BIBB COUNTY, GA - OBITS - Thomas P. Stubbs, Esq

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DEATH OF THOMAS P. STUBBS, ESQ
(The Upson Pilot - Aug 20, 1859)
It was with the most profound sorrow, that our
citizens learned the death of this gentleman, who
died on the morning of the 4th inst, after a short
illness of typhoid fever.  For four or five days
previous, he had been slightly ill, but no danger
was apprehended, till within a few hours before his
death, and but few knew of his indispostion.
Therefore the intelligence was startling, and cast a
gloom over every countancne, and sent a thrill of
pain to every heart.

Mr. Stubbs was indeed an extraordinary man. With
limited advantages and some reverse in early life,
by his extrordinatry industry and indomitable
perseverance, he placed himself among the leading
members of the Bar, and we will venture the
assertion that no attorny in the State had more
business confided to his charge than he, at the time
of his death.

In his profession he did all things promptly and
well, which inspired for him universal public
confidence. As a good and public spirited citizen,
no one was his superior.

In his charities, he was most liberal and the poor
and needy never appealed to him in vain.  As a
stringing evidence of this, we would add, that the
first exclamation of many of our citizens, on
hearing of his deaht, was "the poor have lost a
friend".  He filled many public stations in the city
and county, in all of which he labored with untiring
industry and self-sacrificing devotion. He was the
last Senator elected to the Legislature from this
county, in which station no one was more laborious,
or originated, or accomplished a greater amount of
business or acquired a higher reputation as a
legislator. Had he lived, higher honors were
foreshadowed for him.

He was a native of Jones County, GA and had resided
in this city about thirty years--his age, 48 years
and one month.  He leaves an aged mother, a widow
and four children, and many relatives and an entire
community to mourn his loss.  He was interred in
Rose Hill Cemetery on 5th inst with Masonic honors
by Macon Lodge No 5 -- the Odd Fellows Lodges and
the Macon Volunteers, of which bodies he was a
member--also by the members of the Bar. Journal and
Messenger