here.
Mrs. Robinson, it was stated, formerly resided in Alma and moved
here with her husband. They have one son, Bennie Jack, 2, who was with his
grandmother yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Robinson’s body will be sent to Alma tonight by the Miller
Funeral Home where funeral services will be held. She was born in Chicago but
lived in Alma before moving to Brunswick in 1951.
Other survivors in addition to her husband is her mother, Mrs.
Lessie Sweat, Brunswick.
HILL, Emily (Brewer)
The Brunswick News; Monday 17 April 1961; pg. 14 col. 3
MRS. J.B. HILL TAKEN BY DEATH
Mrs. Emily B. Hill, 70, wife of J. Burford
Hill, died at her home, 803 Fourth Street, yesterday after an extended illness.
Mrs. Hill had lived in Brunswick for the past 47 years. She was a
member of the McKendree Methodist Church.
Survivors beside her husband are two daughters, Mrs. Carrie Miller,
Brunswick, and Mrs. A.R. Horne, Port Royal, S.C.; one son, B.B. Hill, Brunswick;
one brother, Alfred Brewer, Jacksonville; eight grandchildren and one great
grandchild.
Funeral services, under the direction of the Edo Miller and sons,
will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the McKendree Methodist Church, with the
Rev. W. Raymond Wilder, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in Palmetto
Cemetery. The body will remain in the chapel of the funeral home until 10
o’clock tomorrow morning and then be placed in the church to await the hour of
service.
The family suggested donations to the hear fund.
Active pallbearers will be Herman W. Folsom, J.M. Dorsey, W.F.
Fouche, C.L. Major, W.D. Thornton and J.R. Knight.
HILL, James Burford
The Brunswick News; Friday 5 May 1989; pg. 3A col. 4
HILL FUNERAL TO BE SATURDAY
James Burford Hill, 94, of 803 Fourth St., died
early this morning after an extended illness.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at McKendree United
Methodist Church with the Rev. John M. Clements officiating. Burial will be in
Palmetto Cemetery with Masonic rites.
Pallbearers will be members of Ocean Lodge No. 214.
Hill will be moved to the church one hour prior to services.
The family will receive friends at Chapman Funeral Chapel from 7:30
to 9 o’clock tonight.
Surviving are his wife, Mattie Hill; two daughters, Carrie H.
Bledsoe of Brunswick and Violet H. Horne of Arcadia, Fla.; eight grandchildren,
15 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
A lifelong resident of Brunswick, Hill was a retired city employee,
having worked with the Brunswick Water Department. He was a member of Ocean
Lodge No. 214, Knights Templar, Scottish Rite and McKendree Methodist Church.
Chapman Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
HILL,
James Felton
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 3 March 1953; pg. 10 col. 6
4 PERSONS DROWN WHEN BOAT SINKS—Mother, Two Sons, Companion
Die; One Body Found.
A mother, her two young sons, and a woman
companion drowned late yesterday afternoon when their bateau capsized in Cedar
Hammock Creek near Lathan Hammock.
Drowned were Mrs. Mildred Thomas Hill, 32; her sons, Edward, 11, and
Jimmie, 8; and Mrs. Helen Jean Robinson, 21, all residents of Arco. Their
husbands, Burford Brewer Hill, 35, and James E. Robinson, 26, were able to make
their way to shore.
Only one body had been recovered early this afternoon, but county
police officers, the Coast Guard, Captain Hoke Smith, warden on Jekyll Island,
and volunteers are continuing the search. Efforts to recover the four bodies
were hampered this morning by fresh northeasterly winds.
The body of Mrs. Robinson was found at 2 p.m. and was carried to the
Miller Funeral Home.
The party left their Arco homes yesterday afternoon to gather some
oysters. The bateau was carried on a trailer and was launched on a small beach
at Cedar Hammock, created when a dredge was pumping up the highway to Jekyll
Island some time ago. The group then proceeded up the creek for some distance;
where they gathered the oysters.
According to officers who investigated the tragedy, the party was
returning to the point from which they started, and a rather strong northeast
wind was prevailing, and it is believed that wind caused the boat to capsize.
In it besides the six persons, was a kicker and the oysters, a rather heavy
load, it was stated, for a bateau.
As the boat capsized, both Hill and Robinson made efforts to rescue
their families, but they were unsuccessful, they told officers.
After reaching shore, Robinson walked through the marsh to his auto
and drove to the Fancy Bluff Grill, some several miles away, where he informed
an employee of the tragedy. County police were called and immediately went to
the scene.
Hill told officers he narrowly missed saving one of his sons. He
said he had hold of the boy and was endeavoring to reach the marsh with him, but
in some way he lost his hold on the youth. Hill was reported to have been
exhausted and was carried to the City Hospital, where he remained overnight. He
was released this morning.
Both men are employees of the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company.
Hill has been an employee of the pulp mill since March, 1948, and works in the
machine room at the plant. Robinson has been an oiler at the plant since
August, 1951, and has resided here for several years.
Mrs. Hill formerly resided at Vidalia and has been a local resident
since her marriage. Mr. Hill is a native of Brunswick and he has resided in the
city and county all of his life. His family is well known here.
Mrs. Robinson, it was stated, formerly resided in Alma and moved
here with her husband. They have one son, Bennie Jack, 2, who was with his
grandmother yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Robinson’s body will be sent to Alma tonight by the Miller
Funeral Home where funeral services will be held. She was born in Chicago but
lived in Alma before moving to Brunswick in 1951.
Other survivors in addition to her husband is her mother, Mrs.
Lessie Sweat, Brunswick.
HILL, Mildred
(Thompson)
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 3 March 1953; pg. 10 col. 6
4 PERSONS DROWN WHEN BOAT SINKS—Mother, Two Sons, Companion
Die; One Body Found.
A mother, her two young sons, and a woman
companion drowned late yesterday afternoon when their bateau capsized in Cedar
Hammock Creek near Lathan Hammock.
Drowned were Mrs. Mildred Thomas Hill, 32; her sons, Edward, 11, and
Jimmie, 8; and Mrs. Helen Jean Robinson, 21, all residents of Arco. Their
husbands, Burford Brewer Hill, 35, and James E. Robinson, 26, were able to make
their way to shore.
Only one body had been recovered early this afternoon, but county
police officers, the Coast Guard, Captain Hoke Smith, warden on Jekyll Island,
and volunteers are continuing the search. Efforts to recover the four bodies
were hampered this morning by fresh northeasterly winds.
The body of Mrs. Robinson was found at 2 p.m. and was carried to the
Miller Funeral Home.
The party left their Arco homes yesterday afternoon to gather some
oysters. The bateau was carried on a trailer and was launched on a small beach
at Cedar Hammock, created when a dredge was pumping up the highway to Jekyll
Island some time ago. The group then proceeded up the creek for some distance;
where they gathered the oysters.
According to officers who investigated the tragedy, the party was
returning to the point from which they started, and a rather strong northeast
wind was prevailing, and it is believed that wind caused the boat to capsize.
In it besides the six persons, was a kicker and the oysters, a rather heavy
load, it was stated, for a bateau.
As the boat capsized, both Hill and Robinson made efforts to rescue
their families, but they were unsuccessful, they told officers.
After reaching shore, Robinson walked through the marsh to his auto
and drove to the Fancy Bluff Grill, some several miles away, where he informed
an employee of the tragedy. County police were called and immediately went to
the scene.
Hill told officers he narrowly missed saving one of his sons. He
said he had hold of the boy and was endeavoring to reach the marsh with him, but
in some way he lost his hold on the youth. Hill was reported to have been
exhausted and was carried to the City Hospital, where he remained overnight. He
was released this morning.
Both men are employees of the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company.
Hill has been an employee of the pulp mill since March, 1948, and works in the
machine room at the plant. Robinson has been an oiler at the plant since
August, 1951, and has resided here for several years.
Mrs. Hill formerly resided at Vidalia and has been a local resident
since her marriage. Mr. Hill is a native of Brunswick and he has resided in the
city and county all of his life. His family is well known here.
Mrs. Robinson, it was stated, formerly resided in Alma and moved
here with her husband. They have one son, Bennie Jack, 2, who was with his
grandmother yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Robinson’s body will be sent to Alma tonight by the Miller
Funeral Home where funeral services will be held. She was born in Chicago but
lived in Alma before moving to Brunswick in 1951.
Other survivors in addition to her husband is her mother, Mrs.
Lessie Sweat, Brunswick.
HILL, Dr. R.B.
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 7 March 1885; pg. 6 col. 3
DEATH OF DR. R.B. HILL—This gentleman, for several years a respected citizen of
our town, died on Tuesday morning, after a severe attack of pneumonia of about a
week’s duration. During this time no great anxiety was felt for him, but the
disease proved to be deeper-seated than was thought, and a fatal termination
resulted. A funeral service was held at the Episcopal church, after which the
remains were taken to his old home in southwestern Georgia for interment. The
deceased was a true Christian gentlemen [sic], respected and beloved by all who
knew him.
HILL, Richard P.
The Brunswick News; Friday 6 January 2006; pg. 4A col. 2
Richard P. “Rick” Hill, 50, of Brunswick, died
Wednesday from injuries sustained in a vehicle accident in McIntosh County.
A native and lifelong resident of Brunswick, Mr. Hill attended
Brunswick High School. Mr. Hill was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was
employed with Julienton Plantation in Townsend and had worked with M.J. McCall
Wholesale Florist. Mr. Hill was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.
A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at St.
Francis Xavier Catholic Church with the Rev. Cletus Pifher presiding.
Inturnment [sic] will follow in Brunswick Memorial Park Cemetery.
The rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today, followed by visitation
until 9 p.m., at Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home.
Survivors include his wife, Kathy Hill of Brunswick; two sons,
Stephen Hill and Joseph Hill, both of Brunswick; a sister, Shirley Mikkola of
Lusby, Md.; several nieces and nephews; and other relatives.
HILLERY, Harry Jr.
The Brunswick News; Thursday 18 July 1991; pg. 3A col. 3
SERVICES FRIDAY FOR HARRY HILLERY
Services for Harry Hillery Jr. of Brunswick will be held at 10 a.m.
Friday at the First Friendship Baptist Church in Brunswick with the Rev. J.D.
Williams officiating.
Interment will follow at Beheaver [sic] Cemetery on Sapelo Island.
The boat will leave Sapelo dock at 12:30 p.m.
Hillery died Tuesday in Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center.
Pallbearers will be friends of the family. Honorary pallbearers
will be officers of the church.
Survivors include his wife, Ollie Mae Hillery; his parents, Harry
Hillery Sr. and Sadie Hillery; a son, Rodrick Hillery of Brunswick; five
daughters, Harriette Hillery, Florine H. Hampton, Corethra Sims, Delphine Wilson
and Sharetta Hillery; four brothers, Johnie Lee Hillery, Donald Hillery,
Sylvester Hillery and Nathaniel Hall; three sisters, Maggie Hillery, Janie
Hillery and Marie Smith, all of Brunswick; five grandchildren and several nieces
and nephews.
The McIntosh native was a m ember of First Friendship Baptist
Church. He was retired.
Hall and Jones Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HILLERY, Timothy
The Brunswick News; Saturday 29 April 1972; pg. 14 col. 6
THREE DEATHS, INJURY RESULT FROM COLLISION
Three local men are dead today and another
hospitalized with multiple broken bones as a result of an early morning two-car
collision on the F.J. Torras causeway.
City police said Lester Grovner, 29, of 309 Amherst St., Dennis C.
Williams Jr., 28, of 1826 Lee St., and Timothy Hillery, 25, of 2212 Wolf St.
were dead on arrival at the Brunswick hospital early this morning.
Grovner was driver of the car in which the three men were riding
when it was struck in the front by a vehicle operated by 23 year old Steve R.
Anderson of Glynvilla Apts. according to police reports.
Police said the Grovner vehicle was traveling east on the causeway
and the Anderson auto was traveling west.
According to police reports, the Anderson vehicle left approximately
129 feet of skid marks before crossing the center line into the path of the
Grovner car.
Police said after the collision Anderson’s vehicle caught fire.
Anderson was thrown a few feet from the burning vehicle they said.
Police estimated $2,150 damage to the Grovner vehicle and $1,895 to
the Anderson automobile.
Anderson is reportedly in “fairly good” condition at the Brunswick
hospital.
Police offered no explanation as to why Anderson might have skidded
into the other lane.
HILSMAN, Annie Belle (Scarlett)
The Brunswick News; Thursday 29 September 1955; pg. 14 col. 4
MRS.
HILSMAN, 88, TAKEN BY DEATH; FUNERAL FRIDAY
Mrs. Annie Belle Scarlett Hilsman, 88, widow of the late Albert S.
Hilsman of Macon, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jake Blanton on St.
Simons Island, last night.
Mrs. Hilsman was well known here, having been born at Oak Grave
[sic], in Glynn County, and had spent most of her life here. She had been
living on St. Simons for the past 25 years.
Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Blanton, Mrs. Robert S.
Pettigrew, Tappahannock, Va., Mrs. Henning F. Adickes, York, S.C.; 4 sisters,
Mrs. F.A. Dunn, Miss Metha [sic] H. Scarlett, Miss Pauline V. Scarlett and Mrs.
Daisy Scarlett Daniels, all of Oak Grove, in Glynn County; 2 brothers, George
Stanton Scarlett, Winston-Salem, N.C. and Robert M. Scarlett, Oak Grove, and
numerous grand and great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
chapel of the Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home with the Rev. J.W. Jenkins
officiating. Interment will be in the Scarlett Cemetery at Oak Grove.
Active pallbearers will be:
Judge Frank M. Scarlett, I.M. Aiken, Julian Bennet, Carlisle Ward,
L.W. Everett, Geo. S. Beach, T.F. Taylor, Dr. Mack Simmons.
HIPPARD, Columbus
The Brunswick News; Vol. 88, No. 85; Saturday 9 December 1989; pg. 3A
col. 5
Funeral Set Sunday for Columbus Hippard
The funeral for Columbus Hippard, of the Brookman Community,
Brunswick, will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Springfield Baptist Church in
Brookman with the Rev. Enoch Lee officiating. Burial will follow in the Hippard
Cemetery.
Hippard died Tuesday at the Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital.
Active pallbearers will be Freddie Dunham, Jeffrey Hippard, Earl
Hippard, Roy Miller, Glenn Maxwell, and Byron Gamble.
Honorary pallbearers will be deacons of the Springfield Baptist
Church and officers of the district union.
Surviving are his wife, Lula Mae Hippard of Brunswick; one daughter,
Margie Hippard Clinch of Brunswick; one brother, Andrew Hippard of Brunswick;
one sister, Fannie Warrick of Miami, Fla.; four granddaughters, five
great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews, and other relatives.
Hippard was a lifelong resident of Glynn County and a member of the
Springfield Baptist Church. He was past superintendent of the Sunday school, a
member of the church building committee and chairman of the deacon board for
more than a decade. He also was vice-president of the district union and was an
active member of the Democratic Club.
Collins' Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HIRSCH, Benjamin
The Brunswick News; 11 November 1927; pg. 8 col. 1
PIONEER CITIZEN DIES IN CALIFORNIA—B. HIRSCH, FOR YEARS A
RESIDENT OF BRUNSWICK, PASSED AWAY TUESDAY
News was received in Brunswick today of the
death in Los Angeles, Cal., of B. Hirsch, one of Brunswick’s pioneer citizens,
who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Julia May, in that city on Tuesday.
No details of his death were received here, and it is understood that the
funeral was held in the California city.
Mr. Hirsch resided in Brunswick practically all of his life, up to
the time he removed to Los Angeles several years ago. When he first came to
Georgia he settled at Waynesville, where he engaged in the mercantile business
for a number of years. Later he removed to Brunswick and for years was a well
known and popular Brunswick citizen.
Mr. Hirsch only last month celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday, and
at that time he was said to be enjoying unusually good health. He was active up
to the time he left Brunswick, and letters received from him by friends here
occasionally stated that he was in fine health in Los Angeles, therefore the
news of his death came as quite a surprise.
Mr. Hirsch is survived by five children, Mose, and Jake Hirsch, Mrs.
Julius May and Mrs. H.L. Harris, all of whom now reside in Los Angeles, and
Henry Hirsch, of Dan?, Fla.
HIRSCH, Henry Jr.
The Brunswick News; Thursday 25 November 1915; pg. 1 col. 4
LITTLE HENRY HIRSCH DEAD—Son of Mr. and [Mrs.] Henry Hirsch
Passes Away in Chicago.
News was received last night of the death of
Henry, the three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hirsch, of this city. The
little one had been ill for quite a while and every effort on the part of
medical science was done to prolong the life of the boy but at 9 o’clock last
night the little fellow passed away.
It is not known as yet what funeral arrangements have been made, as
relatives here of the bereaved parents only received news of the death.
[Newspaper from 26 Nov. 1915 was missing, therefore funeral
announcement could not be found—ALH]
HIRSCH, Bertha Elizabeth (Hirschfield)
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 25 February 1912
AGED LADY DIES ON TRAIN COMING HERE
While en route to Atlanta from Chattanooga,
Mrs. B. Hirsch, of Brunswick, aged 69 years, died suddenly last night of acute
indigestion.
Mrs. Hirsch boarded Southern train No. 14 at Chattanooga. She was
in the best of spirits, and a son, who intended accompanying her to Atlanta, did
not do so because of her apparent good health. Midway between Atlanta and
Chattanooga, she was stricken, and, in spite of everything that the passengers
and train officials could do, death occurred within a few moments.
The body was brought to Atlanta, and early today will be sent to
Brunswick, where the funeral and interment will occur.
HOBBY, Tommy Lee
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 25 October 1994; pg. 3A, col. 5
TOMMY LEE HOBBY SERVICE WEDNESDAY
The funeral for Tommy Lee Hobby, 69, of Brunswick will be 10 a.m.
Wednesday at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness with Elder Guy Portulas
officiating. Burial will be at Wrights Chapel Cemetery in Moultrie at 4 p.m.
Hobby died Sunday at Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center.
Pallbearers will be Tori Hobby, Rodney Gunn, Randy Miller, Steve Rozier,
Rodney Gunn, Jr. and Harold Huff.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 tonight at Chapman Funeral Chapel.
Surviving are his wife, Levera Hobby of Brunswick; his mother, Alberta
Nims of Moultrie; four sons, Donnie L. Hobby of Bluffton, S.C., Kirby C. Hobby
of Fernandina Beach, Fla., and Mark A. Hobby and Terry L. Hobby, both of
Brunswick; three daughters, Gloria Elizabeth Miller of Jonesboro, Debra C.
Harris of St. Simons Island and Lisa Rozier of Brunswick; five brothers, Virgil
Hobby of Cresent, Curtis Nelms of Moultrie, Hinton Nelms of Cairo, Clem Nelms of
Thomasville and Jimmy Nelms of Sylvester; a sister, Bernice Barnes of Tifton; 10
grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
The Worth County native had lived in Glynn County for the past 36 years
and was a retired self-employed painter. He was a member of the Kingdom Hall of
Jehovah's Witnesses.
HODNETT, Eugene W.
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 19 May 1971; pg. 5A col. 2
RESIDENT’S FATHER DIES—Eugene W. Hodnett, father of Roy K. Hodnett of East
Beach, St. Simons Island, succumbed yesterday in Martinsville, Va. Funeral
services are planned at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the First Baptist Church there. In
lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the heart fund.
HOFFMAN, Charles (Dr.)
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 4 March 1897
DR.
HOFFMAN DEAD—WELL-KNOWN NEW YORKER PASSES AWAY AT JEKYL ISLAND—Was Owner of the
Hoffman House, New York, and One of the Best Known Men in the Great Metropolis.
Dr. Charles Hoffman, one of the most prominent Episcopal divines in
New York, died at Jekyl island last night. Dr. Hoffman came south with several
members of his family a few weeks ago with the hope of improving his health.
The noted divine has been in ill health for some months and recently
his physicians advised a trip south and Jekyl island was selected as the place
to go.
Dr. Hoffman was owner of the Hoffman house in New York city and also
of the Hoffman Arms, one of the most fashionable apartment houses in the
metropolis, was quite wealthy and related to the celebrated Hoffman family of
the east.
A special Pullman sleeper has been engaged by the relatives of the
deceased to convey them back to New York and they will leave Brunswick this
afternoon for New York, where the funeral and interment will occur.
HOLLAND, Anna Cody
The Brunswick News; Friday 19 December 2003; pg. 4A col. 4
Anna Cody Holland, 86, died Wednesday at the local hospital.
A native of Savannah, Mrs. Holland had been a resident of Brunswick
for the past 66 years. She was a member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church of
Brunswick.
Surviving are two sons, George Cody Holland of St Simons Island and
Albert M. Holland Jr. of Brunswick; a daughter, Mary Lou Hagey of Brunswick; and
two grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the
residence, 822 Union Street, Brunswick. Inurnment will be later in Oak Grove
Cemetery in Brunswick.
The family will receive friends at the residence until the time of
the service.
The family requests donations be made to St. Mark’s Episcopal
Church.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HOLLAND, Annie
Advertiser & Appeal; Vol. 2, No. 26; Wednesday 20 December 1876; pg.
1, col. 2
We are pained to record the death of little Annie, (four years old)
daughter of Mr. Marshal B. Holland of our city. About ten days since she was in
the kitchen with a servant. The latter went out for some purpose, when the
little one took fire, in some way, from the stove. She screamed for help, and
rushed upstairs, where she was met by her mother, who threw something around her
and put out the flames, but alas! too late. After lingering three days, she
died. The stricken parents have our deepest sympathy.
HOLLOWAY, Louise (Hutcheson) Honea
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 2 January 1980; pg. 2A col. 4
LOUISE H. HOLLOWAY DIES TUESDAY
Louise Hutcheson Holloway, 62, died Tuesday in Darien. She had
lived in Darien for the past two years and was a resident of Brunswick for most
of her life. She was a member of the Arco United Methodist Church.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Judy St. Clair of Brunswick, two
sisters, Mrs. Gordon Chapman of Brunswick and Mrs. Inez Lynn of St. Simons
Island, a brother Dan Cope of Albany, two grandchildren and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 4 p.m. from Chapman
Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. James Agee officiating. Burial will follow at
Palmetto Cemetery.
Pallbearers include J.P. Brewer, James K. Moody, Russell Moody, Tony
Moody, Leon Moody and George Young.
The family will be at Chapman Funeral Chapel tonight from 7:30 until
9 and at the home of Judy St. Clair, 2261 Formosa St. Chapman Funeral Chapel is
in charge of the arrangements.
HOLMES, Anne
The Brunswick News; 1 August 1938
MISS
ANNE HOLMES, AN AGED RESIDENT, DIED YESTERDAY
Funeral services were held at 4 o'clock this afternoon for Miss Mary
Anne Holmes, 80, one of Brunswick's oldest residents, who died Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bell, 2001 Atlantic avenue, with whom she resided.
She had been ill for some time.
Miss Holmes had resided in Brunswick practically all her life, and
she was well known among an unusually large number of friends. She had for years
been a member of the Episcopal church, and in her younger life was greatly
interested in church work. She is survived by a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services this afternoon were held from the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Bell and burial followed in Oak Grove cemetery. The following served as
pallbearers: T.J. Wood, Hugh Flanders, Horace Symons, Jim Bell, E.K. Mahnke. The
funeral was in charge of Baldwin & Edge.
HOLMES, Andrew Rudolph
The Brunswick News; Thursday 21 December 1944; pg. 8 col. 2
ANDREW R. HOLMES DIED WEDNESDAY
Andrew R. Holmes, 67, a resident of Brunswick
all of his life, passed away yesterday afternoon at his home on Hopkins avenue,
following an illness of several years.
Mr. Holmes is survived by his wife and three sons, Herbert, Lester
and Raymond Holmes, all of this city.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at 4 o’clock at Cavalry
Baptist church, conducted by the Rev. W.F. Jamison and the Rev. Shaw Hardin,
burial following in Palmetto cemetery. The funeral was in charge of the
Gibson-Hart Funeral Homes.
HOLMES, Dee Wilmer
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 27 April 1938; pg. 8 col. 2
LOCAL MAN HURT IN FALL YESTERDAY DIES HERE TODAY
Injuries sustained in a fall from a scaffold
yesterday, today proved fatal to Dee Holmes, 54, who passed away at the City
Hospital where he was carried for treatment.
Mr. Holmes, who resided on Hopkins avenue, west of the plant of the
Georgia Veneer and Package Company, was engaged in painting the McCosker Service
Station on the Coastal Highway. He was on the scaffold when in some way he lost
his balance and fell to the pavement, a distance of some ten or twelve feet. He
was immediately carried to the hospital and an examination revealed his back was
broken in the fall and his condition was pronounced serious.
Mr. Holmes had been a resident of Brunswick all of his life and was
well known among a large number of friends, who will regret to learn of the
unfortunate accident.
He is survived by two brothers, Andrew and John Holmes, and one
sister, Miss Helen Holmes, all of this city.
Funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow afternoon at
3:00 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. W.F. Jamison, of the Advent Christian
church. Burial will be in Oak Grove cemetery. Funeral arrangements are in
charge of the Gibson-Hart Funeral Home.
HOLMES, James D.
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 16 April 1957; pg. 10 col. 5
JAMES D. HOLMES IS TAKEN BY DEATH
James D. Holmes, 70, a life-long resident of
Brunswick, died last night at the Veterans hospital in Dublin following a long
illness.
Besides his wife he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mamie Nelsen of
Vero Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Blanch Bailey of Florida.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Gibson Hart
Funeral Home.
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 17 April 1957; pg. 10 col.
6
FUNERAL SERVICES SET FOR JAMES D. HOLMES
Funeral services for James D. Holmes, who died
at the Veterans Hospital in Dublin Monday, will be held at the grave side in
Palmetto Cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. C.H.
Moss.
The body will be at the chapel of the Gibson-Hart Funeral Home until
the time of funeral.
HOLMES, James Scott
The Brunswick Call; Tuesday 8 November 1898; pg. 1 col. 5
MR. J.S. HOLMES DEAD—Breathed His Last Early Sunday Morning
Mr. J.S. Holmes, age 50, died at his residence
near the gas house, early Sunday morning of malarial fever. The deceased has
been a resident of Brunswick since childhood; he was one of the brave men who
wore the gray and fought for our fair southland. Mr. Holmes enlisted in the
Fourth Georgia cavalry, was captured and remained in prison at Fort Delaware
over 12 months. The funeral occurred from the Second Advent church, Rev.
Kenrich conducting the service. To the bereaved relatives THE CALL extends
sincere sympathy.
HOLMES, Joel Elvin
The Brunswick news; Saturday 11 September 1937; pg. 8 col. 4
ILLNESS IS FATAL TO JOEL E. HOLMES
Joel E. Holmes, 45, died at the City Hospital
last night after a long illness. He had been ill at his home for many weeks,
and was removed to the hospital a few days ago in a serious condition.
Mr. Holmes was employed for some time by Gilmore & Woods, but
retired several months ago on account of bad health. He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Myrtle Colson Holmes, three sons, Joel, Ernest and Daniel Holmes,
and one daughter, Miss Jeanette Holmes. One sister, Mrs. Helen Lyles of
Woodbine, and three brothers, Andrew, John and Dee Holmes, all of Brunswick,
also survive.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at the residence at
3:30 o’clock, conducted by Rev. W.F. Jamison, of the Advent Christian church.
Interment will be in Palmetto cemetery, with the Gibson-Hart Funeral Home in
charge.
HOLMES, Mary Ann (Pacetty)
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 3 July 1880; pg. 2 cols. 3-4
ST.
SIMONS DEPARTMENT—On Friday afternoon, the 25th ult. Mrs. Holmes, wife of Mr.
Henry Holmes, was taken suddenly ill, falling from her chair whilst sitting in
the front porch. Medical aid was at once sought. She still lies in quite a
critical condition, her left side entirely paralized [sic]. Mrs. H. has been,
for years, a great sufferer, having been tapped, during the last four years,
seventeen times, for dropsy. During these various tappings, there have been, at
least, thirty or forty gallons of water taken from her.
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 10 July 1880; pg. 2 col. 4
ST.
SIMONS DEPARTMENT—Mrs. Holmes, whom we mentioned in our last as being suddenly
stricken ill, died last Tuesday morning, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery,
Brunswick, Wednesday afternoon. She leaves a husband and two children to mourn
her loss.
HOLMES, Mary Virginia (Williams)
The Brunswick News; Monday 6 January 1936; pg. 8 col. 5
FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN FLORIDA
News has been received here of the death in
Tampa, Fla., a few days ago of Mrs. Mary Virginia Holmes, of Brunswick, and a
former well known local resident.
Mrs. Holmes resided in Brunswick with her family for many years,
removing to Tampa with her husband in 1931. She was well known by many friends
here.
Besides the two sons who reside here Mrs. Holmes leaves the
following other children: Mrs. B.L. Boone, Mrs. A.W. Blitz, Miss Leona Holmes,
G.G. Holmes and Mrs. Ola Holmes Hogan, all of Tampa. Funeral services were held
in the Florida city.
HOLMES, Myrtle (Colson)
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 24 March 1987; pg. 3A col. 4
MYRTLE C. HOLMES DIES HERE MONDAY
Myrtle Colson Holmes, 86, of Brunswick, died
Monday at the Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital after an extended illness.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Edo
Miller and Sons Funeral Home with the Revs. Richard Baker and Frank Hall
officiating. Interment will follow in Palmetto Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Kenneth Holmes, A. Wayne Holmes, Ernest G.
Holmes Jr., Jimmy Carter, Gerald Parrish and Charles Akins.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m.
tonight. The family requests those wishing to make memorial contributions to
make them to the American Cancer Society.
Mrs. Holmes is survived by a daughter, Jeannette Ficarelli of
Brunswick; two sons, Ernest G. Holmes and Daniel F. Holmes, both of Brunswick;
eight grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, and three nieces.
She was a native of Camden County and had been a resident of Glynn
County for the past 65 years. She was of the Baptist faith and retired in 1970
from Golden Shores Seafood after 21 years of service.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HOLMES, William Henry
The Brunswick News; June 1927
Note: William Henry Holmes was the son of John Holmes and Mildred Palmer. he was
born 25 Mar 1844 and died 6 June 1827. At the end of the article his sister
"Mamie" Holmes is mentioned. Mary Ann Holmes' nickname was "Mamie". [Lee
Collins, submitter]
SERGT. W. H. HOLMES PASSES AWAY TODAY--END COMES TO ONE OF ONLY TWO SURVIVING
MEMBERS OF ORIGINAL RIFLEMEN
Sergeant William Henry Holmes, 83 years of age, one of the two
surviving members of the original Brunswick Riflemen, the local military company
which marched to the front from Brunswick in the sixties, passed away at his
home, 1627 Bartow street at 10:30 o’clock this morning, after an illness which
had extended over a period of several weeks.
General Holmes, as he was familiarly known among his many Brunswick
friends, was taken ill while attending the recent Confederate reunion in Tampa,
Fla. He returned to the city from Tampa, was at once confined to his bed, and
never recovered. His condition gradually grew worse, and for the past few days
little hope has been held out for his recovery.
Mr. Holmes marched away with the Riflemen early in the sixties as a
member of the Twenty-Sixth Georgia Infantry, and he fought with that outfit
throughout the civil war. Returning with it a few years later he was one of the
several that survived the terrible conflict. One by one these veterans of the
local company have passed away until today only one remains, J. J. Smith, who
resides near the old cypress mills.
Mr. Holmes had spent all of his life in Brunswick. For years he was
connected with Hilton & Dodge Lumber company at their large saw mill on St.
Simons. In more recent years he was connected with the sanitary department of
the city.
A gentleman of the old school, Mr. Holmes was probably known by more
visitors than any other citizen of Brunswick. Every tourist automobile that
rolled into Brunswick and was observed by him he stepped to the car and welcomed
the visitors to Brunswick, answered all of their questions, and told them many
interesting historical facts concerning this section.
He was the oldest Kiwanian in Georgia, having been a member of the
local club for three or four years, and at the last convention held in Augusta
was honored as the oldest member of the organization.
The deceased is survived by his widow, one son, George T. Holmes, of
New York, who will arrive tomorrow, and one daughter, Mrs. R. L. Welsh, of Ft.
Meyers, Fla., who has been in the city for several days. One sister, Miss Mamie
Holmes, of this city, also survives.
Definite funeral arrangements had not been completed today, but it
will be held probably tomorrow. Six members of the local Kiwanis Club will act
as honorary pall bearers, while the Brunswick Riflemen will attend and fire the
usual salute.
The Brunswick Pilot; Friday 10 June 1927; pg. 1 col. 3
WM.
HENRY HOLMES PIONEER CITIZEN PASSES TO REST
William Henry Holmes, for 83 years a citizen of Brunswick, died at
his home on Bartow Street Monday morning after an illness extending over several
weeks.
“General” Holmes, as he was known to his thousands of friends, was
one of the two surviving members of the Brunswick Riflemen of 1861-65 and he
served throughout the civil war with that command. He was born in Brunswick and
has made him [sic] home here continuously ever since.
He was a member of the Brunswick Kiwanis club and was ranked as the
oldest Kiwanian in the state. He was one of the most popular attendants at the
last state convention in Augusta.
Mr. Holmes’ characteristics can best be summed up by the nickname he
bore throughout his life and by which he was widely known “Gentleman” Holmes.
The interment took place in Oak Grove cemetery with full military honors, the
Brunswick Riflemen, his old command, attending in a body, also headquarters
company of the 2nd Battalion 121st infantry.
The funeral services were conducted at the family residence, Rev.
Royal K. Tucker, of St. Marks Episcopal Church, conducting the services.
Mr. Holmes is survived by his widow, one son, George T. Holmes, of
New York, and one daughter, Mrs. R.L. Welsh, of Fort Myers, Fla., and one
sister, Miss Minnie Holmes of Brunswick.
HONEA, Joseph Richard
The Brunswick News; Friday 19 January 1951; pg. 12 col. 4
J.R.
HONEA DIES IN HOSPITAL HERE
J.R. Honea, 63, died at the City Hospital late last night. He was
stricken at his home, 2161 Townsend street, Brunswick Villa, and rushed to the
hospital where he died tow hours later.
Mr. Honea moved to Brunswick from Atlanta about a year ago and had
intended retiring and making his home here.
He is survived by his wife and two children of Atlanta.
Funeral arrangements, in charge of the Miller Funeral Home, are
incomplete, but burial will be in Westview cemetery in Atlanta.
HONEA, Walker L.
The Brunswick News; Friday 3 July 1964; pg. 14 col. 2
WALKER L. HONEA SUCCUMBS AT 40
Walker L. Honea, 40, stationed with the Navy in Norfolk, Va., died
in the Portsmouth Navy Hospital yesterday after an illness.
He was a native of Seneca, S.C., and was married to the former
Louise Hutchinson of Brunswick.
The body will be returned to Brunswick by the Gibson-Hart-Durden
Funeral Home for funeral services and burial. Arrangements will be announced
later.
The Brunswick News; Monday 6 July 1964; pg. 16 col. 3
LAST
RITES HELD FOR W.L. HONEA
Funeral services for Walker L. Honea, 40, who died Thursday in the
Portsmouth, Va., Navy Hospital were held today at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the
Gibson-Hart-Durden Funeral Home with Chaplain Clifford A. Olsen of Glynco
officiating.
Interment followed in Palmetto Cemetery with military honors at
graveside.
Surviving are his wife, the former Louise Hutchinson of Brunswick;
stepdaughter, Miss Judy St. Clair, Norfolk, Va.; parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.J.
Honea of Seneca, S.C.; three brothers, Cecil, Bob and Nathan Honea all of
Seneca; three sisters, Mrs. Nellie Allsep, Miss Linda Honea and miss Sandra
Honea, all of Seneca.
HOOD, Frances Albert
The Brunswick News; Monday 17 October 1983; pg. 10A col. 1
FRANCIS A. HOOD OF JEKYLL ISLAND DIES ON SATURDAY
Francis Albert Hood, 74, of Jekyll Island died
Saturday at the Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital after an extended illness.
He was a native of Chattanooga, Tenn. and had been a resident of
Jekyll since 1977. He served on the Council of St Richards of Chichester
Episcopal Church of Jekyll Island. He retired from Georgia power Co. in 1974 as
assistant vice president after 40 years of service.
He was a consultant of the State of Georgia and came to Glynn County
to set up the Coastal Zone Management Program. He also worked for a number of
years as a consultant on special programs with the City of Brunswick.
He had received the Georgia Municipal Association’s Key Citizen
Award and the Crystal Ball Award presented by the Georgia Planning Association.
He was a graduate of the Baylor Military Institute and received a bachelor of
law degree from Chattanooga College of Law and a degree in business
administration from Edmondson School of Business Administration.
Hood is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jean Demaree Hood, Jekyll island;
a daughter, Mrs. Cassandra H. Elton, Decatur; two grandson and a cousin.
Memorial services will be Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Jekyll United
Methodist Church with Father Samuel West officiating. The body was sent to A.S.
Turner Funeral Home in Decatur where services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m.
Thursday at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church with the Rev. Francis Daunt
officiating. Interment will follow in Decatur City Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at Turner Funeral Home from 2 to 5
p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Edo Miller & Sons Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements.
HOOD, Jean (Demaree)
The Brunswick News; Thursday 2 October 1997; pg. 3A col. 6
JEAN D. HOOD SERVICE SATURDAY
A graveside service for Jean Demaree Hood, 84,
of Jekyll island will be 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Decatur Cemetery with the Rev.
Frank Manning officiating.
She died Monday at Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center.
Surviving are her daughter, Cassandra H. Elton of Decatur; a sister,
Beth Warriner of Maitland, Fla.; two grandsons; three great-grandsons; and
several nieces and nephews.
She had been a resident of Jekyll since 1977. She was a member of
St. Richard of Chichester Mission and was director of the Altar Guild for many
years. She also served on the council.
She was graduated from Purdue University and worked for the Georgia
Power Co. and the Tennessee Power Co. She was a Red Cross Volunteer at Emory
University Hospital for 17 years.
She was a member of the Jekyll Island Arts Association and the
Jekyll Island Garden Club.
A.S. Turner and Sons Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
HOOD, William C.
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 26 August 1930, pg. 8, col. 2
WM.
C. HOOD PASSES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
Popular Young Man Died Early This Morning at City Hospital
William C. Hood, 24 years of age, prominent young Brunswick citizen,
passed away at the City hospital at 1 o'clock this morning, following a short
illness. News of his death came as a shock to his host of Brunswick friends.
Attacked early Monday morning with a hemorrhage of the lungs, young
Mr. Hood was later in the day removed to the hospital, and attending physicians
at once realized that his condition was serious. Everything possible was done
for him and after a consultation of physicians a blood transfusion was decided
upon. A half dozen or more friends of the popular young man volunteered for the
operation and blood specimens were made preparatory to the transfusion. It was
then too late, however, as the end was near and a short time afterwards Mr. Hood
passed away. The physicians stated that it is very doubtful whether or not the
transfusion would have been of any aid, but it was decided as a last resort in
the efforts made to save the young man's life.
Bill Hood, as he was familiarly known by his many friends, came to
Brunswick about three years ago from Lake Wales, Fla., where he was connected
with the Gillican-Chipley Company, and has since been in the naval stores
department of the company here, having been associated with the company for the
past eight years. During the short time that he had been a resident of
Brunswick he had made many close friends and was one of the most popular young
men in the city.
The deceased is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Hood, of
Covington, La., two brothers, Arthur and Schley Hood, of Amile, La., five
sisters, Mrs. J.W. Burns, of Franklington, La., Mrs. Dr. Sebey, of Salt Lake
City, Utah, Mrs. Jessie Helms, and Misses Edith and Jimmie Hood, Covington. He
was a nephew of W.A. Hood of this city.
Funeral services will be held at the parlors of Mortician Edo Miller
tonight at 7:30 o'clock, and the body will leave for the family home in
Louisiana at 8:05 over the Coast Line. The body will be escorted to the depot
by a delegation representing the Brunswick lodge of Elks, of which the deceased
was a popular member.
HOPE, Ruth Young
The Brunswick News 23 April 1990; pg. 3A col. 4
RUTH Y. HOPE DIES SATURDAY
Ruth Young Hope of Douglas died Saturday at
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Palmetto Cemetery
with the Rev. Roy Davis officiating.
The family will be at the funeral home from 7:30 to 9 p.m. tonight.
Survivors include a daughter, Linda Hope Hutto of Douglas; two sons,
Dan Hope of Brunswick and Tim Hope of Douglas; a brother, Elisha Young of
Douglas; a sister, Betty Wiggins of Haines City, Fla.; seven grandchildren, a
great-grandchild and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Hope, a former resident of Brunswick, had lived in Douglas for
the past 17 years. She was a member of the Lighthouse Christian Fellowship
Church of Douglas.
Chapman Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
HOPKINS, Cormack Jr.
The Macon Daily Telegraph; Saturday 12 February 1910; pg. 1 col. 4
CORMACK HOPKINS
SANDERSVILLE, Ga., Feb. 11.—Mr. Cormack Hopkins
died at the home of his sister, Mrs. J.H. Evans, after a long illness from
tuberculosis. The funeral was from the Baptist church, and interment in the
City cemetery.
The Macon Daily Telegraph; Sunday 13 February 1910; pg.
16 cols. 4 & 5
Mr. John Hopkins, wife and daughter, Mr. Arthur
Hopkins and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Haywood, all of Savannah, Ga., attended the
funeral of Mr. Cormack Hopkins in this city Wednesday.
Mrs. Cormack Hopkins and little son, Evans, of
Atlanta, Ga., have been with the family of Dr. J.H. Evans during the late
illness of Mr. Cormack Hopkins, who died here Tuesday.
HOPKINS, James Jr.
The Brunswick News; Friday 8 May 1998; pg. 3A col. 6
JAMES HOPKINS JR. DIES TUESDAY
James Hopkins Jr., 77, of Brunswick passed away Tuesday at Hospice
of the Golden Isles.
The funeral will be 4 p.m. Saturday at the First African Baptist
Church of Fancy Bluff with the Rev. M.C. Denegal officiating. Burial will
follow in the churchyard cemetery.
The body will be placed in the church an hour before the service.
Pallbearers will be nephews. Honorary pallbearers will be officers
of the church.
Surviving are two sons, James Hopkins III and Harold J. Hopkins of
New York, N.Y.; two sisters, Rubell Carroll of Brunswick and Beatrice Haywood of
Waverly; seven grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
He was a native of Glynn County and a member of the First African
Baptist Church of Fancy Bluff. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and was
retired from the U.S. Postal Service.
Hall, Jones and Brown Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HOPKINS, Maria C.
Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003; The
Atlanta Constitution; 7 December 1901
FUNERAL OF MRS. L.C. HOPKINS—Wife of Col. Hopkins, of New York, Who Has Been
Visiting Georgia.
Brunswick, Ga., December 6.—(Special.) Colonel Lewis C. Hopkins, of
New York, has returned to the city from a trip north, on which he was called to
attend the bedside of his wife during her recent illness, which terminated
fatally. Colonel Hopkins was some weeks ago selected by large moneyed
influences of his native state to come to Brunswick and look after their
interests here and in other portions of southeast Georgia, and he had only been
in the city of a few hours when a telegram told him of the serious illness of
his wife, whom he had left well and happy only a short time previous. During
his short previous stay here he made many acquaintances, which added to the
friends whom he had met before coming here, extended to him the most sincere
expressions of sympathy.
The following notice of Mrs. Hopkins’ death was published in The
Daily Standard Union, of Brooklyn:
“The funeral of the late Mrs. Maria C. Hopkins, of this city, will
take place today (Sunday) in Cincinnati. Mrs. Lewis Hopkins died Thursday at
the residence of her son, Franklin W. Hopkins, in Alpine, N.J., after a two
weeks’ illness of typhoid pneumonia, while preparing to accompany her husband to
their new home in Brunswick, Ga. She was a daughter of John and Julia Maria
Whetstone, who were pioneer settlers of Cincinnati, her mother at one time
having lived in the old stockade fort commanded by her grandfather, David Strong
Moore. Remotely her lineage touched that of her husband, she having been a
lineal descendant of Stephen Hopkins, of the Mayflower, and John Hopkins, one of
nati [sic] Mrs. Hopkins was prominent in the founders of Hartford, Conn. In Cin-
[sic] church activities, and in Brooklyn, where she was a member of the Plymouth
church. She and Colonel Hopkins celebrated the golden anniversary of their
marriage last January. Her husband and two sons, Allison R. and Franklin W.
Hopkins, survive her.”
HOPPS, Daniel Gibson, Sr.
The Atlanta Constitution; Tuesday 26 September 1899; pg. 2 col. 4
HON.
DANIEL G. HOPPS, JESUP, GA.
Jesup, Ga., September 25—(Special)—Hon. Daniel G. Hopps, one of our
pioneer and oldest citizens, died here suddenly today. He was eighty-five years
old and was one of the most prominent men in this section of Georgia,
representing Appling and Wayne counties in the legislature, and was senator
several terms and was a member of the constitutional convention in 1865.
HORTON, Thomas Marion
The Brunswick News; Thursday 25 May 1978; pg. 10A col. 3
THOMAS M. HORTON DIES WEDNESDAY
Thomas M. Horton, 52, died Wednesday at the local hospital following
an extended illness.
He was a life-long resident of Brunswick and resided at 2303 Tara
Lane. He was a member of Christian Renewal Center; past judge of the
Magistrates Court of Glynn County, appointed to the office by Gov. Jimmy Carter;
owner of a local mobile home sales and mobile home park; and, before his
illness, the only polygraph technician in Glynn County. He was also a member of
the Democratic Club and a veteran, having served with the U.S. Marine Corps.
He is survived by his wife, Lois Yarbrough Horton, Brunswick; his
mother, Mrs. O’Neil Johnson; three sons, Thomas M. Horton Jr. of Dallas, Texas,
John Kirk Horton and Brian Keith “Tad” Horton, both of Brunswick; a daughter,
Mary Elizabeth Goldston of Dallas, Texas and a sister, Mrs. Iris Horton Colletta
of Las Vegas, Nev.; four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in the chapel of the Chapman
Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Calder Kinney, the Rev. Bill Ligon and the Rev.
E.C. Tillman officiating.
Pallbearers will be John Emory Taylor, Elbert Ogden, Bob Gordon,
Mayor Reggie Holtzendorff, Henry Coasta, Wayne Floyd, W.W. Floyd and Eugene
Highsmith.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Hurley Jones, Dr. A.W. Strickland,
Tom Poppell, Ken Dunaway, Jim Reeler, Elmer Lewin, Allen Berrie, John O.
Stewart, Roy Boyd, Allen Smith, Reid Harris, Brantley O’Quinn, and members of
the Christian Renewal Center.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home Thursday and
Friday from 7:30 p.m. until p.m. [sic].
HORWELL, Richard J. Jr.
Doylestown Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Friday 3 September
1954; pg. 1 col. 3
YARDLEY YOUTH KILLED YESTERDAY AT STEEL PLANT
A 18-year-old son of a well known Yardley physician was instantly
killed yesterday afternoon when he became caught in a conveyor while unloading
iron ore at the Fairless Works of the U.S. Steel Corp. at Morrisville.
He was Richard J. Horwell Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Richard J.
Horwell, of 57 S. main st., who was working at the plant as a summer laborer
during his vacation from college.
A spokesman for the steel firm said the young man was working along
an ore conveyor with a shovel, picking up spilled ore when his shovel apparently
caught in the conveyor, pulling him into it.
He was crushed and killed instantly according to Dr. William L.
Goldfarb, of Bristol, deputy Bucks county coroner.
Horwell graduated from George School where he was a member of the
swimming and baseball teams. He was a sophomore at Guilford College, N.C.
The survivors include the father, Dr. Horwell and the step-mother,
Mrs. Elinor Horwell; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Horwell, of Penargyl, and
two brothers, Brice, 15, and Arthur W., 11.
Funeral service will be private tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock from
the Fitzgerald Funeral Home in Yardley, with interment at the Ewing Church
Cemetery, near Trenton. The Rev. Philip F. Palmer, pastor of the Yardley
Methodist Church will officiate.
HOTCH, Annie H. & Lizzie
Advertiser & Appeal; Wednesday 18 September 1878; pg. 3 col. 4
SAD—Afflictions come not single-handed. Two children of Mr. Jake Hotch
died on Sunday last, and his wife and another, his only remaining child, is ill
with fever. Mr. H., moved out to a newly settled place a few miles from town
last Spring, which has proven quite unhealthy, as the above results show. He
brought his family to the city on Friday last.
HOUSEMAN, Anne Burford (Noble)
The Brunswick News; Saturday 1 March 1947; pg. 8 col. 5
MRS.
HOUSEMAN DIED YESTERDAY, FUNERAL TODAY
Mrs. Anne Burford Houseman, 73, a native of Brunswick who had resided
here at intervals throughout her life, passed away at the City Hospital late
yesterday afternoon, after a long illness. Her parents were pioneer Glynn
county residents.
Mrs. Houseman resided here during all of her early life and for a number
of years after her marriage to the late Ernest Houseman, who was associated with
the Southern Railway. In later years she resided in Birmingham, Ala., and
Atlanta. She had been making her home here for the past 18 months.
Mrs. Houseman is survived by one son, Ernest O. Houseman, of this city;
a sister, Mrs. E.E. Cheney, of Jacksonville, Fla.; a brother, R.L. Nobles, of
this city, and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the parlors of Mortician Edo Miller at
4 o'clock this afternoon, conducted by the Rev. E.C. Hardison, and burial will
be in Palmetto cemetery.
HOUSTON, James E.
Darien Timber Gazette; Saturday 6 January 1883; pg. 3 col. 2
We are pained to learn of the sad death of our
old friend, Judge James Houston, of Brunswick. He was accidentally killed on
Monday by the discharge of a pistol. Judge Houston was one of Brunswick’s
staunchest and best citizens and he will be greatly missed. The editor of the
Gazette deeply sympathizes with the family in their affliction.
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 6 January 1883; pg. 7
cols. 1 & 2
DEATH OF JUDGE HOUSTON
The city was thrown into a fever of excitement
last Monday morning by the announcement that Judge James Houston was shot. Upon
investigation, it was found to be only too true. The whole affair seems wrapped
in mystery, as no possible theory as to how he came to his death can be formed
that is satisfactory. We can only give what facts we have gleaned, leaving each
one to make his own theory. Of but one thing are we sure, and that is that he
came to his death by a bullet. The circumstances are these: After eating his
breakfast, the Judge went back up stairs to his room, for what purpose is
unknown. Shortly after, a little grand-daughter, going to his room, found him
seated in a chair before the fire-place, and seeing that something was wrong,
rushed down stairs and gave the alarm. Members of the family at once went to
his room, and found him sitting in his chair as stated, his head thrown back,
and the blood oozing from a wound in the head, on the right side, just above the
ear, and his pistol, which had been placed on the mantel that morning, lying
upon the hearth, the presumption being that the weapon from some cause fell from
the mantel, and was discharged by the fall, inflicting a death-wound, as above
stated. He lingered until three o’clock the next morning, and expired. This is
all that is known as to how it happened. One of the strangest facts connected
with the whole thing is that, notwithstanding there were people in the room
below the one in which Judge Houston was, and others on the same floor with him,
none of them heard the report of the pistol.
Thus has gone a man whose place cannot be filled. Others, no doubt,
can be found to perform the duties of Clerk and Treasurer of the city as well as
he, but with him has died a fund of information touching the earlier history of
our city that was nowhere else to be found. In his death we have lost a
personal friend. The funeral took place from his late residence, and was
attended by a large concourse of people, who followed him to his last
resting-place.
HOWE, Nancy (Flowers)
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 10 January 1885; pg. 6 col. 2
Mrs. Nancy Howe, 104 years old, died at the home of her son, near
Jamaica, in this county, a few days since. Few people are permitted to stay so
long in this world of ours.
HOWE, Sally (Moore) Willis
The Brunswick News; Monday 14 October 1940; pg. 8 col. 1
MRS.
SALLIE HOWE DIED YESTERDAY
Mrs. Sallie Howe, 72 years of age, passed away yesterday at her
residence, 1907 Ellis street. She had been ill for several months.
Mrs. Howe is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Emma Keafover and Mrs.
Lula Mazoe, both of Brunswick.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock at
Blount’s Crossing cemetery, conducted by the Rev. Dalton Little. Funeral
arrangements are in charge of the Gibson-Hart Funeral Home.
HOWELL, Lola (Mrs. P.M.)
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 20 August 1919; pg. 1 col. 5
FUNERAL OF MRS. HOWELL WILL BE HELD THIS MORNING
The funeral of Mrs. P.M. Howell who died at the
family residence, 1710 G street on Saturday evening last will occur this morning
at 10 o’clock, the services being conducted by the Rev. C.E. Gray, pastor of
McKendree Methodist church, from the home. The decedent was formerly a resident
of Williston, Fla., and came to Brunswick several months ago with her husband
who is connected with the Atlantic oil refinery.
Although a resident of Brunswick for only few months, Mrs. Howell
made many warm friends who are saddened by her death. She was about 35 years of
age.
Interment will take place in Palmetto cemetery.
HOWELL, W.A.
The Brunswick News; Friday 19 April 1957; pg. 13 col. 3
W.A. HOWELL DIES ON HOMERVILLE TRIP
W.A. Howell suffered a heart attack and died
today in Homerville while visiting there, his former home.
He has been engaged in commercial fishing here for some years. His
wife is a nurse for the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Co. Two daughters, Mrs. W.A.
Cullens, St. Simons Island, and one in Waycross also survive.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
HOYT, George H.
The Brunswick News; Friday 27 December 1935; pg. 8 col. 4
GEORGE H. HOYT DIED YESTERDAY
George H. Hoyt, 84 years of age, for many years a resident of
Brunswick, passed away late yesterday afternoon at the home of his cousin, Jas.
H. Osborne, in Urbana.
Mr. Hoyt’s early life was spent in New Canaan, Conn. He later went
to Wyoming where he engaged in the cattle business and he went from there to
other western states engaging in varied lines of industry. In 1902 Mr. Hoyt
removed to Brunswick on account of his health and he has since resided here and
was well known among a large number of friends, who will regret to learn of his
death.
Funeral services will be held from the residence of Mr. Osborne
Saturday morning at 11 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. Royal K. Tucker, rector of
St. Mark’s Episcopal church. Burial will be in Palmetto cemetery. The
following will act as pallbearers: H.D. Symons, M.E. Dart, F.H. Torkildsen,
W.E. Womack, E.C. Lamders, H. Ralph Smith. Funeral arrangements are in charge
of Mortician Edo Miller.
HOYT, Leander D.
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 19 January 1884; pg. 7 col. 4
SUMMONED HENCE
It is our painful duty to chronicle three deaths in our city this
week.
First, Mr. Gus Scarlett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Scarlett, of
Spring Bluff, Camden county, a young man of happy promise. He had just arrived
at full manhood, and had a bright and promising future before him, but the
summons came, and his young spirit left to return to God who gave it. He was a
member of the Methodist church, and at the time of his death, and for months
past, has been in the employ of Mr. R.B. Reppard in this city. His remains were
taken to the old family cemetery, near Fancy Bluff for interment. As we saw
that fond mother, devoted father and loving brother and sister follow his
remains on board the steamer that was to bear them hence, we could but rejoice
in the thought that in the Great Beyond there shall be no more separation.
Second, Mrs. Whitfield, the mother of our townsman, Col. Bolling
Whitfield in the 55th year of her age. Although a comparitive [sic] stranger in
our midst, many sympathizing friends escorted her remains to the grave from the
Baptist church of this city and lovingly laid her away to rest, till the grand
trump shall sound to call her forth once more.
Third, Mr. L.D. Hoyt, senior member of the hardware firm of L.D.
Hoyt & Co., of this city. Mr. Hoyt came to our city some twelve or fourteen
years ago. Full of life and energy, he hos [sic] ever worked to build up our
city, and increase her material prosperity. The influence of such men as he is
always felt in every community. But he is gone, and we shall see his happy face
no more in our midst. His funeral took place at his residence on Thursday
afternoon last, Rev. A.C. Ward officiating. He leaves a wife and several young
children, besides a grown son, to mourn his loss.
HOYT, Leander D. i/o
Advertiser & Appeal; Saturday 16 December 1882; pg. 7 col. 4
DIED—On Wednesday last, a little infant of Mr. and Mrs. L.D.
Hoyt, aged four months.
(New Orleans papers please copy.)
HOYT, Louis Dunston
The Brunswick News; Friday 8 May 1942; pg. 8 col. 5
L.D.
HOYT, NATIVE RESIDENT, PASSES
L.D. Hoyt, 64, born and reared in Brunswick, passed away at his
home, 2120 Ellis street, last night.
Practically all of his life he has been engaged in the plumbing
business in Brunswick, being associated with his brother, Colson Hoyt. He was
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Hoyt, pioneer Brunswick residents. His
father owned and operated one of the first hardware stores established in
Brunswick. His brother is the only survivor.
Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at the
parlors of Mortician Edo Miller, conducted by the Rev. C.H. Moss, and burial
will be in Oak Grove cemetery, where his mother and father are buried. The
following will serve as pallbearers: A.E. Leybourne, Ed Sylvia, W.J. Newman,
F.J. Callahan, Joe Adams and Harry Smith.
HOYT, Matthew Colson
The Brunswick News; Saturday 17 July 1954; pg. 8 col. 5
COLSON HOYT, 73, IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Colson Hoyt, 73, a life long resident of Brunswick, died at his
residence, 2118 Ellis Street, this afternoon after a short illness.
Long prominent here, Mr. Hoyt was engaged in business for many
years.
Survivors include two daughters, Miss Josephine Hoyt and Mrs. R.O.
Person, Brunswick, and one son, T. Newman Hoyt, New York City.
Funeral services will be announced by Edo Miller and Sons.
The Brunswick News; Monday 19 July 1954; pg. 10 col. 5
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD TODAY FOR COLSON HOYT
Funeral services for Colson Hoyt, who died here Saturday, were held
this afternoon at 3 o’clock at the chapel of the Miller Funeral Home, the Rev.
Mack Thompson officiating. Burial was in Palmetto Cemetery.
The following served as pallbearers: John Latham, Ronald McGraw,
Otto Torkildsen, R.W. Johnson, Ben Thornton and Tom Stutts.
HOYT, Rachel (Harris)
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 27 December 1938; pg. 8 col. 2
MRS. HOYT, CITY’S OLDEST RESIDENT, DIED HERE SUNDAY
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon
for Mrs. Rachel Hoyt, Brunswick’s oldest resident, who passed away at her home,
2108 Ellis street, Christmas morning.
Mrs. Hoyt, who was the widow of the late L.D. Hoyt, would have been
94 years of age on her next birthday in February. She has not enjoyed good
health in recent years, but prior to being stricken a number of years ago she
was active in various circles in Brunswick.
Mrs. Hoyt was born in Brunswick and resided here all her life. Her
late husband for years was engaged in the hardware business in Brunswick, and
many years after his death the business which he headed was continued under the
name of L.D. Hoyt & Company.
Mrs. Hoyt is survived by two sons, L.D. Hoyt and Colson Hoyt, both
of this city. A number of grand children and great-grandchildren and many other
relatives also survive, among them being Mrs. Gladys Baker Coffin, widow of the
late Howard E. Coffin.
Funeral services yesterday afternoon were held at Miller’s funeral
parlor on Newcastle street, conducted by the Rev. C.C. Davison, of the First
Baptist church. Burial was in Oak Grove cemetery.
HOYT, Samuel
The Brunswick Times-Advertiser; Monday 5 March 1894; pg. 4 col. 2
JUDGE HOYT DEAD—Judge Samuel Hoyt died yesterday morning, at this home in
Atlanta, in his 96th year.
HUDSON, Mary Ellen (Winn)
The Brunswick News; Friday 26 December 1997; pg. 3A col. 4
MARY
ELLEN HUDSON SERVICE SATURDAY
The funeral for Mary Ellen Winn Hudson, 71, of Riceboro will be 3
p.m. Saturday at Riceboro Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Edgar Timmons
officiating. Burial will follow in Cross Road Cemetery.
She died Monday at the Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center.
Pallbearers will be Marion D. Richardson, Mario L. Baggs Sr., A.
Brown, Henry Parrish, James Fade and Kenneth Howard. Honorary pallbearers will
be deacons of the church.
Surviving are three sons, Willie Hudson Jr. of Brunswick, Ronnie
Hudson of Brunswick and Eddie Hudson of Lancaster, Texas; four daughters, Corine
Williams of St. Simons Island, Hessie West of Riceboro, Birdie Mae Brown of
Riceboro and Leona Hudson of Brooklyn, N.Y.; three brothers, Leroy Howard of
Miami, Fla., and Matthew Winn and Joe Winn, both of Riceboro; nine grandchildren
and several other relatives.
The Liberty County native was a former resident of Brunswick. She
was retired fro King Shrimp Co. and a member of Riceboro Missionary Baptist
Church.
Hall, Jones and Brown Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HUGER, Francis Kinlock
The Brunswick News; Wednesday 8 December 1926; pg. 1 col. 4
MAJOR F.K. HUGER DIES SUDDENLY AFTER A BAD HEART
ATTACK—Well Known Citizen Passes Away Last Night—Was Widely Known in South
Maj. F.K. Huger, well known and popular
citizen, died suddenly at his home here early last night suffering with a severe
attack of the heart. He had been indisposed during the early afternoon, but his
condition was not considered serious and the announcement of his death at 7:30
o’clock came in the nature of a shock to his many friends.
Major Huger was born near Charleston, S.C., eighty-two years ago,
having celebrated his eighty-second birthday last Sunday. He spent much of his
early life in that city and in Savannah. During the war between the states, he
served with distinction in the Confederate army, where he won his majorship and
was regarded as a gallant soldier and officer.
Many years ago Major Huger was married to Mrs. William Wright,
member of a well known Georgia family, being a sister of the late Mrs. W.M.
Nightingale, of this city.
Practically all of Major Huger’s business life was spent in
railroading. For twenty years he was general superintendent of the Southern
Railway with headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn., and for many years he was
superintendent of the Seaboard Air Line, making his offices at Portsmouth, Va.
For the past ten or fifteen years, Major Huger has made his
residence in Brunswick, spending a portion of the time in North Carolina, but
always returning here for the winter.
The deceased is survived by three sisters, Mrs. John D. Elliott,
Mrs. O.T. Prochei, and Miss Marie Huger, all of them residing in South
Carolina. Because of the fact that these sisters have been communicated with,
and have not yet been heard from, the hour of the funeral has not yet been
fixed, but the interment will take place in this city.
Maj. Huger was widely known all over the south and locally was very
popular among a wide circle of friends. He belonged to that old school of
Southern gentlemen, now rapidly passing away and his sudden death has caused
genuine sorrow in the city.
The Brunswick News; Thursday 9 December 1926; pg. 1 col.
1
FUNERAL OF LATE MAJOR F.K. HUGER THIS AFTERNOON
The funeral of the late Major Frank K. Huger
was held this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from St. Mark’s Episcopal church, Rev.
J.W. Fulford, the rector, officiating.
The hour of the funeral was arranged this morning, after sisters of
the deceased reached the city. Many friends of this prominent Brunswickian were
present to pay a last tribute of respect to him.
The announcement of Major Huger’s death yesterday came as a shock to
his many friends as he had enjoyed his usual good health up to a few days ago.
The funeral this afternoon was in charge of Undertaker Miller and
the interment was in Palmetto cemetery.
HUGHES, Marie (Nightingale)
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 7 February 1978; pg. 20 col. 2 & pg. 2 col. 2
MRS. HUGHES DIES AT HOME MONDAY, FUNERAL THURSDAY
Mrs. Marie Nightingale Hughes, died
unexpectedly at her residence, 900 Carpenter Street, early Monday.
She was a native and lifelong resident of Brunswick and was a member
of St. Marks Episcopal Church. She was very active in local and civic affairs
in earlier years.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Betty Hughes Leff, Valdosta
and Mrs. Minnie Hughes Coulson, Cincinnati, Ohio, four grandchildren, several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of St.
Marks Episcopal Church with Rev. Francis Daunt and Rev. Talbert Morgan
officiating. Interment will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Jack Lissner, Bernard Nightingale, Dave
Paulding, Ed Gray, Jr., James Langston, Gary King Leff, Mark Theo Leff, and
Bryan Douglas Coulson.
The body will remain in the funeral home until taken to the church
for services.
Edo Miller & Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
HUNTER, Elizabeth (Gilliard)
The Brunswick News; Tuesday 6 March 1930; pg 8 col. 2
MRS.
HUNTER DIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA
The many Brunswick friends of Miles N. Hunter, of the Hercules
Powder Company, will learn with regret of the death of his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Gilliard Hunter, who passed at her home in Pendleton, S.C.,
yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter left Brunswick early yesterday morning for
Pendleton, in response to a telegram announcing the serious illness of Mr.
Hunter’s mother. She passed away, however, before they arrived.
The deceased, the widow of the late James Hunter, was one of the
best known women in her section of South Carolina. She was originally from
Columbia, being before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Gilliard. Besides Miles
Hunter, she is survived by two other children, Miss Louise Hunter of Pendleton
and J.W. Hunter of Charleston. The funeral was held in Pendleton today.
HUSTON,
Arthur Tillinghast
The Brunswick News; Thursday 10 December 1964; pg. 12, col. 4
ARTHUR HUSTON, EX-BUTLER ISLAND OWNER, SUCCUMBS
Arthur T. Huston, 70, former owner of Butler Island, died last night
at a local nursing home after an extended illness.
The son of Col. Tillinghast L. Huston, former co-owner of the New
York Yankees and builder of Yankee Stadium, Huston came here in 1926 to manage
Butler Island north of here in McIntosh County and continued in the dairy and
truck farming business until 1948 when the island was sold to R.J. Reynolds. It
since has become a state wildlife management area.
Butler Island became known for its purebred Guernsey cattle and
iceberg lettuce under Huston’s management.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Huston graduated from Columbia
University and served as a cavalry captain overseas during World War I. After
the war he joined the Fleischmann Co. in New York where he served in sales
promotion until moving here to take over his father’s interests.
Huston divided his time between New York and Flemington, N.J., after
retirement in 1948 until 1956 when he and his wife returned to St. Simons
Island. They maintained an apartment in Flemington, N.J., in addition to their
home on 10th Street, East Beach.
Huston was a former member of the Brunswick Rotary Club and the
Flemington, N.J. Lions Club. He was a communicant of Christ Episcopal Church,
Frederica.
Survivors include his wife, Isabelle, St. Simons; two daughters,
Alexandra Fuller, Catasauqua, Pa., and Judith Ely, Flemington, N.J.; a sister,
Frances McKim, New York City; and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. at Christ
Church, Frederica, with interment in Christ Churchyard Cemetery. Dr. Junius J.
Martin will officiate. The Edo Miller & Sons Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Active pallbearers will be Osborne Morgan, Dwight Eldred of Maine,
Dr. Mack Simmons, Warren Mitchell, James D. Compton, Francis Abreu and Frank
Lewis.
The family requested contributions to the Glynn County Heart Assn.
in lieu of flowers.
HUSTON, Lena Belle (Glathard)
The Brunswick News; Friday 4 November 1949; pg. 10, col. 4
MRS. T.L. HUSTON PASSES AWAY AT SEA ISLAND HOME
Mrs. Lena Belle Huston, widow of the late Colonel Tillinghast L.
Huston, passed away early today at her home on Sea Island. Although Mrs. Huston
had not enjoyed good health for the past several months, she was not confined to
her bed and her death was somewhat unexpected.
A resident of Butler Island and Sea Island for the past 21 years,
Mrs. Huston was well known among a large circle of friends, who will regret to
learn of her death.
She was born in Lawrence, Kas., January 10, 1869. For many years
after he marriage to Col. Huston she resided in New York. Col. Huston, who at
one time was part owner of the New York Yankees in the American League, was
attracted to this area first by the organization of the Dover Hall Club, its
membership including many nationally known baseball officials and others.
Later, he became interested in and purchased Butler Island in the
Altamaha delta, and extensive [sic] developed it. He had a handsome home there
and later erected one on Sea Island. Col. Huston died 11 years ago.
Mrs. Huston is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Frances H. McKim, Sea
Island; a son, Arthur T. Huston, Allentown, Pa., and a brother, Roland Gladhart,
of Ohio. Seven grandchildren also survive.
She was a member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in this city.
Funeral services will be held at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon at
Christ Church, Frederica, conducted by the Rev. Talbert Morgan, and burial will
be in the churchyard cemetery. The body will be placed in state in the church
at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon and remain there until the hour of the funeral.
Pallbearers will be Alfred W. Jones, J.D. Compton, Judge Frank M.
Scarlett, Charles L. Gowen, Hamilton Hart and Dr. Ira G. Towson. Mortician Edo
Miller is in charge of arrangements.
HUTTO, John D.
The Brunswick News; Monday 4 June 1945; pg. 8 col. 1
BULLET WOUND FATAL TO JOHN D HUTTO—Police Investigating Tragedy Believe It To Be
A Case of Suicide
John D. Hutto, 57, was found at his home 2623 Union street, Saturday
night, with a bullet through his heart, and officials who investigated the
tragedy said there was every indication that the man had taken his own life.
While he left no notes, it was stated, he had recently intimated to
friends, officers were told, that he contemplated taking his life.
Mr. Hutto had gone into the bathroom, it was stated, and when the
report of a revolver was heard members went into the room, and found him dead, a
pistol lying nearby. The bullet entered the chest and penetrated the heart.
Coroner J.D. Baldwin has not held an inquest, and while it is not
known what his investigation has revealed, all officers who have been
investigating state there appears but little doubt that the man ended his life.
Mr. Hutto was born in Baxley, but he had made his home in Brunswick
for 24 years. For a time he was employed by the J.A. Jones Construction Co.,
but recently was engaged in carpenter work. Ill health, it was stated, caused
him to retire about a year ago.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Angie Hutto, three sons, Walton D.
and Fred L. Hutto of Brunswick, and Homer Hutto, U.S. Army, stationed in Texas;
one daughter, Mrs. Annie Mae Wilson, Brunswick; two brothers, W.I. and Joe Hutto
of Baxley, and two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Davis and Mrs. Aliff Williams, of
Florida.
Funeral services will be held at the home at 8 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon, conducted by the Rev. C.H. Moss, and burial will be in Palmetto
cemetery. The following will serve as pall bearers: Raymond Crews, Ellis
Knight, Artis Knight, F.A. Brewer, Grady Sweat and J.M. Wren. Arrangements are
in charge of Mortician Edo Miller.
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