Clarke County GaArchives Obituaries.....Reaves, Mary Powell February 24, 1916
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Banner, February 25, 1916
Two  obits

(states she was the second wife) She was married to Mr. Rnufus K. Reaves in 
1887.

OBITUARY MRS. R. K. REAVES
Banner, February 25, 1916

Transcribed by Connie Epps Bond September 28, 2006


MRS. R. K. REAVES 
DIED YESTERDAY EVE. 

Wife of prominent citizen and was universally beloved woman of Athens 

(From Wednesday’s Banner). 

Last night, about 10 o’clock, Mrs. R. K. Reaves, aged just the allotted three 
score years and ten, passed away, at her home on Thomas street, after an 
illness of two weeks – an illness beginning with a severe cold and ending in 
what was believed to be pneumonia. She had been desperately ill for several 
days but hundreds of friends will receive the news of her death with shock and 
a sense of personal bereavement and sincerest sorrow. 

Before marriage she was Miss Mary Powell, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
Issac Powell, of High Shoals.  She leaves her husband and one daughter, Mrs. 
James Paine, Jr., a brother and a sister survive her, Mr. Toombs W. Powell of 
this city and Mrs. W. H. Morton of Clarke county.  Another sister, who died 
many years ago, was the first Mrs. Reaves.  She was married to Mr. Rnufus K. 
Reaves in 1887. Distinctively a home maker, she was known and appreciated best 
in the home circle and by the friends who were admitted to that circle, but 
her life was extended in usefulness and beauty in a wider sphere, and hundreds 
knew her and loved her- for the high Christian character, the unselfish, 
devotion, the self forgetting consecration to duty in whatever line she saw 
the duty.

The funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Mr. Lynch, her pastor, from 
the First Baptist church this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, and the enterment 
will take place in Oconee cemetery. The following are the pall-bearers, who 
are requested to meet at Drosey’s undertaking parlors, at 3 o’clock. 

Messrs. M. G. Michael, W. C. Ash, E. I. Smith, Sr., James W. Morton, Geo. H. 
Hulme, T. P. Stanley, B. A. Crane, and D. G. Anderson.


See second obit below 

2nd obit 

OBITUARY MRS. R. K. REAVES
Banner, February 25, 1916

Transcribed by Connie Epps Bond September 28, 2006


Mrs. R. K. Reeves 
Was laid to Rest 

Funeral conducted from the
First Baptist Church 
Yesterday Afternoon

Yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from the First Baptist church of this 
city, Rev. James W. Lynch, D. D. officiating, the funeral services were 
conducted for Mrs. Mary Powell Reaves, the wife of Mr. Rufus K. Reaves, whose 
death was chronicled in this paper yesterday morning. 

There were many friends of the beloved woman and of her family present to pay 
their tribute of affection and respect to her memory. The flowers were in 
profusion and beautiful, typifying the beautiful life of the deceased and 
shadowing forth the glories of the immortality to which she has gone.  The 
music by the male choir was appropriate and sweet.  The interment took place 
in Oconee cemetery. The following were the pallbearers, Messrs. M. G. Michael, 
W. C. Ash, E. I. Smith, sr., James W. Morton, Geo H Hulme, T. P. Stanley, B. 
A. Crane, and D. G. Anderson.



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