Chatham-Ware County GaArchives Obituaries.....Reppard, Aaron July 22, 1889
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Savannah Morning News, 23 Jul 1889
Aaron's obituary appeared in the Savannah Morning News, July 23, 1889:

Mr. Aaron Reppard, whose death was announced in yesterday's Morning News, was 
buried yesterday.  The funeral took place from the family residence at 47 
Charlton Street.

The deceased was born in Pennsylvania in 1824.  He came south about 1848.  He 
was a millwright by trade, and built the first circular saw mill in Georgia.  
His mechanical ingenuity led to many improvements in machinery for the 
manufacture of lumber, in which he was engaged until 1873, when he retired 
from business.  For some time he was the road master of the old Atlantic and 
Gulf Railroad, now the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway, and after 
Sherman's raid he rebuilt most of the bridges destroyed.  He was of a retiring 
disposition and sought no public recognition of his abilities.  He was never 
for any considerable length of time a resident of Savannah, although his 
business here identified him thoroughly with the people.

Before the war, Mr. Reppard owned a saw mill on the Central Railroad, known as 
the Wadley and Reppard Mill, near Paramore Hill, and he owned, at one time, 
nearly all of the land where the thriving little town of Waycross in now 
situated.  He was the inventor of the Reppard roller gauge, used for sawing 
yellow pine by circular saws, true to size, and which is considered the best 
improvement on saw mill machinery ever invented.

Mr. Reppard leaves three children; R.B. [Robert Blair] Reppard of this city, 
H.C. [Henry Clay] Reppard of Liberty County, and Mrs. F.A. [Flavia Augusta] 
Haywood, of Philadelphia, all children of his first wife, Flavia Merrell.  In 
1877 he married Mrs. Mary C. Osgood, who survives him.














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