Butts-Fulton-Pulaski County GaArchives Obituaries.....Newsome, W. T. "Tommy" August 1895 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 January 27, 2005, 11:52 am Jackson Argus – Week of August 23, 1895 Mr. W. T. Newsome died at the home of his father, Conductor Newsome, in this place on Tuesday morning last at 2:30 o’clock. Mr. Newsome was an employee in the railroad shops in Atlanta, where he was taken sick about three weeks ago. He came here that he might be nursed and receive proper attention by his loved parents. But his illness soon developed into typhoid fever, and all that could be done for him was of no avail, and he breathed his last on Tuesday morning, as above stated. Mr. Newsome was twenty-four years old and was unmarried. He was a member of the Methodist church, and was a young man of exceptionally fine character, and enjoyed the esteem and friendship of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Rev. Dr. Chapman, of the Baptist church, conducted the funeral services at the home of his father here Tuesday Morning, after which the remains, accompanied by Messrs, Albert Sommer, J. N. DeLamar, W. W. Thomas, Warren Grier, C. R. Warren and J. C. Beane was carried to the former home of the deceased at Jackson, Georgia for interment. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/obits/n/gob2190newsome.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb