Carroll-Coweta County GaArchives Obituaries.....Aycock (Tribute), Joseph Amis March 1910
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"The Newnan Herald and Advertiser"
Newnan, Coweta Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, March 18, 1910

TRIBUTE TO A CLASSMATE

Joseph Amis Aycock, late of Carrollton, Ga., who was called home in the 
prime of his useful life and successful business career, deserves more than 
a passing notice.

Our departed friend never showed for his real worth. Well do I remember our 
first meeting in the Walker High School in January 1868. From appearance he 
might have been selected as the dullard of the school. What a mistake would 
thereby have been made! Only a few days in the school room demonstrated the 
fact that Joe Aycock was a foeman worthy of the best efforts of his ablest 
classmates in the contest for class honors. To read a lesson was to know it 
perfectly. The adopted son and a favorite of the late Jos. Amis, he had 
enjoyed all the advantages that ample means and loving care could bestow. He 
evidently had not valued these advantages lightly, hence was well equipped 
for the contest that, for me, ended with that year.

Kind and unassuming, pleasant in deportment, considerate even at that early 
age of the rights and reasonable wishes of his associates, he was easily the 
leader in the class.

Joe went from the high school to Athens, where he rounded out his school 
career as third honor man. His subsequent career as a captain of industry is 
a part of Georgia's history. Carroll has lost one of her best sons. 

W.C. Leigh, Jacksonville, Fla., March 8, 1910.


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