Camden County GaArchives Obituaries.....Rhodes, Egbert Henry  August 5, 1937
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Southeast Georgian
                                                  Thursday, August 5th, 1937
                              Funeral For E. H. Rhodes Held Yesterday Waverly
                        Well Known Seaboard Conductor Dies at Jacksonville Home

    Egbert Henry Rhodes, 66 died at his Jacksonville home Tuesday afternoon. 
He had been in ill health since last November but had been in a serious 
condition for only a few days, following a stroke.
     Mr. Rhodes began his railroad career in 1892 with the Southern Florida 
Railway. In 1898 he went to the Florida East Coast and remained with that 
company until 1905. From 1905 until 1906 he was associated with the Atlantic 
Coast Line, and since that time until he was forced to retire last fall on 
account of failing health he was with Seaboard, finishing a 30 year period wit 
that system. 
    He was born at Columbia Tenn.,  and spent his early boyhood in Hillsboro 
County, Florida.   
     He was a member of the Riverside Park Methodist Church, the Masons, Royal 
Arch Chapter No. 15, Sanford; Olivet Commandry no. 4. Knights Templar, 
Orlando; Morocco Temple of which he was a life member; Stonewall Jackson Camp 
No. 1, K. K. K. and St. John’s Division No. 196, Order of Railway Conductors.
    Survivors are his wife, formerly Miss Bessie Lang of Waverly; two 
daughters Misses Claude Ann and Bessie A, and two sons Egbert H. and Robert L. 
all of Jacksonville.
     Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at Homeward Cemetery, near 
Waverly. Rev. T. L. Z. Bar, pastor of main Street Methodist Church 
Jacksonville, assisted by Rev. C. T. Lawhorne, pastor of the Waverly-White Oak 
Methodist Church officiated.
      Pallbearers were B. C. Lang, E. A. P. McCarthy, Dr. A. K. Swift, C. G. 
Stewart, D. M. Proctor, and J. F. Atkinson.


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