Randolph County AlArchives Obituaries.....McDonald, Benjamin T.  November 21, 1936
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West Point News
The long funeral procession that followed the last remains of Benjamin T. 
McDonald Sunday Nov 21, where the Funeral services were held and the body 
interred, bespoke the love and esteem of the people of Lanett for this popular 
young policeman, who died Saturday morning, in the Langdale hospital, as a 
result of shotgun wounds he received one week before, while attempting to make 
an arrest. The large group of friends and relatives from Roanoke, Rock Mills, 
and surrounding territory, also bore witness of Mr. MacDonalds popularity in the 
communities where he spent his boyhood. Impressive and touching ceremonies were 
conducted by Rev. S. L. Heath of Lanett, assisted by Rev. R. B. Lavender, and 
Mr. Key of LaGrange, Ga., former pastor of the deceased. Mr. MacDonald was born 
at Roanoke, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. (Tobe) MacDonald, the family later 
moving to Lanett. He was married to Miss Maggie Lois Hicks, and for a time 
served on the police force at LaGrange. His membership was in the Baptist church 
at Lanett. Surviving are the widow and two small children, Ben Oliver, 5, and 
Patricia, 2; father and mother, and seven sisters and brothers: Misses Pearl and 
Myrt of Lanett, Mrs. Joe Smallwood and Mrs. John Yarborough of Lanett, Mrs. S. 
W. Atkins of Roanoke, Mrs. Fred Bowers of West Point, and Sam MacDonald; of 
Rockmart, Ga.; also a Grandmother Mrs. Bettie Vinson. Honorary pallbearers were 
members of the LaGrange police force; active pallbearers were Larry Avera, Eddie 
Harris, L. D. McGhee, Herbert Milford, M. F. Robinson, and J. E Fant. Interment 
was in the cemetery at Rock Mills, Schnedl and Jones of West Point in charge.

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