Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....GUNN, DR. D.F. March 1896
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REBECCA STEWART rstewart@enervest.net December 27, 2011, 4:58 pm

FT. GAINES SENTINEL, MARCH 27 1896
A SAD AND SUDDEN DEATH
THE MANY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF DR. D.F. GUNN WERE PAINFULLY SHOCKED AND 
OVERWHELMED WITH SORROW LAST TUESDAY MORNING TO LEARN THAT HE HAD SUDDENLY 
DIED THE NIGHT PREVIOUS.  
HE HAD GONE TO HIS LOT FOR SOME PURPOSE JUST BEFORE BED TIME AND WAS EVIDENTLY 
UPON THE POINT OF RE-ENTERING THE HOUSE AND HAD REACHED THE STEPS LEADING TO 
THE BACK PORCH WHEN HE FELL AND IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE DIED IMMEDIATELY.  A GUEST 
OF THE HOUSEHOLD, MR. MCARTHUR, WENT OUT TO THE WATER BUCKET AND DISCOVERING 
THE DOCTOR LYING AT THE FOOT OF THE STEPS WAS SHOCKED TO FIND THAT HE WAS 
DEAD.  THE PHYSICIANS WHO WERE IMMEDIATELY SUMMONED AGREED, WE BELIEVE, THAT 
APPOPLEXY WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH AND THAT HE HAD BEEN DEAD SOME TIME 
BEOFRE HE WAS FOUND.

BBESIDES BEING ONE OF FORT GAINES MOST SUCCESSFUL PRACTICING PHYSICIANS, DR. 
GUNN WAS ONE OF OUR MOST PROMINENT AND MOST HIGHLY ESTEEMED CITIZENS.  HE HAD 
BEEN  A RESIDENT OF THIS COUNTY EVER SINCE 1857 AND HAS ALWAYS MANIFESTED A 
LIVELY INTEREST IN ITS AFFAIRS AND THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE PUBLIC, having 
been several times called upon to Fill positions of honor and responsibility 
in all of which he discharged his DUTIES WITH ABILITY AND FINDELITY.
HE WAS A PROMINENT MASON, AND WAS AN OFFICER OF THE GRAND LODGE OF GEORGIA.  
AS A MARK OF RESPECT BENEFITING SUCH RANK, BY A SPECIAL DISPENSATION ACTING 
GRAND MASTER W.A. GRAHAM OPENED AN EMERGENT LODGE AND THE DECEASED BROTHER WAS 
GIVEN A MASONIC BURIAL UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF THE STATE.
DR. GUNN WAS A SURGEON OF THE FORT GAINES GUARDS, WHICH ORGANIZATION ATTENDED 
HIS FUNERAL IN UNIFORM AND PERFORMED THE CUSTOMARY OBSEQUIES AT THE GRAVE.
THE DECEASED WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF LONG STANDING OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH  FROM 
WHICH CHURCH THE FUNERAL TOOK PLACE, THE SERVICES THERE BEING CONDUCTED BY REV 
L.H. CRUMBLEY.
THE ATTENDANCE OF THE FUNERAL WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST EVER WITNESSED IN FORT 
GAINES, EVINCING THE HIGH ESTEEM IN WHICH THE DECEASED WAS HELD THROUGHOUT 
THIS SECTION.
DR. GUNN HAD BEEN MARRIED TWICE AND HIS SECOND WIFE, FORMERLY MISS SHIVERS, 
SURVIVES HIM, ALSO A SON BY HIS FORMER MARRIAGE, DR. FRANK GUNN, BOTH OF WHOM 
HAVE THE DEEPEST SYMPATHY OF ALL IN THEIR GREAT SORROW.
THE LOSS OF THE DECEASED WILL NOT BE FELT ALONE TO THESE TWO LOVED ONES TO 
WHOM HE WAS SO MUCH ENDEARED AS A NOBLE AND AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND AND A 
GENEROUS AND SOLICITOUS FATHER, BUT HE WILL BE MISSED BY THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY 
AS A USEFUL AND PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZEN A GENEROUS FRIEND AND ONE WHO NEVER 
TURNED A DEAF EAR TO THE APPEALS OF THE NEEDY AND WAS EVER READY TO RESPOND TO 
THE CALLS OF THE SICK AND AFFLICTED, THE RICH AND THE POOR ALIKE.  SURELY HIS 
GREATEST RECOMPENSE WILL BE THE RICH REWARD OF LIFE ETERNAL.



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